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Bae Hyun Sung was excellent as villain in Gyeongseong Creature 2. Can't wait to see him in this!

Production confirmed as:

tvN Weekend Drama 12 episodes

Starring: Song Kang (as Kang Bio), Lee Jun-young (as Choi Jung-yo) [yet to be officially confirmed]

Director: Park Hyun-seok (Stranger 2, Hometown)
Writer: Shin Yi-won (Green Mothers’ Club, No Next Life)
Genre: Youth, Music, Coming-of-Age Drama
Production: Studio N, Studio Dragon

Scheduled to start filming in Nov/Dec 2025, set to air in the second half of 2026.

I hope they show no lenience and prosecute her for defamation regardless. Especially the use of AI will become an increasing problem moving forward, so it's important to make an example out of this.

It's not happening, Barbs. They didn't even finish filming it.

Seems like the dramas for the first half of the year are slotted in. Changes could always happen, but it's not uncommon for dramas to start airing while still filming. (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G3qjaNIWgAAj8Jt?format=jpg&name=medium)

Currently scheduled to premiere on February 16.

TvN seem to have deleted the still of FL as press in what looks like a war zone after the backlash. It seems plausible they’ll edit the scene in question before airing to avoid further controversy. (Of course nobody knows what the context is yet.)

Such an iconic character, probably the one he'll be remembered for the most down the line, along with his Signal character (especially now that it's getting a second season next year).

He was hilarious in Ep1 and the actor did well. Looking forward to seeing more of him.

So I'm guessing they might split this in two parts of 11 episodes each? Would be odd to release 22 episodes all at once, Netflix has never released anything longer than 15 at once, I believe.

After East Palace, you mean? It's speculated he'll do Vigilante S2 next, but not confirmed.

At least they didn't call it My Lovely Thief 🤣🤣

He's done films, most recently Hijack 1971 last year. But yes, what I find the most baffling is that he chose not to capitalize on his success post-Hotel del Luna and Beyond Evil by doing more high-profile dramas as the male lead (or co-lead).

But he's been acting since he was a kid, so maybe he just wanted to do something different. He's gained like 30 pounds of muscle too and looks like a bodybuilder or something recently. Maybe the military will help him find himself.

His career choices have been baffling in recent years, so maybe a military reset is just what he needs.

Still waiting for him to deliver on the promise he showed in Under the Queen’s Umbrella.

He looks exactly the same to me in the pictures in this post, so idk what you're seeing lol

They had to shove the childhood connection in there too. I like clichés in my romcoms, but sometimes I wish they'd shake it up a little bit from the template.

Ep2 was weaker than Ep1, they spent way too long getting to the point when it was obvious early on that she'd use the design contract as leverage. Mostly another episode of setup. But still pretty good!

I mean if you don't like the fake contract marriage trope then you probably should not watch a drama in which that trope is the premise of the drama. Kind of goes without saying.

Near-perfect first episode for me. Nothing revolutionary, but the cast is great and the set-up is good. I even enjoyed the jerk of an ex-fiancé. And Bae Na Ra as a hot villain again! Can't wait for more.

(It should be said that I also rather enjoyed the first four episodes of Love Next Door before things took a turn and it got really bad for me, so I'm not counting my chickens just yet. But great start!)