Nimmerland
Germany
This review may contain spoilers
What a wasted opportunity, saved by great actors
I loved the premise of the show and even hearing it will only have 8 episodes I was still very hopeful. It may not be a lot and 10 minutes are definitely not a lot per episode but with the right writers it could have still turned out amazing.
MAIN CHARACTERS:
Three in total. They are all kind of... empty as characters. I know the runtime is short but apart from knowing Eunho is mouthy and likes painting, Heon likes painting and is friendly and Geum wants to protect Heon we don't really learn a lot about each of them. Who are they?
They tried with Eunho in the beginning but then kind of stopped after he got to the main place.
We also hear a lot from other characters about how great Heon is as a prince for example, but never really SEE it in the drama except when he is being friendly to Eunho. Just one or two scenes would have helped and made is clear from the get go what kind of person he is.
The actors themselves are great tho and it's obvious they're trying their absolute best to bring the lines to life.
TECHNICAL STUFF:
The camerawork is fine, nothing super special but also not bad. It's solid.
The colours are very pretty, nothing to complain.
The music was nice, also nothing super special but sweet and calm and helped a lot of scenes.
STORYLINE: (I'll try my best not to spoil anything)
The first two episodes were good! It looked like it would be filled with some tension and action and it got me so excited!
The rest wasn't so action filled though. And you immediately see that in episode three. It felt a lot like everything took a ton of time, even with the 10-15 minutes (which already isn't much). A story in general seemed very nonexistend, there were small storybeats, but they never got explored.
Stuff did happen but a cohesive good story didn't happen.
They could have done so much more. I don't understand why the writers didn't. It would have been so easy! And so exciting! There are swords, a contract killer(!) and a family tragedy and jealousy within the royal family, and a gay love story literally happening in the feudal past! But they still managed to make it all boring.
The dialogue was dragging on as well. So much exposition. So little character development.
IN GENERAL:
Not horrible but could have been tons better. They had such an interesting premise and did nothing with it which is very disappointing.
Thank you for reading kind stranger, I hope you enjoyed my review :)
MAIN CHARACTERS:
Three in total. They are all kind of... empty as characters. I know the runtime is short but apart from knowing Eunho is mouthy and likes painting, Heon likes painting and is friendly and Geum wants to protect Heon we don't really learn a lot about each of them. Who are they?
They tried with Eunho in the beginning but then kind of stopped after he got to the main place.
We also hear a lot from other characters about how great Heon is as a prince for example, but never really SEE it in the drama except when he is being friendly to Eunho. Just one or two scenes would have helped and made is clear from the get go what kind of person he is.
The actors themselves are great tho and it's obvious they're trying their absolute best to bring the lines to life.
TECHNICAL STUFF:
The camerawork is fine, nothing super special but also not bad. It's solid.
The colours are very pretty, nothing to complain.
The music was nice, also nothing super special but sweet and calm and helped a lot of scenes.
STORYLINE: (I'll try my best not to spoil anything)
The first two episodes were good! It looked like it would be filled with some tension and action and it got me so excited!
The rest wasn't so action filled though. And you immediately see that in episode three. It felt a lot like everything took a ton of time, even with the 10-15 minutes (which already isn't much). A story in general seemed very nonexistend, there were small storybeats, but they never got explored.
Stuff did happen but a cohesive good story didn't happen.
They could have done so much more. I don't understand why the writers didn't. It would have been so easy! And so exciting! There are swords, a contract killer(!) and a family tragedy and jealousy within the royal family, and a gay love story literally happening in the feudal past! But they still managed to make it all boring.
The dialogue was dragging on as well. So much exposition. So little character development.
IN GENERAL:
Not horrible but could have been tons better. They had such an interesting premise and did nothing with it which is very disappointing.
Thank you for reading kind stranger, I hope you enjoyed my review :)
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