John Liao

The story of love triangle had potential, but the director's lack of understanding of tennis ruined the movie. First, grand slams are extremely hard to win and almost all of them have been won by the Big 3 in tennis in the last 20 years. As such, it was hard to buy into this universe where someone other than the Big 3 won 6 grand slams. Even putting that issue aside, anyone who wins multiple grand slams would be considered as having had a very successful career. There should be no criticism that the person hadn't lived up to his/her potential. Also, someone who has won grand slams 6 times has proven to know how to be the best in the world over and over. Art wouldn't need any more motivation or confidence boost from Tashi. He already knows how to win. It's reasonable that by this point of his career, all Art wants was unconditional love and support from his wife, yet Tashi couldn't even give him that. If the story had been changed to Art having won multiple ATP championships but never a grand slam, then it would've made more sense. It would've also made the characters more sympathetic as the tennis world is full of professionals with potential that failed to win a grand slam.

The plot was good but the show was unnecessarily drawn out. The story could've been told more effectively with only 12 episodes by cutting out many of the scenes between Hwi and Ji-woon. For a show that was supposed to show that a woman is capable of being an effective King, it inexplicably made Hwi appear weak by constantly needing protection from the male characters from the show. Ji-woon was an unlikable character by spending most of his time trying to gain the attention of Hwi instead of doing anything productive to help Hwi become a better King. His constant public display of affection with Hwi should've caused people to suspect something's amiss much earlier than until the final episodes. In contrast, Prince Jaeun does a much better job of handling his affection for Hwi by keeping it in check and helping Hwi and the country whenever he could.

I like the idea of Daryl in a different country. His acting is still great. There are just a couple of serious issues that I have a hard time getting past of. Hopefully the season gets better as it progresses. 1. It seems unlikely that a group of nuns could've survived the zombie apocalypse for 12 years but as soon as Daryl shows up, they get massacred. If the bad guys are really so ruthless, all of these people should've already been killed. 2. The premise of Daryl needing to help a child get to some place to get help from some group of people they're not able to communicate with is a bit far fetched for me. 3. In the US, people were already out of bullets and gas. How did people in France still managed to have all that despite of them having fewer guns and cars than the US to begin with?