@zindigo glad it worked for you at least!

@cliosservant1846 I'm sooo sorry((( Now people say Mouse will finally drop it on 26th (the nerve!). Linmon, listen, I love you, I really do, but pls, do yourself first a favor and fire whoever is responsible for handling global distribution deals of your dramas, this is not the way!

Re: dubbing: totally agree. I think it's ultimately decided by director, given multiple controversies lately when actors finished they own dubbing only to be replaced by VA last minute without being informed prior to airing. Yikes. Guess Xu Kai's accent/line delivery were not up to PD standards? Or, also possibly, he didn't have time for dubbing - man is filming non-stop from what I hear. I think we all know the guy who 100% has self-dub clause in contract, but can't be sure about anyone else as they probably don't have that much say about what's written in theirs.

Some actors might not be able to reprise their roles though

Please dramagods please

Me too! Petition for s2

I'm still dreaming about season 2 🥺

I'm mostly watching c-dramas these days!

I am so annoyed there are no subs for this episode, but what an episode it seems to have been. So Jung is under a lot of pressure, poor woman. Also, poor Jae Yeon, having a crush on such a bitchy petty girl. A mess, woof.

Same

@nessa @isagc I don't fully agree with you. Yes his possessiveness was a factor, but the real issue-for both him and the princess- was obsession, an inability to let go. Obsession is awkward in ordinary people, but in people with great power, who can do whatever they want, it is dangerous and hurtful to society.
The reason I say that it was not just possessiveness, is that Miles actually 'falls' for her before she leaves the marriage. He sees the dedicated work she puts into the peony cultivation and values it.

I think they're keeping it as two level comments only and I think it's cool @dorotka

Ooh, keeping it tight at just 8 episodes. Hopefully that means we’ll have a focused story, and it’s definitely enough for Jang Dong-yoon to work his magic! Excited for this.

But the nature of a TOD is he wouldn't survive. Even better if his orange bf were with him.

After episode 5-6, I continue to like the overly dramatized, legally implausible cases and the melodramatic personal experiences of this show. I balked a little at the sadist scarring the model. Exactly what type of sexual practices was he getting off on--biting to draw blood? whipping with a lash? I don't know that you'd need an argument of love bringing diminished capacity to say that even if you signed a permission allowing roughness, anything that brought such severe scarring was criminal sexual abuse! But at least his ex emerged with her dignity intact.

I did enjoy the way the show dealt with the kdrama trope of the guy getting drunk and waking up in woman's bed, which usually is to suggest that they had slept together without showing them actually kissing in the bed. And Min-jeong turned another trope on its head pretty quickly--the man being a "gentleman" and not taking advantage of the drunk woman--by saying she just brought him home because she couldn't leave him outside in a drunken stupor.

One final thing, this show is always a real educational experience for me, because I'm every episode I'm learning about conditions I hadn't heard of before. In the case involving the artist, it was Tetrachromacy--the ability to see more colors than average. This was enlightening, because, even though I haven't confirmed this, I believe I have tetratropomacy, the ability to appreciate more tropes than the average kdrama viewer.

I love Lee Min Jae too! 😊🥰
And the character he is playing, with that cute accent.
I would like to see him more.

@nessa
Totally agree with you. Miles Wei's character never was in love with Mu Dan, but he was extremely possesive. He started to "want her" immediately after she became independent in the first season.

I agree if you only caught part of the drama you could have mistook the focus of some key scenes and walked away with completely the wrong impression😂

Well, I wouldn't say it's their ages. It just felt less charming. Maybe it's because their scenes felt so slapsticky, and then the bad wig didn't help at all. I loved Uhm Jung-hwa in Doctor Cha so here's hoping my mind will change in future eps.

You know, @vienibenmio I have to disagree with you based on my viewing of the first episode. (Where I would have agreed with you in a similar scenario was in the drama last fall, Love Your Enemy, where the actors playing the younger leads had so much more chemistry than the older ones.)

Also, I like Uhm Jung Hwa, who is 56 but hasn't been consigned to just playing Mom's and Grandma's, and who is a pretty good comic actress. I thought her assumption that everyone would know her was pretty funny, especially when she removed her glasses and batted her eyes at the ML. She does have to lose that wig and the weird blush makeup, though--I hope that's not a permanent part of her character!

(I wonder if my being considerably older than you or the other commentators might be influencing my perspective--I appreciate a potential romance between 50-somethings, and I also daily experience the shock of looking into the mirror and seeing how much I've aged!)

I usually don't comment on dramas in progress, but WHAT IS UP with the most recent journey in Japan? It's the first act of a horror film. We have the young woman out of her element being essentially stalked by this weird, older scammer lady and the whole thing gives me the willies. What a weird plotline for a healing drama.