Red Sleeve (2021)

Exciting and beautiful

If you haven't started watching Red Sleeves, you are missing out on a wonderful historical drama! I am enjoying the storyline and the beautiful costuming and scenery. The vivid blues and magenta/pink colors add to the ambience of the scenes. The music also expresses such depth of emotion to me. The actors, both children and adult, were well cast. To me, the feelings of the characters shine through the actors' expressions and actions. Even the secondary characters are showing such depth. I am especially enjoying the banter between Court Lady Seo and Kang Tae Ho. Looking forward to more episodes!

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Memoir and not a drama

The screenplay and the drama style pretty much felt like a memoir rather than a drama. A memoir of two people, the king and his court maid. The pacing was good, for me, I didn't mind the squeezing of too much plot in last 2 episodes. As the anticipation of MC getting the girl made the pace of narration go slow but when he gets the girl, time flies by.

I really liked the king's character and how he develops and adapts over the years. As for the courtmaid, she was not your usual heroine but strong and smart. There are one or two disappointing moments I had. One, when the MC strangles the FL, maybe he was crown prince and maybe she had no authority but it was sad to see her do nothing about it. Two, she was indecisive for so long about committing to MC, maybe that part could have been explained better and not dragged on.

Story wise, sometimes it did feel what was writernim trying tell, some moments were there just for filler and scene building. But I'm not complaining because this was good story which didn't sugarcoat the king and courtmaid's love and their consequences.

Overall, sometimes bitter and sometimes sweet but that's the way with life too, isn't?

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Radiant with elegance

When watching saeguk, has I mention in my similar review with this genre, very important to get hooked at the first episode. And this drama intriguing since the start. A wonderful overture.

Music score is beautifully weaved in each scene as dialogue fluently acted. The actors : child and adult, both deliver fantastic rendition of storyline. You can sense joy, heartbreak, tears and sorrow so intense.
This drama is a fairytale which crosses the boundaries of courtship.

Production this flawless makes you looking forward each episodes with excitements. It is fresh and breezy. Delightful almost like something new but old.

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watching this was my biggest mistake

It was my biggest best mistake ever. I can't stop crying but this drama broke me in the best way possible. Wow... I'm actually so fucking stunned.
i never write reviews but I had to for this one. No drama has ever made me hate and love the world so much before. The acting was insane, the plot was hooking, and most of all, it was so sickly real. It all felt so damn real and it still does to this moment. Everybody was so sick for making this drama. I do think that Sung Deok Im could have communitcated better, it would have spared me and our dear king a lot of heartbreak, but nobody could have done the role better than her actress, truly.

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An ending that disappointed me...

DeokSan's story was beautiful, emotional and exciting until episode 16. Why did they make an episode 17? This drama so touched my heart. I thought it would become one of my favorites but the ending spoiled my feelings.

I am extremely disappointed with this ending. San suffered so much in life, did it take so many years to get Deok Im as part of your family, for in the end their son, she and he died? Really? I wasted my time for nothing.

The truth is that I started this drama not knowing that it was inspired by a real story and that story didn't have a happy ending. But I still think: why not give the drama a happy ending when in real life they couldn't have a happy ending? That's why I've been so disappointed

And another detail that disappointed me was that Deok Im died without telling San the love she felt for him.

That final scene was not a happy ending. It was them getting back together after they both died.

It really was a great way to start my 2022: a drama with a tragic, sad and disappointing ending. (This line contains irony)

Although the end of the story didn't please me, I can't help praising everyone's performance, especially Junho and Seyoung, the cinematography, the OSTs. Everything was incredibly wonderful.

*Before they say that the actual story that the drama was inspired by had this ending, that's not to say that they need to do exactly the same thing in the drama.

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The Red Sleeve (2021) - one of the best dramas I watched this year. Maybe this year is the year of historical dramas because I really enjoyed this drama. Though at first I felt weirded out with the effects and I think it was fast paced in the first episodes but as it goes, it becomes better. I like that the chilhood parts was not drag out too much.

