Historical dramas

My favourite drama of all time! 

It was so interesting and had lovable characters, and I never wanted it to end. While I've forgotten many details by now, Eguchi Yosuke as Nobunaga will live in my memory forever!

Ooooh, I loved this drama so much. It was very sad at times but also had many heartwarming moments! And the romance was good. 

Wonderful romance drama!!

My first c-drama. I fell so in love with the scenery and the costumes, and of course with the romance between the main couple... which turned out not to be the main couple, and I'll never get over it.

Wonderful movie! Also, good music. :) And it has Lee Jin Wook in a minor supporting role - totally stole the show during the short time I saw him, and it was the first role I saw him in.

I remember it took me some time to get into this drama and fully appreciate it, even though I could always see that it was good. Once I got captivated by it, I loved it!

I liked it a lot. Good, if not entirely unique, plot, great acting, visually stunning and one of the best couples ever.

Honestly I don't remember a lot about this (was there a gorgeous femme fatale?) but I rated it 9 so I must have liked it a lot!

Even though it dragged a bit in the middle, it was a really fun watch. The main character is very clever and it was fun watching her outsmart her enemies time and again. It has its fair share of good "sismance" and I did not dislike the romance.

I guess this drama had some flaws, like some great actors were sadly not a good match for their characters, but overall I really enjoyed it a lot. Unlike some, I didn't dislike the romance. Jin Dong is great in it!

Okay, it has the same rating as The Disguiser, but I liked it probably a little bit less (but still more than "just" 8). It has some annoying characters.

I liked it. I remember not being fully convinced by the romance (I was kind of constantly on the fence) and being annoyed by the too perfect heroine, even though I always rooted for her.

Surprisingly good (with some silly element) about female friendship and ambition, without betrayal and evil backstabbing or obsessive jealousy. Very refreshing!

Relatively low rating because there were only 25 or 26 episodes with subs, and then I had to watch the Netflix short version.

Very good drama with great FL and plot well put together. Nice mother/son relationships. Some "modern" ideas about love, gender, women... I know it bothered some viewers, but I'm sure people back then could think, too. :p Great costumes and acting.

It was very good in every way except too long and draggy in the second half. (There's only so much bullying from step mother and mother in law you can take!)

Very enjoyable food drama. I also learned a bit from it.

Gorgeous revenge romance drama in the Republican Era, worth watching and it had its stronger points among all the melodrama, but a bit too long and draggy at times.

It was interesting and beautiful to watch, but it got a bit draggy because the romance was meh in my opinion and there was too much focus on it, while I found other parts of the story a lot more interesting.

A nice asadora that I enjoyed, but I found it a bit draggy at times.

Hmm. I rated it highly because it was "a good movie", interesting, and I liked some things about it. BUT I hated the violent sex in it. At the time I even wished I hadn't watched it... but time has bleached my brain a bit.

Don't remember much about it except that I liked it, and found the crossdressing completely unbelievable.

Honestly, I might have liked it more if it didn't have "Nirvana in Fire" in the title. Didn't live up to its name. This one, too, was better in the first half. Also, I never really loved the main character...

I don't know what to say about it except I must have liked it for more reasons than LJW.... 

Interesting to learn a little bit about kesi and a visually stunning drama, but draggy at times in the second half with unnecessary things going on, and just generally too preachy! Flashback scenes that felt too "deus ex machina", but overall it was worth watching this drama. 

Oh, this was a pretty interesting drama. I remember it as beautiful. The crossdressing theme was done really well here! It was pretty queer actually (in something of the theoretical sense of the word), which I appreciated. :) Also, age gap romance ftw. :) But... I found it too slow-paced and lost my patience a few times.

Beautiful cinematography, beautiful male lead, too little plot for such a long drama but interesting to learn a bit about Peking opera.

Another disappointing but watchable republican era drama. Partly the same cast and locations as Legacy, putting it one step above just because it was shorter so it wasn't boring.

Partly enjoyable, partly just bland with cardboard characters and non-suspenseful plotlines. Great cast though, and beautiful costumes. Don't regret watching, wouldn't really recommend.

Honestly? They said it was super steamy so I watched it! 

Same as above except I remember it as less passionate than the above.

Don't know if it counts because it's about a game, but the setting is historical and it has all the usual tropes of a historical drama. Mildly enjoyable but could have been shorter.

I liked it well enough in the beginning, but overall I found it boring!! :( It had some nice elements of female friendship, though!

I watched this before I joined MDL and before I had watched any dramas. All I remember is that I didn't hate it although it was pretty boring to me.

Unpopular opinion: I disliked the romance. With this drama, there isn't a lot more to like... but some scenes were very pretty.

Historical fantasy. Boring with bland and unbelievable characters, but some good painting scenes. 

One of the worst waste of my time dramas I've ever watched. (I wrote a review.)

The worst waste of my time drama I've watched since GBMP. Cringe. Stupid, boring.

dropped it, got bored

I dropped it because it was annoying. Two words: Noble idiocy.

Dropped it. I didn't feel anything for the characters, except that I felt like I had seen them before.

I don't remember why I dropped it, but I think it was because I watched it on a streaming site with bad quality.

Dropped it, hated the ML too much and story not interesting enough. (I liked the deposed king on the battlefield, when he had facial hair and no hat, also loved the empress dowager, but I'm not watching for eyecandy.)

Dropped after trying to watch episode 5. The subs were impossible to understand (automatic translation) and that means too hard to watch. It's supposed to be a very good drama and maybe it is, I don't know, but the first few episodes kind of made me feel like "just like in every other palace drama..."