Do you love to hate treacherous women?

I'm slowly falling in love with the male lead. I find the storyline interesting. Why? The male lead already has several concubines before marrying the second wife (female lead). We already know it will be drama with women sharing the same house and fighting for one man's affection. However, like the series Yanxi Palace, the lead female has a reason to enter the Xu household, and it has nothing to do with the affections of the male lead. That's right; initially, she's not interested in him and speaks her mind freely. There's also a similarity to the Story of Ming Lan, where both females marry a Marquis and live in a house of treacherous scheming women. Yes, I can give more examples, but you get the picture. Actress Seven Tan is adorable and can be considered a serious female lead. Every character she plays is alluring and makes you want to keep watching to the end. The male lead, Wallace Chung, plays the cold Marquis who takes responsibility for his women, especially the main wife. He seems emotionally distant from all of his women yet believes in love but has yet to experience it. Therefore, he only wishes to live amicably while taking care of his responsibilities. This production has a 50/50 chance of ending on a good note.

Read More

I wanted to love this show!

Something was missing. The music was the best score in my ratings, which is the first of many K-Dramas I have watched. However, I wouldn't call this a romance. It's nothing really romantic about it other than some unrequited love. I did enjoy the actors and their effort to make this show a comedy. There were some laughable moments, but I know many of us clicked on this hoping it was a fuzzy warm, romantic comedy. ***Spoiler Alert*** You don't see anything close to a warm fuzzy feeling until the last 3 minutes of the final episode. I saw so many opportunities to insert those cute romance moments in the show. I guess that the writers were trying to show us that they can keep us wanting more, and they succeeded. I gave this drama an overall 6. I didn't have the satisfaction I was hoping for at the end and throughout the series.

Read More

It's not a re-watch!

Tumultuous storyline. Almost too much melodramatics for the soul. If you need something to cry about, just watch this series because there are no winners, in my opinion.

A few things that I thought were common sense were not common on this show. Sipping on my drink and eating pretzels, I shook my head in disappointment.

Misery at 100.

I didn't know how to give you guys 500 characters without making it a spoiler. One, I did not like any of the characters. Two, a normal person would have quit that job having to work under those circumstances. It was overall, "CRAY-CRAY." Three, the twin sister storyline could have been dropped. The melodramatic was played too hard; therefore, I gave this drama 3 stars.

Read More

It's flopped

I didn't enjoy this movie, but that's my opinion. There are some highly credible actors and actresses in this movie, so if you want to support the movie because of the cast's involvement, please watch it. This just left me disappointed in the writer. It could have at least have been cute. I'm not adding any spoilers. I don't I could spoil anything about this movie. I was more bothered by the writing. It feels like this was made in thirty-days on a small budget at the beginning of the year. I get the vibes that they were trying to put out this movie as quickly as possible and stay under the budget.

Read More

It was SO SO

Finally finished, and it is not re-watchable. At first, I enjoyed the storyline of RaRa and her optimistic view on life when given hard turns and pumps in the road. She was an enjoyable character. Jun was a young handsome lad that matched her personality well despite the 5-year age difference. Jun was definitely the mature one. The storyline was so so. I wanted to return every week for updates. Last week, I wouldn't say I liked the direction the series was going, but I didn't think it could get any worst. So I thought... Many of you will question the ending or love it. I thought it could have ended better. MUCH BETTER. RaRa should have had a nervous breakdown from all the stress, heartbreak, and lies she endured. I felt bad for her character. It's not the romance film of the year, and it wasn't as comical, but cute. You have to watch patiently and not make assumptions about the ending. Try to endure through the sad moments and judge yourself if this series is a hit or miss. I think the last two episodes ruined the entire series for me.

Read More

Disappointing

If you've seen "Another!Miss. Oh," you will be slightly disappointed with this remake. I don't think I could get 500 words out to submit a review. The film quality is low, which is a tell-tell sign that it's not going to make the original look worst. I like the casting choice of actors and actresses in this series, but the acting is better in the original. It felt like it was going for the necessary appearance only. They wanted a range of skin diversity. Yes, I said it. No judgment, but there are many pale complexions in the original, and I understand there is heavy use of skin lightener in Korea. Back to the movie, if you like the original, please stick to it. You might get disappointed with this series.

Read More

It's So Darn Boring!

Okay, I'm reading that the lead female is in a music group. I can overlook that and generally take the show in without any prenotions. It is borning as heck. In the first twenty minutes, I began to fast forward to the next scene. I thought am I going to finish this series or drop it. It does not go anywhere fast enough. The casting is questionable, but not terrible. Anyway, I found myself pushing fast-forward threw so many parts and feeling guilty about it. However, I don't think I missed anything important. I believe I could re-write this and make it more enticing. I'm trying not to expect anything so that I might have a surprise before episode five. I am giving this series five episodes to get better. If it doesn't pique my interest, I have to drop it and metaphorically cover it with dirt.

