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ep.28. whoa nelly.

Waiting happily for the next episode...this series is a feast for the eyes. Love that two phase weird hallway to the President's office.

Nice article -- altho second couples will be less frequent at shorter length dramas, sigh. New niches? I would add to yr list one older example -- The Rational Life 2nd couple were beyond sweet -- and one new pair in My Dear Nemesis, tidily squeezed into a 12 ep. show , but powerful enough to be memorable.

( just finished Ep20-21, US east coast) The father Shi Yang and the concubine Ru Yin: the characters keep revealing even greater depths of cruelty, self-deception and narcissistic self-regard. The characters and the actor's characterizations (Yu En Tai and Wang Yan) are magnificent. Not sure but I think my hope for true love between ZHY and FYX is being used to drag me deeper into the maelstrom. How I wanted a real marriage night and how destroyed it was! Incredible! And now I am thrilled by the dark couple...

lull in other series, romedy ones. as everyone else says its great to have something thrilling and cool instead of hot all the time. sadness is what lee je hoon is bringing to the table here.

a really great series. Nothing else like it. perfection on the technical side and great actors all throughout. Over and over again I am blown away. Loved the japan episode. hope/bets the ratings go up now that there a lull in romance.

Viki has us only at ep.17, guys. Use your spoiler veils pls. The pain of waiting is part of the pleasure.

Hi, I wept a lot too and I thought your review was a good one. I just looked for your other work..Maybe you have been busy with exams but I hope you write more. It is all about how we feel when we watch in the end isnt it. Objective schmectjective.

Ep.14 is amazing.

On a BJT walkabout after first frost. I really really really didnt like this. It drove me nuts. I stubbornly watched it to the end, and it is an interesting show, but no joy or heart to it.

I smiled every time I watched. Choi Hyun Wook is finally making his mark as a hot romantic lead with great cheekbones (not namby-pamby-western visuals).

loving this endlessly detailed plotting; so much intrigue

That is a very interesting soundtrack. Odd that it doesnt make one feel uneasy or anxious but rather quietly cautiously interested in events. The entering and ending theme song is absolute fire -- gets better and better each time.

(ep14) The actors themselves are excellent dancers, it looks like. The series is trashy at the edge of comical. Love the clothes.

I thought the series was complicated. I wrote a review and it was a difficult one to do. Read it and see what you think.

so far, racy, elegant, silly and a lot of fun.

Thank you for this review. I usually wait for a couple of good reviews before I take down anything I wrote abt a show I didnt really like. I apologize for writing in English but my Italian is awful, altho I am comfortable reading it.

I am so glad you noticed this...it is way out of the focus on the drama per se, but I kept worrying abt whether that could be misinterpreted by boys who get everything wrong and then encourage them to become total creeps.

The only way I got around it was by another probably unpopular opinion, Sang Yan was pretty insensitive in his coltish days, and what he did was plain wrong.

So, why? The director and screenwriter did my name engraved herein, why wasnt he more sensitive?

Well, the snooping sets up the slow discovery he goes through after Yi Fans second disappearance. (still doesnt excuse it for me).

And his final apology (ep29) really made up for this in spades although I would have liked to see it repeated about 5x. AND he should have come clean abt the snooping.

finally!!! The ethics and dearly beloved eloquence of cdrama finally broke through this deeply moving shroud of kdrama tropes!!! that conversation in the hospital healed me anyway! (obvio in the us I am only at ch.29)

I hate it that often women, especially the young and isolated cant feel safe even at home, or in our neighborhoods. We all struggle everywhere in this world in small ways and in big ones to improve this. I hated WYF's family with all my heart. That's fiction. They are caricatures. Cdrama usually shows much more eloquent female characters but these two never even articulate remorse. Women everywhere always fight for freedom in their own lives. That is reality. Cinematic enactments of happiness and freedom are good because they give us all courage and validate our right to dream. FF brings out raw feelings and truth, albeit in a story of true love. Laws are useless unless the forces which protect us are always under scrutiny and until women are equally represented in them. Yay Aunty Chen!