Really, really good Cdrama--the kind of drama you could recommend to your non-Cdrama or Kdrama watching friends as a good example of why you do. This is the kind of drama you get when money is spent, and spent properly. Everything about this drama--the script, the acting, the directing, the costumes and make up, the CGI--it's all superb.
I love Park Joon Geum. I have never seen her in a role where I didn't hate her guts. She's fabulously quirky, too. She's always styled way over the top, as though she has more money than Midas, and absolutely zero taste. Just looking at her makes me smile.
Totally agree with all 4 points. I'd also add love triangles (or squares, pentagons...) not for the presence of…
NOBLE IDOCY!!!!
Also, let's drag the plot for 3 or 4 more episodes by having a ridiculous misunderstanding between the leads that can be cleared up by asking a question: "why did you say that? What do you mean?"
The childhood connection thing annoys the ever loving hell out of me. For a stupid long time, I was convinced that South Korea only had a few dozen people, because this explains how couples meet each other randomly, forget about it, meet each other randomly again, and then fall in love, but they can't or don't remember they've already met each other 3 times.
Is it just me, or are there an abundance of Cdramas this year whose FL's are detectives or forensic geniuses? I'm not complaining, but "Miss Truth" and "Under the Power" have FL's like this . . . and there are probably more.
Thank you for the list! I added Lie of a Lie, Dinner Mate, Sweet Munchies (doubt this will still be named like this when it airs, though), My Unfamiliar Family, Did We Love?, Flower of Evil, Stranger 2 and Love Alarm 2 to my PTW list.
So glad to be looking forward to some dramas again.
A superb drama, featuring an incredible performance from Yoo Ah In. The subject matter is mature, and the age gap between the two leads (not to mention the power differential between them) makes this a bit difficult to swallow, and probably explains the inaccurate underrating. A powerful drama you'll keep thinking about after you finish it.
So glad there will be a second season of this drama. And disappointed that Netflix splits a great show into parts with huge gaps between them. (Sure, parts. Fine. But parts with a year between seasons?)
I didn’t expect to like this show so much. It’s like the Downtown Abbey of Beijing opera.
This is a description that makes me want to watch the drama. I really, really hope it's like that, and if it is, thank you so much for putting it that way.
I didn’t expect to like this show so much. It’s like the Downtown Abbey of Beijing opera.
This is a description that makes me want to watch the drama. I really, really hope it's like that, and if it is, thank you so much for putting it that way.
The FL lead is a wonderful character. The ML, as dramatized by Joo Ji Hoon, is his usual pinched, tight character, but it works very well as a contrast for the FL here.
But should we talk for a second about the PPL? Because the PPL in this drama was off the chain. If there was a moment where a Mercedes Benz and all its gauges wasn't being filmed from every imaginable angle, it's only because the creative director didn't think of it. Every episode is an extended commercial for Mercedes. And don't get me started on the ads for Aunt Anne's pretzels.
We're all used to the high end chaebols and chaebollettes who stop in at a Subway in the middle of a crisis for an essential sandwich break, but the ads in this drama were on an entirely different level.
Kdramas taught me that, if I'm standing in the middle of the road with a car coming at me, even though I have lots and lots of time to get out of its way, it can hit me and I'll be fine.
Yet.
A 10 for me.
I love Park Joon Geum. I have never seen her in a role where I didn't hate her guts. She's fabulously quirky, too. She's always styled way over the top, as though she has more money than Midas, and absolutely zero taste. Just looking at her makes me smile.
Also, let's drag the plot for 3 or 4 more episodes by having a ridiculous misunderstanding between the leads that can be cleared up by asking a question: "why did you say that? What do you mean?"
So glad to be looking forward to some dramas again.
Oh so boring. watched it to episode 30 and then I couldn't take it anymore. Skipped to the last episode, and it was still boring.
Better than most, this is still another cookie-cutter Chinese youth drama with mild nationalistic overtones. If you've seen one, you've seen them all.
The FL lead is a wonderful character. The ML, as dramatized by Joo Ji Hoon, is his usual pinched, tight character, but it works very well as a contrast for the FL here.
But should we talk for a second about the PPL? Because the PPL in this drama was off the chain. If there was a moment where a Mercedes Benz and all its gauges wasn't being filmed from every imaginable angle, it's only because the creative director didn't think of it. Every episode is an extended commercial for Mercedes. And don't get me started on the ads for Aunt Anne's pretzels.
We're all used to the high end chaebols and chaebollettes who stop in at a Subway in the middle of a crisis for an essential sandwich break, but the ads in this drama were on an entirely different level.