Latest / Daebak K-Rambles Podcast: K-drama Reviews / The Heirs | Full K-drama Review/ Ep. 41
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- 0:18I'm Jessica and this is devic a rumbles or a couple of friends
- 0:21review, Korean dramas, and I'm back.
- 0:23I'm back from vacation. We're back from the small Hiatus
- 0:26here and I'm excited. Because for this, So die.
- 0:30I am joined by Sammy. Sammy from Korean from Context
- 0:34on Tick, Tock in the socials and from the bo-buddies podcast.
- 0:37How are you Sammy? What's up?
- 0:40I'm good. How are you?
- 0:41Good? Yeah, so we've been friendly for
- 0:44a while on Tick Tock. I love all of your dick togs and
- 0:48I was like, oh my God, Sammy would be such a great voice on a
- 0:53podcast episode. So I invited you on.
- 0:55You have, actually, you're actually a writer, first of all,
- 0:59and you Couple of books out that you're so graciously going to
- 1:04send me. But honestly if you haven't
- 1:06picked up some of her books, there's two of them right now
- 1:09and she's working on more, please do.
- 1:11So they will help you learn Korean as well, which is an
- 1:15added bonus. Yes.
- 1:17Yeah, but their romance right? Like I'm not wrong in thing.
- 1:20Yes. They're kdrama inspired so it
- 1:22was all kdrama inspired romances.
- 1:26Yep. So how did you get into kdramas
- 1:29really fast? And it's funny.
- 1:32The simple answer is the try guys expected at see Yugi, I've
- 1:42made them all, go to kcon in Allah and this is I mean way
- 1:47back like I mean positive years ago and he made them reenact a
- 1:53kdrama scene and I couldn't understand this seen.
- 1:56It made no sense to me. I was like I need to Stand.
- 2:01From. So I found the kdrama which was
- 2:03my love from another star godhead and I watched it, I
- 2:08found it on DramaFever, aren't I know?
- 2:16And so I watched it like in two days and I went, I need more of
- 2:22this. I need everything that has ever
- 2:25come out. I want it all.
- 2:27And that was literally the beginning of the end for me.
- 2:30Wow. Wow, that is a fantastic story.
- 2:34I love the try guys. They just had a mean not too
- 2:37long ago. There was like this giant
- 2:38Scandal, but anyway, oh yeah. I Ryan guys is like a pillar of
- 2:43YouTube and I can't believe that they got that.
- 2:47Like Eugene got you to watch a kdrama My Love from the Star
- 2:51which we reviewed earlier. Yeah, give my love from the star
- 2:55is like a Gateway. Holly wave drama and it got you.
- 3:01It hooked me sucked me in and I and I was literally just trying
- 3:05to find this scene that they had re-enacted like, that was my
- 3:08only goal. And I think that seems Maybe The
- 3:14eighth or ninth episode and I still binged, I was like, nope,
- 3:18I want the rest, I need to know what happened.
- 3:20What happened to the alien in the movie star?
- 3:23Thanks. Oh my God.
- 3:25I'm you know what? That was probably the top answer
- 3:28that I've had. From asking this question,
- 3:31everybody like wow, glad you're here.
- 3:35Really excited to cover. The drama that we're going to
- 3:38cover which is The Heirs / inheritors.
- 3:42And before we get into it, if this is your first time
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- 4:22Love you guys. And without further Ado, we're
- 4:24going to get started on this non-spoiler section.
- 4:27I'm going to go ahead and read off the Asian Wiki synopsis
- 4:29which I actually like cobbled together with the my drama
- 4:32listen apis because they were both like incoherent so you know
- 4:36about it you know about it. Hmm yeah.
- 4:39So here goes The Heirs, depicts the friendships rivalries and
- 4:42love life. As of Young Rich, airs led by
- 4:44Captain and his girl, and a girl named tan sang Kim Tan is the
- 4:49heir to Empire group, who has been sent to study abroad in the
- 4:52u.s. in reality, it's a form of Exile as his Elder half-brother
- 4:56back home schemes to take over the family business.
- 4:59While in the state's Kim Tan, meets Town song, who arrived
- 5:01from Korea in search of her older sister, he feels himself
- 5:04falling for her. I never realizing that she's the
- 5:06daughter of his family's housekeeper.
- 5:13Yeah, so this drama aired from October to December 2013.
- 5:18I was there. Where's my little sign?
- 5:21The this little badge that says like I was there because I
- 5:25watched it pretty much as it was airing or close to when it was
- 5:29finishing airing. It is 20 episodes long.
- 5:32It's co-directed by two directors Congress Jean Hill who
- 5:36you might know him as the Director of tale of the
- 5:38nine-tailed. The 2020 tale of nine-tailed and
- 5:43the 1938 which is just starting to are right now at the time of
- 5:48this recording. And I know have you watched till
- 5:51the nine-tailed? I haven't.
- 5:53But my cousin has been trying to convince me to II.
- 5:57Think I might not have to might have to do it.
- 6:00Okay, so here's the thing. I have like no desire to watch
- 6:04tale of the nine-tailed. I have no, there's nothing.
- 6:09Me. Watch it.
- 6:11Have no sense of urgency. People are like, I can't wait
- 6:14for 1930. I'm like, that's great.
- 6:16Great. Yeah, I have no, I think.
- 6:19Unfortunately, I've seen the spoilers so like I know the
- 6:24things that happen so it like it's kind of pointless for me to
- 6:27watch now because I I see the things that I'm just like you
- 6:31know, I don't want to be I don't need.
- 6:32Trauma right now, I don't need trauma.
- 6:36Yeah, so there's that and then Ayers was also code.
- 6:39Acted by a boost on Joel he's directed, ghost, doctor mask and
- 6:44my girlfriend is a Gumiho from 2010 among others.
- 6:48Of course, I think this is the star of the behind the scenes
- 6:51team Aires was written by by chemo and suck the cumin sock
- 6:57from so many other dramas she's written the lovers series from
- 7:02the early 2000s which is lovers lovers in Prague and lovers in
- 7:05Paris. She's written, Secret Garden,
- 7:08gentleman's dignity. Descendants of the sun,
- 7:11Guardian. The great and lonely gosh AKA
- 7:14Goblin. She's written mr.
- 7:16Sunshine, she's written the king Eternal Monarch, also with Lee
- 7:21Min-ho. She's written obviously.
- 7:23And most importantly in recently, the glory Parts, 1 and
- 7:262, which just kind of swept at the back song Awards and got
- 7:30nominated a lot. So that's Kim min-seok.
- 7:34Have you watched other Kim Suk dramas I have.
- 7:38I I loved the king Eternal Monarch because I love the long
- 7:45has such a great part. Yes, stole that entire series
- 7:50for me? I literally only watched it for
- 7:52him. Oh yeah, great.
- 7:54So I love Lee Min-ho. I've always been looking like a
- 7:58low-key Lee Min-ho fan at first, I was a high key, like, I love
- 8:02women who I watch anything, he's in now.
- 8:04I'm like, I didn't like, oh, you know, lesser stockholder of
- 8:07Lehman who like stocks, And sold your shares.
- 8:11Yeah. Like I sold some shares you know
- 8:13I'm gonna be it's very casual. So I was like oh lee minho's
- 8:16coming out with a new drama big deal and it had keep going in it
- 8:21and I was like, oh my God, I love Kim.
- 8:23I have more more stocks and can go and then I do in Lima not at
- 8:26this point. So I watched it and I was
- 8:29befuddled 100% of the time and I'm a person who loves
- 8:35time-traveled, loves fantasy will you know give anything a
- 8:39shot. And watched it and was like,
- 8:42this is a mess. Like I can't even deal with
- 8:45this. It was a holiday lawn was the
- 8:47only reason. Oh yeah.
