Kevin C. Wong

Oh My Ladylord (2021) [+]

Oh My Ladylord is a Korean romance drama running 16 hour-and-a-half episodes. Han Bi-soo (Lee Min-ki) is a brilliant crime drama television writer who is a perfectionist and sees actors as merely props that must say the script exactly as written. Oh Joo-in (Nana) is the leading lady of romantic dramas but wants to get a serious role and Bi-soo has rejected her three times.

Joo-in finally buys her childhood home not knowing that Bi-soo has been living there. But Bi-soo has written all his hits there and his work area is the only place he can write. They make a deal: Joo-in can star in Bi-soo's drama and he can room there and use his work area until all sixteen scripts are written. Naturally close contact lets them see that Bi-soo is actually a fairly decent human being and Joo-in is a serious actress.

One complication is Yu Jin (Kang Min-hyuk), an childhood friend of Joo-in just returned to Korea in part to confess his love to her. The other bigger complication is that Bi-soo is going to die in 49 days. He was in an accident that should have killed him but a spirit saved him but only delayed the inevitable so that he can become a better person.

I like this story. The romance is good. Joo-in is doing the most emotional suffering as the two fall in love then Bi-soo rejects her in order to save her the pain of his dying soon. But she never gives up on her love and even though she hides it well every time Bi-soo seems be coming back to her she breaks down again.

I'll spoil it and in the end he does die and then there's a year break and we see how Joo-in's life has changed and that she is coping and still feels his spirit.

I see that this show did very poorly though as I said I quite enjoyed the story and actors.