in middle of ep 6 why is queen mother against the marriage so much ? what impact will it have on her ?
She feels the weight of generations of traditions that it seems no one but she is willing to preserve. Her upbringing—family, training—all made her this way. Watching the system crumble before her eyes makes her feel like a failure—that all of her sacrifices were moot. On the surface she is a queen but inside she feels hollow & unfulfilled. Hers is a tragic story!
Episode 6 was really good. I mean, the queen behaved nicely for like 0.5 seconds, but I still hate her 😭. She…
It’s for the history books—a sort of faux immortality.
Who was the first person to step on the moon? Everyone knows it was Neil Armstrong. But who can also remember the last guy to step on the moon. Even he doesn’t remember! “Harrison Schmidt! Who the heck is Harrison Schmidt?”
The rating is actually so surprising because there is NO way in hell this deserves an 8.5 😭 Like sure, people…
I am never surprised by ratings. What I am surprised by—still, after many years—is why MDL chooses to enable dedicated partisans to manipulate the ratings, even while a series is ongoing. It's hard to have much, if any, esteem for the ratings, IMO. To me, they're just some numbers taking up space at the top of the page—and living rent-free in a lot of people's minds!
Nothing to do with the drama per se, but I DETEST the constant black outs that look like commercial breaks. Jars…
You noticed! The reason for those blackout breaks is because this drama is a co-production between domestic SK broadcast network MBC and Disney. Each episode airs first on MBC—with commercial breaks—before it is released for streaming by D+ without commercial breaks.
Some D+ dramas are Disney originals, but the global streamer's appetite for content is too large for them to produce every series themselves. Sometimes they license an existing series from a domestic network, and other times (like here) they partner with a network on a co-production. The same goes for other streamers such as Netflix, Prime Video, etc..
The royals aren't supposed to eat food from outside right? So how can the king (kid) eat corn dog??
The Royal kitchen has been serving fast food ever since Joseon times when head royal cook Mr Queen invented Macdonalds. I hear their dragon-whisker fries are the best!
It's clearly topping the charts because of the production, and also the script, but of course most of all it is the acting!
I've seen a lot of criticism about the male lead's acting. Honestly, for me it's the opposite. He's doing a brilliant job slowly revealing the true feelings of a man who was raised under harsh conditions which would repress any normal person for life. He lost his mom at a young age. His dad neglected him or was harsh to him with nothing in-between. He was raised to live within the gilded cage of the palace, always as a spare-to-an-heir whom he was never to eclipse or over-shine. He was raised to be non-controversial. Here, we get to see him meet someone who offers him the chance to voice his true desires, act in accordance to his conscience, and risk everything he has and is, in a courageous play to seize the day.
I've seen a lot of criticism about the female lead's acting. I was harsh on her, myself, after watching Hotel del Luna. (In the first episode she was great—she was intense and wielded a shotgun and looked hot in her frilly dress. After that, it was more about the wardrobe than the acting—that was my complaint.) Here, I get to appreciate how much she's grown as an actress. She has a range with both subtlety and intensity that's delicious!
I have watched countless dramas in last 5-6 years and since last few years if it needs to be a good one it sort…
I look at it from a lot of different perspectives: Plot development, act breaks, episode length. There are real-world reasons why different series have different lengths & structures. What to me is most important is working as well as possible within the constraints.
Global streaming companies like Netflix make their money from subscriptions, so shorter seasons are preferred.
Dramas from local broadcast networks like SBS need more episodes because they earn money from commercial breaks. But the streamers such as Netflix need content (much more than they can produce themselves), so they partner with the local networks. That's what happened here.
SBS is broadcasting Phantom Lawyer in SK on a twice-weekly basis. In the old days, they would have dragged it out, showing only one episode per week. But because of a deal with Netflix, they sped it up. The more popular a show, the more locals watch & the more money SBS makes from ads. Netflix is paying them for global distribution rights, which lowers SBS' financial risk should the ratings drop. But Netflix has to wait until after each episode has already aired on SBS in SK before they can make it available online. The protects SBS so SK viewers who want to watch the latest episode right away need to do so on their network.
