Jorsias

I watched the first 08 episodes in one go and then took a 3-week break. When I started watching it again (3 hours ago) I could remember everyone's personality and goals.... but I couldn't remember hers. I haven't watched a drama with her before this one so I can't say if it's her acting or if the writer isn't doing her justice but.... the story so far (10 episodes in) could literally be told without her character existing, and that says A LOT. Jamie's character seems like a funnier version of Cha Myung Joo from "Diary of a Prosecutor" and she has a personality and goal. Gong Hye Won's only personality trait so far is that she likes the main lead and that she admires him.

"Even tho she loves Jungwoo, her duties always come first". And what are her duties? To believe that the ML isn't a bad guy and that she must prove that he isn't bad because her character would never fall in love with a bad guy. And that's as far as her character's go. Remember that she was a traffic officer and she only left because the male lead recruited her. There's nothing refreshing about her character at all. Her entire plot revolves around the male lead. She is one of the main leads and so far I haven't seen a flashback telling her story and how she dealt with an absent father, and yet we see flashbacks from the other leads on every damn episode. You can literally write off her entire character and very few things would've changed. You can easily transfer her father's plot to any other character around her.


Now about that scene from when she watches the video and sees THAT and her reaction is "huh..." that's on the actress. No anger, no fear, nothing.

nah, her acting is really subpar.

Kingdom season 2 was really meh IMO. Nothing really happened for a good % of the time. Apart from Extracurricular, I don't think any Netflix drama was actually worth watching it, especially worth the wait for 2 seasons (Like My First First Love). I'm very skeptical about this as a whole because you can already see some changes (some good, some not) in the way dramas are being produced. I like the way things were done and I would hate to come to kdramaland just to watch the same things that we see in the USA but with Korean characters.

The main lead was defying gravity there in the last shot of the most recent episode. Not as energetic as it was in the first half but I will finish it.

I think most of them are. You can see the comment section getting spammed like this for dramas where the focus are teenagers/the setting is a school. If you look in more "mature" dramas you won't find this kind of a mess, but at the same it's not as interesting when it comes to discussion a drama. A lot of good dramas don't get new comments for days haha

That's not the case here. Like @sobak said, this is based on a webtoon, so if the writer of the drama said that they had "different opinions" about how the drama would turn out in the end, there's def something more to this. The writer knew from the beginning what would've happened and somehow they had a change of plans which the writer didn't like. I mean, Game of Thrones also had a source material and end up being trash for its last seasons. They could be planning for more than 2 seasons, especially with that Netflix deal.

I don't mind having Netflix buying dramas and stuff, but it's not ideal that a drama from a channel with a deal with Netflix started doing this kind of decision. I don't want to be an alarmist, but I really fear a time where Netflix will bring them so much money that they won't be able to refuse and will have to give up any kind of artistic decision to the people working in L.A, who only see the money side of things. I wouldn't mind at all if they just bought the rights to stream the dramas, but it looks like they're pushing hard even if it's not a direct push. Like, imagine if a JTBC or OCN starts to make their decisions about scripts and casting with a "would Netflix buy our drama if we decide for this or that?" in their heads? At first, they only bought and distribute their dramas, but what will happen when the channels become so dependent on the Netflix (or Amazon or whatever) money?

Hmmm, the bad reviews are full of people who haven't watched the original show and yet are claiming it's a "terrible remake". I'm def checking this one out.

"Entourage is another of tvN’s ambitious Korean remakes of American shows. Unfortunately, compared to The Good Wife, this is a pretty terrible remake. I have not watched either originals of both shows, so I’m judging this as a standalone show"

It's a remake of an American show, you said haven't watched the original and yet you said this was a terrible REMAKE of the ORIGINAL that you DIDN'T watch?

Wut

"He is acting out cold characters and he is actually showing emotions when needed"

Having a plain face doesn't mean you're portraiting and "cold-character" right. The fact that you can literally take his character from MBIGB and put in here and NO ONE would notice, tell everything you need to know about his "cold character". I heard that he was better on a historical drama he worked in the past, but I'm not sold on his performance here.

Does the main actor know how to show any kind of emotions at all? I remember seeing him in My Gangnam Beauty and HE IS THE SAME CHARACTER. Like, I know he's famous for being a kpop idol and that a lot of you are a fan of his, and I don't mean to attack him personally, but do you really think he's good enough to be the main lead? His character is pretty much a brick.

"don't like the drama no need to talk bad about the actor and actress there is a difference between having a opinion and hating" That's your most recent comment here. You get mad at other people from disliking her acting skills but you're here talking about her being hot. Hypocrisy at it's best.

I mean, if the actor and actress are part of the problem, WHY NOT talk about it? As long as it doesn't get personal, I think everyone has the right to explain why they don't like something.

I think the way they're treating kdramas nowadays (I am talking about the Netflix deal) will bring more people to this kind of content (which is good) and that's why we're going to see this debate whether something is good or bad more and more. People who are watching dramas for the first time have no idea that this detective stuff has been done so many times. Let's see how it will turn out. I wonder how Koreans are going to react to this kind of change as well. I don't have an opinion yet so I will just enjoy the ride.

Shorter? This is getting a second season! The Netflix treatment.

My theory: The writer wrote a 16-episode drama, the drama gets a great rating, and production "asks" for a second season, the writer doesn't/can't do it, so they changed the writer.

If that's the beginning of Netflix's influence on how dramas are made, I don't think I will be around for too long.

What a cast.

From the next preview, it's Seo Dan Ah's time to go after Lee Young Hwa. I just hope he doesn't give in too easily. She needs to learn lmao

bruuh the sexual tension between the second couple...

The female lead argument is really weak here. I have no interest in their loveline be honest. I don't usually comment on actors' appearances but Han Ji Eun looks amazing with long hair.

I wanted to start this but got a huge spoiler by SBS' own Instagram account no less.