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Review | Amazon Prime K-drama Spice Up Our Love review: an inventive No Gain No Love spin-off

This fantasy drama follows an erotic-novel author who turns into the lead character from one of her web stories, both played by Han Ji-hyun

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Lee Sang-yi as corporate heir Bok Gyu-hyun in a still from Spice Up Our Love.

4/5 stars

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Lead cast: Lee Sang-yi, Han Ji-hyun

Lee Sang-yi and Han Ji-hyun, who portrayed the secondary romantic coupling in No Gain No Love, which finished its run on Amazon Prime at the end of last month, return for a final hurrah in the inventive spin-off drama Spice Up Our Love.
Lee (Bloodhounds) and Han (The Penthouse) played corporate heir Bok Gyu-hyun and web erotic-novel author Nam Ja-yeon in the parent series and, while they reprise those characters here, they also portray a pair of other protagonists.
Spice Up Our Love Official Trailer | Prime Video

Reminiscent of shows like Extraordinary You and Dramaworld, this limited series hops between adaptation, fantasy and reality as it gleefully deconstructs the codes of Korean romantic dramas.

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