Review on the second watch. First of all, I give the kudo to Director Baek Sang Hoon who also directing other good dramas. I came across this drama following the child actress from Moon Embraces the Sun. This is a charming romcom drama with two adorable leads played by Park Bo Gum and Kim Yoo Jung. Their chemistry is strong since the first time they met using different identities, in later on when their relationship is forbidden during that era, being a crown prince and a eunuch or in essence homophilic. I applauded Jung Jin Young and Kwak Dong Yeon's acting as other leads. Addition to the impressive leads is lovely performance of Chae Soo Bin as Lady Ha Yeon, although she appeared quite later in the show. Stunning cinematography and gorgeous costume. The story is hilarious all around although the drama gets quite serious to the end. The OST is amazing with tons of pleasant songs written and sung by incredibly talented musicians and singers, credited to the Music Director Kang Dong Yoon. Male lead Park Bo Gum sang "My Person" and second male lead Jung Jin Young composed "Misty Road". Good rewatch value with some skipped scenes on the politics.

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This is my very first Asian drama I watched and the review is for my second time watching it. This drama is just epic, deep and heavy, although the story line is somewhat unsatisfying to me, but this is personal taste. First, the drama gives a lot of time screen on political discussion which becomes boring after sometime. Moreover, the OTP do not come together until way later of the drama, thus I can agree with reviews stating there is no strong chemistry between OTP. Not that I complain too much, cos most part of the drama dominated by the superb acting of child actors Yeo Jin Goo and Kim Yoo Jung as the young OTP. In fact, the scene cut on how they first met is the main draw for me watching the show. Finally, I don't like deaths of good roles why have to make this drama so tragic. Despite my dislikes, excellent acting of main and supporting actors/actresses, beautiful cinematography and costume, and nice music built up the eminence of this drama.

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This drama opened with a heroic act in beautiful scenic Barcelona, Spain, that attracted me to start watching it. The first few episodes are exciting since we are introduced how our sassy FL Xixi met the sweet ML Ziang and the hot-tempered Xiujie, along with other supporting roles. Ziang is ambitious to bring Aurora football club (owned by his dad's group) that used to win championships back to its glory. He hired Xixi to be the cartoonist and the agent of Aurora group in lieu letting her stay in his house to pay for the job. But the romance grow SO slow they do not get together until 2/3 of the drama. Instead there are lots of discussions on the group issues. The drama mostly shows the growth of Aurora FC from an amateur soccer group to winning matches and the championship. There are a lot of issues to tackle during the growing pains of the club, including life problems of the players and the staff have encountered in connection to being in the club. So, if you are not familiar or do not like football (soccer is the term in United States), you will not like this drama. There are growing love stories between supporting couples other than OTP, which are annoying to me cos it seems like the pairing of the OTP is left until almost the end just to built the climax. The group does eventually visit Barcelona, but unfortunately the director did not exploit the charm of this ancient city again in its cinematography, that I suspect the first scene is just to attract viewers to start watching this show. The rest of the drama seems dragging with side stories and long conversations, which is typical to Cdramas.
I will not watch it again unless the production company Mango TV continue subbing it to English until the end. They stopped at episode 6 and the rest are raw episodes.

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There is such like a real dating class in a university as the synopsis says? I wish we have such like that during my college years! This short drama (16 episodes but only 15 minutes per episode) are short and sweet, but gives us great tips on dating. They are not applicable only for teenagers and college kids but for adults as well. Many issues are wonderfully portrayed here, such as toxic relationship, breakups, parenting, homosexuality, etc. The six main roles play different type of personalities. The actors/actresses though most of them are newbies in acting, but I think the director did a remarkable job directing their performance. The editing is also very well done seaming the variety of scenes for every character's stories. There is no any boring scene that can be skipped. Although there is no OST made specially for this drama or sung by any of these actor/actresses (many of them are singers) but the music are well placed between scenes. As requested by some viewers, I do not think we do not need Season 2 as most dating problems are addressed adequately here. The rewatchable value is high as it's short enough for binge watching.

