Oops I was rewriting my comment and deleted the original before I realized it had been responded to. Here's the revision fwiw:

That poster for Knight Flower is fabulous. But dare I ask beanies this question? Ok, I dare. Does the poster suggest to you a COMEDY sageuk? Because it doesn't to me, and I'm starting to get seriously annoyed with marketing lately that does absolutely no favors when it misrepresents a series in genre, style, or tone.

The writing on the right side reads: "If the strict laws of the country cannot save the powerless, then why not save them?"

Ok, I can see that COULD be used in a comedy context. But not with that poster art.

IDK, maybe I'm making too big a deal out of it, but I'm feeling a little burned lately by marketing that promises one type of story but we get something different. It's like picking up what you think is coffee and tasting tea instead (just and example, no insults intended to either coffee or tea 😉)

unfortunately yes, there are influencers who say they are entrepreneurs, call themselves company presidents and some even say they are professors when in fact they jus have a youtube channel. at least they make it easier to decide who to throw to zombies during apocalypse

No. 2. MBC’s FLOWERS THAT BLOOM AT NIGHT/KNIGHT FLOWER (12 eps).
Re your questions, for the first I am assuming yes, and for the second, I am assuming yes. So further assuming, Lee Jong-won will probably be the Knight.
The three main leads Honey Lee, Lee Jong-won and Lee Ki-woo are all dramatically blank slates for me. (I don’t recall LJW’s role in HP2.)
What I found interesting on this drama’s MDL entry are the supporting cast. (Heavy) Kim Sang-joong returns to the small screen for the first time since 2019 (MBC’s THE BANKER) and I really enjoyed Park Ju-hyun way back in tvN’s A PIECE OF YOUR MIND (2020).
Since I am watching GKW, I don’t think I will be taking on another sageuk, even a supposedly comedy sageuk, but Kim Sang-joong may tip the balance in favor of a look (that is if it available on a legal US stream).

Not all second leads are degrades. If anything, Kim Eun-sook knows how to write impressionable characters who shine when it's their time to shine. So main lead or not, I'm sure that there us something big in there.

Plus, if you look at the casting, it's Won-bin and Suzy as main leads. Ahn Eun-jin is joining as supporting. The main leads are seasoned actors in their own right. Same as Lee Byung-hoon and Kim Taeri(whom I've come to respect) in Mr. Sunshine. Being cast as a SL against acting forces such as these is way better unlike when seasoned actors are casted as SLs against actors who can't act to save their lives. Like when Kwon Yul waa casted as a SL and Na In-woo as a male. Now that is what you call a degrade.
I know that Song Hye-kyo's acting hardly leaves a united taste on viewers' palate so I can't really say about that, but she did wonderfully well here. However, Lee Do-hyun as ML when the better obvious choice, Park Sung-hoon, is there is like a degrade to me.

Summary of all these chitchat :- This one, this casting in All Shall Come True isn't a degrade.

Kim Eun-Sook writes great second leads.

In Goblin, they had the own story and their own love story.

In Mr Sunshine, it was the same. Their characters were important to the story, they had a backstory, a development and they were badass too.

Kim Seon-Ho became way more famous after his second lead role in Start-Up than in his first lead roles.

Sometimes a second lead role in a high profile drama, especially one with a hitmaker of an writer who is capable of making supporting roles that don't just exist to serve the leads, is just worth it for exposure and networking/connections. Someone like KES would have connections to well-known directors too.

Lee Dong-wook actually reached out to Kim Eun-sook for the reaper role.

The Glory worked out really well for PSH. The ML character is not that interesting. PSH had a much more interesting villain character, and I think got more attention than Lee Do-hyun for the role. Lim Ji-yeon got some buzz when she debuted with Obsessed, but despite some lead roles, she didn't get widespread recognition until The Glory.

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Lighting candles here with you. I can't take another serial killer storyline in what should be a simple romantic story.

Prayers up. Just be good and bring us PMR joy.

Also, I am just really, REALLY looking forward to the patented Ji Chang-Wook Kiss Scenes (TM) - MAKE 'EM GOOD! *heart eyes*

rangry? raging angry? LOL

I will watch just for the ML's smiles!

Honey Lee's drama looks fun and she also has an intriguing poster!