RoxanaCristina95

Yesss! I don't know, a lot of people seem to find it boring and didn't even finish it, but what more could you want, it really had everything that makes a kdrama worth watching <3

THIS.DRAMA.IS.PERFECT!!!

I can't even find the words to describe how much I loved it. It was simply too amazing and I don't understand why the ratings here are so low, I was expecting at least a 8,5, but to each their own. I gave it a 10 and I do that extremely rarely (like 6 dramas out of more than 150). I tend to give a lot of 9.5 because I always find tiny things that bother me, and even here there were a few very tiny, but it's fantasy and it's a kdrama so I just had to roll with it because overall it just made me FEEL A LOT!

It made me smile, laugh, swoon and cry so much! The script was pretty much flawless and so was the directing. A few plot holes but I really couldn't care less because of how entertaining and full of feels it was. :)) Really loved the aesthetics, the fashion, the fantastic elements. The pace was chef's kiss, there were no boring or unnecessary moments and the ending was not rushed. Lots of scenes and details that scratched my brain just right or tugged at my heartstrings.

The actors did an amazing job, Suzy and Kim Woo Bin especially, major kudos to them!!! Their chemistry was so beautiful! I really liked the way Suzy portrayed a psychopath, she did so well! And Kim Woo Bin was just right for the genie role, he's not my cup of tea as a man but I loved him so much here.

It would have been even better if it had more episodes, like 16, or even 20 because it really deserved it. Or at least longer episodes, like 1hour 20 minutes. So sad that exceptional dramas like this one and Bon appetit, your majesty only get a small number of episodes. Really hoping for a second season, I can already see how that would be so fun to watch.

Once again, 10/10.

Great kdrama, if you leave aside the exaggerated use of:
"Oh, we are cops but, sorry, we forgot our guns at home, it's time to flex our fighting skills"
"Oh, looks like we can't get any back up, but it's ok, we can handle it"
"Oh, I'm the main hero/main villain, don't worry, I have like 1000 lives"
"Oh, this situation is so absurd, but it's funny, so let's just roll with it"
:))

But apart from those things, the drama is actually really nice. Very entertaining, fast paced and funny. The production is amazing. I love how much it made me laugh and also how it was so suspenseful at times. They worked so much on the action scenes, kudos to the entire team.

I'm always a sucker for team oriented kdramas, and this one didn't disappoint. Really nice teamwork, they had great chemistry. And speaking of chemistry, the main leads also made such a lovely couple, I need to see them in a rom com now. <3

Speaking of actors, Park Bo Gum did a great job, although his perfect face and teeth didn't make for a realistic former boxer that gets beat up on a daily basis, perhaps someone with a rough face would have been a better choice. :)) I actually feel like he's never looked this handsome, omg! Not that I'm complaining. :)) And I loved how he was swooning for Hana, so adorable. ^^ Kim So Hyun also did great, loved seeing her as a baddie, she really pulled it off imo despite having such a baby face.

Heo Sung Tae did a totally different role this time and I love that for him. We are so used to seeing him as a tough bad guy, but he pulled off this funny role so well. Loved his chemistry with Bo Gum, they were the ones that made me laugh almost all the time.

Oh Jung Se did amazing too, although once again, I am used to seeing him in a different kind of role. He never disappoints.

9/10

Yes, I was also sad because of the eunuch and the court lady, they really didn't have to die :((
I didn't feel that sorry for the other guy because well he was pretty much a gray character, but I did feel sorry for the king...
I agree, there should have been more episodes, this could have easily been a 16 eps drama. I wouldn't have minded more cooking stuff and also a very lengthy ending.

Regarding the plot holes, well, maybe I just missed it, but why was his mother killed...? And why was the Ming convoy leader so rude? Like I get it, they were basically China, super powerful and all that, but still, to have no respect for the king of another country and act so nasty, give one point to the cooking team that actually made you cry tears of joy and take 100 hundred women as tribute? Made no sense to me.

Also, how did their little army at the end manage to win when fighting the big army at the palace, like come on, they were already struggling with the soldiers in the forest, and already hurt too? :))

I was about to mention the fact that the king not having a queen but having a concubine is also another plot hole, but I just searched and yeah, apparently it could happen.

The cooking competitions were amazing, respectfully, y'all need to shut up! :)) I especially loved the one with the Ming cooks, yes, despite taking like two full episodes, it didn't seem boring to me at all. And I loved how it ended being fair, and they all acknowleged each other and it wasall good vibes between the cooks. (For a while I actually believed that the Ming main chef was also from the future. Not sure why he helped them so much, he didn't seem to be working for anyone in the end, he simply vanished.)