What I really like the most is that it talks about Deok-Im the female lead rather than the king which with other dramas, it's always the king who is the center of the story especially historical dramas. I really like Deok-Im as a character and the friendship between the court ladies is really really well portrayed.

I also like that the storyline really does connect with how history is stated but then also has given a chance to the watchers to have their own interpretation of the ending. I really cried a lot watching this drama. Recommended.

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Don’t Expect Historical Romance

Want to preface and say this was my first historical drama, so maybe it’s on me for expecting satisfying romance. I knew they have a tendency to be tragic, but I wasn’t ready.

I came into this for Lee Junho because I watched King the Land and he’s a cutie patootie.

Notes:
PREPARE FOR THE SLOWEST, MOST FRUSTRATING BURN OF YOUR LIFE, WITH NOT EVEN SATISFYING PAYOFF.

The good:
- Acting: the characters didn’t feel shallow, and the villains made me want to strangle them, so I know they did their job. As I said, the ML carried the relationship with his acting

The wack:
- The FL’s pride: she had me yelling at my screen I was so frustrated by her. JUST SAY YOU LOVE HIM & STOP PUSHING HIM AWAY. I get her inner struggle, but literally (spoiler) on her DEATH BED she STILL couldn’t say “I love you.”

- The ending: save yourself the trauma and live in blissful ignorance by ending it on episode 16. I was in physical pain watching the last episode. Their child dies, she dies, he’s miserable, etc.

I still get pissed off when I think about what this show did to me.

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Amazing acting and chemistry

This was a well-written story and the acting was amazing. The only reason I did not give this a 10/10 is because of the ending. I didn't like how in her 'heaven' she didn't get to meet her friends like she promised. She spent most of her life devoted to the King and had to spend her afterlife that way too which to me was sad especially because she asked him not to 'find her' again. For most people, this won't be an issue or something that made them sad as them being together in the afterlife is an ideal ending but for me it was sad because it signified her never being able to have the freedom she truly desired. Anyways, this is a great watch.

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This is after all, my own take after watching the drama.

Basically the first part of this drama is excellent.
The actor are amazing and the action is well mixed with other moments so you never get bored.

Now the second part, I dislike how they throw away in 5 minutes at least 2 plot points that were really interesting.

But Ok, maybe they needed more episodes to solve the final plot point which is, after refusing to become the royal concubine for ages, why did Duk Im say yes?

The second part is not as good, as it turns grimmer and grimmer. But it presents a very modern idea that I did not expect to find in a historical drama: power imbalance will never lead to love.
Duk Im has to let go of who she is, and what she believes, and therefore she becomes unhappy. So for almost all of the last part, Duk Im as a character is a melancholic, except for a few happy moments, queen.

The drama takes a really brave moment deciding not to give them a happy ever after, but a "I loved you, but I should have loved myself more". The writers didn't let Duk Im relent, she, until the end, was clear. She may have loved San, but she wasn't happy.

And then we arrive to one thing I really didn't like, what I want to call "The producers ending". The ending for me kind of contradicts the whole tone the drama took.
I would have loved it more if at the end we are transported to the first time they both meet in the palace grounds or somewhere else, but when San is about to call her, he remembers her last words, and she lets her walk away. I think this would have shown a better character evolution of San that the ending of this drama.

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if i wanted this much emotional hurt, i would call up my mother

I wanted to like this show.

I really really did. And part of me does, the part that is trying to separate my own personal feelings from the objective opinion i hold towards this show.

I'm going to just dive right in here to my objective opinion regarding the show.

OBJECTIVE OPINION:
It's a good show, nay a GREAT show even. I love sageuks and it takes a lot for me to not like a sageuk. This show did have me under the impression that it would be a rom-com-dram, but the comedy was dropped pretty quickly after the first 2-3 episodes. Not a problem, just an observation. i would much rather they drop the comedy than to try and keep it up when the tone of the show has completely changed.

