Untold Scandal
“Forbidden desire from the far east.”
DramaRomance
In late 1700s Korea, Lady Cho challenges the playboy Lord Jo-won into seducing and sleeping with her husband's coming young, virgin concubine. Lady Cho agrees to sleep with him if he succeeds.
VIBE
A lavishly staged, intensely erotic period piece. It feels like a slow, simmering descent into forbidden desire and inevitable tragedy, wrapped in opulent visuals and simmering tension. A truly mature and provocative experience.
sensualmelancholicintenseopulenttragicslow-burnperiod dramaerotic thrillerhistoricalarthousedesirebetrayalclassforbidden lovesocietal constraints
based on novel or bookblackmaileroticismseductionsexual promiscuityperiod dramahistoricaltragic eventmature18th centurycatholicismcousin relationshipreligious persecutionjoseon dynasty (1392–1910)
