Jennifer Tran

I love them but I couldn't keep myself absorbed in it. The "cliff hangers" weren't that interesting and it was too dramatic. Yeah, it's a drama, but this was over the top and very cliche. Their acting is great though but the storyline didn't make me marathon this.

Great cast, great characters, and a great storyline. However, I wish the producers stuck to the original 48 episodes if Choi Jin Hyuk couldn't take part in the last 4. The ending would have been different and probably would have made more sense. After all the romance producers added between Na Wang Sik and the Empress, how can they have the Empress as well as the Elder so unaffected by his death? He doesn't even have to shoot another scene, but the producers just dropped everything that his character built up in the end. And shouldn't Min Yura have been punished for the things she did as well? Not to the same extent as the others but still something. There also should have been some closure for Princess Sojin. Ari and Seo Kang Hee's story had the best closure. Everything else was a mess.

The fact that this is a mystery drama is probably the only thing keeping me going (if later episodes had been out earlier, I probably would have skipped a bunch since I'm only curious about who the culprits are). I don't love any character; the two policemen characters are decent though. Dialogue is also too repetitive; it's supposed to be a catchphrase but it's getting pretty annoying. I like Jung Yu Mi's personality irl, but her lisp is very distracting, and I can't remember if her character has done anything significantly useful.