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Oh, the irony! Signal was all about criminals who got away scot free after burying their past crimes. Turns out that the actor who plays the biggest good guy is exactly like that! You can just imagine the backlash if they kept this pig in the second season... The poor cast and crew are likely to have all their efforts go to waste.

I wonder if this was why Jo Jin Woong was reluctant to reprise his role in season 2 for all these years. Because the character is the complete opposite of him and even he finds it ironic and shameless to receive so much love for it?? Can't believe how much I liked his portrayal in S1...

I mean, sure, but you kinda missed my main point which is that this results in the good opportunities flowing to the big acting agencies. Actors from smaller agencies are losing out. I never talked about these practices compromising the productions' quality. Also, I never said this show is a guaranteed success because of the cast. It is a guaranteed success because it's the second season of a show with very high ratings. For reference, you can see how Hospital Playlist 2 or Taxi Driver 2 did in their premiere ratings.

The poster looks like they cropped a still cut, fed it to AI to add some effects and slap on some text, then called it a day.

I never said the original actors were forced out or that the new ones are not good actors. I am just stating how AC put their actors into their own production, knowing it is almost a guaranteed success. Now almost all of the main cast are from AC.

It is simply an industry practice that started since a long time ago, but agencies are now pushing their actors as leads in the same drama when it used to be mostly pushing side actors. There was also an official korean news article about this, FYI. Some netizens raised concerns about how the big agencies are hogging the opportunities.

So half of the main cast left and got replaced with actors from Artist Company (since they're producing the show)... Not surprising but I'm not liking this trend of companies bundling their actors in the same production.

This show is clearly not written by someone who has much business knowledge, much less informed enough of how businesses in SK survived in 1997. The number of loopholes in the story got way too high to be ignored. The IMF crisis is supposed to be the backdrop, but when it comes to the business arc, suddenly the stakes became a childish psychopathic villain who hates the ML for no reason. To me, the business narrative is a huge writing failure that contributed NOTHING to what's supposed to be the motivational message of the show. The result is a painfully average drama where only bits and pieces are good.

I was thinking soul swapping is such an old and tired trope, but I realized I never watched any drama where the leads swap bodies randomly just for short bouts of time.

Kim Young Dae.

I'm sorry but the male lead is so atrocious at acting... He's like an awkward block of wood and takes me out every single time

The production team just needed an excuse for a free trip to Dubai, and it shows.

This has to be one of the most ridiculous last episodes I have seen. My eyeballs almost rolled out of their sockets when I saw a bunch of chefs using spoons and woks for weapons. Are they being serious..? And don't get me started on that ending. I guess kdrama watchers will just eat up any lazy nonsensical ending as long as the leads end up together... The way he traveled to the future is a "secret"? Really? Or did the writers just not bother enough to cook up a simple explanation for that? I will take a sad or bittersweet ending anyday compared to whatever this is.

Also, there is literally no payoff because the romance never even sold itself in the first place. She was definitely not in love with him to the point of sacrificing her life for him, or to attempt to return to the past just to meet him again. Even Yoona looked utterly unconvinced to me in the last 2 episodes. Her face was screaming "I don't understand why I'm in love with this dude but I'm trying to act like I am". And honestly, I don't blame her.

Wow, guess I'm not allowed to express an opinion on the internet... I merely questioned the acting choices used for her character (which can be on the writer, director, producer or whoever it is). Besides, where in my comment did I say "actors do whatever they want" or had a personal problem with her? Please don't put words into my mouth.

I don't know who told Kim Dami to act like a 10-year-old in this, but it's... not a great choice imo. Especially when the ML looks like a damn 35 year old man in a high school uniform (sorry but let's be real), I can't see them being very compatible with each other.

I watched MQ this year, that may be the reason.

Okay, but nevertheless the production values are higher. I vaguely remember MQ having palace sets where the backdrop was just a painted/printed board, like those family soap operas. This show looks fancier and more grand in comparison.

So far it feels like a "safer", less creative or witty version of Mr Queen, with more cooking scenes. The only edge for me is the higher production values from Netflix. Can't help but compare because the premise is way too similar.

Well this looks... like a B-grade korean action movie, with very unserious outfits. I'm sorry.

Good Boy has underperformed in ratings. It is JTBC's blockbuster that was expected to do much better than this. Bad writing aside, imo a big reason for this is in the title itself -- I've already watched PBG as a "good boy" character in all his shows, so why should I feel inclined to watch a show revolving around yet another one? It's star vehicle that failed to work.

Law and the City is just starting but it needs something more to get better ratings. For a show that is 70% eating and talking, you need to inject either some spice or heart.

So the moral of the story is... women should have babies even if it literally kills them? 😬

Also, there was a whole hooha about a bunch of human cells being thrown out, but when a woman dies it's just accounted for through a short monologue? Are we suggesting here that Eve was just a baby-making tool after all and her dying didn't really matter? 🤡 Or that she was redeeming her "sin" by paying with her life?? 🤮

... There's really no way to rate a drama 0/10 on this site, huh?

I think PBY isn't that suited to playing colder characters. She's a good actress, she just doesn't have that "unapproachable but attractive" quality. Watching this right after seeing Han Jimin in Love Scout made me realize this.