Madam Han, upon stepping out of the car, cries, “Ahjumma!” And the two embrace like long-lost sisters – or lovers. I loved the scene in episode 19 where the two women reunite. Beneath the petty disagreements, these two genuinely cared for each other. Irreverent, light and very, very amusing, I could’ve watched these two and their antics for episodes on end.Īside from the comedy, though, theirs was one of the most endearing relationships in the show. She purses her lips that she can’t return the pillow now, but brightens that she’s now in the mood for chicken and beer.
The two women freeze in wonder, until Madam Han realizes that the feathers aren’t goose down but chicken feathers. They often shared comic scenes, such as the one above, where a mild tussle between a hungover, suspicious Madam Han (Kim Sung Ryung) and a hastily contrite Madam Park (Kim Mi Kyung) escalates into a full-on pillow fight, which then suddenly turns on its head into a magical, dreamy moment as the pillow explosion brings on floaty, slo-mo feather snow. The relationship between Tan’s mom and Eun Sang’s mom On a side note, I thought I’d mention that while certain tracks on the OST nearly drove me batty with overuse as I watched the show ( Love is the Momeeeennnt, anyone?), I realize there are some tracks on the OST that I actually rather like. So instead of doing a proper breakdown of the show, I thought I’d just give you a couple of highlights: things I liked, things I didn’t like, and things I would’ve liked. To continue enjoying watching the show, I learned to accept that in the world of Heirs, Not Everything Makes Sense. Woobie looks great either way, but still. Especially since everything else in the story stayed essentially the same. One too many stare-downs made for ineffective, boring cliffhangers. And I felt like that’s what Heirs was doing going in circles a lot, but with nothing substantial happening, for way too long. The episodes just went in circles around that one theme. For each of those seasons, our female lead was still in love with McDreamy, pretty much. Kinda like Grey’s Anatomy, which I followed for something like 3 seasons. In that sense, watching Heirs felt like watching an American soap which goes on indefinitely, season upon season, and no one and nothing essentially changes from episode to episode. But Heirs, at 20 episodes long, seemed to take forever and then some to get going in earnest with its story. Which wouldn’t be such a problem if this were a long-running daily with an episode count upwards of 150. By the time we were 12 – TWELVE! – whole episodes in, it hardly felt like we’d gotten our foot out the door.
I wanted to like this, I really did.Īs we entered the first couple of episodes, I assumed the slow pace was simply an effect of us being in the set-up episodes, and that once the necessary pieces were properly put in place, that we’d really get started on our story. Here’s the OST album in case you’d like to listen to it while you read the review. And indifference, I realize, is really not a very inspiring place to be. Pleasant enough but far from cracky, Heirs is a show that never fired up my emotions one way or the other. Just don’t expect a properly fleshed out story or robust character & relationship development arcs.
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On the plus side, Kim Woo Bin is the resident scene-stealer (and he steals those scenes, so well), while several other secondary characters are likable and amusing. I n actual fact, though, the show doesn’t really want to do anything except provide a platform for its OTP to go through the requisite angsty steps (angsty coz this is ultimately more melo than rom-com) to get to their happy-ever-after, which was a given from the very beginning (ok, the happy ending’s sorta more rom-com). A teen melodrama dressed up to pass off as a posh teen rom-com.Īt first glance, this show might look like it wants to do too much, what with its over-bloated, gigantic cast.
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