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I think the problem is not just the writing. The director Baek Soo Chan has many dramas with similar flaws on his list of works. I wonder why he keeps getting employed.

I truly don't understand all the bad reviews and low rating. I loved this start to finish. I never once was bored or annoyed. The story had a steady pace and steady romantic tension. I was always interested in what would happen next.

I finished a few days ago and miss it a lot. It was a dear companion world to escape to while I had a next episode in my watch list as it reliably flooded my brain with romantic hormones or something. I was deeply engaged with the emotions of the main characters and their love story. It felt warm and sweet and exciting throughout.

I think people are more critical when they can't form a personal connection to the main characters. At least it's like that for me. If I cannot vibe, hope, fear, delight with the characters, I might find their romantic story annoying and boring and start to find fault in other aspects of the drama, too.

The story-writing, acting, and production in The King's Affection are objectively good, though. Tropes and illogical situations do happen, but neither in large number nor in a distracting manner. The story expands well, doesn't loose track of it's direction and is wrapped up excellently. Park Eun-bin is amazing and Rowoon does quite well, especially in the second half when his character is more serious. The supporting characters are well-written and played as well.

The one criticism I agree with is that the soundtrack could have been much better, specifically the main songs.

Yes, I think so. It's pretty crazy from a Western perspective. I had been thinking how they could charge him for cannabis use if he had used it while abroad where it is legal, but apparently they can charge him anyway.

Netflix won't be able to work with him, if South Korean authorities put him in prison, which is kind of likely to happen.

This decision is probably not up to Netflix but to the South Korean autorities. Considering the legal situation there, he's probably facing jail time and then won't be able to film anything.

Totally.

This entire character reminds me of portrayals of exotic animals in European medieval manuscript illuminations when the monk illuminators only ever knew the animals from hearsay. The results seem grotesque for us today who know what those animals look like. The illuminators had a better excuse than the show writers, though.

I think it's that old "war on drugs" ideology that wants to demonize and mistify instead of to educate. Clearly, he is an opiate addict, but they only ever use "DRUGS" (while keeping on to continue the ever-present glorification of alcoholism in Korean culture).

Then the inaccuracies regarding his addiction and withdrawal: Heroin physical withdrawal lasts about a week, not half a year. And while opiate addicts can have a tendency to be somewhat whiney, the portrayal here is just too over the top slapstick IMO and draws too much amusement out of tragedy and suffering. And what's with that thing that it's supposed to be an effect of drug addiction that you become whiney, infantile and masochistic when clean/in withdrawal but a calm composed adult when using again? This is what really seems like those medieval exotic animal illuminations. They heard that addicts are whiney, that they stop functioning when in withdrawal and resume functioning when using. And then they made a picture out of those things, adding stuff as they pleased and leaving stuff out as they pleased or thought was necessary to keep mistifying the subject.

I loved the drama, too, but kept wanting to shake the people responsible for the creation of this character, lol.

Also, did he just have to be gay as an excuse for being an addict? I know gay people hate when their stories are only ever told as tragedies.

Unlike lots of people, I thought it was realistic that he'd fall back into drug use once out of prison, though. It's the first time he has access to a higher quality drug instead of cough medicine again, and there is lots of psychological pressure from his lover and father waiting, their expectations, etc.

"The ML for example constantly shows that he is simple-minded and not very intelligent throughout the whole drama yet in 2-3 episodes he somehow develops a great intellect and comes up with a brilliant plan to expose the villains."

I think you are misreading the way his brain works. He is a slow processor and not very educated/knowledgeable, but he is a great observer who notices things around him and analyzes them correctly.

It's uncanny. I wouldn't be surprised if they DID turn out to be related.

I came here to see if they were related or if anybody else saw it. They look very alike, same type of facial structure, posture, general vibe, even the voice.

I really dislike that they coded a baddy as genderqueer. They do that too often, especially with transfeminine people.

I really dislike that they coded a baddy as genderqueer. They do that too often, especially with transfeminine people.

Why is the Black actor who appears in the poster and throughout the stills not listed under "cast"? He seems to have a lead role.