- 8:49Oh yeah. Enjoy it at all.
- 8:50Yes. Oh, but I'm, I did love Goblin.
- 8:54Yes, whistling like that was Justice.
- 8:58Hi, SOB SOB. No matter how many times I watch
- 9:02that show. I will cry.
- 9:04Yeah, guaranteed no, no, Henry, sighs, somewhere inside, he's
- 9:08disappearing in. Front of King gun and she's
- 9:12doing those like guttural like sobs.
- 9:15I'm like, I'm a wreck. Like I can't really deal with
- 9:18her right now and it's perfect. So I we've covered a lot of Kim
- 9:24and suck on the podcast. I think maybe you could say,
- 9:26this is a low-key like, come on, suck podcast because we've ended
- 9:30up covering descendants of the sun, Goblin mr.
- 9:32Sunshine the glory and we're here.
- 9:37If the heirs after the fact that was not intentional for me to
- 9:43for us to review the glory, and then the airs but it's fine.
- 9:47We're here, it's going to happen.
- 9:50I guess we should move on to the cast, which this Stars.
- 9:53Lee Min Ho has King done. Well, I mean, he's been in
- 9:57everything. It like, not everything, but
- 9:59he's been in a lot of stuff. My personal favorite is City
- 10:03Hunter. I don't know if you have a
- 10:06favorite like, Lee Min-ho, probably don't.
- 10:09This is actually my well, excluding the king Eternal
- 10:13Monarch. This is the only Lee Min-ho
- 10:15kdrama. I watched, I'm shocked.
- 10:18Look, I'm just really shy. So, wow.
- 10:23Oh my God, what am I gonna do? Okay, so how do I put this
- 10:28picture? The years like 2011.
- 10:31And I've watched voiceover. Flowers as like my second kdrama
- 10:37ever. And I'm like smitten head over
- 10:38heels for Lehman ho, and I watched promptly watched
- 10:45Personal Taste and City Hunter and then Faith came out.
- 10:48Not long after that, which is now the Year's 2012 and I was
- 10:53just like, eating up Lee Min-ho, content.
- 10:56I love the man. I thought he could do no wrong
- 10:58and I remember it was like not long and like maybe a couple of
- 11:01years after I watch faith. I was like, man, I love that
- 11:04show so much. Going to re-watch it.
- 11:06So I restarted we wash. It was like, this is a hot, this
- 11:08is terrible. I was like, why did I that was
- 11:12not far removed from when I actually first watched faith and
- 11:15when it aired. So yeah.
- 11:19It was, the calm down was pretty hard from dramas and I'd like
- 11:24to, we can have a discussion on whether he's a great actor or
- 11:27whether he's a passable actor or whether he chooses projects
- 11:30really well and like what have you?
- 11:33But yeah. So there's a Discussion to have,
- 11:35I guess in a little bit about leaving.
- 11:37No, but his cuffs are. Yeah.
- 11:40His co-star is Pock seen a, she plays chanseong and pox Shanae
- 11:46had was like a staple of, you know, 2010's and linked to
- 11:52thousands kdrama. She was in your beautiful
- 11:55heartstrings Flower Boy, Next Door, Pinocchio, doctors the one
- 12:00I really love memories of the Alhambra which is like a premium
- 12:04amazing. Onset that they just like
- 12:06squandered. Oh my God I'm so glad you feel
- 12:10that way. Yeah.
- 12:11Did not like it and then I was like I'm so mad memories of the
- 12:16Alhambra. I have not watched epoxy
- 12:19teenaged drama since. Okay.
- 12:22I stole my God. Yeah, I didn't know.
- 12:24I skipped Sisyphus and she's coming out later this year with
- 12:27dr. Something to say, I never even
- 12:29heard that one. I was like, I, when I saw that,
- 12:31I'm thing. I was like, well good for her, I
- 12:33guess. Yeah.
- 12:34Because she One off and got married to Ted to try to June.
- 12:39And then she had a child, right? Yeah.
- 12:42Now she's a mother and like, great so happy for her good for
- 12:45her. I loved seeing the wedding
- 12:47photos and stuff really happy for her but now she's back
- 12:49working. And I'm like girl are you going
- 12:51to keep with the you know quality that you've been putting
- 12:56out lately or what? So yeah but I like her movie
- 13:00stuff better. I know if you've seen some of
- 13:02her movies, she was I saw her. ER, in my annoying brother.
- 13:06Yeah, I saw that movie, I movies guy.
- 13:10Listen, Korean, movies are something else because you think
- 13:15they're going one way. You know left.
- 13:17There's a hard time then. Boom, your sobbing
- 13:21uncontrollably. Yeah, they marketed that movie.
- 13:25They marketed my annoying brother as a comedy.
- 13:27Yes. So I went into it as a comedy
- 13:32And by the end I'm ugly Kim K crying.
- 13:36Like it was so bad it was so I was like you can.
- 13:40Yeah. This is no time to explain.
- 13:42Did he kick you do this to me? Oh, oh oh God, yes so good.
- 13:47I loved it but man was I not expecting that from that movie.
- 13:51Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
- 13:53Yeah, I completely 100% agree. If you haven't watched my
- 13:58annoying brother, definitely give it a shot.
- 14:00It's not it's just not like the Main.
- 14:02That's not her brother anything, but she's in it.
- 14:05She's great. I watch her in the Royal Tailor,
- 14:09which is a period piece. She was, she played the queen
- 14:12great movie Beauty inside which is a great movie.
- 14:16They turn into kdrama. I heard, mixed things about the
- 14:18kdrama hashtag live, which I was like, oh girl, I see you.
- 14:24Like this was actually a pretty good zombie movie and she was
- 14:29good. She was really good in it.
- 14:31And then the call have you seen The call.
- 14:33I've heard of it though. Oh my God.
- 14:36So it was, it's a, how do I put it?
- 14:42Like she talks to a person from the like two to three years
- 14:47prior in the past through like a phone supernaturally in their
- 14:51living in the same house. Sort of like the lake house sort
- 14:53of deal. Okay.
- 14:54Yeah except Thriller Not romance and it's quite unbelievable.
- 15:04Like movie. Wasn't there a movie like that?
- 15:07Not with the time past thing. But it had one of the Chris's
- 15:14like it was an American uh-huh, where he answered a phone call
- 15:18because she just dialed a random number and she was like
- 15:22kidnapped This and he's so familiar.
- 15:26Oh my God, the one who plays Captain America, okay, Chris
- 15:29Evans, Chris Evans. Yeah.
- 15:31Yeah. He answers the phone and like
- 15:34has to save her. Okay.
- 15:37I don't I don't know the name of it but yeah this isn't a new
- 15:41like talking to someone from the past via some Supernatural means
- 15:47on a really everyday device. It's not like Reinventing the
- 15:55wheel the wheel here but I think that the suspense and you didn't
- 15:59know where this where was going to go, who was gonna win,
- 16:03there's a serial killer obviously involved.
- 16:06And it just gets way out of hand.
- 16:09So I liked her and that I was pretty impressed.
- 16:13Yeah, it's actually a Netflix. I think it might might be a
- 16:15Netflix original. But anyway, that's pakshi day.
- 16:20We have a couple supporting and then we'll just get into General
- 16:23thoughts. So we have Kim woo-bin
- 16:24supporting as to Young though. He's the second male lead.
- 16:31Yeah, this is one of his first roles.
- 16:34This is his breakout role really.
- 16:36No one, he wasn't like a household name before this.
