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I’m sure he’s just playing along to make time for himself and ‘family’ to get safe.

Park Byung Eun is amazingly good at playing a psychopath. One of the coldest nut job villains I have seen in a KDrama. He deserves an award for this performance.

He became so evil because he was a murderer before he was poisoned and he was angry that his plans to become king were ruined. Kind of “If I can’t be king none of them can”. His siblings were just victims.

I had been looking forward to this. It had excellent acting, banging music score and an interesting story but an unsatisfying ending for the antagonists, too many scenes so dark it was hard to see what was happening and CGI that looked a bit cheap in places all spoiled what could have been much better. I would rate it a 7.

I’m loving this by the end of episode 2. Ji Sung as always is slaying it and I love the Shin Se Gi vibe I’m getting from the hair 😂. It’s a great cast all round actually and so far the story is engaging me. I’m really looking forward to the next episodes.

Good to know. Thanks. I think I will watch it now you and @hee have confirmed that he’s smart and emotionally strong.

Thank you.

Just finished this and ended up giving it a 5. The first 10 episodes were fun, especially the husband selection segments but it went downhill after that. I don’t see why having a FL be strong and intelligent (which I do like), needs to turn all the men around her into whimps or evil villains. The ML went from a strong and righteous character to basically being FL’s lapdog that just followed her around pining for her while she turned cold like her grandma and ignored him for many episodes. The Scholar went from being virtuous and wise to being a wet rag agreeing to whatever 2nd FL wanted. I want equality for the sexes not this man hating crap.

I have a question before starting if anyone can help. I like strong and intelligent FL’s but I disliked ‘The Glory’ because FL strength came at the expense of making the men around her weak, whimpering and/or cowardly. The ML lead in that started really cool and then just became her lap dog following her around while she mostly ignored him in the second half. I also like to see a strong and intelligent male lead. Is this drama along the same lines with a ML who becomes weak? Thanks.

Malak There are too many posts to scroll back through but if you look for a review by a user called Izreal they put the same “Death to Koreans” stuff that I reported their post for. If you scroll down far enough there were disgusting comments from both sides of the argument and several deleted posts. It’s been crazy. 😔

I agree and had no problem with people simply saying that they didn’t like it and why. What I took exception to were the “Kill Koreans and the cast and crew” and “roast the infidels in their skins” etc.. comments that I had to report. Those are the people making things unpleasant on the forum.

To put your mind at rest regarding youngsters being affected, Genie is rated as Mature adult by Netflix. Responsible parents won’t be letting children watch it.

Not offensive at all. I enjoyed the show myself but I respect your view which was given politely. Too many people are aggressive with their criticism.

Doesn’t sound like a very peaceful religion.

There are tons of KDramas with religion in them for years now. It’s not new.

I just came to say the same thing. That plot line always makes me nervous. Thank you for those who replied.

Made me laugh too 😂

I recommend Gu family book that Amndadwi suggested. It’s another fantasy sageuk drama.

@Jay and who are you to judge others? Are you perfect? Just say you don’t like the show instead of bad mouthing people who do.

You know that threatening retribution isn’t helping your cause right? Try just reasoning and explaining your problem and you might get more sympathy.