Netflix-produced shows have shorter seasons which are released all at once, not over time. The same goes for other global streamers (called OTT in industry-speak) like Amazon Prime & Disney+. They all typically have fewer episodes than the local broadcast networks. Sometimes each episode is of a longer length, so that the overall season of an 8- or 10-episode OTT drama has the same overall length (in minutes) as a 16-episode local broadcast network series.
Some dramas are co-productions (like Crown Prince which is co-produced by MBS & Disney+) fall somewhere in-between. The OTT pays more money to get involved in the production. These shows usually have larger budgets and are popular both locally and globally. CP has 12 episodes of a slightly-longer duration of approximately 75 minutes each.
You'd think it'd be obvious that blocking the rating of episodes prior to release & series before completion would be a no-brainer! But we've got to have a discussion about it. And still nothing is likely to change. I cannot think of any good reasons why this is THE unanswered question going back probably to when MDL first launched.
You'd think it'd be obvious that blocking the rating of episodes prior to release & series before completion would be a no-brainer! But we've got to have a discussion about it. And still nothing is likely to change.
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Who was the first person to step on the moon? Everyone knows it was Neil Armstrong. But who can also remember the last guy to step on the moon. Even he doesn’t remember! “Harrison Schmidt! Who the heck is Harrison Schmidt?”
Some D+ dramas are Disney originals, but the global streamer's appetite for content is too large for them to produce every series themselves. Sometimes they license an existing series from a domestic network, and other times (like here) they partner with a network on a co-production. The same goes for other streamers such as Netflix, Prime Video, etc..
I've seen a lot of criticism about the male lead's acting. Honestly, for me it's the opposite. He's doing a brilliant job slowly revealing the true feelings of a man who was raised under harsh conditions which would repress any normal person for life. He lost his mom at a young age. His dad neglected him or was harsh to him with nothing in-between. He was raised to live within the gilded cage of the palace, always as a spare-to-an-heir whom he was never to eclipse or over-shine. He was raised to be non-controversial. Here, we get to see him meet someone who offers him the chance to voice his true desires, act in accordance to his conscience, and risk everything he has and is, in a courageous play to seize the day.
I've seen a lot of criticism about the female lead's acting. I was harsh on her, myself, after watching Hotel del Luna. (In the first episode she was great—she was intense and wielded a shotgun and looked hot in her frilly dress. After that, it was more about the wardrobe than the acting—that was my complaint.) Here, I get to appreciate how much she's grown as an actress. She has a range with both subtlety and intensity that's delicious!
I get that others disagree. Subjective, isn't it?
Global streaming companies like Netflix make their money from subscriptions, so shorter seasons are preferred.
Dramas from local broadcast networks like SBS need more episodes because they earn money from commercial breaks. But the streamers such as Netflix need content (much more than they can produce themselves), so they partner with the local networks. That's what happened here.
SBS is broadcasting Phantom Lawyer in SK on a twice-weekly basis. In the old days, they would have dragged it out, showing only one episode per week. But because of a deal with Netflix, they sped it up. The more popular a show, the more locals watch & the more money SBS makes from ads. Netflix is paying them for global distribution rights, which lowers SBS' financial risk should the ratings drop. But Netflix has to wait until after each episode has already aired on SBS in SK before they can make it available online. The protects SBS so SK viewers who want to watch the latest episode right away need to do so on their network.
Netflix-produced shows have shorter seasons which are released all at once, not over time. The same goes for other global streamers (called OTT in industry-speak) like Amazon Prime & Disney+. They all typically have fewer episodes than the local broadcast networks. Sometimes each episode is of a longer length, so that the overall season of an 8- or 10-episode OTT drama has the same overall length (in minutes) as a 16-episode local broadcast network series.
Some dramas are co-productions (like Crown Prince which is co-produced by MBS & Disney+) fall somewhere in-between. The OTT pays more money to get involved in the production. These shows usually have larger budgets and are popular both locally and globally. CP has 12 episodes of a slightly-longer duration of approximately 75 minutes each.