It's crazy how no one is talking about this show. I really enjoyed every single storyline and it has the hottest kiss scenes I've ever seen in a kdrama, hands down. The writer also knows when enough is enough and doesn't drag the story out for 16 episodes when 10 will do, so it was faced-paced. My only small gripe is that I feel like the crown prince and princess's story was much more interesting than the main one, and I wish more attention had been paid to that. Otherwise, I loved it.
Right I was excited for it and it was really bad. Especially the cut where it looked like her arm was being bent…
There are more kisses after episode 2 and a lot of skinship. And most of their kisses/chemistry after the ML learns the truth are super hot. But the actual love scene was lukewarm. From the first two episodes I was sure it was going to beat out What's Wrong with Secretary Kim for hottest love scene but it just... wasn't good. At all. It's like it was shot by an entirely different production crew lol.
And what was that bed scene? lol Why did they make it more natural and hotter in ep2 than 10 episodes laterðŸ˜
Right I was excited for it and it was really bad. Especially the cut where it looked like her arm was being bent out of place. After all that angst it should've been explosive but it was dry dry dy! I thought I escaped awkward love scenes with this show because the first two episodes were fire, it feels like false advertisement lmao
The insta-love didn't land for me. The ML and FL's first few interactions didn't give what it needed to give to convince me that he fell in love with her so quickly, and definitely not strongly enough to justify searching for her obsessively for several years. So since this plot point didn't land for me, the rest of their story won't work either. I'll put this on hold for now to see if something else about this story ever makes me feel compelled to come back and complete it.
Da Rim carrying Ji Hyeok out of the fire reminded me of a scene in the show Lost where Kate picks Jack's big ass up and carries him to safety on her shoulders. The actress was literally half his size, I have no idea how she lifted him, but I always thought it was one of the most romantic things I've ever seen. So we have a ML in distress this time and the FL saved the day, so some of yall can calm down. 😂
I love how this is turning into a reunion show for the cast of My Dearest! This show is still one of my tops out…
I just finished it last week because I was enjoying this female lead so much in Dynamite Kiss and, wow, one of the most beautiful dramas I’ve ever seen! I’m now having a Namjoon Min marathon. 😂
The interview with the ML and SML had me dying. The way the SML didn't even pretend throwing that water in his lap was an accident, then standing 10 miles apart for the photo lmaooo. 🤣 This show is so funny.
I'm almost done with this and just have to say the SFL is a great actress. I rarely feel this much hatred towards a villain, she makes the character feel so real that it's almost hard for me to even finish this but I have to finish because I must see her pay. 😂 Hats off to the actress.
The writing is great too. The writer has a perfect instinct for knowing when the villain is about to make me tear my hair out and always gives the FL a small win right on time to keep me sane and hooked. If this was one of those shows where the FL never got a win I wouldn’t have even made it past episode 2, the villains are that terrible, and this writer definitely knows that! Great pacing. So good!
Edit: Just finished and unfortunately the second female villain is nowhere near as talented as the first and dragged the show way down. We really didn't need another villain (the first two were MORE than enough) and this show was easily a 10 all the way up until about episode 14 when she showed up and then it became exhausting to watch. Once I feel the need to start fast forwarding it knocks off a few stars for me. All in all, it's an 8/10 for me.
coming here after so long bc I'm realising that perhaps, she didn't love yi san at all or all that much, and didn't…
That's what made this show so interesting to me because it could really go either way. She could've loved him or despised him (or loved him AND despised him) and both would have made sense in the narrative. It really captures the complexity of the human heart and human emotions. We are not spoon fed the right answers because there are no right answers. I really love the route the writer took with this character.
I really wish I had watched this one before My Dearest because, while The Red Sleeve is fantastic, it is nowhere near as good as My Dearest. The cinematography, the chemistry between the leads, the fight scenes, none of it comes close to comparing. My Dearest was simply a masterpiece.
I actually loved this drama, it's very well-written and thought provoking. A lot of people seem to have an issue with the FL not kissing the ML's ass (apparently she should've been eternally grateful for the honor of being his mistress) but that's what made her character so captivating to me. All the way up until the end I understood her internal dilemma completely, her need for control, and I think it's realistic that the matter of her heart was never fully resolved. Life is very rarely wrapped up in a perfect bow that way. Beautiful characterization.
its really weird how people only accept a story as good when the ending is happy. yes, the ending is not happy.…
I swear they hate any story with a real plot or real conflict/tension. They literally want 16 episodes full of perfect one-dimensional people who do absolutely nothing but make out all day and never fight and live in a world full of rainbows and sunshine where absolutely nothing goes wrong, ever. That's not what good storytelling is.
Also Ji Hyeok: My mother isn't a sensitive person, she'll be much more comfortable staying with a friend.
Ji Hyeok please STAND UP. 🤣🤣🤣
The writing is great too. The writer has a perfect instinct for knowing when the villain is about to make me tear my hair out and always gives the FL a small win right on time to keep me sane and hooked. If this was one of those shows where the FL never got a win I wouldn’t have even made it past episode 2, the villains are that terrible, and this writer definitely knows that! Great pacing. So good!
Edit: Just finished and unfortunately the second female villain is nowhere near as talented as the first and dragged the show way down. We really didn't need another villain (the first two were MORE than enough) and this show was easily a 10 all the way up until about episode 14 when she showed up and then it became exhausting to watch. Once I feel the need to start fast forwarding it knocks off a few stars for me. All in all, it's an 8/10 for me.