King 2 Hearts

Rating: ****


Genre: Romance
Episodes: 20
Cast: Ha Ji Won, Lee Seung Ki, Lee Soon Jae, Lee Yoon Ji, Yoon Yeo Jung


SYNOPSIS:
"This drama is set in modern day where South Korea is governed by a constitutional monarchy. Lee Jae Ha is a handsome and materialistic crown prince that doesn't care about politics. He falls for Kim Hyang Ah, a North Korean special forces agent."



REVIEW:
Before I start this review, let me just confess that I have a big bias for Lee Seung Ki.  Those dimples and that look!  He never fails to make me laugh with those mischievous looks he gives.

Now that I've finished fangirling, I will continue this not so serious review.  I really enjoyed the drama to the fullest.  It wasn't really funny, and had a serious mood to it, but it kept me watching.  I think another genre that could be added would be "political", as a lot of the stuff in it has a political aspect to it.

I think, though, that there was a big problem with the writing in that every foreigner was a bad person.  There was also some very bad lines about the US, though I won't go into detail about it.  Although I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and think that it wasn't intentional, I do believe that they portrayed foreigners in a negative light, especially Americans.  It wouldn't be as bad if just one foreigner was shown in a positive light, but I don't remember seeing any character like that in this drama.  I feel that they could have been more sensitive to their audience.


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My Princess

Rating: ****.5

Genre: Romance
Episodes:16
Cast: Kim Tae Hee, Lee Soon Jae, Park Ye Jin, Ryu Soo Young, Song Seung Hun

"An ordinary college student, Lee Seol, finds out she's a princess. The grandson of Daehan Group, Park Hae Young, is put in charge of educating Seol on proper etiquette."

 Strangely addicting, cute, and funny, this drama appears to have it all.  Although I didn't really like some of the characters, I just couldn't stop watching this drama.  If it wasn't for some of the production problems, I probably would have rated it five stars.  Although there are sure to be some problems I just didn't catch, one of the main problems with this was how quick the camera angles change.  Although it isn't all the time, there were times when they would switch cameras so often that I would get a headache.  Take, for example, 22:50 - 23:10 on episode 8.  In that small 20 seconds, there are approximately 11 camera angle changes.  That is a camera change every 2 seconds.  The scene isn't even a fast scene.  In fact, it's just two people talking slowly.  It really doesn't need to skip back and forth between the two characters faces like that when the topic of the conversation isn't that important in the first place.  Even though it did have some problems, I think it is a show worth watching.