Emily

WE DON'T GET TO SEE THE CONTENTS OF EITHER
1) THE PRESENT
2) NOR THE LETTER?
NEITHER OF THEM!???????????????
That's messed up. Imo.

But also; I don't think she killed herself? That isn't how I interpreted it? Could be optimism, could be the fact that "suicide" was not on the trigger warnings list for the episode on Netflix. Either way. I don't think that's what that was.

OK real shit in the reply. I need to shout a bit

I was weirdly disappointed that her actual adult face was the blind radio chick, and not the original one we meet, "Pin Yu". I like the latter better. I didn't even understand what set her off when she saw "Joy" because she looked so different to me.

Anyway, this drama decimated me, I was sobbing. Abolish the death penalty btw.

Anyone know anywhere to watch this? Randomly conjured the ML's name outta my brain and was trying to figure out where it was from- it was this, Ouyang Tai! I apparently watched this 10 years ago. I'm so curious about it.

TW: Attempted Suicide for ep 9, all ye who scroll here.

Her mixing that giant bowl of "coffee" muttering about how "this isn't a coffee shop, you'll drink what I give you" had me cracking up

How do they mess up their time travel rules? I don't specifically remember any, though I've seen this twice

? This should be even higher, I agree

The specific posing looked *so* awkward too. He was just holding his hand aloft? Like, surely there was a better way???

My conclusion of this drama is: that was very silly, but it was a nice watch. Particularly on about 1.7x speed.

The way that her idiotic-ass plan to "Don't tell him you know the mayor is his daddy, simply turn him in and frame him for the murder you committed, betraying him, so that he feels so compelled to get live and get revenge for your betrayal that he reveals his parentage to his daddy allllll by himself" actually had me figuring it out beforehand and being like "yeah that makes total sense"
is the drama written well or is my iq just lowering to the same temperature as it?

A Viki comment called this drama "a pantomime but with hot people". and like. yeah. I almost feel bad for the cast & crew though. Like, it's not *bad*, but it's like one of those "watch the whole series in x minutes" YT channels that tries to summarize a 7 season show into a single <30 minute video, and I think if I worked on it I'd just be sort of. sad.

this guy just choked a girl out to suck opium smoke out of her mouth. anyway

I'm on ep 3 and I just watched a woman hold back her screams of pain by biting on the hand of the man (her fiance) who whipped her and is now cleaning her wounds? fuck it, sure, why the hell not. *pours a glass of wine*

Episode one is a *comedy*

its subjective :)

It was a little underbaked, but the leads were so charming I didn't mind too much.

So we're in agreement that K-dramas are currently having a marketing push towards parenthood and babies being totally awesome, right? lol

Honestly the depiction of the king acting in any official capacity is so sparse that he is really a tyrant in reputation alone- it makes a few references to real historical things that happened but primarily for the purpose of the lead female being able to recognize who he is- it is overall sympathetic to him and his reasons for doing them, and the worst things he did are either not mentioned or are rewritten entirely to not have happened at all. Honestly it might as well be a different King except for his family situation & his reputation (+ the way it makes the lead, who knows the "real" history, afraid of him).

This drama is so juicy. Only on episode 3, but the cinematography, the music, the acting, holy shit. This is precisely the sort of story I wanted to write when I was a teenager. Edit: It really is hitting every depressing thing that can happen, isn't it? Whew