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This was originally shown as 32 episodes but has been rpackaged a 16 double lngth episodes on Netflix. The bad bits : the plot is sometimes too obvious and it wraps up without much tension. The acting is iffy and the leads have little chemistry. To my mind Yeon-Seo Oh also seems a little old for the part, though she plays it well. There are some obvious plot holes and the last twwo episodes are just daft. But the direction and cinematography are very good and the attention to detail is spot on. The costumes re the best I have ever seen and the small everyday details are really well done,

I enjoyed it but I don't think it will stay in the mind long. This is a remake and I haven't seen the original so can't compare. Not a waste of time by any means but not aclassic either.

Yes, it was overly sentimental, romantic and at times sluggish, but it was entertaining and I'll take a series like the over the crap here in the USA called "A Handmaid's Tale.

🌼This show is adorable, with nearly every moment enjoyable. Like Bridgerton, they sometimes wink at historical seriousness and just go for a fun story.

🌿Visually, MSG is a treat. The sets, filming, and costumes are gorgeous. Its budget is clearly more than many historical dramas with its sophisticated fight scenes and costume after gorgeous silk costume.

🌷The story features Princess Hyemyung (Hye) and scholar, Gyeon Woo (Gye). Back in time, we see Hye's mother, the queen, dethroned to open the show. Though assassins were sent to kill her, she was aided in escape and gave birth to Hye's brother, who was returned to the palace. The new queen is backed by the conspirators, and while Hye doesn't know /that/, she knows she hates the new queen. This explains why she grows up surly. Gye just returned from Qing (China) where he excelled. His moniker is: The Treasure of Joseon. Whatever. Hye couldn't care less.

🌳Within days (hours?) of his return home, Gye runs into Hye. She's sauced. She burps in his face, leaving him 🤢gasping in her wake. He rounds a corner and there she is again! She's picked a fight with a horseback rider who almost hurt pedestrians. Gye helps diffuse that situation. Hye turns and pukes on him. He's 😱horrified.

🌻Gye has no idea who she is. Hye isn't allowed out of the palace, afterall. He is assigned to be the prince's (soon to be crowned prince) tutor. The prince and Hye are very close, so as soon as he shows up to work, he sees what he'll be dealing with. Of course, they can't stand each other.

🌱It's good ol' plain fun to watch how Gye is thrown off by Hye. He declares her his enemy, but he can't shake her, & his pain is our gain. The device used to bring them together is her lost 💍. She demands he help her find it, or he'll be in big trouble. That premise could be improved upon, but just roll with it. That enables her to introduce Gye to fermented skate, which everybody agrees, is some of the worst😵smelling stuff on the planet. She also feeds him 🐔 feet. While a somewhat weak premise got the two there, strong stomachs brought us these fun scenes.

🌹Then it all starts. Look for the ring. Who is this wacky broad following Gye around? Gye complains to his friends that he can't shake a crazed stalker. One of them, a popular romance novelist, says they'll go from bring enemies to friends, and then to lovers. She meets his friends as Lady Hyemyung. They love her. They gamble and play a dare game at the 🏮 festival. She rocks all their worlds. Girls that are interested in Gye hate Hye, but Gye falls for Hye & she falls for him. Gye's parents want him away from that sassy princess! The king engages Hye to a prince from Qing. Gye has to stop that! And they finally tackle the mystery from the past.

💐It's tagged as a romance/comedy, but though it starts funny, this is no mere romcom. There's teary moments, intrigues and decent action as well. There's many Kdramas that start out like a romcom that go on to be very romdram. In order of importance, MSG is:

1. Romance 2. Drama (even though most of the drama comes later) 3. Comedy ~and to a lesser degree~> 4. Thriller 5. Action.

Do they have a name for a feature filled with all of that?

RomDramComThrAction? Does simply everything have to fit in a mold? No, thank you.

🍃The characters are well written and the acting is fantastic. Joo Won, as ML, Gye/Gyeon Woo, is astounding. He communicates with his eyes like few others. I loved him in this role. Go Na-eun, as Councillor King's daughter, Da-yeon, is fabulous at showing a calm (phony) demeanor while seething underneath. Yun Se-ah, as Queen Park, also gives a riveting performance. None of the performances detract from the whole. The directing is also top-notch. MSG has that lighthearted side, but it runs much deeper at times. The plot and dialogue are intelligent along with being amusing.

💠The court intrigues are done especially well. The king is weak, and he has deferred to his counselors for too long, his power mostly drained. The tension builds in the background and develops into full fledged drama in the second half of the show, when the past and present meet up. There have been forces at work against the present regime for decades.