The show does not hold back on its characters and it really hammers in the idea: a good king does not make a good man. Yi San is proud, he is arrogant and he is stubborn. Born to privilege and with it coming certain obligations, Yi San is not under any impressions that he wouldn't make a good king. He has good intentions, and you know his actions stem from a good place within his heart, but time goes on and you think: how can a man be a good leader if he's not a good man? Perhaps the two are not so interconnected as one would think, but you see YS as a man who wants to help the people, but he is selfish, he is greedy and wanting and perhaps it is as a result of his upbringing - denied a father, abandoned by a grandmother, all but ignored by a mother and abused by a grandfather, there is little love in his life and he would be starved for it if he knew what it tasted like.

Enter stage left: Deok-im.

I loved the plotline of her not knowing he is actually the crown prince and was very disappointed when they abandoned that very early into the show because it would have been a way to establish a foundation for friendship the way Love in the Moonlight had. But she has this information pretty early so whatever was placed down as a foundation for friendship is too weak to withstand the weight of knowing so it cracks and crumbles to nothing. Where Deok-im used to call him out and stand up to Yi San, now she is meek and obedient like all other palace maids. She does not talk back, she does not stand up to him or call him out on his behaviour. She exists only to serve and she does so because there's nothing else in her life she can control.

And this is what drives Deok-im: she will control whatever she can, what no one else can, be it her heart or her thoughts or the way she reads and writes, they will not take these from her. She will obey in every other single aspect of her life, but she will control what little she can because if she can't, then she may as well not even be alive. But as time goes on, that list of what she can control grows smaller and smaller until there is nothing else left except her heart because YS wants every single part of her, parts of her Deok-im cannot bear to part with.

Deok-im is the mirror image of almost every young girl in the world at this time: she is subject to the control of others. She cannot marry because she serves the royal family, her body doesn't even belong to her as court ladies all belong to the king, she cannot leave the palace whenever she wants, and she cannot even speak her mind for fear of punishment or death. But the one thing Deok-im can control is her feelings and she will always control her heart even if it means hurting herself or others. She calls it a small act of rebellion, to never tell YS she loves him in return even knowing that it hurts him, even knowing that it hurts her. Because YS has effectively taken all other aspects of freedom from her - his love is suffocating and he doesn't see it. He is unable to understand DI and why she does not want to be with him, he believes that her choosing her freedom over him means she does not love him at all, not seeing it just means she cannot give up herself to give to him.

Despite this, YS still makes her give every part of herself to him and he selfishly holds onto her even after her death. His love is shown as possessive, as controlling and greedy and smothering - he wants DI all to himself, to deny her to even be free because to be free means to not be with him.

I put off watching the last episode for a long time and it was like a bitter pill watching it. I don't even think i can say it was bitter sweet, nor can I say that it made me feel that the emotional constipation was worth all these episodes.

Which leads us into:

PERSONAL OPINION:
I didn't like it. I really didn't like it. I normally don't care about shows being, how you say, emotionally nihilistic but this show really took the cake. As I said, the show completely abandoned the comedy in favour of the more serious tone which I commented on being a good choice, but now we're left with constant plotting and scheming and emotional conflicts left, right and centre. It's exhausting and frustrating, I don't even have the energy to explain it.

The romance I felt was poorly executed because they did not take advantage of the plotline of DI not knowing YS was the crown prince. They should have held onto it a bit longer to establish a realistic friendship because what we were left with was not a friendship - it was a servant obeying the whims of a master and that master desperately trying to chase after that earlier friendship they had but knowing it was gone. I could never fathom WHY DI fell in love with YS; he wasn't funny, he wasn't kind, he wasn't exactly oozing with charisma. He certainly wasn't boring, that's not what I'm saying at all, but how he acted towards her made him just... there wasn't nothing to like about him. It's even shown that she still sees him as the man he was before she found out he was the crown prince, and perhaps she continues to hold onto that because the real YS is unlikeable at best, and detestable at worst.