I see people mentioning the main leads' chemistry wasn't good and their romance wasn't properly built, but I have to disagree. I think that for a 12 episodes series they did a good job and showed a lot of cute moments between them. Their love languages were gifts giving and acts of service basically. :) I actually cried a lot for them so I believe the actors did amazing as a couple.

Since the beginning I had a feeling that they were going to end up happily together in modern times. So glad it actually happened, but I really wish they showed us how he managed to get to her at the end. And also more of them together, of him adjusting to that life. So glad that he wasn't needed anymore in the Joseon time because otherwise he couldn't have done it. :)) The poor new king was way too young, I felt so sorry for him, but hopefully without the bad guys and under the guidance of his mother he managed pretty well. Speaking of his mother, it bothered me that she never actually apologized to cook Yeon after torturing her, and didn't even thank her for saving her son with her nourishing food. The director should have added an extra scene here.

They should make a special episode where they show us how the main leads live in the present, I would so love that, just them being cute and lovey-dovey and cheona being amazed by everything and stuff! :((

It definitely deserves the hype in my opinion. Such a beautiful drama, I loved it so much!

Although I was a bit reluctant at first because, despite really liking Yoona and the plot, Chae Min just didn't really seem a good choice for me. Don't get me wrong, it's my first time seeing him and I just happened to not really like his face, his gaze is kinda giving arrogance, I don't know :)) But I decided to leave that aside and I enjoyed the drama so much! Speaking of Chae Min, he did a spectacular job, the role of a king, a powerful and evil one at that, is very difficult to pull off, major kudos to him! And I was so surprised to find out that he's only 25!! Not that he looks old, but to be able to pull off this role at such a young age, wow!

The story was really nice and the pace just perfect, not a single dull moment, almost no plot holes. The chemistry was great between all the characters too. An amazing watch, the kind of show that makes you forget about time, and that's what happens when the director knows what they are doing, because you might have the best actors, story, sets and a big budget, but it just won't be enough if the director doesn't do justice to them.

The cooking scenes were so well done, I don't understand why some people complain about them. But then again, I love cooking shows. :)) The suspense was top notch and I loved the team work. Yoona was perfect for this role.

The ending was rushed, unfortunately, but it was exactly the one that I wanted, fortunately. :D

9,5

I don't think my fingers and my toes would be enough to count all the things that were wrong with this drama, but I'll mention the major ones that bothered me the most :))

- why didn't she know how to fight properly if she was supposedly such a great bodyguard that knew martial arts?
- why didn't she and the male lead use the gun when they had the chance?
- why did she forget about the hidden camera in the cottage?
- why didn't the villain try to just kill her sooner, she could have just sent more men in Muchang after her, or even when she came back to Seoul?
- why didn't they have proper security and kept the old staff and didn't change the locks?
- why did they leave the chairman alone when they knew he had dementia? his way to get the confession out of her was so forced, I'm sure there could have been a better way. I understand that he was about to die anyway, but why die in such a terrible way?
- why was she late at her chingu's wedding? I know this is so minor in comparison to the other things, but still :))
- also, who became the chairman in the end if she went back to Muchang?

Had such a great premise but ended being such a bad show, what a shame...
Many things that didn't make sense, zero chemistry between the main leads, boring at parts.
The first half was pretty good, I had high expectations, especially since the plot seemed so interesting.
7,5

Such a great movie, I laughed like crazy!
I don't understand why the rating is so low here, I gave it a 10 and I do that extremely rarely.
I initially wanted to watch it because of Park Hee Soon. Then I noticed that many great actors played in it.
The pace was great, the plot was nice and there were so many funny scenes. Not a single dull moment, a very well made hilarious thriller in my opinion.
10/10

Oh, I really don't remember that being mentioned at all, thank you for telling me!

Oh, I see. Thank you for the explanation!

First of all, Mu Jin was such a weird character. A gangster with feelings that even gets help from a monk... I had a feeling it was him at the beginning but I was like, no, it couldn't be him. So I was fooled but it was kinda disappointing, the killer should have been someone else.

