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The reaction in South Korea to Snowdrop was poisonous and its ratings never overcame the controversy, but there was still an audience for the show, especially overseas. International K-drama viewers and particularly the fans of Blackpink singer Jisoo – who boasts 56 million followers on Instagram – have been less bothered by the show’s alleged cultural faux pas. They were watching an epic period romance fuelled by political intrigue.
For their second collaboration, Jo and Yoo employ many of the tawdry melodramatic tropes that cleverly turned SKY Castle into a deliciously entertaining guilty pleasure. But in this new environment of political subterfuge, even if we ignore historical inaccuracies, the buffoonish figures of authority and their loud wardrobes undercut all the show’s attempts to wring drama and tension out of a misbegotten premise.
If we consider these rival governments to be stand-ins for the Montagues and Capulets, that would make Soo-ho and Young-ro. Given that their tragic path is set in motion when Soo-ho appears below Young-ro’s dorm window at the outset of the series, they seem to fit the bill. Young-ro even owns a copy of Shakespeare’s celebrated play.
Even esteemed acting veterans like Heo Joon-ho, coming off his award-winning turn as a conflicted North Korean ambassador in Ryoo Seung-wan’s Escape from Mogadishu, are helpless to overcome the show’s abstruse and borderline incoherent narrative swings.
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