Joyce_Tyler

It seems to be common practice to include at least two genres in each k-drama. This can be infuriating to some non-Asian viewers, even those of us who have seen enough k-dramas by now and are used to it.

In the case of My Royal Nemesis, there were enough clues early on that despite being genuinely, laugh out loud funny, a second genre was going to kick in, but who knew it would be like a kick in the gut.

The style and quality of the writing you describe is also one of the things that make "The Great Queen Seondeok" a masterpiece. And full marks to the English translators for not trying to modernize it and keeping the language period and fascinating.

Very true that the luxury fashion brands hire older actresses as their models/spokespersons because it's primarily rich older ladies who can afford their designs.

Lee Yo-won has been married for a number of years to a CEO and has two teenaged kids. While Go Hyun-jung has been divorced for many years and has been banned by her chaebol husband's family from even contacting her two children. As she has pretty much said in her acting awards' acceptance speeches, she returned to acting after the divorce as it was her only means of communicating with her kids. This new, luxury fashion icon thing seems to be her way of also giving the finger to her former, chaebol in-laws, who had also banned any products she endorsed from their luxury department store and advertising outlets. I don't think they'd dare ban her Valentino endorsement.😊

It's funny, but after one season of "Succession" I'd had enough of those characters and their toxic relationships. But I couldn't get enough of the characters' cat and mouse antics in "Empire of Gold." Lee Yo-won seems to have a talent for choosing dramas with really great (i.e. intelligent) scripts. I wish she'd find another one. Lately, while she's in the public eye, she's not acting, I've seen several of her IG stories and not being Korean, I've no idea what they're about, although she's wearing her costume from "The Great Queen Seondeok," and that was exciting to see. Speaking of which, Go Hyun-jung, after winning the Top Actress award for "Queen Mantis," isn't acting anymore, either, rather she'd making lots of money as a fashion icon!

The "she's too old" brigade are downvoting without even watching the 1st ep. Some of the best historical c-dama actresses are having to move on to modern dramas because of that crowd.

If there's no proof and the accuser has lied before, it's worth considering that the accused might be innocent. Except, of course, if you choose to believe a liar, which is your right.

He supported him because, as has now been proven, he was innocent.

His friend was cleared of the charges, so Jung Hae In was right to defend him and very brave as well considering so many people can't admit that they're wrong and persist in bashing him.

Aha! Thank you! If so, that might explain a lot. Like the acting. Based on the scene we mentioned, he seems to be playing the traditional female role, getting all emotional about whether she loves him or hates him, and she the cold male role.

Well, I'll watch it eventually, mainly because I've liked several other dramas set during the Republican Era, but if there are more silly or OTT scenes like that one, perhaps the creative team meant this to be a satire.

I've only watched few scenes of the drama on Instagram, and they led me to consider the meaning of the title. Overdo means to "carry to excess" or to "exaggerate." And that definition fit the scenes I watched. I mean, a man and a woman in a fighter jet discussing whether she loves or hates him, she calmly, he emotional--while fleeing a ball of fire! Is this drama meant to be like a Hollywood rom-com from the late 1930s-'40s?

This is what baseless rumors posted by toxic netizens can do to a sensitive celebrity. That her stellar performance in Last Scandal revealed nothing about her mental state says a lot about her professionalism.

Yang Mi IS a big fish, but a nice one, who has offered to help younger actors through her own agency. The problem seems to be that the younger ones are scared to leave their own abusive agencies.

I read that Zhao Lusi has signed with a new agency and agreed to some things they wanted but also made them agree to allow her to choose her own projects. But that's Lusi with her huge fan base.

Actors with toxic agencies/management companies need to form their own agencies no matter what. Like Yang Mi did.

Why would this result in her losing 1.44 million fans? Is her soon-to-be ditched agency playing dirty?

J-dramas always seem to get lower ratings than they deserve. 9/10

If it wasn't for the last sequence with the 1st ML several years later now with two kids and FL with the "dog," I would've rated this drama 9/10. But by including that last sequence, the filmmakers were just messing with us. Yes, relationships do change, but for me, this drama went a little bit too far out to prove it.

Yes, this one is really special.

Thank you!

The way their relationship developed was totally believable and the fact that so much time was devoted to it made the drama so much more than a standard crime drama.

A riveting crime drama. It's written and directed like a police procedural and yet the characters' emotional story lines fit seamlessly into the narrative. This is the first drama I've watched that stars Elvira Cai, and she's really got a lot going for her. Excellent acting chops and her action scenes were totally convincing. I'd like to see more of her work. 10/10