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yikes. Does anyone know how many episodes this going to be for real? Because the episode count is kind of all over the place.

maybe mark this as a spoiler. Not sure it's a good thing to amplify Always; the more exposure these lovely subbers get, the more likely it is that something/someone is going to pressure them to stop subbing.

Slow, seductive. This boy looks like trouble. He is constantly invading the FL's boundaries, taking any excuse to touch the FL, not necessarily innocently. Can't wait to see how this unfolds.

Made me laugh, too. About as descriptive as you can get.

If only there really was a legal system where the whole nation could judge in a trial. Imagine if a big cartoon hammer could clonk a terrible politician on the head, if the whole nation voted they were a buffoon. I'd pay more taxes if I could get that.

Your random capitalization rules are much more interesting than the drama was :-)

I've always really loved his character in "Descendants of the Sun". And his hopeless longing for Song Ga Kyung in "Search: WWW" was an entire mood.

The casting looks fabulous, but does this show have a story arc at all?

Keeping the intensity of the original version, while also updating for modern sensibilities is a big challenge for lakorn writers. Wimarn Sai will not be an exception. So far, several remakes of classic lakorns have been disappointments for me. Writers will probably change the rape in the original version to coercion or consent, but then they'll have to amp the intensity elsewhere. I haven't seen Esther do melodrama or intensity yet (romantic comedy seems to be more her thing), but we'll see.

My goodness, the episodes are short. All the episodes together add up to a movie's length, only with more bother because you have to load the next episode.

What a fun article! I'll be looking forward to the articles you write in the future, also.

I like it, and it's a decent romance. Worth watching.
But the FL is such a drippy, whispery, dour character. What a sad rabbit of a FL.

I may give season 2 a shot, if I finish season 1. (I bailed on show with 4 episodes to go.) The issue I have with it is that I strongly disliked all the characters, and couldn't work up the energy to care about what happened to any of them. It's just a bunch of weak people who do hurtful things to others for fairly dull reasons.

My absolute favorite example of FL losing agency is "Secret Garden", where FL rides a bicycle to chase down eleventeen purse snatchers who are escaping in a van, catches them, and single handedly beats the crap out of them. Two episodes later, the soft and weak ML snags the FL in a wrist grab, which the FL can't break out of. Suuuuuuper nonsense.

well observed. Very good points.

no triangles. no annoying characters. happy ending!

The leads' chemistry is really, really good. It's natural and unforced, and they sell the trust and affection these characters have between them wonderfully. The best chemistry in the show is between the FL and her little brother. He's hilarious. Off screen, I think he must truly love the FL.

This show is also the extremely familiar trope of genius ML and stupid FL. Even when the drama is as charming as this one, these characterizations are pretty tiresome.

This is typical light and fluffy romantic youth drama, but quite good.

"The Heirs" is the drama where I learned I stan Kim Woo Bin.

It's also the drama where I nailed down my dislike of Lee Min Ho, even if he's lost the bad perm from "Boys Over Flowers". Park Shin Hye, also dislike. All of her early dramas where her on screen kissing style is fish-eyed plank are bad.

If you write "Frustrating Dramas, pt. 2" I'm here for it.

This is the worst kind of 50 cent Harlequin paperback novel trash, and I hope there are 172 episodes. I'll be there for every single one of them.

I've probably watched Secret 8 times. More, most likely. (I hope not, though.) Secret is the drama I watch when I have a particular--I don't know, craving? mood.