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Thanks, OST is excellent, a couple of instrumental pieces really stood out. I loved the synth piece.

Agree, there's no rapport among the adults yet - the kids have ruled so far, all their scenes were good and those between the kids and the adults, such as the marvellous scene between Ahn Bo-hyun and Park So-yi in e2 shows it can be done. That's the director's job, to make a comfortable set. The stylists making the actors uncomfortable doesn't help.

Great story, good pace for the first episodes, pulled my heartstrings and the kids were all great in episode 1, they had pretty much the whole episode to themselves and they nailed it. There's a small problem so far, and it's with Studio Dragon... why does 24 year old Ms Ban look like an ahjumma? It's Studio Dragon's hair stylist, and the wardrobe is close behind in the race for bad taste. That thread-bare fringe looks terrible. Just like Jeon Do-yeon in Crash Course in Romance. So... drama-wise it's great, but fashion, hair and makeup is, once again, wrong. The egoist that's making the performers carry their vision needs to be removed, they don't have the slightest sense of building a style from the artists, nothing looks right at all in that regard, it's going to bug me constantly.

Agree, me too... your second sentence is perfect on its own. It's not for us to tell others to stop though, all views are welcome - otherwise these comment sections would be worth nothing and a bit dull.

With the same, tiny hand towel! Yuk, me too!

The writer's telling us that the boss is an asshole that's threatened by her talented hoobae, your annoyance proves it's successful writing, albeit in summary form. Barging into staff training to reprimand the teacher in front of the new employees is also unacceptable.

A complicated start with a host of characters to meet, but lots of positives from the first episode. Jun-ho's English castle with butler and a drive around London's West End (hope UK tourist board paid handsomely for the plug) 👍, landing on a building by parachute, wow!👍, a heavyweight trio of actresses in the leading ladies' camp 👍, modern sns humour: bad gym etiquette and battle of the sexes 👍 (despite Yoon-ah's rash behaviour in only the 2nd day of her job probably enough to get fired 🤔), workplace struggles for the middle-down employees, like most of us 👍.

Did I hear you correctly Yoon-ah? Please feel free to have complimentary sex and drinks in the lounge? 😉 Guess not!

Sure, I've learned to avoid most spoilers basically by avoiding MDL... Even that's getting harder when MDL plants spoilers in the article headlines and they arrive on my news feeds! I had to completely block Soompi for that reason. What I meant was that, like books, the source material is already out there with an established fan base.

King The Land will probably take the plaudits for drama quality, but 19th Life will win in popularity stakes. Luckily they're not going head-to-head, and even if they were... viewers can watch on OTT, there's really no such thing as a head-to-head on TV any more - broadcasters actively avoid such confrontations anyway... why sacrifice even .1% of your audience in such a futile competition?

I first noticed him in Mad for Each Other, so far it's his best work, he nailed it. Always glad to see him.

Trauma. There's the most misused word of recent years.

It's a drama that looks like it was filmed a decade earlier than it was. Really bad sound, really bad cameras, terrible set pieces, old, old, old fashioned style acting from the previous century when it was shot live by enthusiastic amateur performers. I cannot believe it's made in 2016.

Director's cut

Why does my heart sink every time I read "The Glory screenwriter"? Is that a medal? I love some of Kim Eun Sook's work, so is that what we call her now? I'm going to say it: I feel like she's sold out. Fair play to her.

I'm the opposite. I like the people they've become today and the work they're doing. I don't want them to hark back to an immature work from the past.

Did you end your education after high school? This is an adult's writing? Kim Woo Bin, take responsibility, you have a lot to answer for 😂

Dubbing is for the visually impaired and illiterate audience. It's inferior to the actors' voices, Korean is a beautiful language to listen to, especially the way these great actors enunciate, it sounds like music. The ott providers are going hard after the final few percentages of audience share still to be won over. Small margins can make all the difference if one provider were to beat the others to this remaining market share. They can't stop expanding even when the market is saturated, they look for more and fight for it when another company, like Disney, closes in on an untapped supply.

Avoid trailers, avoid MDL until it's over... that's my motto, I wish I could stick to my own advice!

It is stupid.