At least on YS's end it's evident why he loves DI so much, even if he portrays it poorly. Because YS is a great Crown Prince and becomes a greater King. He's just not a good man to DI. He's a selfish lover and he dismisses her own agency because he wants her all to himself, he is physically incapable of understanding why she cannot love or be with him and ultimately the only reason they do end up together is because he gives her a harsh ultimatum.

Deok-im just felt like a side character in her own story most of the time. Maybe it's to reflect the fact she isn't even the main character in her own life, let alone a side character in the lives of others. But it seems that even despite wanting to live as herself and have freedom, every single thing she does is for the Crown Prince. Every major action is done to aid the Crown Prince, the only thing she really does for herself is deny saying that she loves him.

God, and let's talk about that shall we? Because as I said, I really could not buy that DI loved YS, like at all. There were times i even doubted she did until another character was like "you love him, don't you?" and she would nod and say yes but I would be sitting there like "??? You do?? Since, uh, when?" The best I can describe DI is that she is passive, she doesn't go and kick ass or cross dress or get up to shenanigans. She just doesn't really do much besides help the Crown Prince and... well that's it. It feels as if she exists only for him and it feeds into YS's feeling that he deserves her, that he almost /owns/ her.

And by all intents and purposes, he did own DI. But he never could own her completely. And I can't help but think: would he have felt that he needed to resort to force if DI had simply tried to explain to him her feelings? Because there is NO communication between these two. Perhaps it's the show trying to say "ohhh look he loves her so much he's desperate to have her in any way he can" but it just doesn't work. DI can't even articulate her feelings to the man she loves apart from one instance that I'm trying hard to recall. I believe it was her saying that she did not love him and that her life as his concubine wouldn't be happy because she would deny him his """right""" as the king and she would be sent away to live the rest of her life alone and in humiliation. But the two can't even TALK to one another about this because DI never bothers to corrects YS's assumptions about her feelings, thus leaving YS to believe he's right and he just bulldozes over DI with his assumptions.

There's no common ground, there's no equality. YS can take whatever he wants from DI and she is helpless to stop it. DI's love for him feels shallow and at time non-existent and for half of the show, i genuinely thought she didn't have any feelings for him at all.

FINAL THOUGHTS:
I trudged through 17 episodes and I came out feeling absolutely nothing. I didn't cry at the ending because I knew the show has based on history. I didn't laugh or cry for like the last 10 episodes at all. The show was exhausting, that's the only way to put it - it would have been better if it abandoned the romance altogether because it was the source for all of my frustration. There are times the romance felt forced or out of place, and it's no fault on the actors, they did the best they could with what they had.

It really felt like the show almost forgot about the romance for the first half of the show and then realised they had another 5 episodes with no bad guys or plotting so they needed something to keep the show moving along, in that the romance in the beginning existed as plot for the second half of the show but because they were too focused on the first half of the show, they forgot about the romance until they needed it.

All I can think of to round this up is: Scarlet Heart did the tragic romance better and if that is what you're looking for, pick that show instead of this one instead.

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this nearly destroyed my mental health ?

In Korea during the second half of the 1700s, Yi San is an aloof and perfection-loving young prince. His father’s killing haunts him, although it leaves him in the position to take the throne once his grandfather – the cruel and ruthless current king responsible for Yi San’s father’s death – dies. He has resolved to become a benevolent monarch who will reform the law when he eventually takes the throne, but the way his father was killed has scarred him emotionally.

