After reading beanies top 10 dramas I found out “Mr queen” is one of those rare shows that many people picked it as one of their top 10 shows but I didn’t watch it.
So I thought to myself let’s  give it a try!
First of all I should say I’m not a fan of Korean comedy shows, there are too many sex jokes and toilet jokes and I don’t really laugh with these jokes, for example I managed to watch Waikiki (1 & 2) just after 3 attempts and when my husband joined me watching them, and actually he was the one who liked them and his enjoyment made me enjoy the shows too. but originally I dropped them twice before.
Anyway I started Mr queen last night and yeah… all those sex jokes was really unpleasant to me, more than that all the FL dialouges ab how much she is sad that she is not a man anymore, didn’t make me feel good at all.
And after that scene in ep 2 when she said (while being drunk) that she lost her dragon and dragon’s egg ( really kdrama?) I was done and dropped it.

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    💯 The humor in the so-called comedy shows is a bit too crass and also gross. Beanies more knowledgeable than me can better explain the meta behind the chef and his rantings but I don’t think the show intends those to be taken seriously. On the face of it, indeed it is tasteless and off-putting to put it mildly.

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    I avoid most comedy dramas for the same reasons.

    Gaus Electronics was one of the rare ones that I mostly enjoyed, and even that I wouldn’t have gone past ep 1 had it not been for the Beanies posting the kiss scene all over DB 😄

    I practically set my teeth hard all through ep 1 . It got a lot better after that. But in Mr Queen I guess the whole premise is based on those jokes?

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      Exactly,I can be patient and watch the next eps but I thought that this is gonna be the main concept and the focus of drama till the end, so I stopped watching.
      But beanies here are saying it will die soon in the story so I think maybe I give it a second chance.

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    I have not watched Mr. Queen yet but Korean humor doesn’t always work for me either.
    Sometimes it’s exactly what makes me laugh and other times is simply cringey.

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      I feel the same about comedies in general, tbh, regardless of country of origin. I really think it’s the hardest genre to pull off successfully.

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    I join your on Waikiki, I struggled through most of it because some of the jokes. just didn’t land for me. There were good bits too, but many others that were just not funny to watch (to me).

    But I did enjoy Mr. Queen. Not quite for the sex jokes (although I do get why those are in here, coming from a proudly overly flirtatious man and waking up in a female body… yes, that was a shock for his own sense of self — they do die out pretty soon in the story) but that being said, I really loved how the identity boundaries being the modern chef and the Joseon queen are getting more and more blurred out, so that it seems to me like they both (the 21st century chef and the Joseon queen) fell in love with the king and the feelings came naturally.

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      I really loved how the identity boundaries being the modern chef and the Joseon queen are getting more and more blurred out, so that it seems to me like they both (the 21st century chef and the Joseon queen) fell in love with the king and the feelings came naturally.

      Yes! I love this description. This is how I remember Mr. Queen.

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    I’ve watched Mr. Queen twice all the way through and I barely remember the sex jokes. I really don’t think they carried through the entire series as I wouldn’t have enjoyed that either.

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