Drama Review: Dali and Cocky Prince

It's been a hot minute since I did one of these, I haven't really been watching anything drama-ish recently. I watched Arcane which was amazing and Wheel of Time, which is rough about the edges but an adaptation that loves the same things I loved about the books. However, the past couple of days I returned to a drama I had enjoyed but not enough to finish called Dali and Cocky Prince and found, to my surprise, that an episode or two after I left it the plot suddenly swivelled from 'boy and girl like each other but have culture clash over class issues' to 'boy and girl discover corruption scandal in Korean real estate industry' to 'boy and girl reveal corruption scandal in upper echelons of Korean society while struggling against prejudices'. It was surprisingly well written for what is, in essence, an idol drama. It's interesting that I'm seeing more k-dramas that talk about corruption these days, or maybe I just hadn't noticed before.<\p>


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I'm hoping to get around to watching some more cdramas this coming year, probably starting with Nirvana in Fire now it's back on Viki. A lot of the time K-dramas are easier to watch, they're shorter and tend to hit more narrative beats I like, but C-dramas have a lot more of the swords and the supernatural that I'm really craving, now Wheel of Time S1 is ended.<\p>

Would anyone be interested in reading my thoughts on Arcane and Wheel of Time? I'm not sure I want to count them under Dramas, but if anyone wants to know what I think then I can come up with a new tag for them.<\p>