- 16:39It was this role that sort of put him on the map and then he
- 16:43followed this up, few years later with uncontrollably fond,
- 16:47which I don't know if you've seen that one with Bae, Suzy,
- 16:50you seen it? Oh my God, that when I
- 16:53definitely remember watching as it aired on DramaFever crushed
- 16:58and being crushed. Well I just it was like I got
- 17:01side lie like I got Just hammered.
- 17:07Oh yeah. Like there was no I got T-boned,
- 17:11you know, like I didn't know it was coming.
- 17:13Yeah, yeah. Did not see it coming and you're
- 17:15like, wait, what it was? And you're like, it's what just
- 17:19happened? Yeah, I'm sorry what just
- 17:22happened? I don't.
- 17:24So he does that. Then he gets diagnosed with
- 17:28cancer and he's off like getting treated and recovering from
- 17:34Cancer four years and doesn't do much in his career.
- 17:39And then now he's back, right? Like he did our Blues last year
- 17:43in 2022, and now he's doing Black Knight, which is a Netflix
- 17:47original coming out, like, a few weeks or something like that.
- 17:52Yeah, say soon. Yeah.
- 17:53So that's keep Movin. And lastly, we have Kim d. 1.
- 17:57She plays Rachel. You, she's the second female
- 18:00lead. One of the second thing.
- 18:01I don't even know. So We'll talk about it, I guess.
- 18:06And yeah, again one of her breakout roles that, it's just
- 18:10like her breakout role and then a few years later she comes in
- 18:13with descendants of the sun which again is another human
- 18:17suck project. I guess you really liked the the
- 18:21writer and she came back for more.
- 18:23She's been in fight for my way arth doll Chronicles.
- 18:27I don't want to talk about that a lot.
- 18:28I didn't realize that's been in a bunch of people it.
- 18:31Yeah, yeah. Yeah, she's been in a lot.
- 18:34My Liberation notes. I think is the big one from last
- 18:37year, 2022. What do you feel?
- 18:39Like if you have any feelings about Kim 21 as an actress or
- 18:43anything? Yeah, we're talking The Heirs.
- 18:48I was like Okay about her, I did like her in descendants of the
- 18:56Sun, but I felt her role was very similar in the like I'm
- 19:01being cold. Like it's saying so and even in
- 19:05Love Struck in the city. Oh really?
- 19:08I haven't seen that one like oh, she's very like she had a
- 19:12fun-loving attitude when I don't want to spoil it so like but she
- 19:17has this fun-loving attitude in one like you.
- 19:20No portion of it right then she again, becomes that.
- 19:22Very stoic. I have no feelings person.
- 19:26Okay, I feel like they kind of they almost type cast her as the
- 19:30girl who doesn't show emotions, but has Rachel's.
- 19:33Like, she's basically playing a version of Rachel in a lot of
- 19:36projects. It wasn't until I saw in fight
- 19:39for my way in 2017 that I was like, oh my God she can do
- 19:42something else and she's really good as this other personality
- 19:47like actually trying something different.
- 19:49A totally In character. And then I wasn't impressed with
- 19:53her again until my Liberation notes from last year where I was
- 19:55like, oh my God yeah this is like totally different from
- 19:59Rachel, right? Like this is Rachel as like
- 20:03taking over much of her career ever since this year, 2013 with
- 20:07airs. So yeah I think that's it.
- 20:11Like we can talk about the rest of this.
- 20:14Really big cast in a bit but we're on the other side.
- 20:18Let me know what were your Thoughts on the airs.
- 20:24I, you know I was expect-- cuz I didn't watch it when it first
- 20:29came out, it never caught my attention and I think the main
- 20:35the main reason was for me I always tend to roll with high
- 20:41school dramas. Yes.
- 20:42Because I I always am like these are not targeted towards me.
- 20:46If this is not going to be something that I am.
- 20:48I'm going to enjoy simply for that fact.
- 20:51And so I tend to not pick them and Times I end up being
- 20:55disappointed because then I'll watch them and be like why
- 20:57didn't I watch this? You know, when it came out it
- 21:01was it ended up like extraordinary you.
- 21:04I was like it's a high school thing it's not going to and I
- 21:08ended up loving it because it made fun of the high school
- 21:11ones. Huh?
- 21:12You know that kind of thing I like that and I have to say
- 21:16going into it at first this show the airs was a struggle.
- 21:22It was a struggle. I even text.
- 21:24Stood you that again I said hey girl can we can we push this
- 21:29back a little bit? Yeah it's rough out here like it
- 21:32was it was rough that first episode and then you know I got
- 21:37past that first episode Okay, I get it.
- 21:41I can see why people were drawn to this show.
- 21:44I think I can see why people were, you know, I loved it so
- 21:49much like in that 20, but it was also a very 2013 drama.
- 21:55Uh-huh. When watching it, I was like, oh
- 21:58man, they haven't done this in years where you know, the three
- 22:02are standing in a triangle and she's just staring at both of
- 22:05them and the camera pans to all three like 15 times before.
- 22:10Cutscene the episode is over. Like I hadn't seen that in so
- 22:14long. It's like, oh, man, throwback.
- 22:17And I sure enough I did, I really did enjoy it more than I
- 22:24thought I was going to. Wow, I did, I did.
- 22:28Oh my God. Okay.
- 22:30Wow. What a Twist?
- 22:31Because I thought you were going to say, I didn't like it was a
- 22:33struggle to get through it, and, you know, I ended up not liking
- 22:36it, so I'm going to come in a little bit hot here.
- 22:38So, So glad the heavy whoops I watched it very near to December
- 22:452013 when it finished airing and believe I watched it on
- 22:50DramaFever and high RF P RV if you know you know and I was
- 22:59excited I knew that this was a really big deal.
- 23:02That Lee Min Ho is another High School drama and that it that
- 23:07what it was like, buzzing right? Even Wasn't on Reddit, I wasn't
- 23:11on Instagram. Like I wasn't immersed in the
- 23:13kdrama community like I am. Now I knew that this was a huge
- 23:17deal that people were watching that this was popular.
- 23:20And I think that I was really Blown Away by the fact that they
- 23:26film, like, the first three episodes in California, that was
- 23:29a huge it. Now we don't really think so
- 23:31much about it. Yeah.
- 23:33But back then that was a huge deal for them to send the entire
- 23:36production overseas and to film on location and have this
- 23:39different How we weren't in Seoul, I was like, oh my God,
- 23:42like I was really riveted by those first three episodes and
- 23:46intrigued by this weird relationship that they were
- 23:51starting up. Basically there.
- 23:54She's a fish out of water and he's this weird Exile, he's an
- 23:59air and all this stuff and he's basically playing a version of
- 24:03could jump you from Boys Over Flowers, write that character.
- 24:07And I was like, okay, I Where this is going somewhere inside
- 24:13the next eighteen episodes. I think I remember being annoyed
- 24:21because, yeah, it was spreading white, like, the plot was
- 24:25wafer-thin, and it was treading water for like episodes on end,
- 24:30and there was a lot of wallowing and crying, and I don't remember
- 24:34being as a murse necessarily in like the I think I was more
- 24:40immersed in the drama but I wasn't like crying.
- 24:44I wasn't like, you know, Strung Out Over much of this drama and
- 24:49I didn't remember a lot of it. So returning to it.
- 24:54I was like, wow, they're filming in California.
- 24:57Like I started around the same like Serta cycle where I was
- 25:00like, oh yeah, like they did this whole California Bay and I
- 25:02was like laughing, it it's so bad like it's ridiculous, it's
- 25:06horrendous. It?
- 25:10What? That's why I said.
- 25:11It's bad to get through that episode.
- 25:13And um I think I also, I remember, being really sort of
- 25:20surprised that her mother Town sangs, mother was mute like that
- 25:26was a huge deal to me back in the day I was like I've never
- 25:29seen a character with a disability like that and like
- 25:34they're doing sign language and stuff back and forth.
