Crazy Queen (2016)

Story
Girl with nerdy appearance falls into water and goes to another universe (in ancient fantasy China) where she is the beautiful queen of 30 husbands. She tries to fulfill her role but can't really get into the reverse harem-life and starts to persue one of the guys. Her main friends at first are a doctor and her personal assistant. She slowely gets to know 4 of her husbands, mostly through getting drunk. Her job is to basically sleep with all of them in order to get them pregnant and they are very persistent about that sometimes. However, there is an evil plot waged against her to steal her husband(s) and drama occurs.
I don't know more than this since the subs cut off fairly early. The ending is not really an ending since there were supposed to be more episodes but it's still 20 episodes of content.

Acting
All the husbands are handsome and the acting is fairly ok for a drama like this. You'll find yourself mostly liking the male actors. The guy crying while eating a hamburger with musicians in the background is 10/10, that was some deep relatable stuff. Some of the temporary hairstyles in this drama are pretty wacky though.

Music
Chinese music, not much to say about it, its ok.

Rewatch
Episodes are short and it's easy to rewatch for certain fun scenes. For the BL/BR crowd, there are 2 scenes between husbands which are played for jokes but still pretty brave for China. They definitely still need to fix the subs though.

Overall
Liked the show, would recommend it if you want to see a different scenario for a period drama. I think most people will just watch it because they read ''she has to impregnate the husbands'' in the synopsis and get curious.

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No, there is no harem

An interesting concept terribly executed. If you expect to see a harem romance you will be disappointed. The synopsis is click-bait! Only three men from the harem showed up, while others were never even mentioned. Even so, there is NOTHING romantic between them except for the (ugly) male lead.

Story
The main story depicts Queen Dong Yi using various ways to sneak in and meet up with her legal husband (the King) against her mother's will. At the same time, her sister plots against her for the throne. The pacing was very slow and plot was predictable. In the first six episodes (that felt like filler), the Queen fools around until the conflict of the story emerges. After the first climax, conflicts are just naturally resolved without the Queen doing anything. She never suffered serious consequences. Besides, there were too many meaningless "filler" comedy scenes with no contribution to the plot.

Characters
I didn't mind the female lead being immature, but she never showcased character growth. In most conflicts, she just reverts back to her childish and carefree ways instead of taking her job serious for once. Even worse, the screenwriter tried to make the male lead stand out as quiet and mature, but he's just boring and shallow to me. The harem seems to accept the fact that the Queen has zero romantic interest in them. Supporting characters had potential to create more plot but were cut off quickly, resulting in poor build-up. The only interesting character was Doctor Dong, who was competent and quite badass.

Acting/Cast
Female lead had horrible acting. Male lead was expressionless. Supporting characters were average, including the antagonists.

Overall
I don't recommend due to weak characterization and shallow plot. The overall tone is comedic, so all sad and scheming scenes had failed to make me take them serious. When compared to Go Princess Go, which is in the same budget range, this drama is weak in every single aspect.

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