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Yeah! Idk why people were saying her acting was bad- it wasn't great at first, yeah, and some of her scenes were lacking a bit... but she was pretty good in the more intense scenes. I need to see her play an actual villain! I think she'd be great at this.

I agree, I'm checking out more of her dramas. I loved Secrets and Lies and I'm gonna rewatch Witch's Game (someday... maybe after I finally finish Angel's Revenge lol) and I plan to check out Family Secrets.

Pearl In Red's comment section is as dead as a graveyard. 💀 Same few people there. The ratings aren't great either, currently at 7-8% according to NamuWiki (mostly 7%.) Lots of people saying that it's boring. Hard to tell if it'll recover or not- AGL did. I like First Man, though. But I want the FL to be better- smarter & stronger. So far Jang-Mi is disappointing me and they're centering a LOT on the romance. Not a fan. 😬

If the next drama after PIR flops, I might crash out. Y'all had a YEAR to cook up something great, bro 😭

Is this in reference to Sang-Ah being bisexual, or what? 😭

I used that as an example of how NOT to write female characters (I am aware it was adapted from a j-drama, and it was made in 2009- times are different now.) What dramas do YOU recommend, then? I'm all ears.

Thank GOD! But wait, no CGI??? How'd that work? 🤨

I'll take a look at it! First Man is frustrating me, so it's on hold AGAIN... I'm struggling on whether to drop it or not 💀

Ooooh, okay! A KBS1 daily being a revenge drama? That'd be a great turn! (Please, let Yoon Jong-Hoon's character be happy here... I am begging you k-drama gods... LET THE MAN BE HAPPY FOR ONCE!!!! 😭 He's too handsome to be miserable all the time!)

I will watch episode 1... tonight? Let's hope it's a great watch for me! If you like it, I think I'd love it lol

Exactly! Jung-Won scared me sometimes with her ambition/greed (she was low-key psychotic, loved it though 😭) but if they wanted to redeem her, I wish it was more gradual, too. Still would've wanted a villain origin-type story for her. I loved the "Jin Jung-Won" arc too, that was so fun! By far my favorite part was all the characters (excluding Tae-Seok) being morally ambiguous.

Same here lol, I had high hopes for Pearl In Red. I felt like I was lied to with the premise...

And Baek-Ho. I love him but he needs to grow some brains too... 😂

Okay? 😭 What exactly is your problem with me in particular, then? I like strong, complex characters when they're not being "evil/amoral" either, but your worldview is so small that it wouldn't allow you to understand that characters aren't always black & white or good and evil, nor are they meant to be. Watch Boys Over Flowers if you want black & white characters...

Also I do have a strong moral line- if your characters start hurting children, for example, I won't root for them. Not all villains (or even characters) are meant to be rooted for... plus, there's a difference between an antagonist and a villain. But I also hate weak female leads and ones that are pushovers. They're just as bad as the antagonists if they allow some things to happen to them.

I'm watching it this weekend, for sure!

Maybe they'll beat intelligence into her... lol

MDL is a notoriously negative place. Anything that doesn't suit their rose-colored glasses of rom-coms/romance dramas is something they hate lol

So an anti-heroine??? Okay!!!! I don't give out 10s *too* often, but I'm more excited than ever to watch Empress Ki.

I see! Congresscritters... clever. They're not doing anything right now so the name is perfect for them. (US citizen here, the national government sucks right now.) 😂

Son Guk-Won. If he aligns himself with Tae-Seop, though... things could get very interesting. 👀

That so? Why'd he say she never consented, then? He admitted it in a court of law. He couldn't have lied about that because that's perjury. Am I correct?

You do realize that the Korean justice system is SEVERELY flawed, right? Especially towards women. I've read the Twitter thread linked. I will read this as well because I like to keep an open mind...

And morally grey & complex characters. But you wouldn't know the difference between them, anyway.

Sang-Ah is in black too, I think. No clue why Jung-Won is in red, though...

She has a lot of versatility, I can tell!

It was the drama, but maybe I DID watch the movie by accident. Whoopsie. Great to see (I'm usually not a fan of gisaeng-based dramas.) I'm not really into sagueks either, but like I said, I enjoyed Empress Ki so far. I watched Hwang Jin-Yi quite a while ago. And I saw a little bit of Ha Ji-Won in Secret (2000) as the villainous FL.

New dramas to add to my line-up:
Moving
Strangers From Hell
Empress Ki
Hwang Jin-Yi (the 2006 drama, not the movie lol)
Secret (2000)
Phoenix (2004, which I've started...)

Oh, now THAT'S interesting. 👀 Based on what I've seen, she does become the Empress, but right now, she is cross-dressing as a man (a horse boy/stable worker?) Very excited to see how this turns out...