Michelle Topham

That could be true. Let's see how it goes from here :) I like the drama so far though -- interesting characters and premise, and it's well-written and beautifully filmed -- so even if that is a directorial choice, it's not bothering me overly much. Especially as, I think, he will become an incredibly sympathetic character once he stops being such an arrogant a-hole :)

She's excellent in this so far. Nails the character perfectly. Rowoon is a bit "hammy" (ie; taking both the comedic and the dramatic too far with his overly-exaggerated facial gestures and body language), but he's not too annoying and hopefully will have grown into the role in future episodes :).

Absolutely agree. No idea why half these stations aired superb dramas that then got massacred in the ratings because of the Games. I mean it's not like the Games hadn't been planned for the last 3 years :)

Arthdral Chronicles 2 is another one -- with 2 episodes aired 'back to back' on 2 different nights just to squash them in. Screwed that excellent drama's ratings too.

Live Your Own Life got its much deserved ratings bump last night tho -- I think it will likely only go up from there :)

They had no choice in postponing episodes. The Asian Games was on and it is hugely popular in Asia, so if they had aired the episodes the ratings would have dropped anyway as half the population was watching the South Korean football team kick Japan's ass :)

Besides, to say it was postponed so many times, it's doing really well. A big increase over the last episode with Ep 6, and likely to increase a fair bit again tonight. Plus it has 50 episodes and we're only on Ep 6. PLENTY of time for the ratings to skyrocket.

😂😂😂😂 I don't even like football, but I'll be checking the score of tonight's game. I like to see SK kicking Japan's ass now and again :)

Can't blame KBS2 airing the football game though. It's a MASSIVE deal for Koreans as, if they win, it will be the first time any country has ever won three consecutive gold medals in the sport. Fingers crossed, eh? :)

Dull, pointless, with little plot and shaky camera work that is supposed to look "artsy" and is just annoying. Particularly in the fight scenes. Couldn't care less about any person in the entire 90 minutes, most of which I watched on double speed. Hugely disappointing. Could have been interesting, but instead it's just a shallow rip-off of a thousand movies that are so much better. 6/10 just because it was short and the cast did their best with a very poor script.

Yep, second FL is phenomenally talented and still only in her mid 20s. FL is miscast. Has one dull facial expression throughout it and, like someone else said, sucks the life out of every scene she's in. For me, her performance was the only thing I didn't like throughout all nine superb episodes.

Superb. One of the best K-dramas of the year so far, and with many sympathetic characters, which I loved. I found the first episode a little slow, but it really starts to move fast from episode 2 with superbly filmed action scenes as well. Binge-watched it in 2 days and will probably watch it again.

Chuseok holidays and ongoing coverage of the Asian Games is damaging ratings of several dramas. I'd guess tvN made the smart decision of not airing a drama that would just be decimated in the ratings if they did.

Same for me. K dramas and Japanese anime, and with the rare exception, that's all I watch. Sure, I write about both of them for a living, but even if I didn't they would still be my only choice as they are just far superior to most Hollywood properties, especially now Hollywood has gone "woker than woke".

Oh sure, I agree with you technology is getting better, and translations will get better with it. But they're not there yet. No translation app can understand the nuances/slang/collouquial way of speaking of any language, so comments are often mistranslated.

I've tried several apps with the two second languages I speak (Thai and German) and they're pretty bad. Even in German, which is a more commonly used language than Thai, every app I have tried completely misses up to half of the conversation. It's why I would never use a translation app when traveling overseas, as you could seriously upset someone if it mistranslated :)

Of course, AI will improve. But I also disagree that it is an AI world, as people are already beginning to fight back against AI and computers providing everything you see. Bing launched their AI to massive fanfare and their search traffic has actually gone down since, because AI answering questions (often incorrectly) is not what most people want. They want information provided to them by other people. And especially when AI is stealing their answers from other sources, namely from writers like me, and not paying us for our work.

Drama is excellent. I'm amazed it's doing so badly in S. Korea and that not many people are watching it internationally. It's really good.

Yes, It's very very good.

Next Monday. Confirmed.

Actually, no I'm not. But I'd say you are with your claim to have translated "all comments". Especially as you are obviously not a Korean speaker so not getting accurate translations (my friend is Korean but brought up in the U.S. so speaks both languages fluently).

I'm actually always amazed anyone thinks translating a language as complicated as Korean via an innacurate app helps them know what's going on. I speak Thai, and it's the same with Thai. Non-Thai speakers thinking they understand what Thai netizens are actually saying because they ran a Thai online conversation through an app or through Google Translate (horrible, btw). An app that mis-translated slang, nuances, and commentary and so does nothing but mislead.

So, no, you don't know what every Korean is saying about Jo Bo Ah, nor do you probably properly understand many of the comments you are translating.

Hahahaha, yep, so confusing. Oh you could be correct. That makes more sense than it showing up on KBS2 first. Especially when every official poster released has U+Mobile TV listed. And thanks for the Monster Union info. I missed that.

It's a weird one, because I've just received two press releases from Korean sources (I'm an entertainment journalist covering K-dramas/K music among other things), that both state KBS2 is airing the drama -- something MDL is also reporting on, both on the drama's listing and in the story written about it by a Korean journalist -- https://mydramalist.com/article/mr-queen-actress-chae-seo-eun-joins-nam-ji-hyun-and-choi-hyun-wook-in-high-cookie -- (guess she/he got the same press release I did?).

Other western news media is also reporting KBS2.

Guess we'll find out :), but like you said, the 20 eps alone usually mean it's a webdrama and not a KBS2 drama, so that makes more sense than KBS2 :)

Loving this more and more with every new episode. Gripping from the first seconds of Episode 1. Still superb after Episode 3.

It's a KBS2 drama supposedly (conflicting reports from Korean news media, so IDK). If so, it will be picked up by one of the main streaming platforms.