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A misunderstood show, just watch it!
This may just be my favourite k-drama, and it's always been confusing to me how people say the plot is overcomplicated. It's kind hard to get your head around it sure, but it's really not like you'll be doing the rocket science yourself or anything. The premise of the show is stellar to say the most and slightly saturated to say the least. However, this is one of those shows where too much research shouldn't be done before watching it, jump straight into it and you'll love it like I did, hopefully.Pros:
Kim Go Eun and Lee Min Ho's insane chemistry.
Insanely well-shot cinematography.
Woo Do Hwan playing two very different guys fantastically.
Lee Min Ho's King character done just right with the appropriate amount of cockiness, love-ableness self-awareness around Kim Go Eun's no-nonsense detective character.
A kick for science nerds.
A truly evil, hateful, vengeful villain with a real purpose, rather than just plot filler villainism.
The delightfulness of a K=drama absent in American TV.
A badass female lead with one thing several seem to lack - common sense.
Kick-ass OST, it's been years since I watched this but I listen to Orbit by HWASA sometimes.
Cons:
Over-complicated plot.
Around the last two episodes, it's kind of confusing.
*Spoiler: Slightly unhappy ending (think CLOY ending vibes)*
'Second Female Lead' is annoying, haughty and generally unlikable. (Think the 'second' male lead in Queen of Tears)
Some things could've been done better, like the second male lead's character and backstory, which I found lacking and plain unnecessary.
It's overall great, good rewatch value, thrilling enough but not overly thrilling that you drop all your schoolwork and binge-watch it. Lee Min Ho especially is superb in this, he plays such a bigger-than-the-world character who is suprisingly witty, exceptionally intelligent, good-looking (obviously) and he's got this grace and elegance that really sells the King part.
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