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I love that the drama took a lot of risks and I didn't mind that it had unlikable characters. But the plot didn't hold up in the end and I feel like the female lead was miscast. So I rated it a 7.5 which is what I give dramas I enjoyed watching but that have serious flaws. It has a 6.2 rating on Douban which isn't the worst but isn't great either.

The eunuch's was so cute and funny. Things like that did happen in real life but I never expected to see it in a drama.

It's very cute and the FL is very likeable. She has good reasons for the deception and she's remoseful later on

I hated that I-An dragged the little King into the political mess with the marriage. the poor kid was put on the spot in front of a huge audience and forced to go against his mother who we know won't take it well. not cool at all. I felt protective of the little kid 😭

The show is signaling pretty hard that they're going to become Hui Ju's allies, not villains, especially the SIL.

Do you think they'll really go through with it? Because I'm not sure. It would be a big leap forward for a kdrama if they made the character canonically queer. I'm not convinced they're going to do it. But I'd love to be wrong.

The show was kind of losing me with how Hui Ju screams at the help but then it completely won't me back with that kiss, wow! 😍

Makeup and post-production skin filtering

I have to admit I was rolling my eyes through the ||car scene. Ain't no way the prime minister would allow Hui Ju to drive the crown prince (it would be only authorized drivers allowed after what happened to Princess Diana) or a thorough inspection of the car (car was serviced by a non-approved shop). Also, why is it in dramas when the brakes go out no one thinks to use the parking brake

I really enjoyed eps 3 and 4! The baseball game was super cute. People were being critical of BYS not emoting in earlier episodes but I think he doesn't do well with stoic characters. He's much better being goofy in love, so now that we're into the overt in love phase he's a lot more engaging. But I did have one beef with the episode (threaded behind spoiler tag)

it starts out really strong but the subject matter is really hard to take and the leads are completely lacking in morals and ethics and they never get better. Plus the plot goes off the rails in the second half. But I did enjoy a lot of it and don't regret watching.

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Part of this too is a difference in pronunciation between English and Korean because English has diphthongs but Korean does not. So the vowels are pronounced separately and distinctly in Korean but glide together in English. I think a lot of English speakers struggle to separate those sounds properly. Putting a hyphen in the name would make it clearer. Honestly it doesn't bother me that much. I understand your objection though.

This was hilarious! And I agree with most of it except for two points:

~ Pretending sexual assault emotionally only affects women (because apparently men are fine being subject to it if it can advance their career): -50/10

I thought that scene made it pretty clear that Bang Tae Seop was traumatized by what happened and it was a deliberate parallel to what happened with Chu Sang Ah. And both were "rewarded" with career advancement. I found all of the assault scenes pretty realistic and incredibly hard to watch.

~ pretending a full on lesbian movie featuring one of the most prominent actresses as lead in a NSFW sex scene would even see the light of day in SK

Kim Taeri starred in The Handmaiden which has explicit lesbian scenes and a love story about women escaping men and became a big star as a result.

I know the leads aren't good people and there's no romance. But in the last episode Sang Ah seems warmer, friendlier and more trusting toward Bang Tae Seop than she'd ever been when they were married the first time. But there wasn't really any reason for her to change her behavior or trust him more, especially after he assaulted her. if they had become straight up enemies plotting against each other I would have found it more plausible than what we got. Have you watched the last two episodes? because then you would know who died.

I agree that thematically it made sense but I didn't think the way they got there made any sense at all. The plot was so full of holes, Jeong Won's behavior in eps 8 and 9 didn't make any sense, CSA and BTS holding onto evidence didn't make any sense, the Chairman coming out of a coma after two years didn't make any sense. I loved a lot of the drama but the writing was a mess. But all the flowers to Ju Ji Hoon and Ha Ji Won, they were absolutely brilliant.

Wow that ending truly sucked. Nothing in the previous episodes made it remotely plausible that Bang Tae Seop and Sang Ah could smoothly pull off that takedown of Yang Mi and take over WR group. And then the chairman waking up after what, two years? of being in a coma and Yang Mi suddenly getting out and they are pissing their pants. They didn't piss their pants when they were blackmailing all the men in Sang Ah's diary.

Also! if they had enough evidence stored up to take down Yang Mi why did they wait to use it? And another thing: Sang Ah thanking BTS when he blackmailed her into marriage and sexually assaulted her, like wtf. And she's a lesbian but they suddenly have a happy marriage? I'm also rolling my eyes hard at Jeong Won making an appearance during the thank you speech, like you killed her off but you still want to pull heartstrings their great love affair? Dumb. So dumb.

The ending brought down my overall rating to 7.5/10. The only thing I liked was the last shot of them entering the auditorium with a sign saying Entrance i.e. the entrance to hell.

ETA: I do want to add that the acting was brilliant, especially Ju Ji Hoon and Ha Ji Won. The way he acted just using his eyes deserves a Baeksang. And she was able to communicate a character who was a victim but also lying and manipulating people 99% of the time.

Finale comments

I agree with this. Also her husband had a soft spot for Sang Ah and Yang Mi must be thinking why does every man love this bitch

I don't necessarily think we know Yang Mi's real motive. Everyone lies all the time, including to themselves. Maybe we'll find out something tomorrow that flips her story.