Omo! It's here!!! No can wait for Mystery Queen 2 :D

Yoon Shi Yoon 😮💓
Mystery queen 2😏

They're both a must-watch. Am blessed 🙌

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Mystery Queen 2 IS HERE... and i am SOOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED........
just 2 more days to go.....*and i cant wait now*

Apparently I need to watch Mystery Queen. Everyone seems to love it!

Excited about Yoon Shi-yoon being back but I’ll wait and see what the reviews are like before diving into Grand Prince, I think.

Why can't Park Eun-bin who totally rocks in sageuk be this lucky?

I finished Mystery Queen last week and absolutely loved it. However, if I had finished it without knowing the second season was coming I would have been very very angry with the way it ended.

Looking forward to the bickering. Bickering reluctant pairs are my thing.

That's make me so happy, and I can't wait to see the scene from which the Queen of Mystery picture is taken (it cannot be their real wedding so... is it an act? are they on a mission?).
Also, I will watch and love Yoon Shi Yoon in whatever he does... I do hope I don't have to cringe from the leading lady though (finger crossed!). Let Yoon Shi Yoon's mane of gloring and sparkling eyes slay me one more time!

OMG Mystery Queen 2 is already here!? I thought it would be another couple months away for some reason. YAY! I loved the first season.

I love Yoon Shi-yoon and Joo Sang-Wook, but in my opinion Jin Se-Yun is one of the worst actresses out there. Also, seems like the whole royalty-fighting-over-one-woman-historical is so overdone now. Will probably pass on this one.

Yay, Mystery Queen 2 is finally here and it’s the perfect addition to my weekly schedule. I hope it will be recapped. <3
Mon-Tues = Radio Romance
Wed-Thurs = MQ2
Sat-Sun = Hwayugi

LOL, and I haven’t seen that wedding picture before! They look so adorkable. ^^

I skimmed a bunch of Grand Prince stills because Yoon Shi Yoon looked so good in them. Part of me wants to see him in a sageuk role, but then the rest of the story/actors are not captivating.

>> Grand Prince Suyang and his younger brother Grand Prince Anpyeong as its central motif, and reimagines their battle for the throne as being deeply intertwined with their love for the same woman.

I am watching Princess’s man right now, and I have to say, the idea of watching this new but the same time identical story about murders from fathers' youth sounds to me veeery strange.

Definitely going to check out "Mystery Queen" season 2, but I'm still not sold on "Grand Prince", not because I don't love Dong Gu oppa enough (because oh gosh, my hearteu EVERY SINGLE TIME he portrays a sad and tragic character T.T Because he's so good ~!!!) but my lukewarmness towards Jin Se Yeon is making me go "Meh ~~", but, OH THE CINEMATOGRAPHY, BECAUSE IT'S THE PD OF "PRINCESS MAN" & "JOSEON GUNMAN" *cue heart eyes.... heart eyes everywhere"

Can't wait for mystery queen as I enjoyed the first season...Is it only me but when I saw the poster of grand prince I thought Yoon shi Yoon looked like ji chang wook, I did a double take........

The "currently airing" shows FOUR premieres this weekend. Somebody must be trying to fill an Olympic-size hole in their schedules.
At least I'll have shows to check out while I'm waiting for Hwayugi subs.

Thanks for the reminder for GRAND PRINCE, GirlFriday.

I've been anticipating it since learning that Yoon Si-yoon is one of the leads. He did a fine job in MIRROR OF THE WITCH. It will be interesting to see how this drama plays out in comparison to SEVEN DAY QUEEN, which was epic. Luckily we're dealing with fictional characters, so the story will not be constrained by history.

That poster is gorgeous. Manseh, Dong-gu Daegun!

Mystery Queeeeeeen! I've been waiting since last week! KBS said it was gonna start last week but all they did was air season 1 highlights *pouts* Now that it's here I'm so anxious for it to have the same quirky charm as the first season. Please be more like Age of Youth 2 (instead of Bad Guys 2).

I hadn't heard of Grand Prince at all. And I love sageuks with fighting brother princes (There are so many of them, it's definitely a Thing). So glad you're doing the premiere watch posts! I'll be tuning in.

what about the new UEE drama?

Hopefuly that these two drama would be ending my drama slump. I really like YSY and Choi Kang Hee always look amazing in any project.

I'm so excited for Mystery Queen 2!!

