Joyce_Tyler

Are we being set up for an ep. 8 shocker?

Exactly.

You're reacting the way the creative team wanted you to react.

The director of this show would not have accepted the job if trans people are villainized in it. Believe it.

Closed- or narrow-minded or just plain prejudiced people will always long for the days when dramas didn't dare "go there." Thank goodness creative artists don't listen to them and the SK government doesn't censor k-drama content.

Thanks for your comment. I think the director, with Go's help, is sending the message that gender issues should NOT be a taboo topic; that allowing a patriarchal mindset to prevail rather than prosecuting the guilty is wrong and can lead to antisocial behavior on the part of the victims. K-dramas have begun to address SK's societal issues more strongly, and imo that's a good thing.

I had to buy her earliest ones on ebay! She has a huge fan in Hawaii who sold spare copies of her earliest ones in his Go collection to me and made them affordable. They are fantastic, single-genre dramas.

She's attracting many new fans as a result of Queen Mantis. I hope they also make an effort to see her earlier work.

Yes, she has quite a personal history. Her marriage and subsequent divorce are right out of a k-drama.

She also does amazing work in Reflection of You, Dear My Friends, The Queen's Classroom, Queen Seon-deok, and Sandglass. She's the queen of complex characters.

She is fearless.

Both odd and very annoying. Perhaps when the drama ends those who are willing to take the time to write a serious review will raise the rating to where it belongs.

Actually, in her other dramas, her younger male co-stars always raise their performance level and credit her for it.

I suspect the director has a lot to do with the casting of Go Hyun-jung.

For sure.

Korea Times Review (in English) at www.instagram.com/p/DOYTkpVgf00/

She seems to be the go-to actress to play these meaty roles. (No pun intended.) I first checked her out when Jang Nara expressed great admiration for her in an interview. Since then, I've managed to find DVDs of even her earliest roles. No, I won't watch Mantis until all 8 eps are available, but I've seen enough clips on YouTube to know that all of the talking to herself that she does between camera setups is in aid of producing that magnificent performance.

So, basically, the billionaire son needed a tall, lively, Miss Korea beauty contest runner up and successful young actress to be his trophy wife, and after she gave up her career and gave birth to two healthy kids for the family, he took the kids and threw her away.

She has health issues. She spent 1-2 weeks in the hospital in the middle of filming.

I take k-drama seriously. It's a form of entertainment that has a lot to say about life choices, human nature, soul-destroying societal pressures, but also, how regardless of your background, if you work hard and have a talent for something (anything really), you can have a fulfilling life, etc. It seems to me like the most significant and effective form of communicating the Korean ideology of "soft power," and I love it.