mid ep6 Now I know why the show is call Dazzlying. Xing Wu shows up in Beijing in the middle of a rainstorm to save Qing Ye and just that first look when she raises her head and sees his face.
Ep39 JZ weeping over YZ's corpse. Clearly not a military family, way too much. And with her husband there wounded? Maybe she enacts what YZ' army feels and so YY stands in respect as well...
Finally started watching this. Heard about it for so long but had trouble getting over the first few scenes. Dont like catty girls thrashing around in their chains. But I have been really drawn into the show. (I am a fan of Bae Suzy, so I was half-way there anyway?)
By Ep4 ..turns out the theme(s) -- jealousy, struggles in the arts, the dire straits competition in SK life is\are totally current now (just watched We Are All Trying Here for a much rawer script and a more mature cast).
Sam Dong! This role is immortal for Kim Soo Hyun. A proper show for basic Korean skills of the actor, it is all herehis heart and deadpan delivery, and with a through-line to Queen of Tears -- the good man from the countryside...
Ep7 I just realized I am not just watching a thriller, but also a much more general analysis of the profound difficulties of obtaining justice under an unjust government. The two b******s who essentially beat Ki Beom to death -- how many others were there who abused political prisoners or abused criminal suspects habitually -- how many police officers were caught up in injustice along with them, but unintentionally?
Ep3-4 I do not know how the show is avoiding being confusing as to where TaeJu and SiYoung's relationship is going, but it feels like a legal case -- all the points are being carefully laid out in front of the viewers.
Ep1 Very good. More of a police procedural than a thriller.
Similiar to the Nordic policiers of the last decade. Except, so far, the ML isntrdeeply alcoholic and depressed . The Tae Ju - Si Young dynamic is very well done -- best by Park Hae Soo so far.
That fleeting look of his past vulnerability merges into his current look of truculence and then he tentatively at first but then more strongly, he gathers up the pieces of his adult self to confront his schoolyard tormentor.
Does anybody else feel that there’s not much of a spark between the leads? I think Gu Jin Zhao has a more interesting…
Dont agree. RenMin especially gave the main couple's interactions true punching level strength. YY and JZ have a very strong physical relationship -- more like a cdrama modern romance than a historical. As others have mentioned, perhaps you havent gotten far enough in the show to make that judgement?
Ye Xian is coming from a crazy different physical place -- he is literally physically ill, besides being completely immature emotionally, so his interactions w/JZ, weird as some of them are, are more about emotions.
My pain too. Suddenly, idol dramas feel so… performative. The main storyline of ASM felt very lived in, like…
It takes an intelligent script to engage actors fully, especially the young ones. They need something to believe in more than the more mature do. This is a very 'real' script. Love it.
CXQ!!!!!!?????^^^^^words cannot convey the disdain for how much his character is delusional and way out of line…
(36) I at first thought JinZhao was mistranlated when she calls him a lunatic, but he has really gone mad. Does it all have to do with keeping face? Or just classic overthetop villainy?
Ep36 So.. in a court governed by neo-confucian morals and an emperor ruling by 'the mandate of heaven', a court official can be impeached for not keeping his house in order. But... if the accuser is a member of his own household and is manifestly attempting to undermine the excessive powers attributed to heads of large household, the official in his status as a 'father' can apply normal punishment, barring murder. When... the case for impeachment is in process, that punishment is part of the official's defense against mismanaging his household.
Although... in this case CXQ is clearly unbalanced in his wits, and we of course on behalf of the solendid couple, hope that YY will find a clever way out of this,
all should agree... that the rule of law is preferable to the absolute power in the private sphere of the patriarch in the imagined 'traditional' household.
This drama most dramatically opposes both -- the private household discipline vs. the public curb of the law of the court. Very, very interesting.
ep35 I am actually ok with this one episode at a time. The political struggles require attention to all the names of various characters and a lot happens in one episode'
I am enjoying JinZhao as half of a power couple. She is as fierce as ever. She looks like she is enjoying the fight.
On the other hand, Yan Yun is so crafty that I am always nervous that one of his schemes will fall apart.
I know he is the ML and this is the nouveau Cdrama where main characters no longer tragically die near the end of the show, but I still carry some residual shadowy dread from older shows.
Valid comments but honestly, the show just finished yesterday and you gave a clear summary of key events, without any personal reactions or observations. Surely you could have waited even a few hours?
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Now I know why the show is call Dazzlying.
Xing Wu shows up in Beijing in the middle of a rainstorm to save Qing Ye and just that first look when she raises her head and sees his face.
He is dazzlying. (the theme song helps too.)
JZ weeping over YZ's corpse. Clearly not a military family, way too much. And with her husband there wounded?
Maybe she enacts what YZ' army feels and so YY stands in respect as well...
By Ep4
..turns out the theme(s) -- jealousy, struggles in the arts, the dire straits competition in SK life is\are totally current now (just watched We Are All Trying Here for a much rawer script and a more mature cast).
Sam Dong! This role is immortal for Kim Soo Hyun.
A proper show for basic Korean skills of the actor, it is all herehis heart and deadpan delivery, and with a through-line to Queen of Tears -- the good man from the countryside...
Guan Xiao Tong! The scene where Grandma comforts the FL, very well done.
Li Yun Rui is really a treat in bleached blonde --
he is playing teen/young man perfectly.
I just realized I am not just watching a thriller, but also a much more general analysis of the profound difficulties of obtaining justice under an unjust government. The two b******s who essentially beat Ki Beom to death -- how many others were there who abused political prisoners or abused criminal suspects habitually -- how many police officers were caught up in injustice along with them, but unintentionally?
Looks like fun!
I do not know how the show is avoiding being confusing as to where TaeJu and SiYoung's relationship is going, but it feels like a legal case -- all the points are being carefully laid out in front of the viewers.
Very good.
More of a police procedural than a thriller.
Similiar to the Nordic policiers of the last decade.
Except, so far, the ML isntrdeeply alcoholic and depressed
.
The Tae Ju - Si Young dynamic is very well done -- best by Park Hae Soo so far.
That fleeting look of his past vulnerability merges into his current look of truculence and then he tentatively at first but then more strongly, he gathers up the pieces of his adult self to confront his schoolyard tormentor.
A great pair of episodes
Ye Xian is coming from a crazy different physical place -- he is literally physically ill, besides being completely immature emotionally, so his interactions w/JZ, weird as some of them are, are more about emotions.
So..
in a court governed by neo-confucian morals and an emperor ruling by 'the mandate of heaven', a court official can be impeached for not keeping his house in order.
But...
if the accuser is a member of his own household and is manifestly attempting to undermine the excessive powers attributed to heads of large household, the official in his status as a 'father' can apply normal punishment, barring murder.
When...
the case for impeachment is in process, that punishment is part of the official's defense against mismanaging his household.
Although...
in this case CXQ is clearly unbalanced in his wits, and we of course on behalf of the solendid couple, hope that YY will find a clever way out of this,
all should agree...
that the rule of law is preferable to the absolute power in the private sphere of the patriarch in the imagined 'traditional' household.
This drama most dramatically opposes both -- the private household discipline vs. the public curb of the law of the court. Very, very interesting.
I am actually ok with this one episode at a time. The political struggles require attention to all the names of various characters and a lot happens in one episode'
I am enjoying JinZhao as half of a power couple. She is as fierce as ever. She looks like she is enjoying the fight.
On the other hand, Yan Yun is so crafty that I am always nervous that one of his schemes will fall apart.
I know he is the ML and this is the nouveau Cdrama where main characters no longer tragically die near the end of the show, but I still carry some residual shadowy dread from older shows.