I don't feel anything for Grand Prince, but I hope it does well since I really like Yoon Shi Yoon and Joo Sang Wook.

I'm ready to admit that I have some screwed-up guilty pleasure when it comes to the Bad Boy wanting the female lead who knows better. And not just bad boy, but, actually dangerous bad man. Maybe because it forces the otherwise fairly passive female lead to protect herself? Or to show strength in survival and speech rather than litteral strength in the "strong independent woman"?

It does not even have to be in the romance department. What initially drove me in "Goddess of Fire, Jung Yi" was that she was wanted by Japan, and I was hooked... until it didn't deliver.

Then Seven-Days Queen came and it met all my expectations, and EXCEEDED them. The antagonist and female lead had excellent chemistry, but you still supported her with the male lead (or, as Chae-Kyung's actress does, supports CK far away from both men). I wanted to see more of Yeonsangun and CK, the pain both of them go through as Yeonsangun turns worse and worse and CK has to realize that her brother-in-spirit is gone and is someone that is a danger to her and her family, yet she would be willing to sacrifice herself to protect them. The show had my guilty pleasure, knew it is not acceptable in the real world, knew also it is a drama, and in the end had a balance that suited me just fine.

And now we get Grand Prince, and I'm lucky because I don't know the actress so I don't care about her acting yet. People are worried that the story will be almost the same as Seven-Days Queen, and I am too. At the same time, I'm kind of hoping for a different take of the story, like have the female lead actually go with the mane of glory, and see how they would go with that. Keeping in mind that it is a drama and not being a serious depiction of the real world, to see if they eventually fell in love or ended in a Lima/Stockholm Syndrome, or if there would be a psychological battle between the two as the female lead tries to protect the male lead while the mane of glory wants her to love him while he knows he cares about the throne more.

Then again, perhaps I am expecting too much, or different, of the show; I want the female lead to be an active character, because I don't really care about bromance. I don't want the female character to be just an object to be argued about between the actual main characters.

But then again, Seven-Days Queen had so many opportunities to be bad yet wasn't. So here is to hoping Grand Prince will follow that.

I seriously thought that the premier for Mystery Queen: Season 2 was much further away. I haven't even finished Season 1 yet! Ahhh. I'm screwed.

I have not seen nor heard of a historical romance with a prince/king/princess/queen that ends happy, aka main couple married, ALIVE, and happy together. My mental reasoning for these unhappy endings is always because history is more often than not unhappy, so if the writers decide to stay true to the historical facts (for some unknown reason) this is going to lead to sad endings.
I'm saying all this because having fictional princes gives me a teeny tiny bit of hope that Grand Prince might, just might have a happy ending. *fingers crossed*

Eeeeeeeeekk!!! Mystery Queeeeennnnn!!! Soooo happy and excited for this showww!!!! :D

They trying to make us believe JSY can have one much less TWO guys madly in love with her when girl has the personality of a thumb? Nawh. & Don't even try to argue with me on this one. THERE WILL BE NO CHALLENGE TODAY.

Those 2 posters look stunning!!!

I'll start watching QoMs1 maybe next week.... found alot of good reviews about the drama...

Yoon shi yoon is the reason why I'm really anticipating the Grand Prince,(I really love the guy, ok!?) well Joo Sang wook is another plus factor...not so sure about the girl though?! anyway the trailers are so good and left me hanging and wanting to have more.... i just hope it has a different blend of a plot and not just our typical SANGUEK=LOVETRIANGLE story... *hopefully, wishing, and pleading to drama god* that they can pull this off well*

Donggu Fighting!!

thank goodness mystery queen is back!! ^.^
and yay for yoon shi yoon. I just realized I really like him, XD I'm prepared to watch anything with ysy in it lol

Mystery Queen Season 2 can't wait to watch it. I love Season 1. Kwon Sang Woo and Choi Kang Hee's bickering relationship and the mystery of the girl that made Kwon Sang Woo enter the detective force

I love Yoon shi Yoon so much it hurts. Weirdly though the only drama of his I’ve actually finished is hit the top! I will finish mirror of the witch one of these days

I'm super excited about the upcoming Grand Prince drama! But does it really have to be about Grand Prince Suyang though? How many dramas did we have the past about him?? I already can tell this will be tragic since we all know what happened to Grand Prince Anpyeong...... Nevertheless I'm hyped about this drama, I loved Princess' Man and Joseon Gunman so I have high expectations for this one too.