- 25:36I was like, this is amazing. So I thought like in my Limit.
- 25:40This wasn't the term back then, but like representation was
- 25:44really sort of a positive for me back in 2013 when I watch.
- 25:51But man, I couldn't I couldn't really get into it.
- 25:54This time around there was very few moments where I was like,
- 25:58yo, this is really cooking right now like this Clause really, you
- 26:03know, like it was the stories worn out, everybody's
- 26:08unreasonable. Oh, and it's so unreasonable.
- 26:14I didn't like Town song. I thought she had no
- 26:16personality. None, none whatsoever.
- 26:20None whatsoever. All these men were falling over
- 26:22their feet and so yeah, like I think, you know, I think maybe
- 26:27the reason I enjoyed it the way I did, it wasn't necessary was
- 26:32not necessarily the plot, it was not the acting or anything.
- 26:35I think it was that, that idea of I was watching an old kdrama
- 26:41in a current mines, dried, okay? And the things I enjoyed were
- 26:47things that I Kind of was like, oh my God, like things that I
- 26:52used to make fun of in kdramas, like the back, hugs, those like
- 26:57crazy back hugs, where she would like lose her.
- 26:59Oh my God, what are you doing? Yeah, giving me a hug Republic.
- 27:02How dare? And like things like that.
- 27:05I think that was and like you said the the Ridiculousness of
- 27:11how unwilling to see people's perspectives, right things,
- 27:16right? And like just You couldn't go
- 27:19from, like, they would go from A to Z and skin like all those
- 27:24letters in between and you were sitting there going, but but
- 27:27there were other options, right? Many other options exactly.
- 27:34Like it was like yeah. I think that's the reason I
- 27:38enjoyed watching it because this was my first time and so it kind
- 27:42of was like this In a weird way almost like a comfort of the old
- 27:49old shows. Like it was like, oh man.
- 27:51I kind of miss this. But do I really miss this?
- 27:54Because the amount of times, I rolled my eyes while watching it
- 27:58going. Oh my god, really, did he just
- 28:00say that? Oh my God, they really just.
- 28:02Yeah, but it still made me enjoy it.
- 28:06Like, I caught myself like laughing at things that was
- 28:12just, it was just that. Oh, man to be back in 20,
- 28:14Thirteen right? Yeah, that's exhibits a time.
- 28:17It's a time capsule for sure. Oh yeah, the show is painfully
- 28:212013 and the actors are from 2013, all their stylist.
- 28:28From there. The clothes, the makeup,
- 28:30everything is sort of retro now. Like, you think you look back on
- 28:35it and you're like, oh man, this is, I used to wear my hair like
- 28:38this or I, my sister had my hair, had this haircut and it
- 28:42didn't seem weird back then like that.
- 28:44Was it? What I noticed back in 2013, I
- 28:47was definitely, I was definitely picking up more on the romance
- 28:51aspect and now I'm picking up on the lack of Rome like, this
- 28:54doesn't, this story is very romantic to me at all.
- 28:57Now, rise fact, it's like it's creepy.
- 29:01It's yes, because he just shows up everywhere.
- 29:06Like any time she is being inconvenienced.
- 29:10He's there. How where when like what in the
- 29:15Edward Cullen? Are you doing in every location?
- 29:20That was that this girl is in that was literally thinking,
- 29:25might I have that in my notes that he's being such an Edward
- 29:28Cullen about the whole thing and why did like is this romance
- 29:33sweet? Or is it disturbing?
- 29:36I think it's like that now. I think it's disturbing that all
- 29:39100%, but back then, when I'd like, you know, Twilight was
- 29:43still popping back. Then it was, it was the thing to
- 29:46be like this creepy stalker. Essentially of the Pearlman
- 29:52thanked, both of them. Yes.
- 29:56Yes. But how how?
- 29:57Our day and he's finds her. He's there all the time
- 30:02everywhere. I'm sorry they were in a street
- 30:05corner. And he just shows up.
- 30:09What I can't even do that, if I tried, if I tried, if I use all
- 30:15my powers and I'm like, I think he's gonna be on this street
- 30:18corner. Be the wrong Street Corner.
- 30:20Soul is Sunnah, freaking huge. Exactly.
- 30:23Exactly, yeah. So lack of plot.
- 30:29A lot of pain and misery and manufactured angst and like an
- 30:33overabundance of flashbacks and Musical.
- 30:36Montages and just filler so much filler.
- 30:39Like I said, tone song is so annoying and indecisive and I
- 30:45mean there's nothing to latch onto there for her.
- 30:48I just don't understand why they even fell for her.
- 30:51I can maybe understand why she fell freaking ton maybe.
- 30:54Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
- 30:56I cut the other way. A rat like looking back at her.
- 30:59I'm like, I have seen nothing, like there's nothing.
- 31:05I hate to say it. She tends to play those
- 31:07characters and I, and I really didn't.
- 31:11I never liked her, unfortunately, because every
- 31:15drama I tended to watch of hers, that's what she was.
- 31:18She was this character who they tried to make you pity and made
- 31:25you like you, they made you pity her.
- 31:27Yep. And that's the reason that they
- 31:29should love her, right? And it was you Hazard a hard?
- 31:33So yeah, she got Typecast into that.
- 31:36Character and I know she did try and get out of it and I think
- 31:39she's still trying to MMM with like, you know, that along,
- 31:43bruh. You know, she tried to get out
- 31:46of uh-huh. That Typecast.
- 31:49Yeah, she was type classes like a Cinderella.
- 31:52Yeah, every time. Yeah, but boring Cinderella and
- 31:54boring, like, at least Cindy had like, you know, some chops on
- 31:58her. She had a and goals in life.
- 32:01She had friends and we'll friends, whatever you can make a
- 32:04play for Cinderella having Way more personality than passionate
- 32:09in this freakin drama. She's literally and again like
- 32:12the Cinderella comparison is really runs deep in this drama
- 32:15because she's literally living in the maids Closet in this
- 32:18giant mansion that what might as well be a castle and are pretty.
- 32:23In this case, this drama are Prince.
- 32:26Charming doesn't really care about being.
- 32:28The prince doesn't want the crown.
- 32:31If I had a nickel for every time they had a, he who Bears the
- 32:34crown like, Like a lion in this. Oh my God, yeah, I could go to
- 32:40Chipotle on it. So it is so I am kind of on this
- 32:47it like I think you liked the sort of kdrama nostalgia.
- 32:52Oh yeah, the show. But yeah once you start looking
- 32:57at it, it's like a it's like a Monet.
- 32:58Like look at it up close and you're like this is terrible.
- 33:02Yeah. This is absolute.
- 33:03It's like just what is happening?
- 33:05Yeah. Yeah, dang.
- 33:08So I do want to say a few like positive things because I feel
- 33:11like the chemistry between Pakistani and Lee Min Ho at
- 33:17times was. Okay or possible.
- 33:19Sometimes good. I liked when they were
- 33:22bickering, sometimes, they're bickering was pretty good.
- 33:25Like they were fast like they, yeah, the back and forth was
- 33:28fast. Remind me a little bit of
- 33:29Gilmore Girls and that the writing was a little bit witty
- 33:33during those moments when they were like, just Just snapping
- 33:36back and forth at each other. And having these sort of moments
- 33:40where they were like understanding each other, or she
- 33:42started flirting. All of a sudden, he was like, oh
- 33:44my God, like, she's flirting back with me.
- 33:46So it's doubt those were good parts but pretty much anything
- 33:50outside of that. I was like, okay, I think I'm
- 33:57going to take the op, not the opposite, but I actually liked
- 34:00her and woo-bin. Yes, the time about it.
