My perfect drama

Honestly, this drama is everything to me. I didn't expect to find series that I will love more than Healer, my ultimate fav, but then Do you like Brahms? appear, and I was instantly hooked. The storyline is evend out perfectly, one may say it's boring, beacuse there are no sudden plot twist, but I think it's one of it's charms. I love that the story shows more of the grow of the main leads and their struggles with their musicians careers rather than focusing only on their relationship. And I think it's first when I saw in dramaland that the main female lead is stepping out of the relation because she recognised that she's not happy and thus prioritise herself and her heppines more than then toxic (at that time) relation. That how it should be in real world! What's more, every side story is beautifully closed, there are no understatement. Main leads are perfect for each others, their kissing scenes... just wowowowow! And the music and OST are just

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This is my all time favorite drama. I love everyting about it: the plot, the characters, the main paring - agh, just everything! I can't reccomend it enough to all kdrama folks out there.
My short summary :
- This drama is packed with all that good stuff: comedy, tragedy, action, romance, kickass fighting - everything that is best in drama field!
- Ji Chang Wook character makes all the ladies sway
- Young Shin is perfect hero: cute, brave, smart and unique but with flaws like every human being
- the main leads chemistry makes simple hand-touching like porn
- the plot is magnificent, the conection with every character well convey, without unnecessary chaos and overflow of information about every aspect of drama. Everything here is important and everything connect so well with each other!
- touching the subject of coruption and manipulation in media and politics
- and least but not last lets give a round of applouse for the most badass ahjumma with fire-hacker skills! (without her, they all would die)

I cannot reccoment it enough, I'm sure every drama lover will find in this series something for themselves. Just give it a try!

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I'll be honest, I was expecting something better, especially because it was the first drama of my beloved Ji Chang Wook after his returning from the enlistments. Turns out, even with all the eye-candy, swoon moments with our main lead and great acting from Chang Wook, I can't bypass the fact that this drama is just... failure, tbh.
I started watching it as soon s it came out. I dragged myself through it to the 12 ep and than, I dropped it. Just recently, I've finished it (thanks to my on-going exams and desperate need to procrastinate) and maybe it's because of long break, but I've enjoy the end much more than the past ten episode.
The thing that turned me off the most at the beginning was very VERY poor editing work. The passes from one scene to another in most cases were too rush, not smooth enough, they were lacking stages that could show for example how the heros came from one place to another, how they react to some situation. Instead it was like: one scene with phone call, clap, another scene in some dfferent place with two people talking. Not much consistance, a lot of whiplash.
Second, the plot - after first episode I was simply bored, the race to catch a bad guy didn't particlary excited me and when whole premise was solved by 13 or 14 episode, the rest plot was being unnecessary drag out to maintain the typical 16 ep duration. And than the end was so rushed and didn't give much needed glimpse of a new life of our main leads that I was just dissapointed, and not really satisfied with the end result.
The acting wasn't really good either. I really like both of the main actors, I thing they skills are really great, but with this drama, I think they couldn't really showcase much of their acting abilities. Plus, the chemeitry was lacking that special spark and thus their relationship on screen wasn't really convincing to me.

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The King: Eternal Monarch is the most complicated drama I've ever witnessed and even after reading bunch of threads and explanations about the episodes and parallel universes, I still can't wrap my head around this story. You have to be really observant, pay attention to every little detailed and even take notes just to grasp the direction of the plot. The different universes are the main pain in this drama. Especially at the end, it became really confusing and annoying, I've never known in which universe we are now, and the attempts to understand the plot, when it's pace was so fast, took away all the joy I had.
And to be honest, the beginning was really boring, the side plot about japanese threat unnecessary (probably they put it just to maintain the typical 16 ep duration), the whiplash of Tae eul emotions gave me headaches. In first eps she is so against Lee Gon - and as she should, she didn't know him then - she's really wary of him BUT by ep 3-4 they already kiss kiss, and then bum, the love confession from TE (which was the most unemotional and driest confession I've ever watched) and whooop! after 10-11 ep we have crying and love-confessing Tae Eul almost in every ep - it's just not really believable! (I think it's because soemone noted the lack of emotions from TE side and decided to change that... but in my opinion the change was too drastic at this point of drama).
And of course, the most annoying thing this drama had - THE FREAKING PRODUCT PLACEMENT. The could tattooed all the promoted logos on the Lee Minho forehead and it would be less irritating then puting products in almost every freaking scene (WE GET IT, YOUR BBQ CHICKEN IS GOOD, STOP MAKING LEE GON EATING ONLY CHICKEN, THE POOR BOY MUST BE REALLY HATE IT AT THIS POINT).
Of course, there were some ray of sunshine - for example the scene when Lee Gon comes Tae Eul to the rescue (CHEF KISS! ICONIC!) and... basically all the scenes with Jo Eun Sub (Woo Do Hwan was the best part of this all drama, his acting was superb, and at one point, I just watched it only for his charakters).

All in all, this drama wasn't the best Kim Eun Sook work, I would much rather put it at the The Heirs level than Goblin or Descendants (it's not even clode to this two drama jewels). In short: this drama is really complicated, but not really satisfying.

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It keep me guessing about the ending from the very first episode (yes, there are some dramas that you can tell from the first episode how the plot will resolve in following parts) and I was pleasingly surprise by the happy ending (I'm sucker for those, what can I say). It's wierd, because the plot is good, the characters are well played but something was still missing. Maybe its the fact that the main leads didn't convince me in their relationship. Or maybe it's because I was looking for the moment when judge Cha will finally show some human emotions - her coldhearted behavior and stoicism were sometimes pissing me off.
The best part of this drama was probably the character of Ahn Oh Joo and how well played he was by Choi Min Soo. All the stars to this actor!
All in all, it's good drama, one of the better works in Lee Joon Gi career and for the fans of his acting I would totaly recommend to watch it.

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