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Han So Hee is dreadful in Nevertheless but decent in My Name. I've never seen Song Hye Kyo do any actual 'acting' in anything I've seen her in - just a lot of blank-faced staring - but she has a lot of screechy fans (who talk, constantly about how pretty she is and/or her private life, which isn't about acting).

I've been trying to think about why this drama is so bad, and why the ratings are in the toilet, while putting aside my distaste for the relentless 'noona' dramas that the kdrama industry is pumping out recently:

- the acting, from the main characters, is very, VERY poor - too much blank-faced staring (and I include JKY in that, though he's been good in other things) and the FL was good in something in 2006 (apparently);

- the plot is trite and, frankly, unbelievable - as is much of the dialogue;

- even in scenes of high emotion the FLs eyes and the top half of her face don't move - including when her mouth is full-on screeching- that's super-weird;

- it's boring, god it's super, super BORING. How can a drama which kicked off with a 'sex' scene be so utterly dull?

It's like the production company had a meeting and said: "Listen, the audience is mostly thickies. As long as we throw them a few bones in the form of a hot ML, a popular actress and a promise of some saucy bits, they'll swallow anything."

Those weren't 19+ scenes for 99% of your international audience - they were over-romanticised and twee. The drama might have been better for some genuine grittiness to be honest.

Han So See wasn't my favourite in Nevertheless - she did a lot of that blank-faced staring thing which (sometimes) passes for acting in Korean drama - but she was decent in My Name and Park Hyung Sik has been good in the three things I've seen him in. The thing that puts me off is the extreme triteness of the plot; we have friends to lovers, forced cohabitation and a music industry backdrop - all of which I've seen in a fair chunk of dramas from the last 6 or 7 years. I do think the writers are the ones at fault here, though - they're super lazy and lack any sort of imagination.

The most beautiful cat ever . . .

It's main flaw is that IS 'fluffy' though. Terribly fluffy compared to its early promise, to be a realistic depiction of casual sex and relationships between young, healthy and attractive people. E.g. the main leads end up together, the man develops 'feelings' for the tedious Nabi, however unrealistic that premise is, the 'sex' is fluffy and dispassionate, the FL has that very cliched kdrama blank face thing going on. And they must have spent a fortune on the gel lenses to shoot her through.

How do you know that's the role he'll play?

If you're telling people to 'shut up' because you disagree with them then you've already lost the argument.

'Sophie' doesn't do research - her MAGA cap keeps falling into her eyes when she tries to read anything beyond 3 sentences.

I think she thinks she looks younger when she shows no expression (no lines) but it has the opposite effect. Younger people tend to be more expressive and you learn to be more austere/stoic as you age. Compare the same-aged Gong Hyo-jin - who is always full of emotion and, as a consequence, looks youthful.

I'm pretty shocked by the number of people calling this 'anti Japanese propaganda' in the comments. You can't, as they say, polish a turd and the industrial scale rape and brutality visited upon hundreds of thousands of Korean/other Asian women and children forced to be 'comfort women' was a huge, steaming pile of it.

I don't recognise the text but later revelations, e.g. 'wargrave', suggest its an Agatha Christie novel - And Then There Were None.

Mr Queen mostly had a happy ending because they ended it before he died. But the drama didn't try give them different back stories (as they did, horribly, with Jang Ok-jung) nor did they wipe entire people from history.

I have excused LITM by thinking that it ended when he was still, say, 19 but appreciate that in reality he was married to the Chae Soo-bin character throughout the period depicted.

That would be hard, since that means no King Sunjo (so no Love in the Moonlight) and indirectly no Mr Queen, either.

I always read the history before, or alongside, the drama. The respectful way to give us a happy ending is to finish the drama before the bad things happen - Love in the Moonlight or Mr Queen, for example. But I hate them changing what we know as fact just to appease.

Thank you.

Is this a drama or a film?

I'd forgotten about the super cute little kids who live in her apartment building. They're freakin hilarious.

Except that this isn't censorship. The powers that be haven't banned this drama. Instead ordinary people, objecting to things they find offensive are reacting to it.