The title has an airy, genial feel and the show does have its airy, genial side, but it could be titled TRAPPED.  Everyone was trapped by something that happened from the past, with some trapped physically as well.   It was fun trying to figure out who was who, who was on whose side and how the awful king would fall.   The scholars It wasn’t too hard to guess that Kang San (Ryeo Un) is the deposed/missing prince and that he isn’t really gruff and disinterested although he’s exasperated and rolling his eyes most of the time.  Shi-yeol (Kang Hoon) has the best ‘disguise’, with the nice contrast between his highly-skilled fighting and loyalty versus his silliness.  It felt at times that Yoo-ha (Jung Gun-joo) was an extra but finally, he gets that one brave act of letting himself be captured to protect the rest.   Shi-yeol identifying himself to Kang San as his watchman was dramatic but the most shocking revelation in the show was that ...
How interesting can a show about potatoes be and how is post-military discharge Kang Tae-oh?   The potato research part sure wasn’t very interesting but it was passable as the backdrop.   The story was more about some very childish people doing very childish things but thankfully, there were a few meaningful threads running through it.     Kim Mi-kyung (Lee Sun-bin) is extremely childish, for example, in making life difficult for So Baek-ho ( Kang Tae-oh ) when he takes charge of the lab, for abetting the childish village chief and elders in their attempts to do the same (was that supposed to be funny?) and when expecting Baek-ho to do all kinds of silly tricks to win back her affection.  You’d think she would grow up over time but she doesn’t.  She is topped only by best friend Ong-joo (Kim Ga-eun), childish right to the core.  30-somethings who cannot behave their age.   Hee-jin ( Jung Sin-hye ) is more annoying than chi...