〰🖌Notes on historical context:

📜I watched MSG before I learned to not read any reviews prior to writing my own. Whenever I read before writing, my review would either reinforce one that I read, or I would rebut it in my review. I know now that I have to keep my head clear. In this case, I had read a review stating that the actors were too old for the parts. Per their bios, they were both born in '87, so that's fair, but they both did a great job, and I wouldn't trade out Joo Won periodt. Another complaint is that the court intrigues are nonsense in MSG. I decided to do a quick fact check on that claim (Wiki). Turns out, MSG is not inaccurate at all.

📜Per Wiki, "government officials were ranked in 18 levels. For much of the dynasty, a complex system of checks and balances prevented any one section of the government from gaining overwhelming power until the 19th century when political power became concentrated in a certain family or individual.

📜While the king commanded absolute loyalty from his officials and subjects, the officials were also expected to try to guide the king to the right path. Political struggles were common between different factions of the scholar-officials. Purges frequently resulted in leading political figures being sent into exile or condemned to death. The power of the bureaucrats often eclipsed that of the central authorities, including the monarch." Therefore, rather than a valid complaint, historical accuracy can be removed from MSG's liability column.

🌾MSG was enormously popular in SK when it first aired. This led directly to making the much loved Rookie Historian (which also depicts fights within the bureaucracy) and 100 Days My Prince. Both of those dramas borrowed quite a bit from MSG. That's why the current rating confuses me, though less than 600 people have weighed in so far. Jun Suck Oh is a competent director whose works are all rated over "7" on IMDB except for this one. Two-for-two with me, he directed My First First Love(8), which is also lighthearted fun done right. I am confident the rating for MSG will climb when more people watch - as long as they give it a fair shake, meaning 2 episodes minimum. Ep1's in Kdramas are often set-up for the rest of the show, including introducing the characters as extremes of themselves. MSG is no exception. Princess Hyemyung is slop drunk when we meet her, and Gyeon Woo, though better than the sassy princess, seems 1 tick above a complete egghead. They get adorable with each other pretty quickly.

🌲Gyeon Woo is, perhaps, the primary driver of the show's appeal. Not only is Joo Won enormously talented (MSG is worth watching for him alone) but once he decides what he wants, he works towards it, step by step, one challenge at a time, while being enormously brave and clever. So much for egghead, he can fight, too! With Hye around, that's a necessary skill. So, Don't be scared off by Ep1, and don't be afraid: Gyeon Wu is the only one suffering. Just avoid thinking about fermented skate and the rest should be a stroll through the ⛲garden.

IMHO... ⚡6 🎬8 🤔6 🎭8 💓9 🦋7 🌞8 🎨8 🔚7 (due to MSS) Age 12& up.

👁📺again? Did✅+would✅

MSS: Mandatory Separation Syndrome, an overused Kdrama trope in which couples, once get get together, must separate. 'I love you! Finally, we're together! Now I'll catch you later...' Huh? Sometimes, it's a good thing - a generous 15% of the time. On top of that, most of these people are pushing 40. They ain't getting any younger. All flights appear to be grounded as well, because, even if the separation is 4 years, they never seem to visit each other in that time period.

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I Love stories in the Joseon Era, and this drama is absolutely fabulous! Wonderful story and cast. Joo Won and Oh Yeon Seo are so cute in their performance together! The humorous flair to the story really captures the dynamics of the two. Loved it!

Among historical Korean dramas this one was better than average. However, I question the directors' decision to cast a male lead who seems to be gay. Apparently, Korean drama production teams are convinced that the general viewing public (made up of a majority of women) can't distinguish between gay and straight men. It's a ridiculous assumption to make and female viewers will choose dramas with leading men who don't constantly set off their gaydar. Gyeon Woo is an interesting character but I'm not convinced that he actually desires Princess Hyemyung.

A major plot hole in the drama that I found difficult to ignore is Gyeon Woo's lousy Mandarin. He can barely enunciate the words and as a Chinese speaker I found him completely unintelligible. I had to rely on the English subtitles to understand the gibberish he was speaking. That someone who can't even pronounce basic Chinese words could possibly come in first in the Qing dynasty imperial exams is laughable. For someone to accomplish such a feat he should be quoting Li Bai and Du Fu non-stop, finding proverbs for every type of human joy and misery, and quoting the ancients constantly because he'd have an encyclopedic knowledge of the canon of classic Chinese poetry and literature that every top scholar must possess. Again, the Korean producers and directors prey on people's ignorance to deliver a subpar character. This definitely took away the believability of the drama.

