Actors: Lee Dong Wook, Kim Beom, Kim So Hyeon, Hwang Hee, Kim Yong Ji, Ryu Kyung Soo

Plot

Lee Yeon gets transported into 1938 with Goo Shin Joo during the Japanese occupation in Korea to retrieve some lost treasures. He is reunited with his dead brother Rang and his childhood best friends, Hong Joo and Moo Young. Moo Young and Yeon had a falling out after Yeon killed his brother. The 1938 Lee Yeon was no where to be seen in Joseon because he was getting high and feeding his opium addiction in Manchuria (present day China).

Lee Yeon’s mission is to get back to his wife in 2023. All of them go through so many things during the month Lee Yeon was stuck in 1938.

My Review

Firstly, I would like to thank Amazon Prime for upping their kdrama game. This show has upped the ante for the mediocre kdramas currently on Prime. Firstly, why are all of the leads in this show so good looking? In this world, the women are stronger than the men. The world that I want to live in.

The first episode has a cowboy western feel. All of the cheesy lines in westerns and even the way everything was shot was just like a western. The violent sibling rivalry which ended with Yeon emotional about being with his brother again who had died in season 1.

How does everyone in this show have such conflicted relationships with each other? The complicated relationships between everyone is not too far from the truth. Yeon, Rang, Hong Joo, and Moo Young have a deep love for each other but also have their own selfish needs to fulfill. They are a huge beautiful-looking dysfunctional family.

Rang’s conflict with himself has to do with being mixed. He’s neither accepted by humans or the gumihos and always struggled with being different from everyone. Yeon was all he had but he abandoned him for opium. Due to the US military bases in Korea, there were a lot of mixed children who were treated horribly in Korea, like the Steelers MVP wide receiver Hines Ward. He was the first person I thought of when I saw Rang.

I loved the costumes in this show. Korea’s transition from the hanbok to western clothes and got to see the best of both worlds. I don’t know if this is what Korea actually looked like during the Japanese occupation but it was fantastic. My favourite outfit was Sunwoo Eun Ho’s 30s gangster suit when she shot up all of the Japanese government officials at her wedding. Played by our bad ass Canadian girl Kim Yong Ji. She changed into a different person in that outfit. Hong Joo’s dresses were on point. Watching her pull out a massive sword while wearing such fancy dresses was pretty awesome.

How does this compare to season one? I personally thought season two had way more action and the story was much more interesting than season one and the pace moved a lot faster. Don’t get it twisted, season 1 was amazing too! I love a great fantasy drama and the Korean entertainment industry is absolutely genius in how they make scary monsters so sexy and heart warming. The gumihos (Nine tailed foxes) that I read about were living eating monsters.

This is a perfect fantasy/action show in my opinion. It is hilariously funny, action packed and heart warming. I hope the rumours about a third season are true. I need a third season.

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