I'd say Shopping King Louis is lighter in tone. It revolves around an amnesiac chaebol (played by Seo In Guk) and a girl from the country (played by Nam Ji Hyun) who has come to Seoul searching for her missing brother. She decides to take Louis in and be his guardian because he's wearing the jacket she bought for her brother, but he can't remember how he got it. Louis is incredibly adorable and innocent, and ignorant of a lot of common knowledge, but has very expensive tastes, so he tends to unintentionally get in trouble a lot.
Special Inspector Jo is about a man who has suffered multiple setbacks in his life (fired from his Tae-Kwon-Do teaching job, divorced by his wife) who works as a public service worker. He is inspired to fight the injustices of worker exploitation after one of his former Tae-Kwon-Do students comes to him asking him for help. It sounds boring from the description, but it was surprisingly funny and feel-good. There are some intense moments, so if you're wanting almost 100% relaxing, I'd go with Shopping King Louis first.
well if you like the Reply series, you can check out season 1 & 2 of Hospital Playlist if you haven't yet, as it's by the same writer. Extraordinary Attorney Woo is also a great drama, I highly enjoyed it. Special Inspector Jo is a great one as well, a good comedy drama. And also Shopping King Louie, which is a comfort drama of mine.
Just watched the ending again. Ugly cried for Lee Rang, couldn't care less about Ji Ah's happy ending. I really want season 2 to have justice for Lee Rang, because he stole the show for me, and I wouldn't ever watch this series ever again if he hadn't been there.
I want this series to play out like the X-men movies, specifically X-3 and Days of Future Past. The writers kill of a beloved character and create an unsatisfying ending, then write a time-travel fix-it sequel to bring that character back to life in the future. Basically I'm saying these extra seasons better change the outcome of Season 1 because it still pisses me off to this day that Rang died.
I really enjoyed the drama the first time around because I hadn't seen very many dramas at the time, but the second time around I didn't enjoy it nearly as much. It's a 6.5 score for me; good for one or two fun viewings, but not something I'd recommend as a high-quality drama.
is the whole show going to pass by w.o us getting a more satisfying sense of LSS, her POV, her pain and character…
I thought LSS's POV was pretty clear. In the end she loved him, but she couldn't afford to trust him, because the future of the world was at stake. But out of love, she sacrificed her life and her spiritual core so that he would have a chance to become an immortal instead of being doomed to become a devil, thus she saved him and the world. And of course TTJ is crazy obsessed with her - LSS literally awakened his ability to love, and then she stabbed him in the heart, causing him both the most intense joy and intense pain in his life. He loves no one else, cannot love anyone else.
I mean, if you want a drama with a main couple who has non-toxic love, maybe check out the three seasons of the very adorable drama "The Eternal Love". The chemistry is off the charts between the main couple, and their unrelenting flirting makes me giggle.
Can anyone tell me why YXW decided to kill TTJ? She was trying to help and save him. Why did she change her idea?…
Her plan was always to end up killing TTJ by destroying his evil bone (the thing inside him that would make him the devil god after death). It's just that she unexpectedly fell in love with him, and the prospect of doing it became more and more unpleasant. But she never ever changed her mind, she just resolved to stay with him and give him as much happiness as she could before she had to complete her original mission. Remember, she has the future of the entire world, and her family, to think about. She couldn't sacrifice a better future just because she fell in love with the man who was destined to destroy the world in the future.
2 threads of love and she wanted insurance against the world. He was there...
You probably already know this if you've read the book, but literally no ordinary mortal man can resist loving BingChang because of her second love thread. Tantai Jin is the exception because he was born without a love thread. Yet in spite of not being able to feel what love was, he was able to want to love LSS without one. Xiao Lin is honestly a victim of Bingchang, and his death is so tragic in the book.
I'll be honest, I don't know why people liked the second leads as a couple. As much as I liked both the characters of Young Hwa and Dan Ah separately, their relationship felt so toxic. He's helplessly in love with her, and she keeps using his feelings for her to her own advantage. Young Hwa was constantly sincere and vulnerable with Dan Ah, while she stomped on his feelings without remorse (most of the time). It was hard for me to like her when she was clearly causing him so much pain.
The story premise is that Lee Yeon is somehow sent back in time by almost 100 years, and at that time, his lover…
Definitely not the best example of lovers reincarnated, to be sure. Lee Yeon turned into such a lovesick puppy after they got together, his world literally revolved around her, to the point where it seemed like helping Lee Rang was an afterthought. Which was really upsetting to me, because Rang's world revolved around Lee Yeon. Yeon was his most precious person, but Yeon never really seemed to appreciate that enough.
The other problem was the drama tension was entirely designed around Imoogi, who was honestly not as interesting as he could've been. They tried making him seem absolutely horrible and powerful by having him just killing a ton of people on a whim, but it didn't feel real because there were no in-story repercussions for it. Tons of people died, but none of the main characters were affected, so we just kinda forget about it after a couple episodes.
The story premise is that Lee Yeon is somehow sent back in time by almost 100 years, and at that time, his lover…
The bromance and the secondary characters are what kept me watching the first season all the way to the end. I was not invested in the romance at all, lol. I kept wanting to skip ahead to scenes with Lee Yeon and Lee Rang interacting.
Special Inspector Jo is about a man who has suffered multiple setbacks in his life (fired from his Tae-Kwon-Do teaching job, divorced by his wife) who works as a public service worker. He is inspired to fight the injustices of worker exploitation after one of his former Tae-Kwon-Do students comes to him asking him for help. It sounds boring from the description, but it was surprisingly funny and feel-good. There are some intense moments, so if you're wanting almost 100% relaxing, I'd go with Shopping King Louis first.
I mean, if you want a drama with a main couple who has non-toxic love, maybe check out the three seasons of the very adorable drama "The Eternal Love". The chemistry is off the charts between the main couple, and their unrelenting flirting makes me giggle.
Xiao Lin is honestly a victim of Bingchang, and his death is so tragic in the book.
The other problem was the drama tension was entirely designed around Imoogi, who was honestly not as interesting as he could've been. They tried making him seem absolutely horrible and powerful by having him just killing a ton of people on a whim, but it didn't feel real because there were no in-story repercussions for it. Tons of people died, but none of the main characters were affected, so we just kinda forget about it after a couple episodes.