Piao liang shu sheng

Very nice and funny. One of the top 20 cdramas of 2020.

I am a HUGE fan of the Korean original Sungkyunkwan Scandal, when I saw this one, I was put off because the main character's family home (they are supposed to be very poor and in debt to their eyeballs because of her brother's sickness), looks like a wealthier family home. Like definitely upper middle class. The sets looks like set and that was unsettling. Then the actors started really settling in to their characters, the jokes started at a faster pace and they were FUNNY! I expect my upstairs neighbors are probably ticked off at me binge watching the show and guffawing at the jokes they can't understand. Despite the rough beginning, it ended up a very solid comedy in its own right with slightly different underlying story line. I would have liked to see the last episode stretched out into two (It was very slightly abrupt like they wrapped up in 10 minutes something that should have taken 30 or so). But it was a lot of fun. I highly recommend it.

Yet another female pretending to be male outing.

The fact that she is five foot nothing - about five stone with no facial or bodily hair and no Adam's apple or musculature and runs about like a fairy doesn't impinge on her being accepted as a man. She sleeps between two men and neither notice how she avoids all physical contact. For a country whose series almost always involve menstrual situations and products they are strangely silent in this series - how would a woman manage in a building full of men with no personal spaces whatsoever? Hmm - don't ask. The situations were highly repetitive and boring and she was merely irritating and unbelievable the endless intros and outros were totally annoying. You could skip ten episodes and come back having missed nothing.

Not recommended.