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Season 2 gives a better execution than in Season 1, notably in acting, cinematography, and costume. Other characters besides Fei Fei gets more screen times, especially the establishment of the romantic couples and bromance/sismance friendships. This is good especially in Season 2 Fei Fei is more serious and mature (which is not too hilarious anymore) especially after she is an established master of Ophichus and the Emperor's bride-to-be). The introduction or building up of new antagonist characters from Orion Land are refreshing for the climax of the new plot of this season. The flight thru desert scenes of and the final bloody battle are outstanding. The costumes are more diverse and glamorous, possibly due to bigger budget after the succession of the Season 1, especially Fei Fei's elegant master and Xiao Bing's desert princess costumes. Actor/actress Zhao Lu Si (Fei Fei), Sean Xiao (Mo Ran), and Song Nan Xi (Yan Ran) did great jobs in longing and broken-heart scenes, especially Lu Si in the last episode. Notably also the romantic and melodrama scenes between characters Tang Tang - Xiao Bing and Wu Chen - Da Li. My only critic is I still did not see ML Jason Koo acted better in the Season 2 and was still overshadowed by Sean Xiao's emotional character. No wonder little Chong Chong called him the Mean Looking Brother versus the Good Looking Brother Mo Ran.
Last scenes are the best ones in the whole Season 1 and Season 2 together, so be patient to watch until the end Oh, My Emperor! story.
Although fans are rooting for Season 3 and it did look like the end was set up for continuation, but I don't think it is necessary we need Season 3, let the other characters' time traveling remain mystery and fantastical.
High rewatch value for both Season 1 and Season 2, due to actress Lu Si's comical and Sean Xiao's emotional acting, the abundant hilarious scenes, and the X Nine eye candies.

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Note: My suspicion on why this drama is underrated because there are sooo many time-travel dramas out there that maybe better so viewers are overwhelmed thus skip this sweet romcom. Moreover, people may leave bad ratings not because of the content but because they cannot find the subtitle. But I found this little gem by accident (it has never been in my PTW list) and it caught my interest to watch it right away, though I have another time travel Cdrama in my CWL.
FYI, if you read this review in the month of October, the episode on the Ghost Market can be a great idea for your Halloween party! Pretty creepy and gory.

I binge watched and completed it in a day, the story is simple and straightforward yet it allured me to watch more until it ends. So easy to watch: 12 episodes short for a typical Cdrama, no cringy scenes, no need of a box of tissue, only one villain with one goal to overtake the power, no love triangle, no Second Lead Syndrome, no jealousy, no bitches or jerks, no deaths of good characters, no twists on the plot. Sounds boring? Read more...

Actress Yang An Qi played her first main role as the kind, calm, smart, and graceful resident physician Ji Xian Yun who was transported into the past China as the ancient Ji Xian Yun who committed suicide. Using her intelligence, our girl's sole purpose is to return to her real world that include: finding an item connected to the time travel and getting out of the arranged marriage with the handsome but sick and bedridden Qi Ling Xiao. He is the favorite son of the current Emperor, played quite well by actor student Sheng Ying Hao despite this is his first role. Adding to Xian Yun's goal is the arising issues in adjusting to the ancient personal and professional life, the danger of being the wife of a political figure, and the professional duty to care and cure of a patient none other than her husband. Her mind is so occupied with all these things that she does not realize that her husband already falls for her at the first slice (of knife aka scalpel). Clearly our heroine does not listen to gossips around the household that even outsiders but her know about her husband's feelings. So how do they finally get together then? None other than thru subtle attention and gesture, and care given to each other along the poison and recuperation, attempted murders, enemy's traps and political schemes. You will not see forced kiss, stalking, marriage consummation, or any rough dealings, just sweet and gentle chemistry between the leads. Although I should add that the outdoor kissing scene may be too hot for the ancient public to see (and not a stiff cardboard kiss either)

Adding to the praises are the well-done cinematography as seen by dramatic camera angles and panning, dramatic effect, adequate CGI, setting color and ambiance choice, costume selection (I swear I saw many times the main couple wear the same/similar color matching costume other than their wedding outfits). Not too bad for a low budget drama. The OST songs are also sweet and melodious.

Finally, I applaud Lan Lan who subbed this simple but lovely drama meticulously and informed us viewers who are not familiar with the Chinese language and culture, as she explained some words and phrases that are from the era. As a viewer I was educated thus was able to understand and appreciate the beauty of this story.