- 34:06Really? I loved their bickering.
- 34:09And they're like, yeah, hate yeah, but not hate like him
- 34:16trying to figure out what he's really feeling about her by,
- 34:20like, being that bully but then realizing he doesn't want to
- 34:24bully her. But if it's the only way he
- 34:26knows how to show affection, right?
- 34:28You know this is so n an old-school mentality, right in
- 34:32the way. A lot of things are archaic in
- 34:34this but the fact that the boys are Using like straight up
- 34:37aggression to sort of woo, her and Kim.
- 34:40Woo. Bin, especially with his
- 34:41bullying, which I will talk about that.
- 34:44Yes, in a minute. But yeah.
- 34:46Him trying to like get her attention by being outright like
- 34:51snobbish and, and mean to her. Yeah, yeah.
- 34:54Is like woefully outdated but yeah.
- 34:57Later on you sort of angry for him.
- 34:59I know I was rooting for him and I'm like there should be no
- 35:03reason. This man is literally hundreds
- 35:05of red flags. There's not a single green flag.
- 35:08Yeah, I'm just sitting there going.
- 35:10I want you to have her, let him have her, and it's like, you
- 35:15know, like he would, and I think it was like, he would just,
- 35:17like, say random things that I would be like, oh, that's so
- 35:20cute. Like, oh, that's like, you know,
- 35:22like I remember him like he was sitting in the coffee shop and
- 35:27she's like, are you here to just like, you know, annoy me or
- 35:30whatever? And he just says, no, I was
- 35:32feeling lonely. I just keep my heart.
- 35:37My heart's telling the truth to her.
- 35:40Yes. And I think I was like you said
- 35:43I was rooting for him by the end of it.
- 35:45I was like, screw you man. Oh, I'm going with this guy.
- 35:49Like he's so whiny, like both of them are really whiny but by the
- 35:53end who has his head on more straight, it's Kim woobin's
- 35:56character. Hmm.
- 35:57In actuality. So, you know, you sort of root
- 36:00for him, you feel bad for him. As soon as his hair starts to do
- 36:03flea, and he goes down until like the beaver cut your like,
- 36:07oh, maybe it's not so bad. Oh my god.
- 36:11I didn't even think of that. It's what you just said it.
- 36:13And I just went. Oh my God.
- 36:15You're right. Yeah, his hair just gets
- 36:17progressively, mom, beer. Oh my God.
- 36:22Oh my God. The speaking of hair pop action
- 36:25is hair. Like, it doesn't matter.
- 36:27What is happening to her. She could be working three
- 36:30part-time jobs, she could be getting yelled at.
- 36:33She could be in the It's snowing outside its cold as shit.
- 36:38The blowout was always Immaculate.
- 36:41Immaculate mechanical it his she looked amazing.
- 36:44I always like he would pull her hair down from the ponytail.
- 36:48Where was that bump? Where's the pony tail?
- 36:50Where was the case in her hair? Looks like purple hair.
- 36:56Yeah. How are you?
- 36:58Her hair? Yeah.
- 36:59I like how how. Beautiful beautiful yeah.
- 37:03I was very jealous of the hair. Yeah, I noticed that right off.
- 37:07That was like, wow, that's unreasonable.
- 37:10But I yeah, really admire that she's struggling.
- 37:13She's struggling. Can't even afford a room.
- 37:16Megan apartment yet, her hair quaffed.
- 37:20Salon carré perfectly. Yes.
- 37:22Exactly. That's where all the money went.
- 37:25It went to the salon pills, you're right, you're right.
- 37:29But yeah, I have literally going back to just see it right now.
- 37:33My notes, he's always hiding by her next to her eavesdropping
- 37:36and watching her sleep, like he's such a creeper very much,
- 37:40an Edward character, that's direct quote, for my nose.
- 37:47We are going to do this together.
- 37:49This is long time, I think this is one of the last bastions or
- 37:54this era of kdrama is a different generation because
- 38:00we're still getting red flag, male leads and nowadays.
- 38:06The trend is to have green flag, male leads and you don't have
- 38:11these types of personality. You don't have these types of
- 38:15Edward Twilight, like, Things happen.
- 38:19And if you do, it's way more believable, it's way more
- 38:22connected and a little more communication for like how did
- 38:26he end up on a street corner? Where she's at?
- 38:28And it's like yeah, that's it each other whatever like they
- 38:31kind of make it better. And yes, it was really jarring
- 38:35to go back to 2013 and see both of these guys who I'm like, at
- 38:40various points in the show, your like neither is better than the
- 38:43other right? Like, clearly even the second
- 38:45male lead, it's not until the The last few episodes that
- 38:48you're like, wow, she should really rethink the content thing
- 38:52because you know, this guy is actually very, very good.
- 38:58You know, he's learning from his mistakes.
- 38:59He actually has a character Arc him time is largely the same
- 39:03beginning to the end of the show that goes without saying for
- 39:07Pacino's character because she has no Arc whatsoever.
- 39:13Terrible, not none. So yeah, I the jealousy.
- 39:21I couldn't get through like the jealousy.
- 39:23Bit of the red flag stuff and not even just like with those
- 39:29two but with Rachel like you know, they was jealous of
- 39:38everybody else in one way or another, right?
- 39:42And I think the crazy thing was, they constantly knew that.
- 39:47Hmm, that you knew that these other people were jealous of the
- 39:51others in, like, they all knew they all knew except for except
- 39:56for parks, and he didn't know, she was oblivious to all this
- 40:00jealousy that was going on. Yeah, everybody in that show was
- 40:05jealous of somebody. Yeah.
- 40:07And I was just, I was, you know, that.
- 40:10Why? Why why Just move, just move on.
- 40:14I doubt it talking about why, I also didn't understand the
- 40:18animosity between Kingston and woobin's character, right?
- 40:23Like I understood it like after they do like the flashbacks of
- 40:26like oh they had this falling out because whatever we want say
- 40:30now because it's non spoilery section.
- 40:31Like yeah. After that.
- 40:33I was like, yeah. So still not a good reason to
- 40:36like hate each other's guts. Yeah, it means that didn't make
- 40:40any sense to me, right? Like to me, I could understand
- 40:44indifference, right. Like let's say your friend moves
- 40:47away suddenly and you had this crazy weird falling out that
- 40:51happened and now you don't really know who they are.
- 40:54You haven't heard from them, I can understand.
- 40:57They just don't care about each other anymore, like that.
- 41:00Nothing to do with each other. Not this.
- 41:02So I can understand that. Not this active hate that look
- 41:07at that takes way more energy to hate someone.
- 41:09Then it just does to not care. So I feel like that's something
- 41:14that probably if this was written today.
- 41:17They would go a little more in that route where it's like, they
- 41:20don't really have anything to do with each other.
- 41:22The more indifferent to each other and there are as friends
- 41:26or Frenemies would just be them, either becoming enemies and then
- 41:31friends, or just learning to be friends again, through all of
- 41:36these like machinations that happen.
- 41:38Yes, 100. So it's really odd, too.
- 41:42Just like they come back and it's like there's the metal
- 41:45would like rock music every time they're in the same frame
- 41:48together and you're like it's not it's so cheesy.
- 41:52It's so dumb like you. Yes, you're telling us how to
- 41:55feel? Yes, you're telling us.
- 41:57Oh, they don't like each other. Oh, there's like might be a
- 42:00fight you or whatever? Yeah, I'm just like that's part
- 42:04of a high school dramas as well. Where they're kind of hand
- 42:08holding the audience a lot and it was just so annoying, like, I
- 42:12just was annoyed for large swaths of the show.
