The East Palace
A spirit hunter enters a palace built around a royal curse
The East Palace Episode 1 Review: "Episode 1" — A Crown Prince Dies at the Pond, Gu-cheon Is Dragged into Court, and Peach Wood Enters the World of Gwi
A Crown Prince dies beside the palace pond, and the King answers by forbidding the court to call the thing that killed him a spirit. That denial cannot survive
The East Palace Episode 2 Review: "Episode 2" — Saeng-gang Hears the Salt Storehouse Dead, Prince Iksang Makes His Move, and Gu-cheon Grinds Their Bones
Gu-cheon comes back from the pond with the spirit weakened, his Yang energy nearly spent, and one more reason to keep the King out of his plans. Saeng-gang brin
The East Palace Episode 3 Review: "Episode 3" — Saeng-gang Reveals Her Mother's Murder, the Royal Guard Confesses, and She Follows Gu-cheon into the World of Gwi
Saeng-gang answers the King's demand for silence by telling Gu-cheon exactly why she returned to the palace: her mother was framed, banished, and poisoned after
The East Palace Episode 4 Review: "Episode 4" — Saeng-gang Forces the Queen Dowager to Confess, Gu-cheon Frees the Pond Spirit, and Prince Yeongan Falls to a Second Curse
Saeng-gang drags Gu-cheon back from the gwi-mae by asking him to survive the palace with her, then spends the hour making good on that request. The baby shirt f
The East Palace Episode 5 Review: "Episode 5" — Gu-cheon Seals Himself in a Jar, the King Collapses, and Saeng-gang Orders the Late Crown Prince's Body Exhumed
Gu-cheon answers the dead Crown Prince's expanding curse with a ritual that makes his own body the trap, while Saeng-gang tries to keep the King from killing th
The East Palace Episode 6 Review: "Episode 6" — The King Orders a Plague Village Slaughtered, Prince Inha Is Poisoned, and Sukbin Confesses to Building a Throne with Dead Princes
The Crown Prince shows Saeng-gang the poison that killed him just as the King wakes and orders an entire plague village put to death. Gu-cheon has ten days to d
The East Palace Episode 7 Review: "Episode 7" — The King Eats the Poison Evidence, Gu-cheon Takes a Gwi-mae's Eyes, and the Crown Prince Feeds on the Plague Dead
Gu-cheon brings Saeng-gang back from possession only to tell her that a gwi-mae destroyed her mother's soul during the rescue, then tries to push her away befor
The East Palace Episode 8 Review: "Episode 8" — Saeng-gang Drugs Gu-cheon, the King Confesses to the Plague Dead, and Gu-cheon Obliterates the Crown Prince
The Crown Prince turns the Yeoje rite into a feeding ground, leaving Gu-cheon to appease the plague dead and seal what remains. An emaciated gwi-mae predicts th