I didn’t think I was going to talk about this series for reasons I’ll reveal later. According to Wikipedia, the series recorded a nationwide TV rating and became the highest-rated tvN series, surpassing Crash Landing on You, which used to be the highest and award-worthy for a lot of reasons. It also talked about the series has become the highest viewed K-drama series of all time on Netflix. But, I’m here to tell you why I dropped this spectacular series and couldn’t complete it.
Queen of Tears (2024)
The sixteen-episode series tells the story of Hong Hae-In (Kim Ji-Won) who belongs to a chaebol family and is the heiress of Queens’ Group and Baek Hyun-Woo (Kim Soo-Hyun) whose parents are merely farmers in Yongdu-ri. They’ve been married for 3 years and now their marriage is more or less at the point of no return as Hyun-Woo is ready to serve her divorce papers, that’s until he finds out that his wife has brain cancer, and now he is poised to remain in the marriage since she’s going to die anyway.
But soon enough, Hyun-Woo realizes his selfishness and the error of his ways and begins to re-evaluate his love for Hae-In, and tries to confront his errors to become a husband for Hae-In. Their love begins to bloom again. But the unexpected happens as Yoon Eun-Sung (Park Song-Hoon), Hae-In’s childhood friend and millionaire resurfaces into their lives. Eun-Sung has many things on his mind for this pair, and none of them would lead them to a happy ending. With Hae-In’s speedily deteriorating health, can the couple’s love seel them through till the end?
My Review and Rating
One thing you’ll find on my phone is an endless flow of K-dramas, mostly ones between 201-2024, but I’ve not seen many of these K-dramas, or at least I’ve not completed them because of how they started. What is common to many K-dramas is that it starts slow from the beginning and nearly boring, then picks up in pace and excitement few episodes later. Of course, except K-dramas like Mr. Queen that gave us premium excitement from the very first episode. But you hardly see a lot of K-dramas like that, which is why I would end up getting bored.
This was not the case, however, with Queen of Tears. It started really interesting and since I more or less fell in love with the main leads from way back, Hyun-Woo from his role in It’s Okay Not To Be Okay, and Hae-In from The Heirs, I was ready to be awed by the performance of these talented actors. So yeah, it started interesting and I was gripped at the beginning episodes. You could feel the aura of sadness hanging around, but it was subtle.
I kept having good laughs here and there, until the villain stepped in and it was just downhill from there. I’ve forgotten the point in my life exactly I was seeing this series, but tell me why, we are crying at nearly every scene? I couldn’t comprehend it. I know the title is Queen of Tears and everything, and you should be prepared for the tears, but I did not expect it in that volume.
It was a lot, I’ll tell you that. If there is a skill Kim Soo-Hyun excels in, it would have to be tears. I clocked this from It’s Okay Not To Be Okay. This man’s tear ducts are perpetually in overdrive. For a guy, it’s endearing, but his tears are contagious, so I’ll be happy one minute and bawling like a baby the next minute.
I don’t know if you were expecting a more logical reason, but yeah, that’s why I stopped watching QOT. I couldn’t take the tears, and the fact that there was more to come with the villains always willing was too much. Maybe in the future I may pick it up again because the main leads had chemistry, I’ll give them that.
But for now, I’m not quite sure I’m ready for the emotional rollercoaster. Maybe when I do, I’ll give a more concrete review, but it is a stellar film. Just a tad overhyped in my opinion, but still alright. Maybe a good 7/10, or so. What do you think?
Jhymi🖤
Images from IMDB.