- 42:15Oh, yeah, I totally get it. Oh God, I couldn't, I couldn't
- 42:20deal with it. The possessiveness the jealousy,
- 42:23the like, yeah, the trimmings of it, but what do you think of the
- 42:29OST? And then after this, we'll give
- 42:30our scores and get into spoilers section.
- 42:32Love is moment. You know, it's so funny because
- 42:43I knew, I knew it was from the show, but I had like I said, I
- 42:47had never watched the show, so I never could appreciate it in all
- 42:53the like, you know, joking like it because this is now.
- 43:01Yes, exactly. Now it just like, click so much
- 43:06more that I'm You gotta appreciate it, you gotta
- 43:09appreciate it. Yeah, I think in episode 1, when
- 43:12they're still in Cali and they like throw a needle drop the
- 43:15first OST song and I was like oh oh my God my neck the Whiplash.
- 43:22Yeah I still love this OST I still think it's stupid and oh
- 43:29yes hop but it's like pure K drama OST goodness and it's like
- 43:34pure it's not trying to be cologne necessarily.
- 43:37No. Like today, I feel like OST.
- 43:40They're trying to be a little more cool hip.
- 43:44Yeah follow a specific genre and this is like not not that at
- 43:49all. I think and I think the thing is
- 43:51like it's it brings like that that Nostalgia back at it makes
- 43:56you even while we you know we've said that it's it has its cringy
- 44:01moments and like there's so many things it is not like about it.
- 44:05It puts us back into that moment when like Oh man, remember when.
- 44:10So and so did this and that and you know it brings you back into
- 44:16that kdrama and like the things you remembered that you liked.
- 44:20I agree completely. Oh man.
- 44:23All right. So what would you give this
- 44:25drama out of five Soju bottles five being a really great
- 44:29wonderful experience watching it.
- 44:34I'm actually going to go a little high but not too high.
- 44:37Okay. I'm gonna give it a 38.
- 44:40I okay I'm gonna cuz I feel like like I said it was very
- 44:46nostalgic. It made me weirdly miss the like
- 44:51multiple red flags in kdrama men.
- 44:54Yeah but also made me realize how much they've developed,
- 44:57right? A dramas since I I love woobin
- 45:01like he grew. Ooh on me so much that like
- 45:04show. And like you said, by the end of
- 45:06it, he was the one who was the most together, right?
- 45:10You know, he really was and so I there were a lot of things to
- 45:15like, but there were more things to, you know, kind of dislike.
- 45:18So that's why it's over. It's over the halfway point, but
- 45:22it's not for, okay, so I'm going to give it a two point five
- 45:27because it was almost unwatchable for large parts of
- 45:32Show some scenes are iconic and really good and some think it
- 45:39did some things really. Well, the OST is really good.
- 45:41Lee Min Ho is, I don't think we've said a necessarily a bad
- 45:44thing about Lee Min Ho so far. I think he really carries the
- 45:47show. Not pocketed a at all.
- 45:51No, no. Well, I guess we'll talk about
- 45:55it more in spoilers section, but a lot of positive things I like
- 45:59the the disability. Representation with the mute,
- 46:04mom, which I get again, I was like, so awestruck about that in
- 46:082013, watching it for the first time and yeah.
- 46:14So 2.54 like some good things but mostly this is not my bag
- 46:20anymore, which is sad. Yeah, but yeah.
- 46:23And this is kind of why I wanted to do some of these older
- 46:25kdramas on this season of the podcast because so many people
- 46:30have I've come across and said, like I don't watch preet B15
- 46:33kdramas and I'm like 2015 that's not that long ago.
- 46:36Like I just really kind of wanted to revisit some of these
- 46:40and maybe like us talking about it will make someone want to
- 46:42watch The Heirs for themselves and see what we're talking about
- 46:46and give some of these older kdramas, some love because some
- 46:49people are like, oh, Lemonhope never seen like older, Lee
- 46:53Min-ho stuff and like City Young Boys Over Flowers have just seen
- 46:56like a couple of things of his and it's really surprising to me
- 47:00because there's all of this work that's just not Being seen
- 47:03anymore. So, yeah, I am.
- 47:06I'm glad you did this. We're going to jump into the
- 47:08spoiler section. Now, right after this, you want
- 47:19to come in. All right, we're on the other
- 47:20side of spoilers. So, anything goes, if you don't
- 47:23care to be spoiled about the airs and keep listening.
- 47:26And if you want to remain unspoiled, although I feel like
- 47:29we did Veer into spoiler territory but we didn't, Do that
- 47:33much damage and also section just stop.
- 47:36Watch the show come back. We'll be here.
- 47:39Okay, where would you like to start first?
- 47:41Because I think we need to double back on the California
- 47:46episodes. Pika.
- 47:47Okay. Absolutely.
- 47:48Like I mean I was really into those it's 2013 and you have
- 47:54like you you enter in on this really moody 18 year old Canton
- 48:00with in looking back on it and like There's no way that Lehman
- 48:05ho can pass for an 18 year old. No, no, no.
- 48:10Like that's a man, right? Yeah.
- 48:12Okay. So there's that, and that's only
- 48:15suspend reality, you know? Yeah.
- 48:17Because none of them look like they were teenagers and like,
- 48:22you know, Korean skincare some of those these people look way
- 48:26younger than they actually are, but I still couldn't believe
- 48:29that. This 20 year old man was a high
- 48:32schooler Like know so and then so we find out he's an unwanted
- 48:38illegitimate child. His brother shipped him off to
- 48:41America. In this weird Exile thing.
- 48:44You don't even know you don't really understand made no sense
- 48:47the family Dynamics, you don't really understand it.
- 48:49Or you're like, okay, I guess we'll figure it out later and
- 48:54the scenes of him surfing. Fun fun.
- 49:03Fun fact, leaving. No actually learned how to surf,
- 49:07but is not a good swimmer. Like doesn't really know how to
- 49:11swim. He said that in an interview
- 49:12that he was like, yeah, I think they asked him like, who would
- 49:16you save and named to like co-stars.
- 49:19Yeah. Like in an instant but those are
- 49:21stupid interview questions but he's like, yeah, I don't really
- 49:24swim like that was his answer. Sir was like, I don't really
- 49:27swim, so I'm like, okay, cool. They got wow to learn how to
- 49:31survive. And then what do we get?
- 49:34We get an outdoor beach shower scene.
- 49:36Right off the bat, right off the, you gotta go, Gotta tell us
- 49:40on it, you know. Yeah, no, no, and I thought he
- 49:43looked really good like even going back and re watching.
- 49:45I was like, you don't even know, like had something, you know,
- 49:51and his hundred percent, okay? English leaving he'll speak.
- 49:56English abysmal. And I know he's only supposed to
- 49:59be in California for like three years, but he has managed to get
- 50:05a whole plethora of friends friends, and they all seem to
- 50:10understand his really bad English and I feel like if
- 50:14you're so immersed you probably get the hang of it, a little
- 50:17faster than you know usual and all the classes are in English.
- 50:24You know what I'm saying? Like he's doing business in
- 50:26English. Shhhh, and he's still pretty
- 50:28Rusty on speaking English. So I was like, ooh, this is
- 50:34painful. Why does the school look like a
- 50:37college instead of a high school?
- 50:39Like yeah, yeah. So it's just all know that
- 50:44there's almost a kind of suspended because the only
- 50:47reason was because I remember watching like the o.c.
- 50:51Oh, way back in early 2005 stuff.
- 50:55I know I'm dating. Self here but like, you know,
- 50:58their school very much looked like that, but they were also in
- 51:02high school, so I'm like, maybe it's just, like a California
- 51:05thing and not East Coast. We do not have campuses for high
- 51:09school, okay, never happened. I got Portables, did you get
- 51:14portables for some of our high school?
