Scarlet Heart: Ryeo

A 花より男子 (Hana Yori Dango); Meteor Garden show with political sibling rivalry

I. Story In a story with many important characters, it is important to tell it clearly, they did well in doing that. The political war between the brothers were interesting, they also picked a good period for the Korean version of a Chinese novel.

Sadly, the romantic aspect of the story was delivered poorly. It did not elicit any emotional reaction. There was no built-up. This is primarily a story about sibling rivalry gone to the political level.

II. Acting It was lacking in some areas, there were also scenes which looked like they were practicing. There were also memorable scenes, from pure laughter to serious where their acting were very...

This drama turned out to be a reverse harem in disguise. A handful of princes with varied flavors happened to meet a mentally handicapped girl to start their quest of hunting this wild female from a different timeline. All of these princes have the edgiest troubled teens behaviors with a mix of daddy/mommy issues. Out of all of them, the male lead took the edge in being the ultimate dark and mysterious bad boy, literally. Zooming out, all of this was done for a trail of pathetic emotional baits with no substance, they were begging the viewers for pity points. The moment the female lead knew about them, she approached every single one with the mentality of "I can fix him". While the princes were intentionally irrecoverably broken by the writ...

No other way to describe it other than sad. NO ONE ended up happy. Loved the chemistry of the cast, especially IU and Joon Gi. That was the basis of my rating. I believe this was supposed to have a sequel based on the ending scene. Why else torture Hae Soo with remembering, which made the ending so much worse. They should be ashamed leaving the story so morbid.