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Lead cast: Park Bo-gum, Kim So-hyun, Lee Sang-yi, Heo Sung-tae, Oh Jung-se
Latest Nielsen rating: 6.1 per cent
When it comes to creating mainstream entertainment, the place to start is usually looking at what elements have worked before – the more recent the better. Then you fit as many of these as possible into a story while still keeping it coherent.
While that may not sound too taxing, it is far easier said than done. The art of screen commerce is not in identifying popular narrative and thematic elements, but in the balance created between them.