Le livre de notre destin

Like soap operas from my college days, this story had all the elements. A face slapped. Dramatic rescue. A cat fight between two women. Love and people are messy. General Hospital worthy entertainment. Lead characters have great chemistry. Would love to see more stories portrayed by them. Scenes meant to be funny are funny. Scenes meant to be dramatic are dramatic. Subtitles in English were spot on. Really sparked my interest in learning the Korean language. Soundtrack was good. Added Mamamoo song 'Hip' to my playlist. I don't watch reality shows so thank you for creating a binge worthy series.

At first, the short story talks about the 300-year-old curse that looks ordinary, nothing very interesting, but after watching it, there is a really fun and interesting storyline. It's a curse that makes you want to know the story behind it. Makes us want to know what happened both in the future and in the past, including incurable diseases, mysterious hands, curses, how it relates to the heroine and what happened in the past life. Above all else, Rowoon And Jo Bo Ah, who plays the lead role, has good acting skills that are different from their past works. Both of their performances are very suitable for this role. I will continue to follow until the end.

Critically speaking the series deserve 5/10. The flow of story is pretty random, story itself was weak. I liked the costume design though.

But the reason I gave it 9/10 is simply because this series was not meant for critical assessment. The whole intention was to make the audience take the back seat, turn off cynicism and just enjoy. I would say it was successful in making me feel what it intended to- Romantic!

The chemistry between Hung-Jo and Sinyu was critically lame, yet non-critically adorable, funny and cute. Actor Rowoon and Bo-ah were perfect together. Specially Rowoon showed his acting prowess. He gives brilliant yet subtle facial expressions. I watched him on "she would never know" and "the king's affection" and I hope he thinks about acting in movies, and on more serious script. He displayed a lot of potential, and can be something really big and global. Bo-ah is the the cutest, I felt like squeezing her cheeks, haha. Hope to see this pair again.

There are some issues as others point out more eloquently with the filming and the plot/continuity being a bit all over the place, but at the same time the drama is really enjoyable and has lots of nice scenes, be it funny, romantic or just beautiful. The interaction between the leads is good, it's like they have they own funny (bickering) language, and also FL is a great ar counteracting the ML in a way that it is clear that she cares for him but not is also not a pushover, makes him go through a character development. By contrast it can then seem that the FL is not going through as much character development but I think she is getting more mature in love too.

Brilliant drama with great acting all around. The red hand sequence is truly scary and Rowoon did a marvelous job portraying a man who is cursed. The cinematography and directing and the OST at the end of Episode 1 are all exceptionally made. The bickering between the main leads are funny. I think all cast come with great chemistry. Boah and Rowoon showed how comfortable they were on sets, and this translates into their acting. So far we only have two episodes. The ending of episode 2 shows how Rowoon is a great actor. The boy delivers in his acting time and time again. This time he showed more maturity and excellence. He is meant for great heights! Congratulations to the team. DWY is number 1 in 15 countries just with 1 episode airing on Netflix. That's a tremondous feat.