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I don't know if anyone has ever read (or attempted to read) the source novel for this, but it's utterly dreadful. The plot is OK but the writing suggests a particularly thick teenager . . .

Excellent analysis.

I totally wanted them to say "Let's settle this the old-fashioned way" and go into battle-dance mode.

"Kim So Hyun on the other hand will portray the role of Ji Han Na. She is known as the shooting goddess for her outstanding beauty and skills. "

Good grief.

Both actors do actual 'acting' rather than that weird, blank-face (don't want to spoil the botox/filler) thing, so am looking forward to this. The plot looks good, too.

I knew, in the very first episode, when the FL turned into a violent, screeching harpy (because the ML accidentally 'spilled her pint') that this would be trash but I (stupidly) persisted.

And my worst fears were confirmed.

Not only is the premise creepy (pretending to be a psychiatrist and then macking on your 'patient') but the leads had no chemistry. Zero, zilch, none,

Maybe read a history book once in a while. Yes, during WW2 (and before that, the occupation of Korea) the Japanese Imperial Army was just as vile as the Nazis and just as vile as British Colonialism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gando_Massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant%C5%8D_Massacre

This 'writer' never improves in translating, either. He/she/it still can't translate pronouns correctly, despite them being correct in the source material. It must be one of the MDL admin. Nobody else would get so much leeway.

More badly-written trash from wannabe 'writer' (actually one of the MDL admin) lo_ve.

The 'narrowing his eyes' face?

I hope the plot calls for lots of squinting/narrowing of eyes on behalf of the ML.

For the avoidance of doubt, these aren't real, independent awards like the Baeksang Arts Awards (nominations and awards done independently, by a jury of experts). This is the wankfest of a single TV company, which only looks at its own dramas: hence the multiple baffling (and trivialised) categories.

Perhaps it makes it harder to organise your servants to serve TV-watching snacks if its split like that?

I can't imagine, if a film was made (and they continue to be) about the Holocaust, anyone saying "I hope this doesn't portray the Nazis in a bad light". You would, literally, be laughed out of the room.

Ditto if a film was made about vile, British colonialism.

But I constantly read. on here, comments like this.

What history is taught in Japan, seriously? About the brutal (and it was) occupation of Korea? About the - organised - rape and murder of hundreds of thousands of women and girls (comfort women)? About the 200,000 Asian people murdered as part of the unit 731 experiments?

The plot is, on the face of it, cliched up the yin-yang, so it's good that a couple of actors are fucking off lazy-ass writers. I say 'writers' but if all you're doing is stitching together regurgitated tropes can you call yourself one?

Are we sure it's 'Knight Flower' and not 'Night Flower'? The words have quite different meanings. The source, which calls the drama 'Flowers which bloom at night' would suggest the latter.

To be fair to the fans of My Demon, very few of them are claiming that the plot, or acting, is good. They are - very openly - frotting themselves into a frenzy about 'the visuals' and 'the kiss' and 'the chemistry' (though the last, for many people, might be a function of the first two). We all like different things.

I really like the premise. I hope they stick to the sinister agents being of human, rather than supernatural origin (much scarier).

"Ha Neul works as an anesthesiologist. When she was growing up, people called her a genius due to her extreme intelligence."

FFS.

Some Korean actors do look quite a bit younger. But not these two and not by this much,