The veil finally lifts on KBS’s hyped experimental-format variety-drama The Producers, and I’m happy to report that it’s great. I was afraid it wouldn’t live up to its hype (since there was ever so much of it), but the show delivers, and I’m pleased. One of the show’s big selling points was the incorporation of real people and names into the fictional narrative, making for a hybrid “real variety” format (which turns out to just mean mockumentary, because the characters are also being filmed by a docu team within the show)—but really, at the core you have a funny writer and great characters, acted well by a winning cast.

Minah is forced into an arranged marriage to a seemingly perfect rich man. Behind the dollar bills and high status, she will find out the truth about her arranged lover and sudden ceremony. [unedited]

Lee Yejin is a girl that loves to dance but no one knows about her extraordinary talent except her best friend, Dayoung. So when Dayoung manages to get her in an audition for YG as BigBang's background dancer, she passed with flying colors. As she works, she gets closer to the BigBang boys, but as she got closer to them, she made an enemy in a every high place. And when Yejin finds the man she thinks she loves, that enemy will do anything they can to break them up. (WARNING: I stink at writing intros.)