Moonbeam

great review! I agree that it mostly depends on what kind of genres you enjoy to watch. The drama isn’t objectively bad, but for someone who doesn’t enjoy slice of life and wants a more intense or thrilling law-related story it’s not going to be good or enjoyable. On the other hand if someone is a fan of the genre, or wanted precisely what this drama delivers, it’s going to be very good!

My favorite episode was probably episode 7. There probably isn’t any specific reason to this (well, it was nice when they showed new year celebrations), I just remembered it particularly well, I must have found it particularly fun.

I absolutely loved this drama! ❤️
It had some lower moments and there was very obvious product placement in a few episodes, that got rather annoying at some point but thankfully it didn’t last till the end.

I really like the cast, and I liked all of the characters and their stories.
I have to single out Kang You Seok, and say that I feel like he did an especially good job here. I am glad to see him land more main roles (I first saw him in the BL drama Light on Me).

I also really enjoyed the story, granted even more so probably because I was in a mood for this kind of drama.
I liked the calmness, and I liked how non-biding it was while still being interesting.
It’s that kind of drama that doesn’t keep you awake at night and you watch it to relax, 1-2 episodes a day, accompanied by some good food.

Unfortunately (for me), I am aware that this type of dramas usually aren’t “favoured by the masses” and even as I was watching it I knew that it’s going to have a lot of negative opinions, and that a lot of people are going to be dissatisfied with the very things that I liked about this drama.

Well, everyone’s got their cup of tea, and apparently this is mine :)

I do like all kinds of dramas though, the thrilling ones and fantasy, mysterious or violent ones too, a lot.
But I think I needed something peaceful at this moment. The slice of life bits of this drama, the workplace reality or the meals the characters shared so frequently with each other… It was all so charming in it’s own way, and somehow reassuring, about life.
I think that’s why I’ve come to love this drama so much!

This poster is soo pretty (I guess, because of the beautiful autumn trees)

Thank you for explaining!!

Oh, I haven’t seen King the Land, so I didn’t know he was there.
Yes, you may be right! We’ll let’s see how it turns out.

Me watching the second half of ep4:

Nooo don’t die your so sexy aha

Is the orchestric version like a director’s cut? Just more scenes? What is the difference from the acoustic version?

thanks for information

I hope Lee So Hyuk will be cast as a male lead!!!

This sounds interesting and I’m all for it, but I wonder if they’ll change the setting like they tend to do: from (what I assume based on the names is) a medieval or baroque Europe-inspired historical fantasy setting to a Goreyo or Joseon-inspired historical fantasy setting..?

That’s not good, but the agency apologized and the team cleaned up. Let’s not further impact the drama with this stuff.

Like how the ML is kind of like a parallel to the FL’s mother. He said that he even let his girlfriend cheat on him for a year, he’s “patient like that” and FL said earlier that her mother would disapprove revenge and try to forget it because she is “too patient”. [I took that phrases quite out of context to present a point, but there were a lot of other things said alongside them, so they’re not as they might seem just reading this comment. Overall both leads were quite sympathetic while sharing these things, and it were “I regret, but what can I do?” kind of moments too.]
The FL kinda resents that fact about her mother, now she has met the FL who is alike her in character in that aspect, it’s kind of poetic, in the way that life sometimes is.

Anyway, both leads are strong AND pathetic in their own way, I really like that though.

I’m very interested in Kim Minha after “Pachinko” she seems like a good actress, and the premise of this new series seems like a good background for her performance ❤️ Can’t wait!

Thanks!

Is the release date confirmed or no? It only says August 2025…

Same!

Thanks for information! Wait, it’s not going to release in December then? The release date written in mdl is December 2025, but it’s impossible to be released so soon after the end of filming, right?

Yeah, I’m thinking the same… it seems like a new trend nowadays. It’s true that quite a lot of kdramas in the past could do without the 16 episodes (and have 14 or 12 instead), but now it’s the opposite issue, they’re forcibly shortening kdramas to be 12-6 episodes to fit in with the trend…

The actor’s age gap isn’t an issue to be honest (isn’t his character younger than Yumi in the webtoon anyway? Of course probably not 10 years, but it’s not something that you can notice visually - besides Kim Goeun looks very youthful - , so it’s not very important, it’s just acting anyway), they both look young and pretty.
The thing is that the actor doesn’t seem to be that experienced, and from what I’ve seen of him he’s not that good, which would probably show when paired against Kim Goeun, who is experienced and is a good actress. I’m afraid that they won’t have good chemistry, and that their performance will look mismatched…
(On the other hand I do wish to feel positive towards the actor and cheer for him, everyone starts somewhere and who knows? Maybe he’ll be really good in this role. I don’t want to be overly negative “just because”, but so far it doesn’t look promising…)