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First of all if you decided to watch this movie based on seeing the poster or the trailer you need to be aware it is not as hilarious as you thought. Also, if you are feeling bored or down please watch other movies that has more actions and thrills, as this movie is mostly about the dialogues between Jae Hyun and Soo Jung, the main leads, no antagonist involved. That's the reason why some comments and reviews stated the movie is boring. But their conversation is actually pretty deep and meaningful while they share and exchange their values of love and sex in a mature way. Mature because there is no slapping, kabedon (wall slamming), force kissing, stalking, piggy back riding, or any other cliche you may find in typical rom-coms. Actually most funny scenes come from the poor friend who is kept left behind by the jerk, that I think are just fillers to make this movie looks funnier.
The aim of this movie is actually the thought process of digesting shocking ideas unfamiliar to the leads: for Soo Jung is finding her first love marries a girl only after 2 months of dating and a stranger asks her straightforwardly but earnestly for a one night stand; and for Jae Hyun is meeting a beautiful woman with a 10 year steady relationship and a basketball player who disregards promising future for a girl.
Some criticizing about the cheating idea is made permissible through this movie. But in my opinion not in this movie. Fate is definitely plays a part as Jae Hyun said in the beginning, although Soo Jung disagrees but you will agree with him after finishing this movie. Soo Jung 10 year relationship with her boyfriend is just exist, something to make a late 20's woman feel comfortable and secure without any excitement (she can't name any fun she did with her boyfriend when Jae Hyun asks).
This kind of movie needs two main leads that can deliver strong chemistry, and the couple nailed it. Yoo Yeon Seok was charmingly seductive yet earnest and Moon Chae Won was naturally uncomfortable yet determined made Jae Hyun and Soo Jung's one day life change event believable. They acted out deep conversation and facial expressions very well.
The OST songs "Photograph" and "Kiss Me" by Ed Sheeran are romantic and soothing.
Since this is a nice romantic movie not drama, definitely the rewatch value is high, though you may not want to rewatch it if you want scenes with lots of actions. But if you feel stuck, watch this film it will make you think of a new idea or rethink about an old idea to be changed.

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I had put off watching Goblin for a long time as I knew it's epic so I needed a devoted time to watch it till the end.
Goblins becomes the highest standard of my reviews on dramas I completed (mostly for Kdramas).
What I learned from this drama: forgiveness (past events of Goblin/Grim Reaper/Sunny) and that there is timing for everything you encounter in life (Goblin waits for 900+ years for a 19 year old bride to show up in her first life)

Tons of previous reviews posted already, so I will just point out what I like about this drama:
Story: No boring scene, no skipping for me who likes skipping scenes. Side stories of dead people and ghosts are also meaningful and touching.
Directing: Just perfect, won't say much, check out other Director Lee Eung Bok's cinematic work
Editing: Details are woven perfectly, and all related. Pieces of flashback are not boring.
Screenwriting: witty, deep, poetic. Follow Writer Kim Eun Sook for other high quality dramas.
CGI: Battle, fight, and snow scenes of Goblin are epic
Location: Quebec Canada, can't have other perfect location than fall season with French touch
Make up: Can transform one actor/actress to different roles. For examplem Kim Byung Chul as Emperor advisor, modern secretary, ghost, and cameo CEO.
Costume: Classy and stylish. For example: 19 year old Eun Tak does not look poor and childish. Personality symbols thru costumes, for example Shamsin Lady's red dress, Sunny's bright colored clothing, and Eun Tak's red scarf
Cast: Perfect selection for every main roles and supporting casts are not bad either. Gong Yoo and Lee Dong Wook supernatural roles don't need to talk much but their facial expression shows deep communications. Kim Go Eun's natural beauty fits for 19 year old girl, Yoo In Na's cheerfulness matches Sunny lively personality.
Acting: Lots of scenes with no dialogues just facial expression and physical movements speak louder than many dialogues
Music: songs are created and picked perfectly support the popularity of the drama and songs themselves
Rewatch: perfect, but I will wait for a while until I can spend a large portion of my time to watch it

