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🙌🎉 I'm glad it helped you!

Thank you for compiling, I'd already blocked some but just added a couple more.

Yes you should start it, it's hella fun, the writing is sharp, the comedy is landing, the leads have chemistry, there's some light social commentary about how women get treated in the workplace and there's a group of foster sisters supporting each other which is unusual to see in dramas.

The reason why people are being assholes is because the FL drinks, smokes, swears, has sex, buys condoms and is obsessed with money and keeping score in her relationships. Some people (i.e. misogynists) can't handle a flawed FL with agency over her sexuality and they're freaking out.

Not only does she fuck, she demands orgasms and people are being critical because they think she's being mean to a man with erectile dysfunction which is a wild conjecture because the show never says that, what she's doing is calling out the guy's selfishness in getting off without regard to her pleasure. And that's a fantastic thing to see in a drama.

It was the same in the comments section for The Atypical Family, people calling the FL a slut and whore. The misogyny of some drama watchers is wild.

I don't get the complaints about this drama being tropey when Lovely Runner, Queen of Tears, Marry My Husband and My Sweet Mobster exist. This show isn't anywhere near the worst example of tropiness and it's playing with the tropes in a fun way.

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Annoying and relevant

Only as a friend

I feel like your explanation of the scenes is more compelling than what we were actually shown in the drama. But thank you for putting that together, you make good arguments here.

I only made it to episode 2 but there's explicit scenes in both episodes.

Considering how much money they poured into this project the visuals are very dull.

Thank you for explaining that because I completely missed the context and could not figure out why that scene was in there other than to throw in a gratuitous sex scene. I still think it's dumb but at least now I understand why it's there.

"But above all, director just want to make it like the Asian Game of Thrones 😂" YEP

Two scenes later we see him tell her to abdicate because she's in danger and he will help her escape. So the whole licking scene was completely gratuitous and made no sense. Bad, stupid writing.

The writer had Eul Pa Soo tell the King, it's bad writing

I think the writing is weak and even though the production values look expensive the visuals are kind of dreary. If you took out the sex this drama wouldn't hold up on its own as a compelling story. I do think the actors are strong, esp Jeon Jong Seo and Ji Chang Wook. But you should check it out for yourself. If you were a fan of Game of Thrones you'll likely enjoy it even though it's way less intense than GoT.

In the early 2000s there were a lot of dramas with implied sex. Dalja's Spring, My Lovely Sam Soon, Coffee Prince, I Do, I Do, Scent of a Woman, Hotel King, Reply 1997, Fated to Love You, Hogu's Love among others. But then a conservative government came into power and imposed new broadcast standards on the country. So if anything the newer dramas coming out with implied sex are a return to what was happening in dramas 10-15 years ago. The chasteness was artificially imposed. The Korean public wants to see this content.

I'm not a sageuk fan but a lot of it just felt very silly and pointless. Like the orgy scene in EP 1 that was supposedly to protect the Queen but did absolutely nothing, a few scenes later he told her to voluntarily step down and he would help her escape, that makes way more sense but then you don't get a sex scene out of it ( I'm not offended by the sex and nudity but it was just dumb)

It's kind of tropey but there's also a lot that you don't usually see in dramas. The female lead drinks, smokes, swears, is obsessed with money, has lots of sex and even buys her own condoms. The drama touches on inequality at work and how single women are discriminated against. Also there's a really funny trope subversion at the end of the second episode.

Yes it's worth watching. Hard to compare it to other dramas, it's kind of a mashup of Because This is My First Life and Work Later, Drink Now