Sheherezada

I suffered through 11 episodes of this boring infantile hysterical nonsense and I completely hate it, so I dropped it. Is it the worst series? Of course not, but to me it's superficial Korean "Gone with the wind" which I also hate. Hate is a strong word, let's say I don't vibe with such romcom trying to pretend it's serious and historical nonsense. It's not a great love story, it's your typical fastfood of kdrama that gave me nothing.

Was it ever resolved? For 11 episodes it looks like a mighty queerbate.

I really don't think they understand the meaning of "misogynist".

Exactly - I don't think anyone of them actually read it. It's a medieval sexist patriarchal concept of wive's submission to a husband, and also classisist - she was rich, he was poor, but she had to yield to him because he was an aristocrat. And very simple and straightforward story with no added complicated double meaning. Message is clear - know your place given you by the birthright (or not). None of this should be relatable in the modern world and yet here we are.

Thanks again, this is exactly what I was trying to pinpoint - inspiration is not adaptation.

When you borrow an element or even a character it doesn't make it adaptation. In the modern world it's almost impossible to come up with something so original this never been written before. Like Tolkien didn't come up with elves on his own, he used most of large scale European lore, but he didn't do adaptation of Elder Edda, and Andrzej Sapkowski who used most of Tolkien's and European lore in his Witcher didn't do the adaptation of neither Tolkien nor Elder Edda. Sorry, I went through too much literature studies to put up with this and let it go. All due respect to Heart Killers creators, they can claim all they want, but it will never become Shakespearean adaptation for that 😁

I think the confusion here is that people don't see the difference between adaptation, inspiration and borrowed elements of the story. Your Dracula example is perfect - shall we say Twilight is adaptation of Bram Stoker or 50 shades of grey? No and no, although it borrowed a lot from both. Are movies like Hellsing, Van Hellsing, Dracula dead and loving it that straight use the characters from Bram Stoker adaptations? Also no. While I would call series Dracula with Jonathan Rhys Meyes a modern adaptation by right.
Tom Soppard, who literally "preyed off off Shakespeare's work" as my British literature professor said (I love Stoppard, my professor hated him lol) is not doing adaptations even.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but Heart Killers have no business being Shakespeare adaptation. If you really want to watch one, my favorite is "The Taming of the Shrew
ShakespeaRe-Told: Episode 1" - that's what modern adaptation of this particular Shakespearean work is.

That is not what it means. I studied a lot of literature at the university to be uniquely qualified to tell you this.

If you take one minor thing out of another work, that doesn't make it adapted, that makes it that you took that one thing. Adaptation follows the story. Even most fanfics are not adaptations.

"Adapted loosely from the play "The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare. " Is this a joke?? It has nothing whatsoever in common with Shakespeare in general and Taming of the Shrew in particular. Did you even read Shakespeare??? Omg

I was looking if someone feels the same as me and I see that I am not alone. It's really hard to say what is missing exactly. It's like the show is missing emotions. Like every main actor was forced to come on set and they really don't want to be there. They are cold and fake, I don't want to say bad acting, but it kinda looks like it. Khao is too cute for the psycho role he is playing, First has these funny children's transfer tattoos (a bee, seriously?? Why not Winx then?), Joong feels bored and smelling something disgusting 100% of the time, Dunk screams for no reason in most of lines he delivers. The space around characters always looks somehow too big, empty and fake. Every time they show this diner with a terrible logo (like midjourney would do better job for you, seriously), they open the door with a Toilet sign when they go to the kitchen, they dance in bowling, tattoo on Fadel keeps disappearing and reappearing, they go to date into some dark remote abandoned agricultural buildings, etc., etc. It's these inconsistencies in every scene, questionable locations, emotionless acting, it makes these series empty, like a tasteless meal. Like I am served Thai dish without salt or any flavor. Also the pace is so slow, the series have no rhythm. Overall storytelling is inconsistent. Some lines are actually not bad, but so badly emotionlessly delivered, like they just say them, they don't even try to act (except for Dunk who is overdoing absolutely every line).
You know how sometimes you watch some series and you see okay this is bad, this is lacking, would be better to change something here and there, but you can just tell that actors, director and production team poured their soul into it and it swipes you, embraces and takes you on a journey you enjoy so much, it's memorable and it stays with you. I can rip apart pretty much every show I watched and loved, because hey, no one is perfect, but at the end of the day it's entertainment and I was entertained, so it reached its goal 100%. With HeartKillers I feel nothing. Like I am standing in a long queue to the movie theater before anything starts happening.

Synopsis sounds almost exactly like
Cruel Romance - is this a remake?

I watched 3 episodes, I don't need more to know neither acting or script will improve further))

I watched it without any prejudice or pre judgement as watching new story - terrible script, terrible acting, terrible styling, zero chemistry, no clear character motivation, really bad directing... I can go on for hours. The problem of these series is not that it's a remake.

I absolutely loved the second couple, they had great story with a heavy background, and great chemistry.

I completely share the sentiment, but don't you think it's super realistic as it is? Such people never get what they deserve.

Cat licking its balls under my window is sexier than this sex scene.

I second this.

It has no uniqueness since it's almoat word for word remake, and absolutely no charm, it's simply terrible. Sorry, that's how I feel.

The original was questionable story-wise, but this version is just terrible, hence negative reviews.