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I'm 25 minutes in and it's obvious there WILL be romance lol. Every time this happens (most recently with Do You Like Brahms) it's like you guys have never seen a kdrama before...

lmao it’s obvious there’s a lot more to her backstory/mental state that night than whether her cousin likes her or not. The kiss also looked pretty one-sided; he confessed and initiated it while she was clearly distraught about something he didn’t understand (and neither do the viewers at this point) after she begged him not to forget about her and at some point she closed her eyes and went along with it, probably while thinking it was the last night of her life. The queen’s unstable mental state and poor judgement and various context clues all point to her trying to commit suicide that night.

As for her feelings, JBH remarked that the queen must have been in love with the king based on her telling him to love her and her body’s reactions to various memories, and in her one real conversation with her cousin that we saw, she noted that he always came after her when she went into hiding, implying that his concern for her made her feel less alone but not really suggesting any sort of reciprocal interest in his person.

Seriously, we’ve seen them interact twice and he keeps following the queen around despite her passivity. I have no idea why people on this website always interpret this kind of stalkerish obsessive dynamic as romantic/appealing.

The cousin is really overbearing. I'm already tired of his crush.

This drama is so questionable but so entertaining. SHS and KJH are both great in their roles and even better when they play off each other, so I want more scenes between them. Their evening conversations are the best. I like the slew of secondary couples/love triangles and have a feeling Tragic Cousin and Loyal Concubine may end up together after their respective paramours kick them to the curb. I’m still not sure how the main couple will come together, but I’m ready to be entertained. The plot moves along at a nice pace and the political intrigue is well done so far.

The premise seems promising—the male lead is not connected to the palace, so we may finally get a historical romance that shows us a wider view of Joseon society and more varied settings, also I'm just a little tired of kings and crown princes—and the actors who've been offered the lead roles are likeable. I am excited!

That's not true.

The Producer Eom plotline is getting really tiresome. This guy gets anxiety attacks when he sees her and has told her a thousand times that he wants nothing to do with her, but she keeps engineering accidental meetings with him, enlisting their families and coworkers to trap him into marriage, spying on him and spreading rumours about the women he's seen with to create trouble? Not only is this absolutely psychotic behaviour but also it's just not that realistic. 99.99% of people would have got the message and left him alone by now. Of course there are obsessive female stalkers and clingy female abusers in this world, but they're really not as common as kdrama makes them seem, especially in situations like this where there's no intimate relationship or dependence tying their chosen targets to them. (I also get the sense the drama doesn't judge Producer Eom quite as harshly as she should be judged for her borderline-criminal behaviour.)

Anyway, poor Joon-soo and Ah-ri, especially since I'm pretty sure Ah-ri is pregnant. (There's no way a daily kdrama, or indeed almost any kdrama, would show a one-night stand unless it led to pregnancy and marriage...) They have an uphill battle ahead of them.

My review: PSH looks great in a black bomber jacket.

That would be amazing.

To clarify the romance situation for anyone confused by the discrepancy between the tags and the comments, there's no explicit romance, but it's clearly implied the main characters like each other and the ending is open to a hopeful/romantic interpretation.

Kang Dong-won and Bae Doona are the most galaxy-brained pair I could imagine and Song Kang-ho is the It Ajussi right now, but then again, what else could we expect from Koreeda? The cast and director are both reasons to be super excited for this film.

Uh... awkward question, but... who's gonna be the FL? Is the FL going to me the ML's love interest? I had assumed Lee Chung-ah's character would be both the female lead and the love interest, but the way this drama has been marketed/covered in the press recently is making me confused because of the focus on Gong Hye-won.

I'm not complaining about the presence of two female leads by any means, but I've had enough of romance between men in their late 30s and women in their mid-20s recently, so I'm hoping the romantic subplot will be between the two mature characters.

I'm a little tired of psychopath dramas TBH, but I'm really excited for this cast. Jin Seo-yoon deserves more big roles and I hope after Tell Me What You Saw and this drama her career will gain some momentum.

At this point I'm more interested in seeing how Joon-soo and Ah-ri get thrown together and in Ah-ri and Byeo-ri's relationship than in Bo-ra and Dae-ro's storylines TBH, but I'm invested in multiple characters/situations (I really like Hae-shim, for example). This is a good daily drama in the Brilliant Inheritance mould--kinda like the more low-key weekend family dramas like Once Again and Never Twice--in that there's no true villain and over-the-top makjang plot twists, at least not yet, so it's relaxing and fun to watch.

I'm a fan of Kwak Dong-yeon too, but lol, dial it down. He's only 23 and he's already had a lead role in a weekend family drama. It's only a matter of time before he gets a lead role in a short drama.

What I love about this drama is how Jae-sang reacts to waking up in an alternate timeline where he's married to his ex and has a child with her like it's a nightmare conjured by Satan to torture him and barely 3 episodes later he's already like ~don't mind me, I'm just having sex/going on dates/cuddling with my wife and thinking about how I would die for my daughter~.

It must be so difficult to promote a drama at a time like this. I hope he and his family are doing okay :(

She excels in comedic roles and has an interesting, charming appearance that always makes her stand out from the rest of the secondary cast. I wish she would get a bigger, more challenging role one of these days.

Do we know when this is supposed to air?

I can’t imagine anything more boring than this synopsis, so I hope there’s more to the plot than different people working at the same hair salon.