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For sure, and it will be more or less the moral of this drama I guess. However, for me Hwang Tae Yong just didn't really paid attention to others, being the top dog, and he had his own problems to deal with his father, so I'm not sure he purposely put a blind eye to the bullying. He seems really baffled by what's happening to him as Lee Seung Cheon in Park Jang Goon's house.

It's kind of a "The Prince and the Pauper" story like. But even if Lee Seung Cheon is supposed to be the "hero", the good guy, here, I personally root for Hwang Tae Yong. Being poor and having a hard life isn't a reason to discard his own family and take revenge. Looking forward to the story development though.

This is far from being as good as "The Admiral", too bad. I expected it to be better. It felt like the director had watched too many Hollywood blockbusters between the two movies. It was too much for me.
As much as I like Korean historical movies for depicting so well Korea's history and be able to still inspire good patriotism, this movie didn't really felt like a real sageuk.

This is just depressing in the end.
I actually don't relate with or feel really sorry for any of the characters because, as Mieko said in episode 7, they brought all this on themselves. Nobody really forced them to go this far and ruin everything, even if there was the pressure of Eiji's dad. In the end, they chose the problematic path when there were other possibilities. The way Makio left and Eiji just accepted the situation to have a happy "fake" family with Mieko just don't make sense.
Is this story realistic ? Not really, at least not for me. If there are real people who live like that, I just can't understand why.

Based on the trailers I don't see how it's a "black comedy". Just like "Mr. Queen", it seems like a (modern) comedy that use an historical setup. That and the rom/com sageuk are the current trend unfortunately. Waiting for really good and epic sageuk to come back someday.

It was so good so far. So natural. But what happened in episode 6 totally put me off. I expected an "healthy" friendship triangle with a real good romance (and it was the case until that room with view...), but this, no, it's really not okay for me. So disappointed by the story development. I'm really worried for the last 4 episodes now.

Yes, yes, good for you. "than trying to remember all those foreign names all the time" this summarise perfectly the kind of person who do that.

I always hate that, but that comment section is particularly horrible to read with all these people writing "ML", "FL", "SML", etc. Is that so hard to write the characters names ? Or at least the actors names... ?

Based on the trailer I have high expectations. Finally a new serious men romance with depth from Japan. And not a love triangle, despite one of the three main leads being a woman. I really look forward to it.

Ji Yul and Sang Hyun would be great together, too bad we don't have that kind of love triangle yet in dramas. ^^

I haven't read the webtoon so I can't compare to it and I don't know if it's a faithful adaptation. That's definitely not the kind of humour I really like, and stories with love triangle aren't my thing too, but Choo Young Woo is so good and I like his character Han Ji Yul very much. It's also nice to see Baek Sung Chul in his first main role, even if his character is not the best. All the acting is actually great, the story nice and the subject of veterinary and countryside quite interesting, but they went a little bit too far on the cliché of countryside people in Korea, and the character Ahn Ja Young is too weird for me, even if Joy is doing a great job.

The acting is still a little bit lacking sometimes, the production too, and there are the usual clichés, but overall that's very cute.

That doesn't concord with her reaction, neither with her proud attitude regarding the fact that she got in the art school by herself. Their conversation in the bedroom while paining the portrait also show that she had no clue about the purpose of that command.

Yep, that doesn't concord with her proud attitude regarding the fact she got in the art school by herself, and their conversation in the bedroom while paining the portrait. She definitely didn't know the real purpose of that command.

Because she thinks they had an affair and he killed her at that moment, so alone with him in that house she don't know what will happen to her.

Oh you're right. ;) Well, Wonryeong Group seems like a fictive chaebol so the group is kind of the flag ship and Orchid Counsel and Wonryeong Industry are affiliates I think.

Yes, here it's the collection of the director I think. Probably because of the society name. And also because a lot of wealthy and powerful people in Korea have collections of rare and expensive orchids and flowers. It's often shown in Korean dramas too.

Choi Do Il is the Head of Finance Division of Overseas Subsidiaries of the society Orchid Counsel (the same of In Joo), which is part of Wonlyeong Group (that belong to Park Jae Sang, the future candidate for Seoul mayor elections). It seems it's a company that deals with funds management.

I totally agree, this character is making me like her again, because after Yu Mi I was kind of sick of her. ^^

The references to the original are totally obvious though. It's just a liberal adaptation. There are many degrees in adapting an original piece into a movie/TV series.