I really enjoyed most of this season as a little appetizer. Some familiar faces, tie up some familiar plot lines, get in some good palace intrigue and romance without drawing this out for dozens of dozens of episodes.

Then the last episode and a half happens and it goes really weird. The cap the season with an explanation, but it made this super short season a little draggy since it was off topic and weird.

So aside from that strange tangent, it is a tight and focused extension of the original series with a bigger budget if the costumes are any indication. You do need to know the original series to enjoy this one since most of the plot is based on storylines from that. If you don’t remember every detail, they give enough detail to jog your memory.

Overall, enjoyable as just a little taste of a series, but that weird turn was just too weird.