Yay for Mystery Queen 2!!

can't wait to get healed by Jin Seyeon's acting..

I wasn't sure what to expect of Grand Prince when I first heard of it. I like all the actors in it, so I would have watched it either way. Then I go ahead and look up the trailers and behind-the-scenes videos. I really like how Chosun TV (network airing Grand Prince) gets up and personal in the BTS videos. If you haven't seen them, just goooo watch watch watch! Kind of feel in love with Yoon Shi Yoon even more while watching them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuaabCYaUp4

I have actually succumbed to watching the first episode of Grand Prince, since I'm a sucker for sageuk (sans magic please), and eeeppp, it seems pretty good. So far. Heh. And that's watching with 80% English subs. (Don't get me wrong, there are heaps of sageuks out there that I dropped first episode in.) Well, the first episode seems to be a combination of a flash-forward and a flashback. I do admit I was hesitant at first because of Jin Se-yeon—I didn't half-mind her in Gaksital, believe it or not, wondering about that myself—but the sucker for sageuk in me just got suckered into watching this show.

The opening seems to give me that Princess' Man vibes, especially with the background music. The setting itself seems like those sageuks done in the early to mid-2010's—it is polished but has that sageuk feel (if you get what I mean) and not those light, airy film-like modern sageuks. Jin Se-yeon and Ryu Hyo-young also seem to hold themselves well against their male counterparts, given the little screen time that they have in the first ep.

I still have to watch the second episode to get a better feel of the story and the characters but that may well be on Tuesday (since we are ahead of time, and so they air stuff the next day, and subs are completed a day after).

I hate to be a downer, but I am definitely on the fence about the first 2 episodes of Mystery Queen 2, though I got up at 5 in the morning to watch both episodes before kocowa first look cut them off. I love these characters so much, but for some reason the whole romance got off to a strange start for me. Grand Prince is so melodramatic - maybe I need to ease back into it... this is the first historical drama I have seen any of the lead actors in - and that always gives me a major knee jerk! I am fully planning or at least hoping to fall in love with both of these dramas, once they really get under way. Fighting!

Hi Dramabeans team - will you guys be recapping Grand Prince? Please please PLEASE say you will! Thank you! :)

I will comment here my impressions until chapter 4 because I do not know if DB will make another post about Grand Prince.

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I'll start at the end of the fourth chapter: thanks Ja Hyun. Thanks for jumping, thanks for being a female character that does not wait for the two main actors to decide for her. I thought that this drama would follow the line of Q7D, but I changed my mind; although it follows the parameters of a romantic melodrama (ALL the clichés are here), the dilemmas of power and ambition are much more present. I like it.

I do not think there is anyone capable of empathizing with Lee Kang, at least I feel nauseous every time I see him. I'll just admit that he's a solid character (for now). He assumes his complexes and does not abandon his ambitions for nothing. That makes him twisted and interesting. I will continue to hate his controlling manias, I detest how he relates to everyone around him (please stop holding her by the arm) and I really hope that Ja Hyun does not try to see kindness in his despicable heart (cofcofShinChae-Kyungcofcof).

Hwi is perfect. Not only because Yoo Shin Yoo plays it. He has an aura of purity that even hurts me. I suffer because I know that his innocence will leave him until he is very hurt. Hwi lives in the shadow of other people's ambitions, and also tries to take care of his responsibilities as prince to reconcile his relatives; he intends to protect others, accepting the limits of its own title.

The precipitate romance causes me a little distrust, but the connection that they achieved as teacher-student through painting seemed beautiful to me. The dynamics between them is good. Unfortunately, lies (hiding information is a lie?) will begin to leave traces.

Just now, every time I start bored the characters manage to surprise me (a little). I am waiting for more (and for recaps).

A Modest Proposal to start a discussion thread for GRAND PRINCE at:

http://www.dramabeans.com/2017/11/yoon-shi-yoon-offered-historical-melodrama-grand-prince/

(The Premiere Watch article deals with another drama. IMHO, it would be less confusing to situate it with the casting news for Yoon Si-Yoon.)

See you there! We still have the second half of the show to fangirl and fanboy over.

Manseh, Dong-gu Daegun! 😉

I need to watch grand prince
That movie is just too sweet
Can you help upload here