DramaAjumma

My thoughts about the show thus far can be found here:
https://40somethingahjumma.substack.com/p/my-week-in-dramas-2023-7-november

My thoughts on the show can be found here:
https://40somethingahjumma.substack.com/p/my-week-in-dramas-2023-7-november

I believe it.

It's okay. Watchable. It's not anything we haven't seen before in that superhero-crime category. It's more or less Korea's answer to Daredevil or Punisher.
Yoo Ji-tae seems to have bulked up for his role.

Thank you for the compliment. Much appreciated.

This drama is a showcase in good execution (the cast is stellar) but is admittedly a marathon. It's meticulous, well-researched but there's a lot of stuff in there that probably don't need to be in it. It had the potential to be as popular as the K drama, Hospital Playlist but unfortunately lacks HP's economy. A pity because the show has a lot of heart (no pun intended) and life's lessons. The patient stories are beautifully woven into the fabric of a larger story regarding the limitations of medicine. Mark's character Zhou Xiaofeng was probably my favourite.

A pity about the lack of good subs too.

That doesn't say much about the show at all. In fact, it's an inaccurate characterization.
There are really only 2 geniuses -- one teacher and the other a student with very different viewpoints on how medicine should be practised. But it's about a complex arrogant man, the strive for perfection and the limitations of medicine.

Romance is a very small part of the show.

It's a bad trade-off it seems to me especially when there's so much competition out there on other streaming platforms . It's not just other K dramas they have to compete with. There are also C, J, Thai and Taiwanese dramas. People will do what they want to do regardless. I stopped at Episode 4 and I'm waiting for the rest of the episodes to drop before continuing on Prime. The worst thing is that people aren't talking about this show (except to complain about the scheduling) because of the one episode a week schedule -- and it's not consistently one episode a week either with other scheduling conflicts.

Compare that with D+ releasing 12 episodes of The Worst of Evil in one month.

Do you like the genre? If you do keep watching. It takes a couple of episodes to get going. Try another episode if you have the time.
I always give it the 4 episode test unless it's obviously awful.

Shin Ha-kyun is just amazing in this.
Fantastic cast. A really good script too.

But she did know. The slave trader told her that her husband had abandoned her and laughed in her face. And also she did try to resist Jang-hyeon when he cozied up to her.

Look, I'm not a fan of adultery in dramas but it's important to get the facts right.

My weekly thoughts on the show. Please go here:
https://40somethingahjumma.substack.com/p/my-week-in-dramas-30-october-2023

I had the notion that Gi-cheul is patterned after Jay Gatsby and wrote about it here:
https://40somethingahjumma.substack.com/p/my-week-in-dramas-30-october-2023

He did abandon her first believing she was "tainted by the barbarians". He didn't even go looking for her beyond a certain point.

Even though Little Women was a flawed project (the last two episodes annoyed the heck out of me) he was fantastic there. Really hot. The best character in that crazy show.

Stylistically yes. Very violent. Plenty of blood letting.

I honestly wish the husband, Capt Gu wasn't such a downright piece of rubbish from first to last. The guy is a hopeless cause but then he was the interloper in that relationship anyway.
Besides, only an out-of-the-box thinker like Jang-hyeon can love and understand a courageous woman out of time like Gil-chae. I'm glad she went back to Joseon and saw for herself firsthand what an unreliable man she married.

Ryang Eeum is frustrating the heck out of me. It's one step forward and two steps back. It feels like he and Manchu Princess are cut from the same cloth at the moment. It's kind of odd thinking to me too that when a man is willing to cross the sea, climb mountains, be a pincushion for the woman he loves -- apparently she's the problem. Somehow she's a curse? Isn't a good thing that a man is happy to lay down his life for the woman he loves? Isn't it a sign of commitment? What about individual agency? So the time Ryang Eeum was tortured or got into trouble because of some hairbrained scheme of Jang-hyeon -- by the same logic, is Jang-hyeon is a curse to him too? I know it's jealousy and spite talking but someone needs to take the lad aside and give him a good kick in the backside.

She's a pretty good actress. Nails everything she's in.

Previously? That's what I understood your post to be saying.

I think Jang-hyeon needed to be honest with Gil-chae too. He was playing mind games with her. It goes both ways. She didn't know what the heck was going on.