I'm on the fence about period dramas/shows/movies in general, and this one didn't swing me in any direction. I don't think it was a bad drama, but I didn't find the story to be particularly interesting.

The romance is very, very, very slow burn. That alone wasn't much of an issue to me, but I thought Lee Sun Joon and Moon Jae Shin were boring characters, and they have so many scenes that I struggled a bit to finish the episodes.

This drama absolutely sold Song Joong Ki to me, though. His character, Goo Jong Ha, was definitely the most endearing of the group, and I looked forward to his scenes on every episode. He was very flouncy and energetic, a good comic relief without being exaggerated, and in the few occasions he had more dramatic scenes, he killed it.