He should have just sent Ji Woo on an island since the beginning, why do her dirty like that? And then he had the audacity to say that he never betrayed sb that trusted him or sth? :)) I guess in the end he just wanted to die by her hand, after killing his best friend he kinda lost his will to live from what I noticed and was like, well if I'm gonna die at least let's have Ji Woo do it. Cause he could have just made sb seem like the criminal that killed her father and that would have been it. But no more series in that case obviously. He was so hot the whole series so kudos to him for that at least. :))))))

A pretty major plot hole was the fact that they didn't seem to care about how Ji Woo basically killed that Do Gangjae guy. She shot him twice, they only interviewed Mu Jin for stabbing him but that wouldn't have killed him. I guess Pil Do helped her, saying that she did it because she didn't have a choice or sth, but they should have included a scene for that.

Another thing that bothered me was the way she threw the bullets before her final fight with Mu Jin. Like she was so cocky thinking that one bullet would be enough. Even if there were no guys to fight anymore, she should have still kept the bullets if she truly wanted to kill Mu Jin quick and without any problems, but no, she must have wanted a physical fight first. Because she actually used at least three bullets (from what I could count) for the previous guys so at one point she charged the gun again without showing us and then she decided that she didn't want to use all those bullets after all. Girl, make up your mind! I noticed that a lot in kdramas actually, they pretty much want to show their fighting skills because with a gun everything would be over much quicker, but it just doesn't make sense *face palming emoji*.

I was actually pretty certain that both Mu Jin and Ji Woo would die in the end, killing each other, and I really wasn't expecting Pil Do to die. Poor him, I loved his chemistry with Ji Woo (damn that bed scene was so hot). I understood why Mu Jin did it, he wanted to make her suffer for betrying him and force her to come and kill him. Bro, why not just kill yourself? :))

And speaking of that, how come Ji Woo didn't die after being hurt that badly? She was in a worse condition than Ji Chang Wook in Gangnam B-Side. At least call an ambulance to make it a bit more credible. I didn't like how the ending was so rushed and we don't know what happened to her, did she go to jail, did the rest of the gang come for her, did she leave the country?

A good thriller but I was expecting a bit more according to the ratings and the opinions of the viewers. The pace was great and the action scenes really well done. btw beware this is extremly bloody, like damn, could have been a bit less bloody :))
But there were a few things that just... eh...

What I loved the most was seeing a true badass female fighter. I was actually thinking after watching several thrillers and crime dramas that the main fighter is always a man, it was great seeing a woman do it too, and Han So Hee did a formidable job, she was so tough and brutal.
Loved that there was a bit of romance too and the chemistry was WOW!

8,5/10 (the cast was so hot, this aspect contributed a lot to my rating :)))

Just remembered that Daniel said that the chief of staff had the predator gene and that she was the most dangerous kind, did he lie just to make Ba Reum kill her? If he didn't, I guess it made sense why she established that organization in order to satisfy her murderous urges through others, while not being the one directly involved, all while pretending that everything was for a "good" cause.

Now regarding the parts that didn't really make sense. The fact that everybody managed to get in places that were supposed to be locked, the houses of Yo Han and Ba Reum, the house of that chief of staff (I guess?).

The fact that Parachute had to die was pretty much what I call an unnecessary stupid death, I guess there's no kdrama without one of these, is there? The guy that was stealing the notebook really didn't have to kill him.

Another weird thing was how Han Seo Jun hid the heads in the snowmen, like wth, why would he do that?? :))))

Also, the chief of staff's motive for the whole thing and the OZ organization... kinda weird, and I'm not saying that because I don't believe that such experiments could happen. I feel like it was personal for them, I guess everybody had a relative that was killed by somebody and that is why (like what detective Lee claimed was his reason) but they could have explained things better. And wrap it up nicely for the whole country to understand.

The thing that I guess bothered me the most was that Yo Han's small part of a good brain was so powerful. Like for a year Ba Reum basically lived as a good person (except for that part when he had just woken up and killed the bird) and even afterwards he was such a changed man. I guess developing feelings can do that for you and they are what makes us human, but still, his original brain should have been stronger. He was a very cruel and mean person, his brain chemistry was so altered. Just because he was mad at God he decided to kill innocent people for absurd reasons, at least he could have killed bad guys since the beginning. (except for the guy that killed his family obviously). So his change was pretty surreal, but oh well, I am glad he changed though.

