Strong Start, Bad Finish
The first few episodes were SO GOOD. Like genuinely, I was hooked. The comedy was on point, the premise, the characters and their relationships... This drama had the potential to become one of my favourites and my new "Mr Queen".BUT!!! Around the Half-point of the story, the drama just falls into the usual cliche kdrama romance plots and completely loses its freshness, premise and build-up until now. We go from funny reborn monarch in modern times, which knows her worth and way around to damsel-in-distress who needs the big CEO to take care of everything. its SO frustrating, its like youre watching an entirely different drama and character all of a sudden!
Not only that, but the writers just randomly forgot their own plot points they made. In the beginning they tease some foreseeing ability of the MC and its just forgotten about for the rest of the story afterwards. This happens with A LOT of plot points, but I want to keep this review spoiler-free.
The last REALLY BIG THING I HATED, was this sudden "past fated lovers" plot line that came out of nowhere. Wouldve been fine in any other drama, but here, it just ruined the plot and atmosphere. It was unnecessary. So it was only worse that they started going all-in for this plot line towards the end, as if the FL and ML didnt have enough chemistry either way to need this storyline. Its really awful, they try to turn the comedy show into a tear-jerker out of nowhere, which fails MISERABLY, especially as it comes at the cost of losing the core of the story and changing the characters terribly.
Id love to give this drama a 2/10, but due to the strong beginning ill be settling on a 3.5/10. If youre gonna watch it, watch the first 4 episodes and be prepared to rage at your screen the entire time afterwards or accept that now youre watching a different drama.
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DO NOT WATCH THIS!!!
The entire story is basically giving "Hey ChatGPT write me a 7 EP Kdrama series with convoluted nonsensical romance and unsatisfying endings!! oh and also make sure to glorify bullies! Thanks!!"And then the writers took the prompt and just freestyled the filming. Like Ive seen lots of Kdramas up til now but i remember forcing my way through this series. If you want some hierarchy scheming story just watch The Penthouse everyone
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Disappointing.
After seeing the first episode, i was MORE than excited to watch this K-Drama, as especially by the way it was narrated and filmed gave me a feeling that this could be the Euphoria of K-Drama. BOY WAS I WRONG.The creators really poured their braincells into the first few episodes and then seemingly watched too much AI Slop on YouTube Shorts, frying their brains, and then continued writing the story. Theres no other explanation for this, as after the first half of the series the story just... LITERALLY falls off. Like... it doesnt make any sense anymore. All the build-up is thrown out of the window, plot points are forgotten, the story is made up out of thin air without substance.
Not to mention the romance aspect - it seemed to build up a really cool wlw plot after a while, which I was getting excited about, but then they also just... dont go any further? Like they build it up and then midway through the relationship build-up said "actually theyre just friends nvm" EVEN THO THAT WAS 100% NOT WHAT WAS BUILDING UP.
Not to mention the ending... the story was nowhere near done and had terrible pacing, so they try to conclude the story within 1 last episode and as i said: everything that happened there didnt make sense and went by way too fast. It was as if the writers just wanted to wrap things up as fast as possible so they could finally hit the bed. Thats how lazy it was.
OVERALL: DONT WATCH IT! This is literally the K-Drama together with "Hierarchy" that I can name INSTANTLY when somebody asks me about bad dramas ive seen without thinking twice. Which is so disappointing, as the FLs actress is really good and was in my fav drama ever (Reply 1988).
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