This is an amazing Saeguk ; it has enough comedy , thrill , emotions , betrayal and desperation that you can pick selectively what you want to focus on . The cast has delivered it well Woo Do-Hwan has aced the nut job lawyer on path to destroy the factions that are rotting the foundation of joeson while he is on his personal quest for revenge. Bona delivered a promising performance after 2521 but her character fazed out a little of its initial charm as the Han-su has overtaken the plot ; despite her gradious ambitions she decided to project her love over everything else. Cha Hak-Yeon also delivered a solid performance and for once a righteous son has born to an evil without a shred of jealousy but loads of cute pettiness that entertains us with his interactions .
Cheon Ho-jin delivered yet another remarkable performance but this time he is on the other side but we couldn't hate him much . Out of all Han So-eun has delivered a tragedic performance as Eun-su a girl who just wanted to make her parents proud but was misused to fight the same thing she wanted to protect.

What the show fails at was the lack of excitement in the final punch delivered on the evil as some just fade out and charges were timid. Despite that i would recommend this shows for performancesof Woo Do Hwan as he embarks on these solo ML dramas and no longer a SML/Friend.

Just like any other profession focused drama, they follow the notorious bait and switch tactic and this drama was no exception. We were introduced to an attorney with a tragic past and a strong motive, he worked on 2-3 cases for the first half of the drama before shifting the drama into a love chase, hypergamy, and hasty revenge. This shift wouldn't have been a problem if it hadn't been so atrocious. Somewhere around episode 9 everything took a change for the worse, including the male lead, who had been a walking disaster since the beginning. Structuring a romance around him was a big mistake; he was unbelievably creepy, intrusive, touchy, and pushy for someone who he met very briefly. His behavior came off as nothing but repulsive while going against the narrative. However, even that changed around the same shift, he began to take the moral high ground without going through any prior development. On another note on the inconsistencies, some earlier scenes had artsy edits which were interesting but none of the later episodes had something similar. It was just a one off thing to gain attraction, again, bait and switch. Overall, the drama had some intriguing elements earlier on but none of them lasted long enough.