8.4 starts??? How??

I pushed myself to watch 19 episodes hoping something will happen. But nothing happens!

Story had some potential and could have been a good drama with good direction but alas! Here there are just series of small scenes, one after another, which does not keep viewers engaged. Bad acting, dark backgrounds and slow pace makes it even more boring and hard to watch.

There are just too many details about how everyone is trying to win over president by coming up with new ideas to concur one another in order to be next president.

Pil ju is one smart person where he can guess all moves well in advance and everything occurs according to his plan. And he has counter plans ready in case anything goes wrong!! I mean common!! And in all this, viewers just look dumb, just looking at screen and trying to understand what is important and what the hell is happening. But nothing does. And even if something happens, people do not react at all!!! They just quietly cry or show little anger on their face of try to quietly hurt themselves! Bad acting and almost similar characters make it worse. Only different character is president’s mistress and she is super annoying!!

There are multiple cliffhangers but they just drop out of nowhere with suspenseful music and viewers can not connect with those as both characters and story feels very distant. Lot of dull moments highlighted with long close up shots of everyones reaction and sad music. Many times suspenseful music is played to keep viewers interested but nothing happens. Bad bad direction!

I wish i can find something good to write about this drama but i can not. I also wish they had one strong female lead, who is not just angry, crying and being pathetic all the time or who does not need help of another man to get things done!!
I can barely give this drama 4 stars!!