Rating: 6/10
The Cast:
Lee Min Ho as
Kim Tan
Park Shin Hye as Cha
Eun Sang
Kim Woo Bin as
Choi Young Do
Kim Ji Won as
Rachel Yoo
and many other actors that will be too much to be mentioned
The Plot:
Second
son and the heir of Jeguk company, Kim Tan, exiled to California by his family.
In California he meets Cha Eun Sang, daughter of the mute housekeeper in Kim’s
family. They fall for each other while try to defy the social norms, classes,
and society pressure.
Review:
Starring
Lee Min Ho, Park Shin Hye, Kim Woo Bin, along with up-and-coming rising stars
and star writer Kim Eun Sook, you wold expect the drama can do no wrong. Wrong,
actually. It spends 20 hours on mopey faces, endless angst, crazy second leads,
evil parents, and Lee Min Ho’s fashion crimes. Anticipated by kdrama fans
worldwide, Heirs crumble under its
own weight. One of the main problems is because the cast, especially the main
leads look nothing like high school student although the drama set in high
school. Second problem, although it spends million dollars to shoot in
California to show Kim Tan’s wealth, the writer and producers forget to spend
the budget to improve actors’ English skills. To say I’m embarrassed watching
Lee Min Ho speak English is an understatement.
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| Lee Bona - Yoon Chan Young |
Third problem, Heirs promises everything and shows (almost) nothing. Is it because
the writer tries to give social commentary on chaebol’s world and fail or the
writer doesn’t confident of her story? I don’t know. The story seems half baked
and seems hypocrite. So it’s okay for Kim Tan to do whatever he wants but not
okay for his older brother? Fourth problem, music director messed up the music.
The music and OSTs rather than enhance the show, almost make me died laughing
every time the main OST being played. There’s nothing wrong with the main OST
musically, Moment, sung by 2AM
Changmin. But when you heard “love is the moment….” for a thousand times, you
bound to laugh at the cheesiness. Also, I noticed Germany national song being
played in background in episode 1 when the cast had family dinner. I was like,
WTH? Is there no classical music good enough to accompany the scene? Fifth
problem, Kim Tan and Cha Eun Sang character. Kim Tan has tendency to be abusive
while Eun Sang can’t stand the ground for herself. She’s too scared to fight
against the injustice. It doesn’t help when Lee Min Ho looks sleepwalking,
while Park Shin Hye is crywalking (she cried for about thousand times in the
drama).
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| Choi Young Do <3 |
Despite
many problems, I confess I watch the show until the very end. One of the silver
linings of this drama is Kim Woo Bin’s portrayal of Choi Young Do. Kim Woo Bin
reminds me the very definition of Ki Hoon’s character in Cinderella’s Sister.
“If he told me the moon is square, I would believe it.” KWB is totally
charismatic actor that will make me believe everything he said… In Heirs he is
the only person with gradual growth and most satisfying storyline. The second
silver lining is Lee Bo Na and Yoon Chan Young, played by f(X) Krystal and
CNBLUE’s Minhyuk respectively. They are cute together and provide comic relief,
they also prove that love is indeed can break social barrier if your love
strong enough. All in all if you’re fan of the lead, you may want to check it
out, but if not it’s not worth your time except for few brilliant and funny
scenes.
Life Lesson:
1. Don’t ever fall in love with chaebol. Your love is bound
to be destroyed and most probably you’ll be sent to abroad in exchange to break
up with the chaebol’s children.
2. If you have good fashion sense, send your CV to Lee Min
Ho’s manager and/or management company.
3. If you can write and read Korean, go and write Heirs on your own. I'm pretty sure it's better than the original
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