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2013started
1 people found this review helpful
Mar 5, 2015
24 of 24 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 8.5
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 6.5
Story was awesome, you will never know what will happen next and will want to watch the next episode fast...

Acting: Yes, they can definitely act... I could feel the angst, and the King's smile, will just melt your heart.

Rewatch Value: well, I won't it is just that I like watching over and over again happy and light dramas, this drama is full of heavy emotions.

I would have rated it higher IF I liked the ending. I am just a sucker of "happy" endings. So, it is worth the watch and painful too (well it was tragic...) so many tragedies in one drama...

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RoseAlozo
0 people found this review helpful
Mar 14, 2016
24 of 24 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 9.0
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 10
Rewatch Value 10
Although this drama may have been inaccurate from the historical descriptions that depicts, Lady Jang Hui Bin as a wicked concubine during those years, but it was also good that this drama was made and describe the other face of the history, as we know that during their era, it was the northern faction who rule the court and lady Hui Bin was one of their enemies at that time, actually there are some issues that lady hui bin became a political victim because lady hui bin is from the southern faction during their times, thats why it is good that they made this drama so that we will not learn or understand her story in a one sided way.

I just love all the aspects of this drama, the music was great, it was dragging and the actors portrayed their roles in the drama, we might say that king sukjong has a younger aura than lady Hui bin, maybe because lady Hui bin is actually older than the king himself..

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Dropped 17/24
nfabjoy
1 people found this review helpful
Feb 17, 2023
17 of 24 episodes seen
Dropped 0
Overall 6.5
Story 7.5
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 2.0

A fiery drama that had an identity crisis

This drama depicts a game of life and love and had such a good mix of swoony but serious.Jang Ok Jung is portrayed as King Sukjong's first love twice in all the iterations she came into his life. It doesn't get more beautiful than that. But watch them throw away such pathos.

What was initially the story of an ambitious woman who was born in the wrong time and the story of a passionate romance in a very chaste time made for an unbelievably delicious and satisfying watch. Moreover, the knowledge of the inevitable fate of these two historical characters is remarkably effective for the viewer to tune in.

Its clear to the viewer that the corrupt world they live in will eventually make them villains but not of their own making but just because they are the way they are. I thought that was so skillful of the writers to portray in the convincing manner they did in the first half but then things went awry.

Perhaps the story was too dynamic to handle because the show ended up delivering cheap makjang gimmicks from what was otherwise good pacing and fluid watching . My gripe is how thoughtful the drama was in its metaphors and then they literally threw that away . It should have watched as a political romance instead of delving into the hysterics of a makjang.

The drama literally had an identity crisis . It did not know what it was in the end .

I think I will watch Dong Yi.

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Completed
ChesterBrandon
4 people found this review helpful
Jul 17, 2013
24 of 24 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 6.0
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 10
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 6.0
Yoo Ah in & Kim Tae Hee acting was sooo GOOD & Brilliant in this Drama. But I really don't like the story.... I'm so disappointed with this drama... Waiting for Yoo Ah In & Kim Tae Hee other Drama Movie...
Yoo Ah in & Kim Tae Hee acting was sooo GOOD & Brilliant in this Drama. But I really don't like the story.... I'm so disappointed with this drama... Waiting for Yoo Ah In & Kim Tae Hee other Drama Movie...
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gumho_starlight
1 people found this review helpful
Jul 14, 2014
24 of 24 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 8.5
Story 8.5
Acting/Cast 9.5
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 2.5
This wasn't a bad drama , it was my fault because i didn't read that it was based on a historical story that has been converted into movies and dramas with different point of views.i like how the writers wanted to make it about jang hee bin and make it where "maybe she wasn't a bad person like every story made it to be".
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RiRin92
0 people found this review helpful
Mar 20, 2020
24 of 24 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 8.0
Story 8.5
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 4.5
Volevo scrivere una recensione su questo drama perché non mi pare ve ne siano altre in italiano su My Drama List e perché, secondo me, non ha ricevuto un meritato riconoscimento dagli spettatori.
Io ho trovato la serie avvincente, emozionante e capace di far prendere vita egregiamente a questi personaggi storici. La storia, quella vera, quasi sicuramente potrà essere stata diversa rispetto a quella raccontata nel drama ma la bellezza di una serie, secondo me, risiede nel riuscire a presentare una trama credibile e, grazie ad attori talentuosi, dei personaggi altrettanto verosimili.
Da questo punto di vista con Jang Ok Jung è stato fatto un egregio lavoro. Tutti i componenti del cast sono stati magnifici e sono visibilmente cresciuti nel mentre che il drama andava avanti. Kim Tae Hee, dopo i primi episodi in cui la trovavo incerta, è riuscita a catturarmi come in nessun altro suo drama e Yoo Ah In non ha bisogno nemmeno delle mie parole di lode siccome anche i muri sanno quanto sia bravo. Ma le vere protagoniste in questo drama sono le donne: la regina vedova, la regina madre, la regina In Kyung, la regina In Hyun, la concubina Choi Suk Bin, la madre di Jang Ok Jung e tutte le dame di corte. Donne forti, donne vissute in un epoca in cui forse eri costretta ad esserlo forte, donne non cattive, non buone, semplicemente umane, con i loro valori, le loro convinzioni e i loro sentimenti.
Un messaggio del drama è che a volte la vita ci mette di fronte a scelte e noi dobbiamo intraprendere una strada che non sarà mai completamente giusta o sbagliata; a fare la differenza sono le nostre motivazioni. Sono quelle che fanno la persona.
Qui la motivazione che muove le azioni della protagonista è solo una: l'amore. Un'amore indissolubile, di quello che noi donne siamo in grado di donare in maniera incondizionata.
Non voglio stare qui a dire che questo è un drama perfetto e adatto a tutti perché non è così ma secondo me, tra tanti drama storici, è uno di quelli che vale davvero la pena vedere.
Non è un drama dal finale lieto se è questo che cercate, ci tengo a dirlo; d'altronde penso lo sappiate già visto che la storia di questi personaggi è stata riproposta in più di una serie coreana.
Sicuramente è un drama che potrà insegnarvi tanto se riuscirete a leggerlo nel modo giusto.

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