#the red sleeve

[alloveydovey]

Why am I not surprised? 🙄

[dramashii]

Category: Forehead Kisses

W: Two Worlds | I am not a Robot | Link: Eat, Love, Kill | Strong Woman Do Bong Soon | Her Private Life | The Red Sleeve | Legend of the Blue Sea | Guardian: The Lonely and Great God

[i-got-the-feels]

I am sorry. It's my fault. Perhaps if I didn't love you, if I didn't make you my concubine this wouldn't happen // I don't care if this is the past or a dream. I want to stay here forever. I want to be with you forever.

- The Red Sleeve, 2021-2022

Two lines are from King Jeongjo's epitaph after Princess Uibin passed away - here

[xiaolanhua]

King The Land (2023) – Ep. 7 The Red Sleeve (2021) – Ep. 13

[lurkingshan]

Hello! I'm curious if there are any shows that you loved, but just can't even watch again because of various reasons.

😺👉🐈(I am making do with what I have and booping you)

Thank you for the ask, I had to think about this one for a minute but I do have a few like this where I loved them, but they are just too intense for me to want to go through the watch experience again.

180 Degree Longitude Passes Through Us

This is a fantastic Thai drama that I respect very much and I will absolutely never be watching it again. It's a hard watch experience because the whole show is a series of very intense conversations; my primary feeling while watching it was tension.

Egoist

I watched this Japanese film with @bengiyo and I was glad to have a buddy with me because that shit hurted. I went in not really knowing what this film was about and was surprised by it on a number of fronts. I still think about it often but I have no desire to rewatch.

My Mister

One of my all time favorite dramas and one I think about rewatching often, but I never muster the wherewithal to do so. It's a hard watch because the characters are going through so much, and while the journey is healing it's also just brutal a lot of the time. I still want to try to watch again someday because there's so much to appreciate in this story and I want to see what I get from a second watch, but...

The Red Sleeve

This Korean drama did exactly what it set out to do because I was torn through pretty much every moment of my watch and ultimately left unsatisfied in exactly the way it intended. It's a fictionalized story based in real history about the life of a court maid who falls in love with a king and unwillingly gets pushed into becoming his concubine. The drama refuses to give in to romantic notions about loving a monarch and forces you to sit in the tension between her romantic feelings for him and her wish to live her life as a free citizen, and that tension is never broken all the way through the tragic ending. It's excruciatingly well done, excruciating being the operative word.

[youknowihavenochingu]

Kdrama male leads' shirtless moments

Ahn Bo Hyun- My Name

Ahn Hyo Seop- A Business Proposal

Cha Eunwoo- Island

Lee Junho- The Red Sleeve

Im Siwan- Run On

Park Seo Joon- What's Wrong With Secretary Kim

Choi Minho- The Fabulous

Song Kang- Forecasting Love And Weather

Park Jinyoung- The Devil Judge

Park Lomon- Revenge of Others

[fujunfuren]

His Majesty went to the Queen’s palace. He is staying there tonight. Her Highness wanted to get pregnant for a long time, but she could not. You became pregnant only three months after becoming a concubine. She must be in sorrow. It is natural for His Majesty to go around and comfort her. He went to fulfil his duty as a King.

THE RED SLEEVE (2021)

[dramaism]

🎁 KDRAMA SECRET SANTA 2022 — for Lilly @bareums ❤️

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

So far the King is my favourite character.

Though I imagine he'll be dying at some point soon :(

[jinkibum-smiles]

I don't know if anyone else has gone through this, but in the past 2-3 years, there have been 4 dramas I've watched after which I've gone through a period of grieving. I was emotionally drained after watching these shows. They were The Red Sleeve, Our Beloved Summer, Twenty Five Twenty One (2521), and now Lovely Runner.

Thankfully, 2 of these ended happily, but they weren't any better than the other 2. In fact, I found the endings of The Red Sleeve and 2521 quite fitting (I'm probably in the minority with 2521 😅) even though I was left traumatized.

When I think about what these shows have in common, it's the female leads and the emotional journey that they go through in their youth. The male leads are good, but it's only because their female counterparts are so amazing that they have to meet them at their level. Anything less would have created an imbalance.

Not only were the female characters written well, they were played by amazing actresses. I can't recall if this was something Lee Se Young had said in an interview or if it was a point brought up by someone, but in the last few episodes, she didn't have many spoken lines, but everything was shown through her micro expressions. Not only that, she gained/loss weight to show the difference between her younger and older self. I'm not sure if Kim Hye Yoon had done something similar, but she was also able to show clear distinctions between her 19, 20, and 34 year old self. Styling played a role, but it was also her mannerisms.

These shows will have a special place in my heart and I'm excited to see even greater shows in the future.

