The drama "Mr. Queen," which premieres in the second week of March 2023 and ranks second in the weekly Netflix broadcast/drama rankings, is a fusion historical comedy-drama about the soul of Jang Bong-hwan, a Cheong Wa Dae chef living in modern Korea, entering the body of Kim So-yong, a Joseon Dynasty queen.

The weekend drama "The Iron Queen" on tvN concluded with a total of 20 episodes, which were praised by performers for their strong acting and directorial abilities.

The 20th episode of the previous season received the highest audience rating of 17.4%. (Nielsen Korea).

Shin Hye-sun, Kim Jung-hyun, Bae Jong-ok, Kim Tae-woo, Seol In-ah, Nine-woo, Kim In-kwon, Lee Jae-won, Yoo Min-kyu, Cho Yeon-hee, Cha Cheong-hwa, Jeon Bae-soo, Yoo Young-jae, Chae Seo-eun, and Choi Jin-hyuk are among the cast members. Viewers like the drama "Mr. Queen," which includes reruns, character relationships, plots, official videos, episode information, timelines, ratings, broadcast hours, and epilogue, as well as filming locations, OSTs, and endings.

Due to concerns by some community users, including Duku, the drama "Mr. Queen" was suspended from all platforms, including VOD services, on March 26, 2021, but became available on December 1, 2021, after more than eight months, and was released on Netflix on February 15, 2023.

1. Plot of Drama ‘Mr. Queen’

The drama "Mr. Queen" is a soul-run controversy involving Kim So-yong, a middle-aged man suffering from "out-of-this-world stress" as a result of an unanticipated accident, and Cheol-jong, a two-faced king.

It is a drama about a soul-departing controversy involving Kim So-yong, a middle-aged man who experienced "out-of-this-world tension" as a result of an unanticipated accident, and King Cheol-jong, a two-faced king, and will air as a sequel to the startup from December 12, 2020, to February 14, 2021.

Shin Hye-sun, Kim Jung-hyun, Bae Jong-ok, Kim Tae-woo, Seol In-ah, and Nine-woo are among the cast members of tvN's Saturday-Sunday drama. Shin Hye-sun, who portrays Kim So-yong, and Kim Jung-hyun, who plays Lee Won-beom, are the primary characters. The original is a Chinese online drama called "Taijabi Seungjikgi," and the remainder of the tale and development are completely different, according to the production team, with just the setting that modern men's souls invade the queen's body.

The year is 1851, and the setting is in and around Joseon's Hanseongbu (primarily Changdeokgung Palace and Changgyeonggung Palace), southern Gyeonggi-do, and Chungcheong-Mokcheonhyeon. Because historical dramas mirror current events, they are prone to historical debate. Perhaps this is why the line "all characters and events are fictitious" appeared both before and after the commencement of the drama “Mr. Queen.”

2. Character

Shin Hye-sun as Kim So-yong - Lonely Byeolgung Witch

There was never a time when the original Yong-eun did not dream of becoming a monk for the family and did not strive. She considered it filial piety to her daughter's foolish father to live her best, seeing the aim of becoming a monk as the reason for her existence, in order not to make the death of the mother who died while giving birth to herself in vain. When the heavy-duty arrived, she anticipated everything to be fine.

But her visit to the palace was merely the beginning. Apart from Cheoljong, the lover, Hwajin was the only one who could do anything. Choi Sang-gung and Hong Yeon, at least, are the only ones who open out to each other. Because of this reality, it appears that their personality has become more strange. As a result, whenever Na in or her concubines happen to cross paths, she screams as if she sees a ghost and flees.

She fell in love with Cheoljong the first time she met him. She was overjoyed. She expected this marriage to be a love marriage rather than a political marriage for the family. Yet after a while, she is filled with dread that she will never be able to escape the trap of misplaced fate.

Kim Jung-hyun as Cheoljong 'Like Jekyll and Hyde'

Supposedly, his ambition is to be a decent, easygoing Scarecrow king who is not blamed by his citizens. He is a thunderbolt king, not a thunderbolt rich guy as if he had been a king since birth.

He's also skilled at portraying a show window couple, so he's pleasant enough to make Bong-hwan sick, but he can't be so chilly when he's alone. He refers to him as "the king is the king, but the king of pretentiousness" because he used to look like a psychopath.

Others laugh and mumble, claiming that Cheoljong is afraid of being slain, just like his family. He volunteers for the Scarecrow because he is preoccupied with survival, but what he is really frightened of is becoming an incompetent king, as they desire, and dying without doing anything. Cheoljong secretly dreams and prepares for reform while concealing the actuality of his dream. A complex and tough guy that continually confronts his fate and does not give in lightly. So Cheoljong is another way of saying Jekyll and Hyde.

Bae Jong-ok as Queen Sunwon 'What I want to keep young is to keep my strength.'

In a zoo, a lioness-like figure. Kim Jwa-geun, her younger brother, is a stately but zookeeper-like monster who feeds her. Queen Sun-won wanted to live as a lioness in the zoo for the fulfillment of her life. It appears to be influenced by Kim Jwa-geun, yet it is Queen Sun-won who moves her.

Kim Tae-woo as Kim Jwa-geun 'We need more power to maintain the status quo.'

He is the essence of the establishment who is interested in sustaining, not turning the world upside down, since he believes he needs more and more authority to maintain the status quo. I'm pretending not to know, but I'm very sure I know Kim Byung-in's heart. 

Seol In-ah as Jo Hwa-jin 'My dream is to be your highness'

Cheoljong's first love, whom she met by chance before being exiled to Ganghwado Island. She is imprisoned as a concubine. Perhaps she was more suited to the role of Jungjeon than useful, and all I knew was pure love. It gradually turns black, though, to safeguard Cheoljong's heart.

Na In-woo as Kim Byung-in 'I've always seen you. Even your appearance that you don't see.'

He was adopted as a child by Kim Jwa-geun and became Yong's cousin. Unlike himself, who was shaded by the house's curves, he grew up loving and admiring brilliant uses. He begins as a sick man who can't decide the extent of his dream and wanders, but he is captured by jealousy as he witnesses Yong and Cheoljong's friendship blossom.

3. Planning intentions and thematic consciousness

Queen Cheol-in grabbed fans throughout the show with her unexpected evolution and intriguing characters.

Above all, the relationship between Kim So-yong (Shin Hye-sun) and Cheol-jong (Kim Jung-hyun), who destroyed their friendship, added a new dimension of intrigue. By dynamically unraveling the incredible palace survival period by decomposing it into "Kim So-yong," which contains modern freewheeling souls, Shin Hye-sun developed an unprecedented figure. Kim Jung-hyun, who played the two-faced king Cheol-jong, firmly anchored the play's center of gravity with his skilled acting. The ever-changing performance of cold and hot baths enhanced the fusion of historical comedy's beauty.

▷ Notachi Romance: The usage of being reincarnated as a full-fledged show window couple and Cheoljong's affection, who isn't sure whether it's true or false. Let's term this new type of emotion a romance, rather than a romance or bromance between the two.

"Let's follow the lieutenant's advice. Notachi!"

"Individual happiness is represented by Notachi. Everyone has a different concentration."

Everything in the palace is hidden. The hidden secrets of the characters in the palace add to the pleasure of reversal and themed the human flesh, which is difficult to fathom, by adding to the scenario that there is a secret buried in the palace.
 

▷ Bonghwan, the former chef of Cheong Wa Dae
He discovers the health status and mind of the other person through the side dishes that are regularly handled at the table and makes up a secret appearance by adding imagination to Cheoljong, the monarch who has set up a secret appearance. It initiates a new chapter of re-examination with new fun. Men cooked, women hunted, men'S customers (cooks), and the majority of staff at the saongwon, which monitors the palace feast, were men.

In the kitchen, a guy wields a knife, reversing the image of [Daejanggeum]. And the queen and the concubine fight with arrows and nerves. The novel contrast depicts the story of female characters that actively pursue their goals rather than passively like chess pieces. It is distinguished by a novel portrayal of a female manner not previously seen in a historical theatre.

▷ a mixed marital relationship

The radically altering relationship between Bonghwan's use and Cheoljong is akin to a phase of rehabilitation for a long-term partner.

A defective connection is to blame for both of them, who later regret and want to repent but misunderstood at the wrong time. They behave as a display pair and end up being each other's most steadfast supporters due to their comradeship-like closeness. Cheoljong duo's utilization of holding hands after a confrontation and misunderstanding. Can humans influence fate?

4. Difference between a real character and a drama

• Even in the end, the drama shows respect for each prop. The solid storyline and all 20 main and supporting players, in particular, resulted in at least one scene of laughing.
• Several major and supporting performers, including Shin Hye-sun, got rave reviews for their performances. Shin Hye-sun, for example, perfectly played the part of Kim So-yong, who was possessed by Jang Bong-hwan, a playboy, by switching between personalities and proclaiming, "I'm the crazy X in this castle."
• The show nearly collapsed owing to a lot of criticism, yet most think it led to the players' stardom.
• Kim Jung-hyun played Cheoljong in the drama, thus he wrote the bow with his left hand and the writing with his right hand, but in other works, he primarily utilizes his left hand for writing, drawing, and using chopsticks.
• As the male protagonist of Queen Cheol-in, Kim Jung-hyun played her husband Cheol-jong. It is stated that as a monarch, he demonstrated charisma by acting in comedy, showing the sorrow of trauma, and displaying the charm of reversal.

5. Evaluation

• The epilogue "Mr. Queen," which features episodes not aired in the main episode of "Mr. Queen," was released exclusively on TVing Only and received a lot of attention.
• As a pre-production drama and a fusion of historical comedy-drama, the drama was a hit. A few years ago, the number of pre-production dramas began to rise gradually. The global COVID-19 trend has allowed pre-production dramas to stabilize.
• Throughout the drama's airing, there were numerous complaints regarding the character Kim Byung-in, as well as the perception that he was uneasy. This could imply that the writer did not entirely persuade the spectator as a storyteller, in which case the writer should shoulder the blame.
• There was a "disgusting controversy" in China, the original location of the drama, and there was a "disgusting controversy" in Korea in the early days of the show.