Kkot Pimyeon Dal Saenggakhago

Korean Drama " When Flowers Bloom I Think of The Moon " is a period drama with a strong female lead.

The start of the drama is quite strong and gets things fascinating for the continuation. However, the second part is generic and falls right into every period drama cliche. It also gets boring, if it wasn't for the villain that kept things thrilling and suspenseful. The romance, on the other hand, was boring, even though the leads had chemistry and their bickering at first was enjoyable.

The performances, moreover, were great by everyone in the cast.

So, overall, four and a half out of ten..

The show has its moments, but I'd say most of it is cliché/predictable, and there's 0 chemistry between the two leads. Hyeri has more chemistry with the 2nd male lead. It's also a very lighthearted comedy, which isn't really my style, but could be anyone else's, so I gave it a 7. I was excited to watch this and got bored, unfortunately.

Started this last year and couldn't get past Ep 4. Returned some 9 months later with a grim determination hung on to get to the end.

Right up lets say this is no comedy. The few comedic scenes fall flat every time.

There is no chemistry between the ML and FL, but far more expectation of some kind of sensual frisson between the second ML and the FL, which was weird.

Lots of secondary characters in fact way too much to get exactly why there were so many at least three could have been deleted from the script.

The standard trope of historical Kdramas is an uncle/grandfather/ brother of the queen trying to seize power behind the throne via the crown prince by any devious means necessary. Its way too predictable now as the bad guy is too easy to spot early on.

The action is good and the FL and the other women have great roles. Enjoyed watching that. However the ML were reduced to comedic, foolish and very brainless men. None seem to have strength and backbone. That was very unrealistic.

Btw what happened to the ML father? He always seemed to arrive late to table!

Wouldn't watch this again.

It had a strong first episode that made the drama seems promising and interesting but turns out that the first episode was its peak and the subsequent episodes were heading in a steady downward spiral to never recover after that. The story was barely functional for a full length 16-episodes drama. The writer should be embarrassed to label this as a comedy but that wasn't even the worst part that goes for the romance. The drama would have been slightly better if they were to cut out the romance without changing anything. Not only our leads were lacking in chemistry but the romantic moments were tasteless.

I actually really enjoyed this show, despite a rocky first few episodes that almost turned me off of watching. Thankfully the tone and pacing evened out rather quickly, and I became rather attached to the characters.

I loved Hyeri's character, she was smart, feisty, and brave. Seung Ho's character was pretty unlikeable at first, which was different from his other characters that I have seen and who have all been very likeable from the start. However, his character develops along the way and I grew to really like the awkward, stuffy Nam Young. The side characters were quite fun as well, and I thought Choi Won Young was particularly great as the villain; nuanced and flawed, he never over acted and was human at his core.

My only real gripe with the show is that the comedy was all over the place and sometimes poorly timed. It often stuck out at the wrong moment, or was placed back to back with a serious scene that took me as a viewer out of the experience.

However, I do think this was a good watch, with a really great ending that tied everything up without rushing or dragging out the conclusions of the characters. I would recommend giving it a try!