Two leading actors of the “Goblin/Guardian” Gong-Yoo and Lee Dong-Wook have become one key success factor of the drama. Their acting skills and stellar performance are able to win the audience around the world and also in Korea.
After gaining global recognition through his role as main character in “Train to Busan,” Gong-Yoo took the role in “Goblin/Guardian” as the titular character, the Goblin general Kim-Shin. The acting in the drama is quite challenging, because both script writer Kim Eun-Sook and director used special approach to the drama which is very different from their previos work”Descendants of the Sun.”
Their new approach combine the comedy, satire and tragedy into one fantasy drama. This requires both Gong-Yoo and Lee to play many spectrum of emotions. Both actors played excellent and Seoul Daily News took special note of their acting.
Lee who plays as the grim reaper encounter the Goblin when his job was interfered by the Goblin. The first time was during the accident when a car hit Ji Eun-Tak’s mother who was pregnant.
Goblin cancelled her death at that time when she called for deity to help. Goblin’s help making the baby in her womb, Eun-Tak to become his bride when she reached adulthood. Her destiny is to end Goblin’s immortality by pulling out the sword in his chest.
In the episode 13 aired on Friday, Jan. 13, Goblin ended his immortality and killing his arch enemy using the sword. The episode reached the highest ratings to gain 14.25 percent average ratings in the AGB Nielsen Korea as reported by Asia Today . In TnMs the ratings reached 15.3 percent.
For the drama aired on cable channel TV, its ratings is relatively four times lower than that of the public TV station.Therefore, ratings above 10 percent for the cable channel program is considered very high.
“Goblin/Guardian” Episode 13 ended with a major cliffhanger to the audience, which makes the production team have to postpone the Episode 14. They would not want to risk the ratings to go lower by making the bad decision.
Watch the defining moment of the "Goblin/Guardian" Episode 13 from the tvN Drama official channel below:
