Robert Fullilove

I just finished Queen of Tears and it is the best thing I've seen all year. The moment I finished episode 16, I went immediately back to episode 1 to start rewatching. On the surface, it seems to exploit the worst cliche's of romantic film drama. A totally gorgeous male/female pairing in the midst of a complex drama created by extreme wealth and boundless power. The couple drama takes place in an almost steroid-extreme set of plot events, and the happy ending -- yeah it has one -- seems almost too Hollywood to be true. But they pull it off...totally. The couple's beauty is the cause of their woes. We see what happens to you when so much about you is too good to be true and because of that, you are stalked, assaulted, and placed in situations that are physically brutal and psychologically exhausting. And what sustains them is that they are impossibly in love with each other and are so 'meant to be' -- an importact factor in the plot -- that they survive impossible odds. How do they pull it off? As a couple, they are so completely believable as individuals totally caught up in the attraction they share that the fact that they survive and even triumph is not only credible, it is HUGELY satisfying. Their chemistry fuels the viewer's accepting the extreme lengths to which they struggle to be apart as they dare the impossible to be together.