7 days ago

The Glory, Netflix drama starring Song Hye-gyo, is becoming a phenomenal global success since the final 8 episodes were just opened for viewers last week. The fans have been waiting eagerly for its season 2 for the last few months and now that it has finally arrived, seems everybody is talking about it all over the places. I too, first watched the season 1 without any prior knowledge or preconception about the drama, but sat through whole 8 episodes overnight. I was just so hooked into the storyline and great performances brought not by its heroine Song Hye-gyo but its supporting actors, mainly the villains, with their vivid characters and unique personalities. The writer for this drama, Kim Eun-sook, has been very famous for her light-hearted romance storyline with a rich handsome man chasing and helping a pretty poor woman and their love ended up conquer all barriers and live happily ever after. However, with the success of the Glory, Kim Eun-sook shows possibility that she can also do more than just typical feel-good romance drama, although she just can’t help but bringing another good-looking rich man character who is very devoted to his loved one for this one as well. Anyway, when I finished watching the final episodes over the weekend, I once again realize you should not go into anything or anyone with such high expectation because most likely, you’re going to be disappointed. For me, the revenge part was not that persuasive with its bit unrealistic story development and like I mentioned, the romance between two main characters does not create any chemistry whatsoever. Nonetheless, the Glory is good drama worth enough to spend your valuable time watching mainly because it is full of great performances by very talented actors and even Song Hye-gyo shows better acting job compared to what she did in series season 1. ^^