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For me Mr. Queen (2020) is far from being in my top 5 dramas – I don't even know if I think it's better or the same as the rather similar The Last Empress (2018).

Shin Hye Sun is very much A+++, but the rest of the cast felt like they were picked due to being available & affordable. Considering the rating, I also expected fewer production mistakes and plot holes.

What kind of ending would you have liked?

https://medium.com/@eligastor/korean-film-real-rieol-2017-plot-explanation-8ab1796b44af attempts to explain it.
I'm not sure I fully agree with that, but at least it makes more sense than what I watched.

It's on Netflix in Korea. Otherwise, 'sites' are not commonly legal. :)

I do believe the cyborg and the dancer were the same person.

For me it's very average. Nothing too painful, but also not much I really like about it, besides as I said the leads having good chemistry.

I think every writer has the audacity to think that they are writing the *one* show where it's okay to have seven tears-in-the-rain breakups for no reason, four sequential amnesia plots, evil step-parents preventing the leads' relationship, and about four monkeys of each gender to drag the leads into a triangle/square/hexagon. Emotional rollercoasters and dramatic cliffhangers are/were seen as necessary so people still tune in the week after?

The leads have decent chemistry. Some scenes are funny/charming.

I'm not sure what they were going for with the last 30 minutes or so but it really didn't work for me.

I'm curious how people who love Reply-likes (Reply 19xx, Prison Playbook, Hospital Playlist, ...) feel about this.

(I generally can't stand them, and Live was much better for me.)

It's not even 5% as bad as, say, Reply 1997 in that regard.

To me it seemed more like a spurt when every character suddenly started doing it, and then just as suddenly stopped doing it. Like a moon phase.

The point and message are things like:
- in Korean culture, the louder voice of outrage tends to win
- once an accuser puts a spin on things, you are unlikely to get out of it easily
- you can't convert conservatives by saying 'it works that way in other countries'
- what people ask and what they want to hear are often entirely unrelated
- "pick your battles", "there's a time and a place": distraught parents in very real fear of their child being attacked won't be receptive to a speech about free condoms; just because you are correct about a topic does not mean it is an appropriate issue to push

For me the major issue with that scene was that Ahn Jang Mi did nothing at all, as a character with more experience, more power, and full understanding of the situation.

To prevent a murder. Why is it annoying?

Maybe you should watch Memories of Murder as a contrast.

First episode, Netflix cuts out: entirely removed FL and her friend singing (45 seconds) at 21:15; replaced a few seconds of music when FL is on a rooftop at 1:01:30; replaced car stereo music when Oh Yang Chon is driving his car right after the previous scene; entirely removed a few moments of Oh Yang Chon singing into his phone at 1:04:40.

The UXN 60-fps UHDTV broadcast does not have these cuts and episode 1 seems to be complete there. (However, UXN's What's Wrong With Secretary Kim had a scene in one episode towards the end shortened, so they're not always cut-free.)

The first episode really showed some potential and really was the best, or even only good episode, but then for 70-80% of the show's runtime absolutely nothing happens: a rom-com with no 'rom' and no 'com'.

A lot of "this might work in a webcomic..." scenes.
By the end, the actual storyline is merely very spottily explained/justified.

Trigger warning: substantial triangling.

Global Netflix removal 2023-05-17
USA earlier: 2023-05-11
Korea yet earlier: 2023-05-08

Anything missing / cut on the Netflix version?

I think that's (supposed to be) a mirror.

Because she lived in the middle of nowhere before, and then moved to an expensive area of Seoul where you can't just summon a cheap apartment out of nowhere.