At court, he meets a young woman named Sung Deok Im. Yi San falls in love with her and tries to convince her to become his official concubine. But Sung Deok Im is strong-willed and free-spirited. She is also intelligent enough to understand that becoming a royal consort to the future king is a prestigious role, but one that would restrict her freedom and likely bring her little in the way of joy. But Yi San’s love for Sung Deok Im is true, and she starts to understand that forming a union with him could ultimately benefit his troubled realm.

(Source: Viki)

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Le drama qu'il ne faut manquer à aucun prix !

Synopsis (nécessaire pour un peu d'Histoire)

Sung Deok Him est destinée depuis sa petite enfance à devenir dame de la cour royale. Elle va apprendre tout ce qui fait une dame du palais : lire, écrire, comment se tenir, comment parler, tous les gestes de l’étiquette. Elle est heureuse de son sort, elle est fière d’être attribuée au service du palais du Prince héritier, qu’elle devra servir jusqu'à ce qu’il soit intronisé, et alors elle sera soit renvoyée, soit attribuée au palais royal… elle n’a pas le droit de se marier, ni d’avoir des enfants, elle appartient au Roi, comme tous les serviteurs, dames de cour ou eunuques, les dames de la cour ont un statut d’esclave.
Il y a le prince héritier Yi San et ce n’est pas n’importe quel prince héritier lambda du sageuk de base. Non, c’est le petit-fils du roi régnant, Yeongjo et le fils du prince Sado, exécuté par son père quand Yi San n’était qu’un enfant de 10 ans. On a déjà croisé ce prince Sado dans Secret door, et son fils, le roi Jeongjo dans Painter of the wind, ou Sunkyungkwan scandal. Il y a deux versions : il aurait été embringué dans un complot qui aurait fait croire à une trahison, ou alors c’était un psychopathe, violant, assassinant à tout va. Le fait est que son père le fait enfermer dans un coffre à riz jusqu’à ce qu’il en meure.
Notre héros porte cette charge mentale ,pour parler comme aujourd’hui, et se trouve constamment soupçonné de devenir comme son père, sans arrêt en but à des complots visant au mieux à le détrôner, au pire à lui ôter la vie. Bref, il navigue à vue sur une mer semée d’embûches et d’écueils.
Quand Deok Kim rencontre Yi San, elle ne sait pas qui il est, et le traite donc comme n’importe quel personnage de la cour et cette erreur va permettre la création d’un lien de confiance entre eux, car le prince qui ne peut respirer sans craindre, trouve là une attention sincère et franche.


Ce que j’en ai pensé :

