Premiere Watch: Yonder, Below the Queen’s Umbrella
by missvictrix
We’ve two fascinating dramas premiering this week — one the brainchild of a famed movie director that’s getting lots of important curiosity, and the opposite an exquisite mixture of sageuk and black comedy, starring the ever-wonderful Kim Hye-soo.
Yonder
Time slot: Fridays
Broadcaster: TVING
Style: Drama, sci-fi
Episode depend: 6
Causes to look at: With a tremendous forged and a tremendous director behind it, Yonder undoubtedly offers off the sensation of being one thing completely new within the dramaverse. Yonder follows the story of a person (Shin Ha-kyun) who’s damaged over the lack of his spouse (Han Ji-min) and given an opportunity to satisfy her once more by way of a wierd place/dimension referred to as Yonder. If it seems like an artwork movie, that’s as a result of it most likely would have been precisely that a couple of years in the past, however now, OTT companies have opened up so many doorways, and we’re seeing much more “Ok-drama” productions which are mimicking the movie area by way of what they need to do and need to discover. Yonder is certainly a type of.
TL;DR: Movie director Lee Jun-ik, BIFF buzz, Shin Ha-kyun + Han Ji-min pairing, dreamy/surreal sci-fi parts
Below the Queen’s Umbrella
Time slot: Saturday-Sunday
Broadcaster: tvN
Style: Sageuk, black comedy
Episode depend: 16
Causes to look at: Kim Hye-soo is likely to be all you wanted to listen to, however this sageuk — which appears to be like clever and beautiful however guarantees to be a black comedy too — additionally stars Kim Hae-sook and Choi Gained-young. The standard battle for succession and heirship is on in Joseon, however Below the Queen’s Umbrella takes a decidedly motherly method, because the queen (Kim Hye-soo) should whip her personal sons into form so the illegitimate sons (by way of concubines) don’t usurp their place. Fairly rightly, the drama has lots of cute puppy-like boys as all of the palace princes, and there’s simply one thing concerning the considered Kim Hye-soo working round in hanbok attempting to wrangle them that makes this premise irresistible.
TL;DR: Queen Kim Hye-soo, black comedy sageuk, manufacturing high quality appears to be like attractive
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