Read More

Should I finish it?

I'm confused about the direction of this series. It went from a possible love triangle to an extreme suspense theme that involves murder, bloody physical altercations, and random attacks. I don't think I can see this as a cute love story anymore. It's a real toss-up between loving the actors and hating the storyline. It's like the writer became overly excited about the cast and budget and decided to write all he or she could into this ONE series. Is it a love story, a comedy, suspense drama, supernatural, or what? I just don't know what's going on, which is leaving it undesirable to watch. HOWEVER, I love the actors.

Read More

I'm sure it's good..

It was short-lived for me. I just didn't fall in love with it. I was quickly annoyed with the female lead's role. It's not her fault either. It's just written that way. When you see her character in the first episode, you might understand what I'm saying. I initially thought, wow, that's who gets the lead male--what a shame. Please don't let this detour you from watching! You may love every second of it. One day, I might come back to this series. I love the actor, Kim Soo-hyun! He's adorable. He actually is getting better with age as well. HOTT!

UPDATE

I did go back to finish it. It ended bittersweet.

Read More

I didn't finish, sorry.

Review for episodes 1 -10
Of course, I'm all about the romance and drama storyline. However, the storylines are dragging. I have fast-forwarded through a few parts. Now that I'm ten episodes in and there aren't any established romance storylines, it's losing my interest. However, some shady characters appear in every episode. They are enemies that you want to see brought to justice.

I'll update my review as the series continues. I hope I can get through 60 episodes.

Review for episodes 11 -19
We are coming to a full circle in the following 9 episodes by distinguishing the many romantic connections. The first 10 episodes were diluted with origin mystery and serious infatuations. The characters seem to narrow down their doubtful love interests and began by confessing or staying quite for the next person to exercise their right to pursue the same love interest. There is plenty of action and revenge that is actually satisfying. The writing is good and the language is risky as for as innuendos, but no obscenity. The action comes back in battles for days. You'll like that some characters reveal their true intentions.

Review for episodes 20 - 26
Now, we are back to having doubts about everyone's choices and their decision for love or revenge. Characters that you want to like leave and those that annoy stay. The cutest character is the 4th prince. He reminds me of a cute puppy. Other than that I skipped a good bit of the scenes because the storylines were too obvious. An old character returns and finds a rival for the Lord's affection. There are two unexpected marriages. One marriage was sweet and organically connected and the other isn't and pitiful to watch. While our leading lady is now dressed like a man and her new love interest a woman, they are on the run with a bundle in hand.


Okay, it drags through to episode 41. I found my life slipping away while watching the series and I don't think I'll be able to take the ending.

Read More

I liked it, but

It was a culture shock on many levels for ME, so I can't say it was a terrible show. I liked it, but I was getting heartburn while watching it. First, I don't know how much of this could be right with relationships in Korean/China/Japan. I understand that storylines can be fabricated to bring on the dramatics, but so many people would have been placed in jail or had a restraining order placed on them for their unruly conduct in the US. So, I tried to digest it all instead of arguing with the television. I told myself: "HEY, these are fictional characters living in a different country. Chill out. Why is it that damn song, again. Why didn't they pay for at least five songs?"

Well, don't let me be the judge. Please watch it yourself.

Read More

Slow Climax

This series started extremely well. I was interested and wanted to know more about the characters, but then I lost all interest soon afterward. There is no satisfaction in this long lagging storyline. It doesn't look like it's rising to a CLIMAX! It's stagnant, which loses views 18 episodes in. If I stop watching, it's okay. Maybe after all the episodes have aired and comments have been posted, it will be doable. I couldn't navigate around the lacking episodes. This series drags unmercifully. It's painful to watch at some points: cute storyline but AWFUL screenwriting.

Read More

The Rush, The Drama

I truly like the storyline and the screenwriting. It's for the mature audience. However, episode 4 lost my interest, but I quickly regained my focus with episode 5, and the start of feelings evolve into strange chemistry. That was a mouth full. Actually, you'll see this building in episode 1, but it seems to be stagnant for a few episodes, but the drama and the character flaws and issues will keep your interest long enough to wait for the romance. This drama is also funny. I genuinely love the acting and the character of Mr. Lee, the publicist. He's not on the screen often, but he leaves an impact on the audience with his comedic dramatics and care for the lead actress. Now, there is always someone with unrequited love... This is boring. It's not even amusing anymore with any storyline. It doesn't bring anything but an annoyance and time fillers.
Nevertheless, the leads, Gang-Tae and Mun-Yeong, are too darn attractive together in this series. I believe that's why I gave it another go after episode 4. I want to see their strange chemistry and how they overcome their past hurt and heal.

I'll have to update my review after the series end.

Read More