- 51:17No. Okay.
- 51:18That's might be a Florida thing. Okay, so we'll move on what so
- 51:23these are like temporary. It's like trailers but they're
- 51:28not trailers, it's like oh yes we did have something.
- 51:31Okay. Okay.
- 51:32And they were like outdoors. And yes.
- 51:34Yeah. You have to run to them in the
- 51:36in the rain and stuff. Yes!
- 51:38Okay! Gideon trauma, but it's a bit.
- 51:41Sorry. Snow.
- 51:42It's fine. We don't need it.
- 51:44Do you want to unpack that right now?
- 51:46No, not right now, maybe later. So the best friend with the long
- 51:50blond hair, atrocious actor, I know where they found this God
- 51:54he made me cry. And every time he came on the
- 51:59screen, I almost wish that. I almost wish that almond, but I
- 52:06was like being pasted. Yeah, I wish that bean pant by a
- 52:09powder, knocked him freaking out because he was, he thought it
- 52:14was drugs, he like took. Yeah, giant bag of bean powder
- 52:19like a freak. As long as you get that through
- 52:21customs, it gotta get that through customs.
- 52:23Yeah. Like what what?
- 52:27No, no absolutely not. And it's like, I don't know.
- 52:32God, long story short like so many like terrible moments so
- 52:38far, but at least we're in California.
- 52:40I guess we get Paxton a, we get her intro, she's tired of being
- 52:44poor. She feels awful for wanting to
- 52:46get out of her home situation. She feels guilty for wanting
- 52:50independence from her mom guilty that she wants a better life and
- 52:54she's like, we never Talk about this again but like she's full
- 52:58on abandons. Her mom in Korea, to go live
- 53:00with her sister in the states. That was why she landed.
- 53:04That was the intention of her Landing in the States.
- 53:06Was now I'm going to live in the United States with my sister
- 53:09who's doing really well, plot twists.
- 53:11The sisters doing terribly she's working full-time as a waitress
- 53:17in this weird. It looks like a regular like
- 53:20Beachside restaurant but somehow she's getting sexually harassed
- 53:24every day. All the time every Tire like
- 53:27it's not a booters or like a Twin Peaks sort of place.
- 53:30Alright, I don't get this. So again, lots of questions here
- 53:35especially because they're in the state.
- 53:36So like the level of scrutiny is a little bit higher I guess for
- 53:39us because we're, we're from the states, so she gets there
- 53:45everything is like to shit. Like the sister is in this
- 53:48terrible violent abusive relationship.
- 53:50What does dead be dude? And what looks like a crack
- 53:52house. Oh seriously, looks like Look
- 53:55right up crack house. Yes.
- 53:57And Lee Min-ho like sees all the drama it's like just in the
- 54:02middle. Like she's watching her sister.
- 54:05Gets sexually harassed in the restaurant and she's doing a
- 54:08like the puck Chanel lip biting chin quivering.
- 54:11Like thing is so I hate it like to this day.
- 54:16I hate it. I think that's ridiculous acting
- 54:20lip biting because she liked is frustrated and like she can't
- 54:23like express it any other way. Way and leaving house literally
- 54:28sipping coffee watching this drama play I'm saying you're
- 54:31Tick-Tock of literally him just watching these two and like the
- 54:38curb is like the Kermit. Literally the Kermit me just
- 54:48interesting like, not really, like, not really being a human
- 54:53about it. No, I know, totally just wonder
- 54:57what that's about. Yeah, like Lee Min-ho couldn't
- 55:00have like I don't know what they were thinking with with that
- 55:03choice, there's so many choices. Right.
- 55:05But that's just one of them. Yes.
- 55:08And then we get the bean powder, chasing through the The beach of
- 55:13the friend hits this volleyball, net at full speed and falls down
- 55:19and that's like their meat cute. Okay look it's Lee Min-ho like
- 55:23running after his friend going like that's not drugs.
- 55:26Again they end up at the hospital because of friends
- 55:29allergic to beans. Evidently.
- 55:32Yeah. And she's there and she's just
- 55:35like, what do I do? And they kind of like start
- 55:38their whole spiral relationship from there.
- 55:43I don't really like that. Make you at all.
- 55:45No, no. Like that's not a good look
- 55:47cute. No, not okay.
- 55:49Not at all. Yeah.
- 55:53We never Circle back on the sister at all throughout the
- 55:55server. I was gonna say that they
- 55:57literally bring her up at the I think when she gets back to
- 56:02Korea, her mom says that oh she called and she said like sorry.
- 56:11I'm what just that's it, that's not to accept of this this
- 56:16entire it's like a cold white right there.
- 56:18Okay. So all the money that the mother
- 56:22had like, yeah. And flux-off, like doesn't tell
- 56:26them where she's going. What she's doing?
- 56:28No. And like that's it.
- 56:31You guys are going to just have to write up abandoned some and
- 56:33you're like that's fine. No.
- 56:36What kind of question is that? And then they reference her and
- 56:39I think in the last episode or so, Where the mom was like, oh
- 56:43yeah. She texted me.
- 56:44And I was like texted, like the shops just keep coming, like,
- 56:49not even a call, she texted to shoot to say she was okay, she
- 56:53got a job. She's fine back on her feet.
- 56:56What crazy? Yeah.
- 56:58Yeah, you gotta pay us back. All the Buddies like low, Bruh.
- 57:04Bruh. Yeah, yeah, I hated it.
- 57:09They make America look really good.
- 57:11And really bad at the same time. Yeah, same time.
- 57:15The roving band of gangsters that like come Apollo my god
- 57:20when she's like, she's waiting for her sister by the crack
- 57:23house which what the fuck was she thinking?
- 57:25First of all and like this roving band of gangsters like
- 57:29walks by on the sidewalk and they start like talking about
- 57:33her, like they. Yeah.
- 57:35And she gets really scared and starts and hides and then they
- 57:38have that like moment where it came time, like comes back
- 57:40driving down. The street to pick her up.
- 57:43Yeah but then followed that the follows up with the other two
- 57:48gangsters who show up at his house but for some reason in
- 57:54Malibu. Yeah labou.
- 57:57Yeah. Why were they there for him?
- 57:59Exactly. Like I never under even stood
- 58:02that Port except for, it was just a reason for him to grab
- 58:06her and run. Yeah.
- 58:08Like an exact episode things never made sense.
- 58:12Yeah, no them running for and then oh my God.
- 58:15But the scene is so iconic. Right?
- 58:17Like to me this is one of the big scenes of the show is them
- 58:19just like running to hand in hand like through.
- 58:23California them running from Malibu to the Hollywood, Walk of
- 58:28Fame which is like an hour drive.
- 58:31Yes. And exact a nearly sent me over
- 58:35the edge because it's like one of those things where while the
- 58:39Korean audience would just never get Get that.
- 58:42This is yeah. Dead wrong.
- 58:44And you can't just run from Malibu to the Hollywood Walk of
- 58:47Fame. Yeah.
- 58:48And then a little Hollywood sign and then you're like yeah they
- 58:52were in that like residential area near the hill.
- 58:54Yeah. And I was like, it's so painful.
- 58:58It's yeah. So yeah she stays over at his
- 59:03mansion in Malibu, he keeps like messing with her like scares her
- 59:09about like taking her kidneys. And she liked actually believes
- 59:14him. But then actually like, why is
- 59:15he being such a dick? Because she's look has no
- 59:18passport in the states. Staying over a stranger's house
- 59:22is definitely just came from a crack house in a bad part of
- 59:25town and like, he's like joking about kidneys, taking her
- 59:31kidneys and stuff. And I'm like, he's clearly going
- 59:33through it right. He's gonna like wrong move, bro.