C’est un magnifique sageuk, un des plus beaux, dans la catégorie « sageuk historique » c’est à dire très enraciné dans l’Histoire réelle. Toute la trame historique est vraiment respectée, les scénaristes se sont donné libre cours dans l’écriture des personnages et de leurs sentiments, tout en les faisant parfaitement coïncider avec le contexte historique. C’est la première fois qu’on se penche sur la condition de ces femmes toujours là mais n’ayant pas d’existence personnelle : les dames de la Cour. Le scénariste s’est attaché à créer un magnifique type de femme en la personne de Deok Him, à la fois complètement investie dans on rôle de servante et en même temps voulant conserver la liberté qu’elle a su trouver dans cet accomplissement. Elle s’est créé un univers de complicité et d’amitié et sait qu’elle sera totalement isolée si elle devient concubine royale, elle le refusera autant qu’elle le pourra, puis finira par accepter mais en refusant d’admettre à haute voix qu’elle aime le Roi, car c’est la seule liberté qui lui reste. Et pourtant c’est bien par amour qu’elle accepte, car la c’est la perspective de ne plus jamais le revoir qui la fait céder à l’ultime demande. Jusqu’à l’ultime adieu, le Roi posera la même question : « m’as-tu jamais aimé ? » et elle répondra » serais-je ici si je ne vous avais pas aimé ? j’aurais trouvé un moyen de m’enfuir à tout prix… » Quelle force que cette femme qui maîtrise ses sentiments d’une volonté de fer !
Le Roi est l’autre personnage fascinant de l’histoire : d’abord Prince héritier, on est loin du prince romanesque habituel, c’est un personnage politique, constamment tenu en haleine par la crainte de perdre la vie, en même temps persuadé d’avoir un rôle à jouer pour son pays, investi de son rôle mais sachant qu’il y aura toujours quelqu’un pour lui refuser sa légitimité du fait de la mort infamante de son père. Il tombe amoureux de Deok Him mais plutôt que tomber, il s’élève par cet amour, qui lui donne un point d’appui et elle va lui devenir complètement essentielle. Tant qu’il est prince héritier elle est à son service et fera tout pour l’aider et le protéger, mais quand il devient Roi, elle prend du recul. Il est le Roi, il pourrait tout à fait la contraindre, personne n’y trouverait rien à redire ! Mais il sent bien qu’il y perdrait l’essentiel de son être, son estime, on le sent plusieurs fois sur le bord d’user de son pouvoir, mais la force de volonté qu’il sent en elle le retiendra jusqu’à ce que ce soit elle qui fasse le tout petit geste qui montre qu’elle va enfin accepter. Car si à nos yeux d’occidentales modernes le Roi est un égoïste profiteur, il est plutôt une exception remarquable à l’autoritarisme patriarcal de règle en Joseon.
Il est à remarquer que jamais Yi San n’oublie qui il est il se comporte toujours en Roi, même dans les moments où parlent les sentiments, il reste le Prince, ou le Roi et on ne peut qu’admirer la façon dont le scénariste a écrit son personnage, capable de décisions terribles mais capable aussi d’en souffrir et d’en être marqué . Les deux héros resteront fidèles à eux-mêmes d’un bout à l’autre du drama.
Sur les 17 épisodes, 15 sont consacrés à cette magnifique relation amoureuse (avec naturellement tout un tas d’autres histoires de complots, de sociétés secrètes, de luttes d’influences et autres intrigues de cour) mais l’épine dorsale du drama, c’est la relation entre Deok Im et Yi San.
Dans les deux derniers épisodes la relation est là aussi, mais plus en souvenir car si on regarde sur Wikipedia la vie du Roi Jeongjo, dans le chapitre épouses et descendances, on sait que ça ne va pas être heureux… mais les scénaristes se sont arrangés pour que nous pauvres téléspectatrices (teurs, s’il y en a) n’aient pas le cœur complètement brisé !
Et c’est là que j’attendais au tournant le scénariste, parce que ça n’avait pas intérêt à tomber dans la guimauve ridicule !
