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Wait, there are GLs that are just kissing and f*king throughout the entire show? How did I miss that and where can I watch?

Which is why I liked it so much. Honestly, though, if I were to write a GL it would be a hot date and a uhaul two episodes. 😏 So, best left to the pros.

I think Nene will eventually reveal Pam's complicity in her revenge scheme and it will be a devastating deal breaker to Rak.

I thought that was one of the more obnoxious product placements - mostly because of how much time it took away from the story. Definitely not "a Coke and a smile" moment

Loser trying to manipulate ratings is big mad because other users are doing the same thing, only better. Boo. Hoo.

Me, in episode 40: Shut up and die. Please die NOW. For the love of God, just DIE.

That's my only complaint for this series.

Biggest bonus plus: the costumes and set design were amazing. I was hitting pause just so I could take it in.

Other pluses: The acting was solid, especially the leads. I didn't like either of them at first, but their commitment to avoiding, at all costs, the mistakes that led to their previous downfalls, won me over. The character development was realistic and satisfying, except for the 2ML who inexplicably squandered his do-over and eventually died as smug and self righteous and misguided as he lived (both times).

The final few episodes had a lot of explication, but the only other option was another ten episodes. It was handled well and from different perspectives, so it stayed engaging.

It's a 10 for me.

Blue Friday is a vehicle for Pam and other characters to reveal bits of their backstory.

It's cringe painful for about the first 6 episodes, but it gets better.

I wonder if they were directed to speak comically s-l-o-w-l-y or if casting accidentally signed the most inept English speaking actors available in South Korea.

Because the concept of being both strong and feminine is a bridge too far for many people.

Ha Ji Won was playing a character the same approximate as her IRL, so "young for her age" is a weird riff. Then again, it wouldn't be MDL without a gratuitous mean girl comment from the "pick me" bleachers.

It's on Viki and Kocowa now (January 2025) as "The King 2 Hearts"

I had a "No, sister, just run!" moment when FL excuses ML intending to kill her with the excuse he was trying to save his own life. No, he wasn't. He was a lazy, ill trained, immature and pathetic excuse for a soldier man child having an adolescent level temper tantrum in the midst of an unwarranted panic attack. This is not a man you want to waste another moment on, much less tie your future to.

I tried for three episodes, but shows that portray supposedly strong, competent women as giggly, kittenish, man-starved bimbos don't really hit my sweet spot. I think, in a truly clumsy and ill conceived way, the script was trying to show FL as tough and skilled as well as feminine, because *as we all know, am I right? {wink wink}* those things are mutually exclusive.

The ML was equally ditzy and one dimensional and I just didn't see anywhere this could go that I wanted to go with it.

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UPDATE
Okay, I was a bit hasty. After the himbo antics toned down and I got used to the sex kitten voice it turned out to be a decent story. The pervasive sexism was grating, but the script largely faced that head on and realistically; especially in E19 when the king issues a directive to his fiancée expecting it to be obeyed, as if he's never met the woman before.

What happened early in that episode, though, was unnecessarily cruel to the audience and didn't further the narrative in any way. OTOH, kudos for realistically portraying the U.S. government as controlled by greedy, immoral, opportunistic grifters who will sell out anyone and everyone for money.

I almost bark laughed when the king and his minister extolled the 1790's Western philosophy of equality between men and women. What West? Where West? Point me to this fantastical Shangri-La! At the time setting of this drama, that Western philosophy had only recently stopped burning women as witches if they got too uppity in favor of only hanging them.

Final episode: Ha In Soo FINALLY mans up. The look Cho Sun flicks Ha In Soo when he opposes his father to protect her, the way he shields her and she accepts his protection, is everything. Those two characters did so much with very little screen time together. I could have watched another half dozen episodes too see their story play out.

I feel the same about Song Joong Ki. His characters in Descendants of the Sun and Vincenzo were Goo Yong Ha only with trousers and no color flair.

I was shipping Kim Yoon Hee and Cho Sun from beginning to end. And Goo Yong Ha was FABULOUS 😉.

What a load of shite. You're acting like PMY personally pissed in your Cheerios and kicked your puppy on the way out the door. Shitty men don't wear signs, so sometimes women don't know up front which ones are scamming assholes. PMY was put under an investigative microscope and came out clean - no evidence she benefitted financially.

FYI, using a cutesy fake username on a web site won't save you from slander and defamation damages. Nor should it. You should think about that before you carry dirty water for someone who got their feelings hurt when they were left behind.

To be fair, you are homophobic and transphobic, so there's that.