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yeah, yeah, brooding and politicking and broody politicking is all great here, but I live for those moments when Feng Zhiwei, Ning Yi, Gu Nanyi and prince Helian tease each other. The tension is no joke.
And brocades. Brooding in brocades. Definitely should be a thing.

criminally underrated.

with such a title I'd expect them to go for dismantling the constitutional monarchy for good rather than just changing the person on top.

*pats myself on the back for ignoring 'annoying FL' and 'cringy' comments and not passing on an intriguing drama*

also, the 'disguised as highschooler' tag is incorrect, there's a trick to it, but he finds a legitimate way to continue his education under his own name after years.

aka Innocent Things

So, I wouldn't exactly call myself knowledgable on that topic, it's just the stuff I know through cultural osmosis and acquired art history knowledge on iconography (and through, that, what it applies to). And I'm far from religious either. [*trying to keep a straight face when a local newspaper article says that eyeballs turning white upwards indicate the presence of Lucifer, while downwards - Beelzebub isn't an easy feat*]

From what I know, exorcists are nominated & subordinated to their local bishops, so there's no need to ask permission every single time. I guess going for the very top of the hierarchy depends on the severity on the case. Even believers count possessions extremely rare compared with psychiatric issues, so psychological (and spiritual if you will) counseling comes first and only if that fails more drastic methods are used . As you noticed, the scale on TV is completely out of real life proportion. Kinda like psychokillers.
As I see it, exorcisms aim more at solving an issue (and/or hushing it). If anything, providing the proof is something I connect more with the canonisation process (declaring someone a saint) which requires a lenghty documenting and providing a body of evidence complete with miracles and stuff.

Maybe anyone else can add more or correct it.

is it fully preproduced? because I'd hate to see it go downhill in later part. The main two characters may be OTT, but the flow is sublime. It has proper editing and very sensible use of bgm. Whoever is responsible for this, they're clearly having more fun with the medium that could be suspected from the silly synopsis.

they are quite ahead calendar-wise, I think it's not over with time loops!

1. I find it mildly terrifying, but I'm actually getting invested in this thing, random overdramatics and all. Let the hair pins fly.
2. It's a pity Mr Ma went on a deranged gloating spree and got himself killed, I had hopes for his character to become some kind of a Huntsman figure. He was such a loose cannon, he could overbalance events with his whimsical sense of self-interest. Was he on anyone's side, anyway? (Why did he tip off Na Wang Shik to not approach Min Yu Ra in that bookstore and expose himself? There seemed to be somethig purposeful about it, but what purpuse could it possibly serve?)
3. Looking forward to the mysterious writer slash hidden prince plotline, although my head is already spinning from trying to see some sense in his tactic re sensible sister. Boy, are you hiding or hinting? Choose one.
4. Speaking of side pairings, how about the little princess and the boy-not-left-for-wolves-afterall?
5. Also, they may be laying on the bromance between the emperor and his bodyguard a biiit thick and/or queerbait-y (the handkerchief - pan on the bloody lips - spent a night with me sequence), but I'm buying into it snickeringly.

do you think Kim Min Young will be her endgame physique then? that would be intriguing to see, I wonder whether they could pull it off.

so I lived under a rock and have never seen the original. Could someone be as kind as to say something more about the plot? Is it a case-of-the-week or one huge story? Is that woman insensitive to her own death an antagonist main guy chases or rather some kind of a partner?

Which one? The waltz is Shostakovich no. 2. The song Sunny sings at the party is a spin on Arirang, an excellent choice for something to have an almost nonsensical ad lib on given how many variations it already has. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Arirang gives many interesting details on its history. (Fun fact: the best known version of lyrics comes from a silent movie.)

the synopsis can be misleading, or maybe I just filled the gaps for myself the wrong way. Both leads know each other way bofore the fantasy starts happening, she's his assistant and has a crush on him, he at the very least appreciates her professionaly and cares for her wellbeing (protests when others are rude towards her and stuff). This drama gets a honorary 'ML is not a jerk' sticker from me. I repeat, un-jerky ML. Far too few of those in dramaland, especially with this kind of premise.

makjangier and makjangier, and I can't stop watching.

Woman of Dignity is worth a shot.

but for the record, it did the trick as a distraction from that part when he had his head shot through and just had to eat some painkillers and sleep it off.

I opened the spoiler and now I have to ask: is it a type of haircut that cuts your weight in half and grows you a few extra inches, because who needs to concern oneself with boring stuff like skeleton and its limits when there's Choi Jin Hyuk waiting to be pulled out of thin air?

Reversed perspective. Maybe their own culture doesn't have the appeal to drive an entire drama yet, in their eyes? I know a similar mechanism works for me, because I'd gladly watch a Wailing-esque drama any day, but Catholic exorcisms in fiction (for me as a person living in a overwhelmingly C. country) are just past the BS point, hence completely uninteresting.
On the other hand, it's worth to remember that nowadays around 1/3 of Korean declares to be Christian. It's more complicated thn theirs/not theirs.

I think I shall, eventually. Thanks for reminding me about this title!

*nods frantically* She's such a girl crush material and her character makes the most sense out of the bunch.