Docked another star for the desk lamp on Master Gyeon's table. The Joseon dynasty ended in 1897 and electric desk lamps were not invented until the 1920s. The lighted floor lamps in the rooms at night already looked electrical (fire doesn't output a steady light), but this just made it feel like I am watching a bunch of actors running around fake sets pretending to be from the past.

Great acting, funny, happy, colorful, beautiful scenery. Romance, worth the time to watch.

A famous scholar is tasked with educating the feisty daughter of the king but ends up as her protector when a rebellion begins. An enjoyable period romantic drama with good performances from all the cast. It would have benefitted from a tighter script with less flashbacks and recaps.

I LOVED this show, it had EVERYTHING. It was light and funny at times, serious and even intriguing. It also wrapped up the lose ends of the story line. I LOVED how the two protagonist fit right into each other.

... having seen a good imdb rating for another series with the same title. After watching a few stuttering episodes I checked back on imdb and discovered my error, but the score for this isn't that bad so I decided to persevere for a few more episodes. Then the series hit its stride and drew me in.

I particularly enjoyed the character of the sassy princess, as played by Yeon-Seo Oh, who also impressed in A Korean Odyssey.

As always, Korean romances place obstacles in the way of the central couple, which they must strive to overcome. In particular something dreadful happens near the end to throw a huge spanner in the works. That attempt to maximise the romantic tension can fall foul of being over engineered or beyond credulity. However, I had no such problems with the "huge spanner" here.

I loved this series.

...because of Joo Won. It had a lighthearted theme that tried to be serious. It was funny at times but the story wasn't remarkable. I was still able to finish it. To watch it again would be impossible.

I've enjoyed Oh Yeon Seo in everything I've seen, here she plays a rebellious royal on a personal mission to learn the fate of her mother. Joo Won is an effete-seeming, Chinese-educated elite scholar destined for a distinguished position in government who has just returned home to much fanfare.

The romantic meet-cute is hilarious thanks to the deft physical humor of the oil-meet-water pair. But the resulting misunderstanding that occurs ends up with her publicly labeling him a pervert and him avoiding her as a crazed stalker. Their chemistry makes it work.

Reviews positive and negative are justified, so watch a half dozen episodes to form your own opinion about watching to the end.

It has typical features of good Kdramas, unique supporting cast/ friends, several flavors of antagonists (including mean girls in a snotty clique), real historical bases for plot lines (here, an epidemic is unique), court machinations and danger, pressures to marry or the threat of being married off, and a personal mystery at the heart of a character's rash behavior. It is true that plot developments rely on tropes. That's what happens in genre storytelling. More examples of historical series to consider: 100 Days My Prince- my favorite of all, Rookie Historian..., Secret Royal Inspector & Joy, Flower Crew. But I will be re-watching this, it's just so much fun.

So far, all the kdramas I've watched have their unique charm but use tropes and cliches. Like British cozy mysteries, that's the point after all. Wrists will be grabbed and heroines will spin to collide chest to chest with the hero, she will trip and fall into his arms, he will gently sweep loose strands of hair into place as she watches wide eyed and breathless. How well writers play with the expected adds spice but the ingredients remain the same, no? I love the genre and enjoy the many variations there are! For me, the cast makes this a fun one to watch.

It was so irritating in the last few episodes, mainly because of the poor storyline and very weak role of the lead actor!

If you are like me, and have watched a ton of Korean Historical Dramas, I know you are getting frustrated like I am. And this show is an epitome of why?

A continued TOTAL RELIANCE BY THE WRITERS to use: 1. Antagonists that can act with impunity (even in front of bystanders), spy with impunity (even in places where they would NEVER be allowed), avoid guards like they are invisible, have unkillable ninja traits, and can (worst of all) CONVINCE OTHERS (INCLUDING THE KING) TO ACT ON THE FLIMSIEST OF MADE-UP EVIDENCE, OR SOMEONE'S "WORD" WHICH EVERYONE BELIEVES AND DOES NOT EVEN TRY TO CHALLENGE IN THE LEAST.

2. Protagonists that CANNOT DO ANY OF THESE THINGS! They can't whisper without being overheard. Cannot spy or overhear conversations even when folks are shouting and throwing things. Cannot go anywhere without being tailed by obvious servants of the bad guys. And most annoyingly, HAVE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEIR ARGUMENTS DISMISSED WITHOUT EVEN A SECOND THOUGHT.

3. More damning, is that they don't even try half the time. They slog through trying to get a 100% picture even when they know folks are trying to either frame them...or kill them.

Why should you care? You say, "well that's what separates the bad and good guys!" Right?

