I really enjoyed the final two episodes

The cancer was a great surprise. From this episode I felt the drama really getting interesting. Thanks for l your review.

I absolutely enjoyed episode 14 😊

Hope you react to “Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born”. This K-drama shows great potential to become a masterpiece.😮

I was glad I decided to watch it as it was amazing. Cast was wonderful. The two hours went quickly. I agreed the choreography was truly brilliant. Love it. I've seen the guy who plays the king in other dramas and he is always the bad guy! He plays the villain role well!

I also recommend Kundo: Age of the Rampant. which stars Kang Dong-won. The story is similar.

That wife was annoying. She was cold hearted

The movie was great. Loved the leads in this k movie.

Minha Kim was interviewed by Stephen Colbert on the Late Show two years ago when Pachinko Season One was released but I didn’t think the interview promoted Pachinko very well. I would have liked Colbert to have questioned Minha more about the series. So I definitely agree that there should be more mainstream exposure for these international shows especially the Korean, Chinese and Japanese dramas and films. He also interviewed Anna Sawai recently about her role in Shogan but very little about the actual series and only a brief mention of her role in Pachinko!! Disappointing.

In a media world where shows such as 'married at first sight', the Kardashians, and shark week are soooooo popular, the viewership for programs where story and acting are paramount just isn't there. I dont know if people want to watch shows that make them think anymore. Very sad, as many K dramas sure do engage the 'feels' and live on in your mind for a long time.

Hi Anne, I love action movies,the scene between the male lead and the Japanese General was great ,didn't like the king, overall pretty good

Lol what got me is he's seen leaving on a stolen horse in young masters blue robe....😢😅

This is epic love the action and story everything is top notch❤

Nobody likes the king

I only watched only a little bit of it. I only see the part that they burn the royal palace

Hi Anne, Probably you already know or have already been watching or probably it has been recommended to you many times already, but just in case... The Judge from Hell is great.

I'm still a bit confused as to who is Solomons parents and who is connected to who. Nevertheless, this series was very well done. Waiting for its return

I read there will be 4 seasons total.

Did not like the finale! Hopefully, waiting for a Season 2.

You are so right. The last 2 epi are annoying, to focus on the parent's story that we never mind, it's a romcon, not a familial drama with 50 epi 😅. The end is very bad

I think the ending was great! I dont know if you guys watched the drama or if you just looked for something to complain about. The ending was great and beautiful 😍 All dramas must not end with a wedding scene. Unpopular opinion: Love next door is better than Queen of tears! Nobody should cry under my comment 😂 Bye bye.

😂 😂 It was just an "okay" drama so I am not even mad at the ending. I was turned off after FL started blowing hot and cold so not surprised that she wanted to postpone the wedding. I have only one question, where did her Dad get money to spruce up the restaurant for her?, and how can he retire when they are broke.

😂😂😂stupid ending

I agree with you completely. Last 2 eps were really lame.

This series was so well done. Excellent! Love all the characters ❤

Yup! Writers ran outta juice! What became of the natatorium he was remodeling?! Lotsa dropped loose ends...ending SUCKED!

I thought it was a very boring finale. The last show was especially dull. Walking away to their new house..they didnt even show us the house! 😂 The last episode was so boring i would have been better off not watching it

Oh you are sooo right!! I fast forwarded most of the episode. And, they should not hire the costume designer on anything ever again.....

Great review as always Anne. I haven’t read the novel so I am bracing myself. I read somewhere there are a Season 3 and 4 but don’t quote me because it hasn’t been confirmed. I love the characters!

Totally agree about the lame ending. I felt the last few episodes were indeed ‘fluff’ (I fast forward a few scenes) but I did love, as a lady of same age group as these girls, the Lavender Girls dresses at the marriage vow renewal! I am so amused at your disappointment in seeing this side of you 😂😂😂 which is mirroring my thoughts as well. I have to disagree about it being the worst ending- I have seen just as many disappointing endings in quite a number of k, c and j dramas (especially when 16 or more episodes-don’t get me started!!!!😂😂😂)! I always love a wedding (and even seeing the couple with a family in the future!) at the end and did miss not having one for this series!

I started watching inconsistently last weekend. I finally started episode 14. After watching your review and reading all the comments, I'm going to watch 14 and call it quits. Lol.

