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Acting is over the top aka amateurish across the board. Director's choice obviously. I don't really believe this will get better, since the support characters already come across as cringey. Seems like they wanted something like Hometown Cha Cha Cha mixed with Our Blues mixed with Forecasting Love and Weather. Of course I hope it gets better but already not really having faith in it.

Shin Hye Sun is ever worse. Director's choice I guess. Acting is over the top aka amateurish across the board. I don't really believe this will get better, since the support characters already come across as cringey.

definitely a promising start. Jang Dong Yoon with superpowers and head over heels smitten Nana are so much fun to watch. Good chemistry.

well said. completely agree.

It's one of the best this year for me, and def the most satisfying for the romance part. I only took a glimpse at the comments, this is one rare case where I don't want to read them.

Prob my fave couple of the year. Feeling their feelings, they are a great match. Lovin this drama so far. Just that Jung Woong In has had too many villain roles already, it's not motivating to him and that shows. Hope he gets more versatile roles. He was utterly chilling and scary as the villain in Empress Ki and I Hear Your Voice.

As in Forbidden Marriage. KYD is def not a kisser. I forgive him. Great actor, love to watch him.

If you haven't watched Hit the Top, he's so absolutely hilarious in it. I don't think he deserves any criticism, many uni-trained actors are way worse.

that's in some other platform, no?

The director and cinematographer are such friggin amateurs. There was zero buildup or excitement in Rowoon's confession scene. The main characters are mostly filmed from somewhere on the floor or maybe the cinematographer prefers to be sitting in a chair. The trick of filming from the below would work if this was a horror series. Otherwise, what a waste of Rowoon. None of this being so mid/boring is his fault.

This is a comment page, where both positive comments and criticisms are welcome. This is not a fanpage.

He's great to watch, effortlessly good acting. I also liked Unlock My Boss.

When the Devil Calls Your Name is a very character-driven drama. Quite untypical, since the devil (Park Sung Woong) is very sympathetic and continuously becoming more humanlike. Whilst the protagonist (Jung Kyung Ho) starts off as a very lacking human being but ends up growing to a decent one. I guess at this year (2023) of action-packed and character-depth lacking Disney k-dramas I wasn't at all bothered by the occasional draggy parts. There's a lot of philosophical content, maybe not all the time quite getting anywhere but still extraordinary. I give a lot of points for the sheer attempt at tackling moral and philosophical dilemmas. In the end, there's a clarity of what of main messages and takeaways are. That is also laudable. As for the OST, the musical style is quite unusual as well, since it's more folkish than I've ever encountered in a k-drama. It's not for me but I didn't skip any of it, either. As for the romance, it's mostly between Lee El and Park Sung Woong, and that was also a very unusual solution. Lee El is so fine in this drama and Park Sung Woong is of course a legend (in my book). Lee Seol and Song Kang are also very good in their roles.

factoid: this is the second drama for Song Kang where the plot is about people selling their souls to the devil. Just finished When the Devil Calls Your Name. It's a good one.

you're absolutely right. People must stop applauding weight loss or weight gain for a role. PMY was already seriously underweight.

It's definitely getting better. Yul is so funny. But why does Minseok nowadays have to be the villain? He used to have good romantic roles.

yes indeed, it would have been so much better if LJH's backstory had been revealed early on. And the reasons why Captain Gu agreed to a divorce when that decision was only his to make and not by Gil Chae. That needed to be shown. The survival of LJH was the most disturbing part, since Nam Yeon-jun had no status in the military at all being a scholar. That was so obviously changed from the original script. All this softening make the drama less a classic than it would have been otherwise.

Of course not, he's the crown prince and she's an old maid. With a low status without a father. She can't be the future queen. She must be married off before they can start planning the crown prince's marriage.

Would You Like a Cup of Coffee is very good. I don't think he had all the information needed to evade this mess. I really feel sorry for him.

This is real historical events. The main characters' fate was always tied to the king and the crown prince.