Wrong! Half the time you can't tell the difference between them when it comes to running the country, which is all that matters. But by the writers' definition, being the "good" guys means being DUMB, BLIND, Indecisive, and so passive the bad guys get to rack up a huge body count before a series of eye-rolling convenient encounters brings about a wholly unsatisfying ending.

The high ratings for this show are obviously from fans of the actors, and for the romance. I'm giving it all FOUR stars for the romance and the princess, who is funny to watch (at times).

But the rest of it is so damn predictable and annoying.

For once, I would love a KHD to be centered around an EXTERNAL threat, rather than the constant evil minister, queen, jilted girlfriend stuff that is at the core of too many of these pieces.

I kept waiting and waiting for it to become crap, as the reviews were so bad. But honestly I can't understand who's rated this. I've watched quite a few historical kdramas, and this definitely was on par or better than most. Great characters, acting, good humour and always wanted to come back for more. I probably would give it an 8, but gave it a 9, to up the average, as 6 is just wrong. The only part of this show that I didn't like, is the name lol.

I think that, people who have a problem with strong female characters, may not like this, but not sure why they would watch a show with this name, if that's the case. Definitely gives strong independent woman, in a great way.

Definitely not the best of the period K-dramas out there but so far, it's entertaining enough. It does crack me up as there are desk lamps clearly in multiple shots, although no songs of electricity anywhere else. While only half way through the seires, I felt compelled to write this due to the lamp, I know the Joseon period spans a huge length of time, but I really feel this is set before electricity.

It just happened to be something that made me giggle, overall though the show does have some extremely entertaining secondary characters.

The book seller is a prime example, even if the princess is kind of a jerk.

It is very funny in the part, however, as it goes on it just gets stretched a lot. They rushed the last few episodes for the main plot after wasting a lot of episodes just by stretching. The main plot is about one of the evil official plotting a treason 10 years back in the show timeline which caused the queen to be dethroned. The princess wanted to find why her mother was punished and believed she was framed.

The princess gets into a romantic relationship with a scholar who she first accused of being a rapist who attempted to rape her after she saw him in a motel when she was sleeping. The scholar actually saved her from some thugs after she was drunk and vomit on her that's why he took her to a motel.

I love movies in the Joseon period. But the princess character in this series irked me. Didn't feel like it was interesting. The guy who played scholar was ok but because of the princess character, I think that totally killed the vibe. Their relationship was more comical if anything. Didn't feel a strong vibe to it. I find it boring and couldn't even finish the episode 4.

If you like Korean Joseon period drama plus romance/comedy this is not bad. The costumes and sets are good. The romance, comedy and acting is pretty good too. However, it is all very drawn out with lots of recaps, flash-backs and slow-motion moping scenes. Whether you can enjoy it or not depends on whether you like the romance and comedy or if you need the plot to make sense.

Underneath it all is a surprisingly serious plot arc with courtly conspiracy and bad guys who are willing to murder anyone who gets in their way. The first 20 minutes is pretty intense with lots of fighting and drama. This is what first hooked me actually. This conspiracy drives the whole story and offers up an excuse for the "sassy" princess behaviour. However, it would be more honest to just say she is just spoiled and impulsive and that is mostly what you get for the first half until the serious arc starts to resurface. The good guy characters are designed around romance/comedy and are not really plausible protagonists for the serious plot side which just takes random turns all the way to the end. It never really makes sense what either the good guys or bad guys are able to do or not do and why the other side doesn't see through their schemes until they suddenly do.

Okay I'm sorry but the actress that played the evil queen is absolutely the worst thing I've ever seen about Korean television. Her face.... i just can't even. Her horrible laugh and terrible acting. I think i have a high standard of Korean dramas because they're always SO good but this was just....unremarkable. At times downright terrible. I usually get so into these shows i binge them in a couple days but this took forever to end i almost didn't finish. I was waiting for the bomb to do and it just... missed the target completely. If the original was like this.. who's idea was it to do a remake?

Nothing to see here, just another failed adaptation/remake of the original My Sassy Girl to be added to the list. It ended up being a parade of tired clichés and an absolute rollercoaster of inconsistency. You have to abandon the most basic display of homosapien intellect capabilities before going into this drama. The leads were useless which made the baddies invincible and the only thing that was able to stop them was the production reaching its end. The leads' relationship was as if someone threw them together and said, "Okay, now act like you're in love!". It was one of the most unnatural displays of affection and progression which, subsequently, killed their romance, in this supposed "rom-com". How many times did the male lead roll to both sides and sighed while being doubtful of his feelings like a child being teased for liking girls?