Shine or Go Crazy

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• Drama: Shine or Go Crazy (literal title)
• Revised romanization: Bitnageona Michigeona
• Hangul: 빛나거나 미치거나
• Director: Son Hyeong-Seok
• Writer: Hyun Go-Woon (novel)
• Network: MBC
• Episodes: 24
• Release Date: January 19 - April 7, 2015
• Runtime: Mondays & Tuesdays 22:00
• Language: Korean
• Country: South Korea

Cast

• Jang Hyuk as Wang So (Later King Gwangjong)
• Oh Yeon Seo as Shin Yool
• Lee Ha Nui as Hwang Bo Yeo Won (Later Queen Daemok)
• Im Joo Hwan as Wang Uk
• Lee Duk Hwa as Wang Shik Ryum
• Ryu Seung Soo as Jung Jong
• Na Jong Chan (나종찬) as Se Won

Stars and fate prevail in fantasy romance Shine or Go Crazy

Posters are out for fusion romance period drama Shine or Go Crazy, and you can tell they’re really going for the star-crossed lovers angle, what with all the shiny (crazy?) stars and the romantic gazes. (The stars are pretty but I actually wish they’d eased off a bit, because now the show’s starting to look a little sci-fi to me, a la Joseon X-Files, and I’m pretty sure that is not the intent.)

Shine or Go Crazy’s royal love triangle

Two half-brother princes vying for the throne and falling for the same princess? What could possibly go wrong? Im Joo-hwan finally gets his turn to shine (…or go crazy) as the romantic spoilsport in the epically doomed/cursed/fated love between Oh Yeon-seoand Jang Hyuk, in their new MBC fantasy historical drama Shine or Go Crazy. He’s clearly going to be the flower boy counterpart to Jang Hyuk’s manly man, though both characters will do as much swordplay as they do romancing, if their “top-class sword-fighting skills” get put to good use, anyway.