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It's enjoyable, but surely overrated!?
The Good:
✅ The top acting by almost* everyone (including the child actor, but seriously there are some amazing performances)
✅ The high budget of the show really shows, it's really a dazzling production.
✅ The romance is quite good (other than the noble idiocy bit, but even that is not the worst)
✅ Top tier bickering
✅ The super weak love triangle
✅ There is no forced separation or breakups.
✅ The setting is quite well thought out.
✅ The lack of in laws is refreshing.
The Average:
🟡 IU's acting.* (it's still good objectively, but not up to her usual very high standard, though I cannot really blame her for not taking this script too seriously.)
🟡 The secretary couple
🟡 The usual shy teenager act..
The Bad:
❌ The non-romantic plot is just awful.
❌ There are intelligence insulting contradictions too.
❌ While contract marriages are often a lot of fun, the guaranteed leak of the contract is the worst & most predictable cliche in this genre.
❌ Dad, QM & maybe even the FL got a full character rewrite near the end, jarringly so
❌ This is subjective, but I don't like the idea of abolishing the monarchy like this. It goes against the romance of the show, I mean in the classical sense, there is this whole semi-glamor concept & then they just flip the table, I never liked it when an extraordinary character dreams of or just becoming ordinary.
✅ The top acting by almost* everyone (including the child actor, but seriously there are some amazing performances)
✅ The high budget of the show really shows, it's really a dazzling production.
✅ The romance is quite good (other than the noble idiocy bit, but even that is not the worst)
✅ Top tier bickering
✅ The super weak love triangle
✅ There is no forced separation or breakups.
✅ The setting is quite well thought out.
✅ The lack of in laws is refreshing.
The Average:
🟡 IU's acting.* (it's still good objectively, but not up to her usual very high standard, though I cannot really blame her for not taking this script too seriously.)
🟡 The secretary couple
🟡 The usual shy teenager act..
The Bad:
❌ The non-romantic plot is just awful.
❌ There are intelligence insulting contradictions too.
❌ While contract marriages are often a lot of fun, the guaranteed leak of the contract is the worst & most predictable cliche in this genre.
❌ Dad, QM & maybe even the FL got a full character rewrite near the end, jarringly so
❌ This is subjective, but I don't like the idea of abolishing the monarchy like this. It goes against the romance of the show, I mean in the classical sense, there is this whole semi-glamor concept & then they just flip the table, I never liked it when an extraordinary character dreams of or just becoming ordinary.
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