*Honorable mention - Youth of May - also a devastatingly good drama, but I haven't been able to rewatch it in full. I'm just not looking for that type of pain right now.

[eratoswords]

I finished The Red Sleeve, after so long wanting to watch this drama. What took me so long? I don't know, but now it's done, I've got so much to say. I experienced this drama intensely, going through every possible emotion. I shared so strongly in the experiences and feelings of the characters, who were all so interesting. And the drama aims to faithfully illustrate the hard life of concubines, queens and all the women of the court. I was so invested in Yi San and Deok-Im's relationship, their choices, their pain and their resignation. Once again, I want to salute the bravery of Sung Deok-Im, whom I admire more than anything. 

At first, I didn't understand why she didn't want to admit her feelings. But now I understand, and I admire her. I understand and celebrate her determination to remain dignified, to retain her integrity and her feelings, because that's all she had power over. She was courageous, because she preferred to suffer in silence rather than lose who she was, and the daily life she cherished. And she was right, because the life of a concubine was hard, and this life changed her completely and distanced her from everything she loved and what made her who she was. In the end, she chose Yi San, and gave him everything. Yi San, without necessarily wanting to, took everything from her. But that's where the drama aims to be historically reliable. Unfortunately, these characters' choices were in line with what they could have been at the time, and above all with their status. 

But they loved each other so much, so tenderly and passionately, so intensely, that their pain and the tragic end of their love broke my heart. I knew the drama was going to end tragically, but I still wasn't prepared for it. I wasn't prepared for the unhappiness of Deok-Im and Yi San, but also for the loss of Deok-Im's friends. The loss of Young-Hee, who was bullied for also wanting to be free for a few moments. In the end, Gyeong-Hee was alone, because she had lost them all. The scenes where the four of them came together, the depth and power of the friendship that bound them together, were some of the best for me. I liked how the drama showed how important friendship is, and how much you should cherish your friends. The friendship they had was so beautiful and real.

Just one last thing, concerning the character of the queen dowager, who I found exceptional, as well as Yi San's mother, the concubine Hyebin, whose harshness of their respective lives was illustrated.

I salute the beauty of the sets, the scenes, the costumes and the marvellous performance of each actor. I must say that I was fascinated by Lee Junho's acting, which I found remarkable. And Lee Se-Young, who I found touching, and whose performance was sincere and fair. 

I really wanted to express my love for this drama. I'm glad I finally watched it. I now have a trio of favourite historical dramas! The Red Sleeve joins Mr.Sunshine and My Dearest in my list of favourite dramas. 

[dailyasiandramas]

[world-smitten]

the last half hour of ep 16 is like, death by a thousand needles. Deok-im chooses Yi-san to the best of her capacity, and the life she lives after is both happy and crushing. She doesn’t share with him the boredom of waiting for him everyday, unable to leave the castle grounds. Or how much she misses her friends. She can’t even transcribe because it would insult the king if his favoured woman was seen working. And she resigns herself to it all because she loves him. I love how upfront the writing is about this: she will never tell him she loves him, as an act of bravado, to keep some piece of herself away from him. The hardest part is seeing how far Deok-im has changed. No longer lively (though still bold), but now quiet and cautious. My girl looks so tired. It was so heartbreaking to see the King choose the Queen over her after she was confirmed pregnant, because it was his duty as a fair ruler. I love that we never see the Queen, because she’s too much of a given, to even be a pointed source of pain.

Then, as icing on the cake, Young-hee gets sentenced to death after a miscarriage. I knew ep 17 would likely start w/ their son’s death (and boy, that was rough), but I didn’t realise how closely Young-hee’s situation would parallel Deok-im’s. The red sleeve is full of ironic mirrors always being held up to reflect Deok-im’s fate. Young-hee loved a man in defiance of her station. She might have had a child with him, started a family. In the past, Deok-im would've tried to move heaven and earth to save her friends. But even Yi-san’s partiality to her, can’t extend to her lowly “adulterous” friend. It’s interesting how eps 14-16 show how miserable Deok-im is without Yi-san, how much her denial of him hurts her. I understood why she would choose him, in spite of all past convictions. But the last 30 mins of ep 16 and all of 17 (so far) are pulling this decision apart brick by brick.

[oddbiscuit]

One of these days I'll rewatch the red sleeve and then write an essay about how much I love Deok Im as a character. Her resilience, her silent dignity, her defiance are so, so close to my heart.

[duahauuoplanh]

That’s it, Guwon is Yisan’s reincarnation and noone can tell me otherwise

[youknowihavenochingu]

Historical kdramas ⚔

The Red Sleeve

Sungkyunkwan Scandal

100 Days My Prince

The King's Affection

Love In The Moonlight

Mr Sunshine

The Moon Embracing The Sun

Tale Of Nokdu

Hwarang

Queen For Seven Days