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I dropped this drama twice, both could not pass the first episode finding many cliches being introduced quite early in this modern Cinderella story: meeting thru an accident, arrogant ML Yun Jie, rude FL Yong Yong, orphan childhood, poor FL rich ML, step family, family jealousy. The third time picking up the drama I decided to continue to episode 2, it becomes more interesting with the introduction of Xun Jie's son and his previous marriage. We then find out another side of Yun Jie besides his arrogant perfectionist CEO role: a soft and caring side longing for his son Xiao Nan. Meanwhile the boy also longs for his supposedly dead father (as told my his mom). And the drama threw Yong Yong between the father-son custody thru fake marriage in order to save her orphanage.
The second couple's story is as equal as engaging. Yun Jie's brother Yun Chao tries hard to prove himself worthy in family business with any means, including dating the rich business partner Xin Jie leading to half-hearted engagement since he does not love her. Yun Chao character is ambiguous, we don't know he is an enemy or an ally, he shows kindness during the orphanage deal but also ruthless in other business deals including with Xin Jie, and Yun Hao also can sabotage Yun Jie-Yong Yong relationship.
This drama is amazingly calm and controlled with every scene flows smoothly, without exploding plots to draw angst, without fillers as the focuses mainly on Yun Jie-Yong Yong relationship development. Even as later there is some interesting development of Yun Hao's feeling for Yong-Yong, we never see the love triangle confrontation when FL connects with a male lead while the other shows jealousy. Yong Yong's feeling never confuses her feelings, and Bean Sprout and Fei Lei secret is never revealed until the last episode.

ActressJanine Chang amazingly brought up the genuinely caring character of Yong Yong who is ready to help everyone to the point of self-sacrificing. Her facial expressions strongly support her character development. Actor Mike He successfully brought up an emotional character of Yun Jie the father of a long lost son who does anything to regain the time loss with Xiao Nan. Together Janine and Mike creates a solid chemistry thru various relationship types: from with social class enemies, marriage business alliances, marriage acting partners, true friends, parents to Xiao Nan, to real lovers. Lastly, actor Li Yi Feng as brother Yun Hao managed to deliver a reserved and cynical yet charming character to intrigue us until the end

Music is nicely done, but not outstanding. Noted OSTs are "That Song" and "Must Forget" sung by Li Yi Feng himself who played as Yun HaoYun

I think his drama has a high re-watch value due to its sweetness of relationships almost between everyone involved. No overemphasized plot with ridiculous character developments, everyone seems mature enough. This light hearted romantic comedy gives a deep value on family relationship in a caring loving way.

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A light-hearted romcom drama you just enjoy it! No need to critically reviewing costume, makeup, CGI, etc., since it's a low-budget production. The drama is made mainly for publicity of the Chinese boy band X Nine where all members play as the constellation leaders. Adding the hilarious actress Zhao Lu Si into the cast, the story starts as a full comedy where she is the heroine Fei Fei with her modern skills and tricks tries to survive in a different time era, while pursuing her idol Jia Cheng whom become the Emperor Bei Tang Yi. Their romance blooms almost in a few last episode until he finds out that she is the master of Ophiuchius outcast clan, and stabbed her to death (or is she?). Meanwhile she makes friendships with the Emperor's fiance Yu Ran and Emperor's brother Tang Tang and also becomes the center of affection battle of the Emperor and his uncle Mo Ran. The emergence of another constellation Orion in the last few episodes as the culprit of chaos perfectly set the drama for the next season. Also noted here is the remarkable acting skills of Sean Xiao as the sly and brooding uncle, and actor Wu Jiang Cheng as the sweet brother. The side love story of the female General Fang and her fiance Wu Chen is cute as well.
The cast members sang beautiful OST, especially "It Seems to Fall Into The Sea of Love" cute duet of Jason Koo and Zhao Lu Si, "I Want to Give You" by XNine, "Stepping on Shadow" lovelorn song by Sean Xiao, and "Have Your World" cute duet by the second couple Chuyue Peng and Showna Xie. But I think they being from a music group, should put more songs in this drama.
A rewatchable drama since humor is main staple of the story (except the last part of the drama).

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While relationship with wide age gap may not a big deal in some age range and certain culture, may become a hindrance in younger age range and other culture. To my calculation, the adult characters may be: Kong and Kook are both 26, Dao is 22, and Khai is 18. In this drama it seems like the female characters have difficulties getting into a relationship with guys with wide age gaps. Some viewers felt somewhat creepy that an 18 year old player boy can fall for a 10 year old girl, especially since in the drama Khai is not drop dead gorgeous both in her younger or older age. I feel mainly drama plot, cast, acting look more exciting when it comes to Dao and Kook's story, because Dao is romantic and crafty, while Kook is "pretty and bitchy" (Dao's saying, English sub) making the ups and downs in their relationship entertain enough to watch, played very well by Chutavuth Pattarakampol/March and Sheranut Yusananda/Namcha. They both have a great chemistry. In the other hand, it's not so easy for Hsu Thassapak/Bie to create that kind of chemistry with Nichaphat Chatchaipholrat/Pearwah if he is surrounded by a bunch of teenagers running around with school uniforms. Bad editing and choppy screenwriting don't help much, making this 2 relationship stories even more complicated with unnecessary pairings of the rest of Khai's friends. Therefore, though this romcom is light and fluffy, I won't watch again as I will skip lots of scenes and only leave scenes of Dao and Kook, than the drama will be cut to less than a half.