Yeah ! I m really disappointed the last ep

Anne, I totally agree…what a disaster of an ending for a Rom Com. I feel cheated!! It just seems somehow more and more K-drama Rom Coms don’t end with a wedding. What’s up with that??? The audience is here for the fluffy gooie love… a happy ending and a wedding. It’s easy as A,B,C…why don’t these writers get it!!!

Hi Anne, I agree the ending really didn't make sense & I also didn't understand why they tried to force a love story on the brother with the girl at the gym at the very end of the story& he didn't even pick up that the girl was interested in him, but I have noticed several asian dramas where you expected the main characters to get married and instead ended up being a couple of the supporting cast instead, disappointing,take care❤

Exactly. This should have ended at ep 12. The rest was cringe-worthy fluff. I fast-forwarded most of the last two episodes. Feel like cleansing my palate with DP, DP2, Prison Playbook and Snowdrop - where Jung Hae-In's acting abilities are truly showcased.

I love your review, we are always on the same page!

Lots of these Kdramas don't know hot to end it. Writers block.

i agree I'm so disapointed. HATED THE ENDING!!! From the writer of Hometown Cha Cha Cha? What? I liked that ending. Boooooo

Lol, again, you're ahead of me, I agree with you. I think their bujet was cut, also I think it's a thing in keep movie to leave report endings incomplete. I have noticed it a lot, which I hate ❤

When they did the ten month time jump I thought it was going to lead up to a double wedding but like you said the last four episodes were just too sugar sweet, it should have been a twelve episode drama. I finished GyeongSeong Creature 2, only seven episodes but there were so many plot points that weren't explained that they shouldn't have even released it and to top it off the cliff hanger implies a third season, no thank you. It doesn't look like there are any new dramas coming out until after the first of the year outside of Squid Game 2 in December.

WuT?!?! 😂Thst has got to be one of the WORST endings!! The “wedding” we got were his parents renewal vows?!?! 😂😂😂

OMO! The mother's are going to look beautiful in their traditional Hanbok wedding attire! YaY! Happy ending! NEXT...

Hi Ms Ann!I read the book and don’t want to spoil it but it’s sad and that’s why we don’t see Noa anywhere fast forward in the future unless they changed the story line.

FL blows hot and cold. Can't believe that she said no to his proposal. That was such a downer for him and me. I would not pursue anymore as she has proven to be unreliable. Isn't it normal to share your worries with the one that you love? I don't get it.

The shiw was awesome,i loved season 1 , it took forever for season 2 to come, but awesome work , great actors, interesting storyline, however I was super disappointed by Zinle's death, and also by Don Bhengus death! Bhengus wife is such a great actress,she comands the scenes, i cant imagine season two without Donnand Zinle: Phila did a great job too! His final confession,that was a shock! Thanks for review

Pretty good drama. Some good subtext about paving your own path. I’m here for the fluff due to everything going on in the world.

You're ahead of me again, m,lol, but I agree with you I will come back after watching it ❤

I am loving the fluff! I predict that Seok-ryu will take over her dad's restaurant. I give you credit for watching Gyeong Seong Creature. The first season was awful! Thanks for letting us know it hasn't gotten any better! I am looking forward to a happy ending for Love Next Door. Fluffy is fine!!!

I think my Americanism is showing but we have three families in this story who all have thirtysomething children still living at home, I'd be doing everything in my power to get them married off and out of my house. And, the parents aren't that old, don't need somebody to take care of them and should be living their own lives. In this drama and in Romance in the House we have a plot point in which we think someone is someone else's father and it turns out they are not, I wonder if this is going to be a new troupe. These two episodes were light and fluffy and were just what was needed to offset all the bad news in the real world. I started Gyeongseong, too but only the first episode so I will try a few more. Finished The Frog and it was OK, a little violent.

Enjoying your reviews. Also wonder about what will happen to Noa. Dislike that Hansu has such a dark side and his hold over Chang-ho. Am watching Shogan. Anna Sawai well deserved the Emmy. Also want to add that my family and I had a vacation in Japan last July and we spent 4 days in Osaka so watching these two series added further interest due to the setting (although I read much of Shogun was filmed in Vancouver) albeit different eras.