Worst kdrama ever

This is what happens when Netflix gets involved. It revolves around money and their need to make a season 2 out of it. It was so slow paced and boring that I had to skip the endless flashbacks, slow motions and scene cuts the whole time. There is no character development and they skip over important parts pretty quickly, but drag out the unnecessary parts where the characters walk in slow motion. Also, all characters except for the one who’s getting nothing out of it, seem to be bad people. These characters are far from realistic.

The only reason I kept watching was because of Sun Oh’s good looks. I hate it and I don’t want to watch Netflix Original kdrama’s again.

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This drama shines like a black diamond

This drama is not your average K-drama with fluffy love, a rich alfa male that has some disease where the love of his life solves all his problems. No. This drama is touching, real and gives us an inside of a part of the world that most of us don't want to see.

STORY
This story revolves around an underdog Moon Gang Tae that has always been caring for his mentally disabled, autistic brother Sang Tae. Because of that, he lived his life around his brother and always put his brother before him. His brother is traumatised by the murder of their mother, but he can't cope with it which is why they always have to move around. They meet up with the beautiful Ko Mun Yeong, a writer, who suffers from antisocial personality disorder. She can't hold herself back, curses and does whatever she wants without thinking about the consequences. She wants Gang Tae to be her safety pin as well, and they both find out that they have a history together.
The story turns dark when it appears that the murderer of the mother of the Moon brothers is still alive and she leaves hints for them. Mun Yeong turns out to have a small heart as she wants to protect Gang Tae and Sang Tae, even if she has to offer up her own happiness.

Within the psychiatric hospital where Gang Tae works, we get to see glimpses of people with mental issues. Someone that is suffering from a trauma from war, someone who combats alcoholism, but also someone with dementia and multiple personality disorder. This is a part that we often don't want to see in our perfect world, and especially in Asia is a taboo. This drama gives us an inside of a reality that we need to see, and we need to try to understand these people and learn to respect these people.

MUSIC
The music is done fantastically. They made a variation on Paganini's La Campanella, and even Beethoven's Für Elise if you listen closely. It is not easy to make good variations on these classical masterpieces, but as a classical musician, I approve. The darker moments were also enhanced by the music in a superb way. They really did their best and it paid off.

ACTING
Where do I start. First I want to start with the role that hit me the most. Moon Sang Tae was portrayed by Oh Jung Se, and he totally stole the spotlight. You might know him as the loser guy No Gyu Tae from When The Camellia Blooms (watch it! It's super good!). I know several people with severe autism, and he got it down. The way he walks with his head down, his hands and excessive scratching. I couldn't believe that I knew him from another drama and that he actually isn't autistic.
Seo Ye Ji is the actress that was perfect for this role. Her yelling, obsessiveness, everything was done in a way that made me believe that this was real. The way her eyes quivered, the pain in her heart, she portrayed her character like the queen that she is.
And lastly, Kim Soo Hyun. This role was made for him. Even when I watched You Who Came from the Stars, I felt like his roles shouldn't be the alfa male, but more like the soft underdog kind of roles. And I was right. I felt bad for him, I felt sad for him and I was frustrated that he didn't put himself first.

Overall, I don't write reviews often, but this was so beautiful that I had to write one. It was so beautiful, touching, realistic, and it just hit me that our society should start accepting people who are different. We help them, and don't judge them because we might not know their full story. And, we need to tell them that it's okay to not be okay.

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Good beginning, horrible at the end

The King: Eternal Monarch was one of the most hyped dramas of this year. Lee Min Ho, Kim Go Eun en Woo Do Hwan were all superb in their acting. That's about all the nice things I can say about it.

The story started off nicely, but the character development was horrible. You didn't get attached to the characters or feel for them, they were the same from the first till the last episode.

The drama had way too many storylines that weren't finished, as if they wanted this to be a 24 episode drama but after episode 13 they got notified that it would be cut down to 16. For example: they put lots of time in for Prime minister Koo, but her character didn't develop all this time and then within 5 minutes she's out of the story. And no, she's not even dead. Why bother giving her so much screen time then??? Or bodyguard Yeong who didn't have much interaction with his counterpart, suddenly states in the last episode that he misses him? Like why would he miss him if they were in other universes in the first place? Where does this come from?
The ending of the love story isn't satisfying either, it is hinted that they will only date during the weekends until they are old. This is just so dumb in a love story. Nobody would accept only dating during the weekends for the rest of their lives, especially if you're the king of a country.
The last few episodes felt dragged out as well. We got the idea, everybody was being replaced. There is no need to show us another 10 times. Instead they could've given us some closure on the other storylines or put into character development.

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