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Cheesy Childish Cute Comedic Couple

Let me guess why this drama is rate low: many people followed Song Yi Ren as San San in Ever Night and expected that she delivered the similar serious acting here (this drama is aired soon after EN ended). But when you see her as a supposedly 22-year old university graduate riding a scooter to work, pairing up with Jerry Yan who is supposedly a 26-year old CEO with 2 teddy bears in his bed, you know this is a cheesy comedy. Also, almost the rest of the major roles did not act like mature adults at most or some point, probably only the secretary. Good chemistry between 2 couples. Long time friendships (20 years and 16 years) are challenged. And both Song Yi Ren and Jerry Yan can sing!

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The story is about changing your view how you do anything if your life depends on it. The winking eunuch who stole the screen in Love in the Moonlight: the talented comedian actress Kim Seul-gi is the main star! Together with Yoon Doo-joon and Ahn Hyo-seop, they brings up real South Korean historical figures to live in this drama with tons of kudos on witty script, superb casting, great cinematic, and choreography. The music is well done: the upbeat "Fondant to You" by Kim Hyun-joong (Yoon Ji-Hu from Boys over Flowers) and the melancholic "Don't Go" by Jung Ji-chan. Overall: Brilliant!

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The message is about fixing past relationship mistakes first before starting a new one. Unfortunately Guan Xiao Tong did not learn about this important principle before declaring herself as love guru. Neither was Ji Jia Wei whom both ex and mom left him without any clue. The main couple have to learn the hard way thru arguments and two break ups. Good acting (Danson Tang, Ivelyn Li, and Jolin Chien), although good chemistry is shown only in the last episode when they're cleared from past wounds. Dislike: Main lead repetitious glaring at female lead and female lead childish wardrobe at some scenes.

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STORY
This short drama depicts the classic and universal problem of self esteem that rampage in modern society caused by greed of things we don't have that we don't need but those are what we want. Mo Nan-Hee has many positive traits: cute, smart, talent, college education, supportive friends, loving parents, etc etc. But when the campus flower boy Park Se-Gun poses in her art class, suddenly Nan-Hee realizes that she wants Se-Gun, although all she needs is self-esteem which not necessarily to be fulfilled by having a handsome boyfriend. After brooding for 6 months in her room looking at Se-Gun's portrays, mom came with a secret weapon: the magical ring, Here goes the sad comedy: bunch of lies Nan-Hee spills when dating See-Gun, and more lies when Nan-Hee finds out who Se-Gun's dream girl is Mi-Joo, who is none other than Nan-Hee's child hood frenemy heading over for reunion. The twists in the last scenes are quite interesting.

CAST/ACTING
The talented actress and comedian Kim Seul-Gi brilliantly brought up the female lead to live, opposite to sweet and handsome Ahn Hyo-seop as the arrogant selfish male lead. Both are experienced actor/actress and supporting characters especially Lee Tae Sun who plays as long-time friend Tae-Hyun and actor/actress who play Nan-Hee's parents did really well. I applaud the costume and make-up crew that transformed beautiful Kim Seul-Gi to plain Nan-Hee, though not so for changing Ahn Hyo-seop's hair to wavy blond (he looks better with dark hair in the last fashion show scene). The costume for fashion shows are gorgeous too watch also.

REWATCH VALUE
Not necessarily I will watch again as lighthearted drama to pass the boring nights/weekends, as I do not necessarily like the characterization of the main leads most of the drama. I think Nan-Hee should end up with Tae-Hyun instead as he always sees the real Nan-Hee, or she does not end up with either Se-Gun or Tae-Hyun but will come out as more independent mature woman.

OVERALL
Although the drama is short and bittersweet, but I it can bring up the changes of main leads characterization that can make me give a 10 but the change of the couple's flawed characters started only in the last scenes of the last episode makes me a bit disappointed with the way the drama is written/directed.

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