itwillneverbefar

It's bittersweet and open, but not unhappy

I really liked her in secret love affair and her and YAI had really amazing chemistry despite the 20+ year age gap (helped in a huge part by YAI's incredible acting as well). I haven't seen much of Steve Noh but I like his acting in Perfect Crown and I'm sure he must have impressed them to be cast opposite such a veteran actress. It will be interesting to explore a complicated and taboo relationship like this, esp cause the writer's have a good track record.

Or like put it in the safe with the freaking edict, why is it just chillin on his bedside table?!?

That scene was sooo romantic. One of my favs in the show.

He is ungodly levels of attractive, sometimes I get distracted in scenes analyzing his face or form and being like "how does he have no flaws whatsoever? How?"

This relationship feels way way more mature and grounded. And Lovely Runner honestly went to crap in the second half with her constantly sacrificing herself for him and not communicating ever and that weird murder side plot. This show is was better imo.

I also like BWS's acting here better, I think he's improved (not that he was bad in LR, but this character has a lot more depth IMO).

They really are building a real love, and I like how slow the show is taking it. I-AN himself isn't trying to force her, either, while being vulnerable and honest about how he feels about her, which is just so healthy. Girl has already fallen for him she just isn't ready to admit that to herself yet.

Right?? He's just making the difference between him and I-AN more obvious, like I-AN exudes class and respect and the PM exudes toxic masculinity.

I think the show is purposefully misdirecting with that scene with her and her father. I don't think she actually murdered the king. I think she did burn down his throne room or whatever tho. If she actually killed him and the show wanted us to know that they would have shown it actually happening. And also, they showed a more positive scene of her in the past being abandoned by the king, making the viewer sympathize with her a bit. I won't defend her regardless, I think she's an awful person even if she didn't kill him directly. She's manipulative and obsessed with the power SHE gets from her son being the king, she doesn't care about her son at all as a person.

With IU, BWS and the director, this was always gonna be a pretty big show with the likelihood of being a hit, so he probably took the role more because it would give him more publicity and exposure so that he can have more options for future roles, versus him liking the character per se. I've never seen him before but I like his performance in this, he seems like a good actor, the character just is so irritating.

yeah that part is pretty obvious, like why would you just leave that contract laying around, cmon!

I still don't think Queen Mother killed the old King (Prince's brother). The show has made that event really obscure to hide what really happened., so it feels too obvious for the queen to just outright say it with so many episodes left to go. The way she worded it was that she "burned it all" but that could be interpreted in many different ways.

I suspect the King killed himself because of how trapped he felt, and she started the fire afterwards to cover up both that fact and the fact that he had abdicated to his brother.

The diff between Prince and PM is sooo glaring this ep. PM keeps trying to control Hui Ji's decisions, keeps trying to have a too-close relationship with an engaged/married woman and passive-aggressively disrespects the Prince constantly. Meanwhile I-AN doesn't say a damn thing to her even tho he's clearly jealous and doesn't like it and he goes and talks with the PM directly man to man. It's obvious why HJ never went for PM

I laughed soo hard at that part, they are both so awkward haha. And when she was happily slapping his hands and the music did a record screech, like omg we're having a romcom moment let's act cool again.

I'm loving this as of ep 4, def seated for the full run. I love shows with absurd comedy, and comedy that breaks the 4th wall and feels like they're winking at the viewer and parodying themselves, I laughed out loud a lot.

I am loving their chemistry, too, it's really hitting and on more than just a superficial level. Even though both of them are a bit rough around the edges, they both have integrity and a lot of compassion, like Yejin cares a lot about delivering truly quality products and working hard for herself and her team, and Madoori is wildly generous to those he cares about. It feels really wholesome.

idk for me it's all about the quality of the moments, and there is emotional depth with what they are both struggling with and it shows in their serious scenes together, and just a lot of fun on the lighter moments because they're both so EXTRA. Looking forward to the next eps for sure!

I actually thought the sleepwalking/sleep-calling plot was a unique way to let them get to know each other with his guard down. I haven't ever seen that before in a drama. Better than all the other usual cliches. I find it refreshing.

Sucks when you want to like a drama and just don't tho, it's disappointing, esp when you can't quite figure out why.

Only scene I wanted to FF through ngl, I just find his character cheesy and boring. Him as an actor is wasted here

Have you actually researched it, or just going off vibes? Cause it actually is documented and can happen, if you took like 2 mins to look into it

ISTG half the people here aren't even watching the show. They literally set up a place to meet halfway, they picked that spot to meet at. So he knew because... that's the exact place they decided to meet? And they showed that he had googled her the night before which is how he knew he address or neighborhood.

She's obviously sleepwalking, that's made sooo clear like multiple times if you're paying attention AT ALL. And people can actually sleepwalk for hours like this, leave their house, have conversations, etc, IRL and not have any memory, it's well documented. Esp considering she's overdosing on sleeping meds. So maybe laugh at yourself first lol