I think this may be one of my first reviews here but this drama was SO good that it deserves my review.

i started watching it because i saw everyone was raving about it and i'm so so glad that i did. if you're onw of those people that are always afraid to watch something if the majority loves it, so go for it. you'll completely understand why we all love it so much.

from the beginning i just love love love the queen. she's different from all the queens in historical drama, they're almost always boring, let's be honest. she's just SO SO bright and so caring, loving, sincere that you can't help but love her from the get go. her personality is golden every since the beginning.

now the children: i just loveeeeed every single son of the queen, i love how they're all very distinct from each other and they have such a beautiful bond.

the bond of the family, the queen with her children is one of the highest points of the drama and i'm always a sucker for it, her love for her children and her bravery when it comes to protect them is out of this world. she's one of the best characters. and the princes, their love for each other, specially the first crown prince and seongnam's love for their brothers is what drives them forward and it's so beautiful to see.

the king was such a pleasure surprise, i also normally hate kings in historical dramas bc they're always full of themselves and never do anything to help neither the palace or the people, but he's different, he has made his mistakes (you'll see them), but he paid for them with his life, till the very end of the drama.

the villains. THIS IS SOOOOO GOOD, i'm a sucker for dramas that make me pull my hair out with rage with villains and this is one of the dramas, the highness queen (i think that's what she's called, the mother of the king) IS THE WORST PERSON ALIVE she made me angry every single chance she could, i was kinda disappointed with her ending, but it was good nonetheless.

anyway, i won't be going too much about the story itself, but every single episode left me on a cliffhanger, i couldn't help but click onto the next episode and the next and the next, till the point that i finished it in a day and now i wanna forget it all so i can re-watch it.

this is one of the best dramas i have ever watched in my life and it's not even a stretch.

they brought so many important topics in this drama, gyeoseong story was so so pure and beautifil till the end.

the photography, filming direction, writing, acting, everything in this drama from the beginning till the end is pure gold and you should watch it. you won't regret it.