My Royal Nemesis

Enjoyable? Fun? Clicheyish? All of that and loving it!

I just love this so much. It’s like reliving that feeling when I first started watching kdramas during covid. The feeling of immersion, a discovery of new heights in screen entertainment, impatiently waiting for episodes. It’s the type of love story that captures your feelings right away, toe curls, and automatic smiles. Oh my heart this is so cute. Maybe it’s the leads, especially main guy. Fresh!! Leads are having a blast obviously because it translates through the screen. Their interactions, line deliveries resonates in laughter, frowns, shocks. Yeah it’s them. When you think of it, the plot is so similar to hundreds others so yeah, they are making the plot immersing. I love it!!

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Delightful *masterpiece*

This drama is so DELIGHTFUL!!!! FL actress is one of my favs. She is a master actor for sure. R * E * S * P * E * C * T!!!! I totally hated ML in 100 Memories and I was convinced back then that he cannot act.... but here - omg he is such a great actor. A very great handsome lunatic lmao Such talent for comedy lmao

I am so much enjoying this show!!!!!!

FL actress is a chameleon, she is always THE character she is acting..... every time.... here it is so funny to see her all meek and subservient.. lmao And I love her street smarts :) XXX OOO XXX
She was the most amazing villain in The Glory.... Great in Nice to Not Meet you but her ML was acting too cheesy and kinda killed it. Here, the ML/FL pair is ***perfect**.
and ML actor and his eyes moving around, e.g. start of ep 3 holding her ... that was soooo hilarious. I am so glad I got to see him in a real role. He is great!

THIS DRAMA IS A MASTERPIECE CLASSIC
and the rating should be a lot higher
i am so grateful we get to watch this. Bravo to the MRN team!!!!

As for rewatch: I think it would be great to rewatch as there are so many nuances in acting

That scene on the roof top at the start of ep 3 was so hilarious and so showing their acting skillZ
and then all the other scenes ... too many to mention... it is totally totally HILARIOUS and deep ... such great acting... and is getting scary as we get to meet the SML/King more and more.. bc he is ... a PSYCHO SOCIOPATHIC MONSTER and seems like harmed FL/ML in the past and now is the chance for them to self defend. I am sure they can, FL can certainly take care of anything lmao Fighting!!!!!

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A Promising Show I'm Looking Forward To

My Royal Nemesis has been a breath of fresh air with a good deal of new tropes.

You rarely get to see what happens from the viewpoint of the claimed 'villainess/villain' but getting to see not just one but 2 of them is truly remarkable. An added bonus would be their amazing chemistry and acting that simply pulls you along for a memorable ride.

It is funny, emotional and relatable and despite it not even being aired completely, I would like to recommend it to you if you're looking for something classic yet different at the same time.

I'm keeping my eyes peeled for the rest of it.

Hehe

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Lim ji yeon is better than this

Another furmulaic and kitcshy kdrama from SBS.
I decided to give this series a chance because I think Lim Ji-yeon is a good actress and very charismatic. After watching the first episode of My Royal Nemesis, I thought it wasn’t bad, it had a good pace, and the scene where the FL had to drink the poison was emotional and powerful.
I even found myself laughing here and there.
However, the second episode exposed exactly what I feared this show would be- kitschy and formulaic, just like SBS knows how to do (like they did with dynamite kiss). The humor is childish and over-the-top, and there were far too many scenes of her adjusting to the modern world, which I found exhausting.
The scenes kept jumping back and forth between comedy and emotional drama. the lack of balance really showed a lack of professionalism. I can't even connect with Lim Ji-yeon's performance here. it feels exaggerated and forced. As for Heo Nam-jun, at first glance, he might look convincing as the cold chaebol, but in my opinion, he lacks the acting skills required for a leading role. his acting is robotic. It seems they preferred to rely on his looks (like that shirtless scene) rather than his actual acting abilities.

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controversial aspects of the work

This is a textbook example of how China exploits Korean dramas for their 'Cultural Project.' The excessive use of Chinese idioms, constant referencing of Chinese sages, and a low-born queen fluently using Hanja are all historically inaccurate. It’s painfully obvious that these elements were directed under the influence of Chinese capital to glorify Chinese culture.

Most notably, the concept is a blatant gender-swapped rip-off of Zhang Yimou’s movie The Terracotta Warrior (1989). Even the plot point of a time-traveling protagonist becoming an actor is identical. Both the narrative and the visual style of citing Hanja feel jarringly foreign to Korean audiences.

This work is highly likely to face severe backlash over plagiarism and its questionable subservience to Chinese financial influence. This production company has a long history of controversies involving Chinese capital—this is far from the first time.

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everything. everything's done well about MRN

okay, so this is gonna take a while since i wanna talk about a pair of things. first of all, ngl i dont think i wasnt expecting much from this (was clearly wrong) when i started it, i dont think the first episode really got me ? i mightve watched it just because i was bored so i wasnt thinking exactly idk, im not saying it was boring (it isnt ofc) but idk, it was just there. but maybe one of the reasons couldve been the fact that it was reincarnation. i think is a very used trope in the kdrama industry that i wasnt happy about it but i gave it a chance. while watching the second episode i did end up more intrigued in everything and after episode four i kept thinking about them, my entire scomed got filled about it, something i do but not entirely PLUS ive seen the four episodes like 5 times, its also something im not used to doing.

and, speaking of which, i dont think something will top watching MRN while airing because seeing people talking about the details on twt was an amazing experience. im gonna miss it, it doesnt matter how many times i watch it, seeing it live (?) is something else.

^ i wanna praise the team's work, too. the script writers, directors etc etc, they did such a good job, the first half had this parallel with the other half, seori being dressed with a red sweater when she got hit with the doom truck just like when she got poisoned in the first episode with the hanbok and i could keep giving examples. they took care of all of these details i know no other drama had done it.

segye had his problems with his family, with being accused of things he didnt do but after meeting seori he tried to be better and it was okay if he just let out those emotions, like yelling at seori I MEAN, he was wrong when he told her he would defend her and yelled at her but he realized that and thats okay, no one's perfect, even if theyre fictional. perfect is boring. segye was realistic and i loved him for that.

seori also had these struggles and ended up learning she kind of needed to go through pain to be happier, to feel joy even tho she went through a lot in both of her lives.

its funny how MRN used a lot of clichés that are so common in kdramas (the doom truck, reincarnation and the chaebol x "poor girl") but they gave it a new pov its amazing.

something i need to complain its the amount of episodes. not only because i loved shinsegye dynamic, but because of the plot. i kept wondering what happened to segye's father. like, his mom was dead, but, what about him? no one mentioned him, i think only his grandpa at the last episode, im not sure if it was him, but it was weird idk it didnt matter obviously but they couldve explored segye's background. and, seori's coworker i dont even rememeber her name😭 but i didn't get the point of showing she was bad/mean to seori if they didnt show why was she being bad, like, what was actually the reason ? ALSO, when did jihyo become good to her, i think she just started doing it just because ? or maybe i dont remember

but yeah, anyways, this is just something tiny so i can let it pass because it kinda became one of my fav dramas lmaao

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