Leaving those things aside and probably a few others that I can't remember right now, I overall loved the plot and how I was always shocked and had no idea where things were going. The attention to details was great and I liked that there were so many characters, altough, as usual, I would sometimes get confused because of all the names. :))

The way the whole series was made was just brilliant, and all the actors ate, kudos to them, from the youngest to the oldest! *clapping emoji* I was so invested in this and I actually wouldn't have minded if there were more episodes, perhaps showing us Ba Reum killing more bad guys, I'm always down for this kind of parts in any series. :D (#firmbelieverofcapitalpunishment, so if we can't get that, at least let's have a super villain do the job)

Mu Chi's character was so good, I loved how he was so impulsive and screamed a lot, how he made me laugh every now and then and how he cared so much for Bong Yi and pretty much adopted her. The way he tried to believe that Ba Reum was innocent was cute. I did that for a long time too because I just hoped that he was a good guy after all and that maybe there was another person killing everybody. That would have been another amazing plot twist, I would have made the drama like that if I had been the writer because Ba Reum... gosh, he really made me feel for him. :(

Despite believing that Ba Reum's punishment was the right one, I still cried a lot in the end and felt sorry for him, damn it. The fact that he was so remorseful was a visual factor that contributed to me feeling this way, seeing him that way broke my heart even if it shouldn't have because, God, the poor victims and the victims families..., but also, the fact that he could have been different was the major factor to be honest.

He had problems and he was aware of them since his childhood, but his family really wasn't supportive at all. I think he could have ended up a pretty decent person if given proper medical help and support from his "mother" at least. His "father" was always abusive and both mothers tried to kill him, like imagine the traumas these things leave on a child's brain. And on top of all that, his family was suddenly killed. No wonder he ended up bad, and the trigger worked so well, and he was mad at God.

Lee Seung Gi, the brilliant actor that you are! 10/10 for this masterpiece!

p.s.: too bad Ba Reum's mother killed herself, she should have stayed if only for her grandson, Yo Han's son. She raised him so she was his mother of course, I'm sure PD would have loved to have her around as well.

Finally watched this and omg, what a phenomenal series!!!
I loved how suspenseful it was and how well thought (almost) everything was, not a single boring or skippable part.
Each episode was basically mindf**king me for lack of a better word.
All actors did an amazing job.
Definitely worth watching, what a ride.

9,5/10

One of the things that bothered me (and many others from what I've seen) the most is the fact that he didn't seem to suffer that much after losing his children. I was expecting some flashbacks with them too not just his wife, remembering them randomly and stuff... I get it that he wasn't that involved in their upbringing but still, he must have loved them a little bit at least... It's great that they still had them again later on. :))

Also I never understood why his parents weren't more involved. At the beginning, of course it made sense why her mother couldn't help them with the kids, but where were his parents??? Did I miss sth, were they living in another city? But even if they were, they didn't show up later on either except for their daugther's wedding. Her mother was the only one helping and taking care of her grandsons. Like what kind of grandparents act like that? I feel like the screenwriter kinda forgot about them because he should have had a good relationship with them in the final timeline considering that Hye Won was no longer controling him, right? He didn't have any scenes with them except for the one where he introduced Woo Jin.

Such a lovely drama!!! It deserves a higher rating. It was very engaging, made me cry a few times, made me laugh a lot, and also swoon at a lot of cute moments.
Their chemistry was great and I liked all the life lessons and the relationships between all the characters.
Except for a few things, it actually made sense for a fantasy drama and was pretty unpredictable at parts. Not boring at all.
I really recommend this one.
9,5/10

The teamwork was nice, I always enjoy this kind of dramas. I loved how Beom Woo and Chun Seung changed so much and finally found their true calling. The fact that Myong Suk got her chance to shine and show her talent in the last episode was such a great touch. And it's cute how the other guys from the market helped them, I always enjoy seeing scenes that show the sense of community.

I hate that the old woman didn't have to suffer any consequences. Yeah it's great that the protester's restaurant was restored, but who knows how many others suffered because of her. Including her own sons, but I guess they have to forgive her and give her another chance since she's their mum. And the fact that she rigged the show's results right in front of the Diamond guy, like wth? :)) He could have ruined her and her company's entire reputation, not sure why he didn't.

The whole drama regarding Yeon Ju's past was kinda badly written. Why was she so mad at her ex when she was the one that decided to cover for him? I probably didn't understand that part very well, I guess she wanted him to also leave Le Murir and go with her somewhere else?

It wasn't the best but it wasn't bad at all either. I gave it a 8,5.
I liked the character development and the overall vibe, a pretty chill rom-com. Lots of wholesome moments and the main leads chemistry was cute. The number of episodes was just perfect.