tvN drama Mr. Sunshine Ends With Phenomenal Reviews and Record Breaking Rating

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• Mr. Sunshine is definitely the better product compared to previous cheesy KES dramas. Read that the plot thickened and heightened towards the end but I really didn't have the energy and patience to wait for the momentum to pick up (somewhere from episode 16 onwards). This drama certainly is not for everyone. If it happened to be that damn good, well too bad that the slow pacing and nonsensical bits in the first half really shooed away impatience viewers.

  • Mr. Sunshine moved me in ways that still reverberate and raised questions for me that I still ponder. I was born and raised in New York City and knew little about Korea. I've previously watched Jewel in the Palace and adored that, too. I connected with all the protagonists, I enjoyed the moments of humor -- like Choi Yu-jin, learning Korean and deciphering the love
    conveyed. The drama gave me great respect for Korean indomitability, the long struggle they waged against classism, hierarchy and occupation. It was beautiful, beautiful, beautiful to look at and deeply affecting. I wondered if I could ever make the sacrifices that each and every protagonist made. Much respect to the writers, director, producers and actors. Thank you.

  • yeah I am one of the impatient viewers. I just fast forward it

• Wah, this drama is amazing. Even im not fond on the lead's romance but seriously, the characters in this drama are well written. Dongmae is always be my fave. How he handle his love and his friendship, aaaahhh i adore him very much. His relationship with the hotel owner is one of my fave. From friends to someone you care more than it. I know he loves our main lead but still, he sticks to the end with his best friend. I love it.

  Im full of surprise when i've watched this drama. It' so rarely to see a KES drama without 'kissing scene' until ep 23.

  This drama is far from being cheesy. Highly recommended!

  • I like the lead romance very much =)

• I loved it! It was a great story, characters, actors and cinematography. I loved the different relationships even if I wasn't very invested in the love story. My only issue was how they handled the character of Ae Shin, she seemed to have less importance than the other characters. We know that she's in the Righteous Army but we couldn't see it.

  My favourite part was Dong Mae. YYS was perfect in this role.

  • Ae Shin's character is partly informed by her imaginings of her deceased parents and the "what if" had they survived which they didn't, and what they would say to her in the "now". I understood her from that point of view. Our parents are tremendously important to us and if we have to rely on scraps of information or memory to make them into whole cloth, it may take a lifetime to do. And so I see Ae Shin's struggle partly controlled by her past a bit.

• I’m so thankful to KES for writing this drama. Before this drama, I seriously do not know what the righteous army were. I’m ashamed to admit this, but for someone who has been watching Korean drama for a decade, I’ve never really bother to learn much about Korean history. This drama makes me go back and read so much about that part of the Korean history. I’m touched by the history and learned so much about human sacrifices through my reading.
  This is definitely my favorite KES drama to date.

• I cried so much in this final week. No writer can top what KES did in these last few episodes. I'm not Korean but I felt every bit of that patriotism. This drama was a masterpiece and I for one never had a problem with the pacing. I'm grateful for those much lighter early episodes which spent a lot of time building up each character because I felt for each of them even the most minor ones in the last episodes. I'm glad it did so well in Korea but the international audience needs to stop sleeping on this brilliant work of art. This definitely out did My Ahjusshi in the last few episodes so I'd vote it the best drama of 2018 thus far.

  • I couldn't agree more.

• I don't think that people should criticize international audience , because we have a lot in our plate this year. As a french, i w'm watching a lot of works as this year we lost some famous survivor figures of Auschwitz-Birkenau and commomeration of the end of the Great War (1914 1918) . So i wasn't in the mood to Watch a drama wich would make me cry . Sorry. But I'll Watch it later as we are living in an era where people is forgetting about" humanity" and history is more than ever important . We musn't forget the past, it's the only way to make a better living for the newt générations. Love and peace.

• This drama really should have been shorter. She could have cut the episodes by half so the beginning was not so slow.

  • I disagree with this. It covers a huge time space that’s sometimes I sometimes wish she had made two different seasons with two different generations to tell the story. It was so overwhelming to take all that in all at once by the end I was emotionally drained.

    • She could still make two seasons but quicker pace at the beginning so it keeps me riveted. I’m used to six to eight episodes BBC dramas such as the recent Bodyguard which was excellent too. As an international drama watcher I don’t just stick to SK dramas so the storyteller needs to keep my interest.

    • I also disagree. Lost would have been much of the important background of characters such that the ending would have been senseless and pointless.

• Such a great series. Even though it’s over you still have to wonder what’s next for the cast & writers. Will they return for another project.

• Overall this drama is fine. However, personally it’s way too slow. I also don’t understand why LBH regardless of what facial expression he performed seemed to have been stuck to one expression... kind of awkward for a period drama. All other things are brilliant. I hope they will continue to have this kind of production and totally stopped any live-shoot productions.

  • Botox face cannot emote.

    • Mr.sunshine is one of my most favoriteand my best drama, I really love all the actors and actresses. Theirs acting was amazing and I cry so much in the final episode. Wish they will win the award cause they really deserve it. Love them all

  • In my opinion, he portrayed his character excellently. He is somewhat a cold-hearted man as what the other characters descirebed him.

  • The one with same facial expression all the time is Dong Mae. Always make the angry face.

    Choi Yu Jin is cool character, can joke, can be serious, can be deadly serious.

• Mr.sunshine is one of my most favorite and my best drama, I really love all the actors and actresses. Theirs acting was amazing and I cry so much in the final episode. Wish they will win the award cause they really deserve it. Love them all