J’ai vu le dernier épisode et il est parfait ! Car, comme il a déjà été dit, l’essentiel est la relation entre le Roi et la Concubine royale, devenue dame Uibin. On a encore sauté quelques années, l’épisode débute par la mort du prince héritier de 3 ans, d’une maladie éruptive, et Uibin ne va pas s’en remettre. Elle va positivement s’éteindre, malgré ses efforts pour l’enfant qu’elle porte, et je dois dire que la scène de sa mort, quand elle dit au Roi qu’elle préfèrerait voir ses amies parce que lui a beaucoup de soutien mais qu’elles n’ont que son amitié, la douleur du Roi m’a littéralement percé le coeur… Et durant la seconde partie de l’épisode, à partir du jour où le Roi choisit « d’oublier » parce qu’il a son devoir de roi à accomplir, on va s’éloigner de la vie de cour des discussions entre nobles de l’opposition à Jeongjo et on va retrouver le Roi à 50 ans (ils auraient quand même pu le vieillir un peu plus qu’une petites barbiche grisonnante, mais je chipote) La scène très touchante où le second conseiller de gauche reconnaît qu’il a été un excellent roi (alors qu’il s’est constamment opposé à toutes ses décisions) m’a émue, ainsi que la même remarque d’un homme du peuple qui ne le reconnaît pas. Le Roi étant malade, je voyais une fin classique arriver, mais là les scénaristes ont eu un coup de génie ! Le Roi se réveille, comme ce jour où il avait dormi tout l’après-midi sur les genoux de sa maîtresse, jeune à nouveau, et elle lui parle comme elle l’avait fait, lui disant qu’il sera en retard… Qu’on l’attend… mais il reste… Alors ce n’est pas une rencontre dans une autre vie, c’est comme s’ils s’étaient retrouvés dans des limbes où, comme elle le dit ils vont vivre leur éternité… C’était parfait, pas de guimauve, pas de retournement ridicule et impossible, pas de happy end, seulement un habile jeu de scénario qui évite qu’on se retrouve ravagés de chagrin pendant des jours…
JunHo est éblouissant, déchirant dans le chagrin, juste dans l’autorité, sensible, il n’y a pas une seconde où il n’est pas le personnage dans son entièreté ! Il est le Roi parfait.
Le Si Young est aussi à la hauteur de ce roi étincelant, elle porte très bien ce caractère original de femme qui ne veut absolument pas ce que toutes les autres rêvent d’obtenir.
Il y a d’autres personnages passionnants, entre autre le grand-père, le vieux roi Yeongjo, emporté, torturé par le fait d’avoir dû exécuter son fils, par la peur permanente de voir chez le petit-fils des signes de la folie du père, petit-fils qu’il aime plus que tout mais qu’il surveille et soupçonne tout le temps, et là aussi, la relation des deux hommes est remarquable, entre l’amour, la peur, la violence, la mort n’est jamais très loin…
Un autre personnage intéressant et lui aussi plein d’ambiguïté, déplaisant, irritant et pitoyable pour finir, c’est le conseiller Hong, placé depuis l’enfance auprès du prince, son ami d’enfance, mais dont le prince ne saura jamais quel est son degré d’intéressement ou d’amitié réelle …Il s’est dévoué au Prince ou plutôt à la fonction, et n’a jamais vraiment compris l’homme…
Quelques autres portraits de femme aussi, la reine douairière, « grand-mère » du Prince, ou sa mère biologique, la Dame de La cour en chef, les amies de Deok Im…
Que dire de plus ? pas de longueurs, pas de flashback inutile… La musique est belle, discrète, peu de chansons très bien placées et jolies, images très belles mais on nous épargne tous les fastes habituels : mariage, couronnement, etc…
D’ailleurs, tiens ! La Reine ! On n’en parle strictement jamais !!! Au point que je me suis longtemps demandé comment ça se faisait que personne ne parlait de le marier, plutôt que lui trouver une concubine ! On apprend incidemment son existence au milieu de l’épisode 16, je crois… quand le Roi estime nécessaire d’aller la voir…Alors, là, quand même, je sais que c’est Deok Im l’héroïne, mais il semble qu’on aurait pu au moins mentionner le mariage du Roi, ne serait-ce que par une phrase !
Au niveau invraisemblance à part le sauvetage bizarre de la vieille dame de la cour sortie de son cachot on ne sait comment je n’en ai pas vu d’autres…
Je remarque aussi l’effacement total de ce qui a fait surnommer Jeongjo le champion de l’amour filial, la construction de la ville de Suwon, sa forteresse surnommée « forteresse de l’amour filial », le tombeau son père, et son souci constant de le réhabiliter en tant que roi.
ça n’a pas d’importance, on a sauté de nombreuses années après la mort de Uibin, donc tout ce qui concernait la vie royale ne nous concernait plus…

En conclusion, c’est vraiment un drama superbe par la magnifique écriture des personnages et des dialogues, par le souci constant de respecter l’Histoire (en sachant très bien ne pas s’encombrer de détails) Encore une fois il faut voir JunHo incarner ce Roi, il est positivement habité par le personnage… Il est magnifiquement dirigé, entouré, soutenu et l’ensemble est inoubliable !

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