The King永遠的君主》開播前聲勢浩大,既是李敏鎬退伍後首套回歸的主演劇集,又是《繼承者們》、《太陽的後裔》、《孤單又燦爛的神-鬼怪》等多部人氣劇集的金銀淑的新作,加上預告片李敏鎬的白馬王子造型、跟女主角金高銀的華麗倒影邂逅場面,首播第一、二集時曾創下11.4%-11.6&的好成績,可惜其後網民開始掀起「棄劇潮」,狂數此劇不敷所望!其實以金銀淑編劇、李敏鎬、金高銀的演出,以及韓劇必備的「平行世界」場景,理應令觀眾受落,何解收視有下滑跡象,討論度不似預期?
Mind-blowing plot, superb acting, stunning visuals, heart-tugging soundtrack - this drama has it all and more. Lee Min Ho's depiction of a handsome, elegant, benevolent and scientific king is perfect, as is Kim Go Eun as a dedicated, taekwondo-master detective who wants to be brave for everyone else. I love how their relationship and chemistry developed from her initially thinking he was a crazy deluded weirdo to that heart-stopping moment when she found out he was not. The drama gets better the more it is watched. It is filled with delightful nuggets, the humor of which I missed on my first viewing, such as when she told him to "park your horse on the side road to the right" or when she carelessly tossed away his watch after he told her how much it means to him or when she sneakily took his DNA sample while he was explaining Einstein's quantum mechanics or when she told him his eyes look like those of a criminal and he stopped his explanation about parallel universe to say, "I don't know about other things, but I know my eyes are charming. I was born with deep-set eyes." Ha ha ha, an honest king, too!