I was reminded of Love & the Emperor when I started watching this series as both are about a female protagonist who enters a game world. While Love & the Emperor suffers from some problems with its switches between "reality" to the game world, My Queen largely avoids such problems at the expense of making the "real world" quite redundant. Why not just tell the same story without making it a story within a game the protagonist is playing? Sure, there won't be the moments when the protagonist is self-consciously analyzing the plot and commenting on the clichés, but that's not really a big loss. If the plot is full of clichés, it doesn't really help to have the protagonist openly calling a spade a spade.

The series has its entertainment value--expect some laughs, but don't expect it to move you to tears or make you think deeply about life. (That can be a good thing if all you want is something light enough to escape into.) One of the countries in the world of the game is supposedly one in which women are dominant, but don't expect any interesting feminist thought coming from the story. Somehow, even in a world where women are dominant, women from the palace somehow have to go out dressed as men? Think too much about the story, and you will likely be disappointed. Just sit back and enjoy the flight of fancy if it happens to be your cup of tea.