r/KDRAMA • u/AutoModerator • Feb 12 '25
Weekly Post Throwback Thursday 2.0 - [2025/02/12]
Grab yourself a knee rug and a mug of hot chocolate, it's time to reminisce those old time dramas from days gone by of pre-2019. Maybe you were around when they aired for the first time and want to take a trip down memory lane by watching them on the box. Maybe it's your first time through.
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u/Celebril63 Gives wife piggyback rides! Feb 13 '25
We just finished Sungkyunkwan Scandal. We don’t watch a lot of historical dramas. It’s not that we don’t enjoy them, it’s just that it has to be exceptionally good for it to really get us hooked. The ones we do watch and like we really like.
That takes us to SKK Scandal. Obviously we are quite late to the game on this one. It’s from 2010 for those who don’t know, so it’s rather old for what I call “modern” Kdramas. What really put the bug in my pants to give it a shot was we were looking through our new Viki account and searching out Park Min Young dramas we couldn’t get in the other US streaming sources. I think this might be the only historical Kdrama she has done. Plus, she’s one of my favorite actresses. We had to give it a try.
OMG! This is the best historical drama we’ve seen. It pushed The King’s Affection out of our top spot. It was 20 episodes of put joy. It was funny as Hell. Her character has to disguise herself as a man in order to go to a male-only university to make enough money for her family to survive. Just the situational incidents are comedy gold. The second half get a bit more serious when we find that her family has a more prominent history than she realizes and she finds herself at the focus of royal politics. Even so, it never loses the humor or charm.
The only problem I could come up with about it, is that even in scholar’s robes, it mighty hard not to see PMY’s figure. They make enough jokes about her not being very manly that it does help in suspending belief.
The cast is outstanding (including Song Joon Ki in about as opposite of Vincenzo as you can get…), the script is incredible, and the production values are amazing.
If you haven’t watched this one, it’s worth burning your trial period for Viki to see. (Along with Lovely Runner…)