- 59:39His flirting was so questionable.
- 59:42Oh, yeah, but we do get the balcony stare.
- 59:45Like she wakes up in the morning and walks out onto this.
- 59:47That was funny backyard, and he's up on this balcony, staring
- 59:53down at her as if she's an SAT question.
- 59:57Like, what is the look on his face?
- 59:59Like I have no at this is also. I quite like this scene and then
- 1:00:02she like sees him and has this like, bashful look of like, oh
- 1:00:06yeah, sorry, I was just looking at this mess.
- 1:00:08Majestic View out this million dollar mansion.
- 1:00:11Yeah. Didn't mean to bother you here
- 1:00:15interrupt? Yeah, yeah.
- 1:00:17Oh man. So I just can't with these
- 1:00:23California over the sites like one thing after another.
- 1:00:26But yeah, so the he's in class, I think and she goes to school
- 1:00:31with him. They're talking about the most
- 1:00:34beautiful English word from a survey of non-english speakers
- 1:00:38and the word is a mother and I'm like Because he's particularly
- 1:00:44jabbed. He's got a fractured
- 1:00:47relationship with his own mom, and you're just like, oh, I get
- 1:00:51it, I get it. We're foreshadowing, our shadow.
- 1:00:56Yeah. Oh my God.
- 1:00:58So anyway, the last iconic thing from the the California two
- 1:01:04things, the California said of episodes is the do I like you
- 1:01:09wine? Yes.
- 1:01:10Hmm. Which I don't know if I had
- 1:01:12heard that or seen that seen before like he turns her it's
- 1:01:14like, do I like I don't think I've seen that prior to watching
- 1:01:19it washing that in real time I remember being like, Oh my God,
- 1:01:24what I do remember just being like, wow, I don't get it, I
- 1:01:30don't understand why he's asking himself.
- 1:01:34Yeah, it's bizarre. Yeah.
- 1:01:37So there's that and then the California t-shirts.
- 1:01:41Oh my God, I have the couple T-shirts.
- 1:01:44Yeah. My heart, California.
- 1:01:47Because this eating, they're eating breakfast.
- 1:01:50And I remember, she's like, I just want pancakes.
- 1:01:52I just want pancakes, they have pancakes and orange juice and
- 1:01:55all that American movies and stuff.
- 1:01:58Yeah, I'm like, girl, wherever you at is not where you're going
- 1:02:03to get the best of that. So you're not gonna get that.
- 1:02:06You are not going to get that because they're staying like the
- 1:02:09Bates Motel or something. I mean it.
- 1:02:11It's a moldy hotel in California, and they spend the
- 1:02:15night together. Nothing at all happens.
- 1:02:17Riddle, me. That like nothing at all of
- 1:02:22significance happens between his, it's a 2013 kdrama.
- 1:02:26So I was like, okay, cool. So I remember being a little bit
- 1:02:30upset back in 2013. That after this, we end up back
- 1:02:32in Korea and we started School drama, like, I didn't know back
- 1:02:38in 2013, that this was going to end up being a School drama.
- 1:02:42I can say that because it didn't really give that Vibe.
- 1:02:45Right? Like, a first three episodes 3
- 1:02:46episode. No, no idea that they're going
- 1:02:49to end up like uniforms and all in school for the large majority
- 1:02:54of the show. I do like the anticipation.
- 1:02:58You don't know when they're going to meet each other again.
- 1:03:01Yes and she's in the house already and then yeah.
- 1:03:03And the house he keeps thinking there's like a ghost.
- 1:03:06Yeah I like is there like a ghost here or whatever and then
- 1:03:09he like realizes yeah. Yeah.
- 1:03:14Oh god. Um she goes to get his mom, a
- 1:03:17bottle of wine and she's in this dark Courtyard area and she's
- 1:03:21using her phone as a flashlight and on her way back.
- 1:03:24He turns on all the courtyard lamps for her and I was like,
- 1:03:28oh, so Alchemy of souls is nowhere near.
- 1:03:30The first drama to do this like sort of bit here because like,
- 1:03:36lighting the way for yes, like it's so many of its at rope and
- 1:03:40I absolutely Shay. Jay and I don't know.
- 1:03:44This one was pretty good. I didn't mind this one a lot.
- 1:03:47I know, they've also done it in our beloved summer where you
- 1:03:51know, every time she like leaves the house, he like turns on the
- 1:03:53lights for her outside because it's dark outside his house.
- 1:03:56Stuff like that is really cute. Yeah.
- 1:04:00But then he creepily follows that up with his/her.
- 1:04:03Same episode. He does the turnaround thing.
- 1:04:08And because she's on the phone with him and she's walking ahead
- 1:04:11of him in the back. Oh, yeah.
- 1:04:13And he goes like turn around. First of all, he says, look at
- 1:04:15the second floor because he put the dream catcher, but ha so
- 1:04:21fine. Then she's like, like, oh my
- 1:04:23God, the Dreamcatcher. And then he says, turn around
- 1:04:26and he's there. And obviously, that's the big
- 1:04:29reveal that he's the Second Son of the family.
- 1:04:32Oh my gosh. I kind of engines the stalk.
- 1:04:37Gagging then they can say, well, I mean, from then on, it's only
- 1:04:41stocking, that's all it is, all it is.
- 1:04:45Do you think that this show made any Progressive, like, comment
- 1:04:52on elitism or the case system? That's in the school, or
- 1:04:58anything of that nature? Because I don't know if they did
- 1:05:04like at the end of the day, there were like here it is.
- 1:05:07Yes, obviously it's wrong. But you know, they're all rich
- 1:05:12and they all have a happy ending in the end.
- 1:05:14So it's like yeah I started just benefit from the system and like
- 1:05:20his kind of like yeah. I think it was it was very much
- 1:05:22like it is what it is? Yeah.
- 1:05:26This is this is life. This is what it this is, you're
- 1:05:29not going to change it right? Your you'll Ver.
- 1:05:32Change it, right? Um, and you know, you should
- 1:05:37just get, get go quick and accept that like just accept
- 1:05:42that this is the way it is and it will always be this way.
- 1:05:45So yeah, I don't think I think you know Maybe in a sense, the
- 1:05:50people watching, got this sense of wow this is shitty like we
- 1:05:57shouldn't be doing this. Like this is not how the world
- 1:06:00should work in schools and outside of school and everything
- 1:06:05like that but like this is not how it should be.
- 1:06:09Maybe we like can somehow fix that in the real world.
- 1:06:13But in the show itself I don't think it really changed anything
- 1:06:17like she She didn't benefit from her boyfriend being, you know,
- 1:06:22whatever. In fact, it made her life way
- 1:06:24worse. Like she was constantly bullied.
- 1:06:28She was constantly the, you know, in threat of everything
- 1:06:31and anything being thrown at her right.
- 1:06:35Um. It didn't her life.
- 1:06:38Did I like did not get any better it just for got
- 1:06:41progressively worse. Yeah, yeah, she's in love like,
- 1:06:45congrats, we are Okay sorry Avril second there through the
- 1:06:55love that, love it. Yeah, I was kind of annoyed at
- 1:07:00the end of the day because they introduce all these big Concepts
- 1:07:03that are the school has this crazy caste system.
- 1:07:06You know, the whole Elite people.
- 1:07:08The people at the top, are the kids that are going to inherit a
- 1:07:11business. The second ones are the stocks.
- 1:07:13The third ones are the like high honorable professions like
- 1:07:17judges and law firms. The I was like crap like that
- 1:07:20and I was like, okay, great. So this is sort of like a
- 1:07:23reflection of their world. Like the this top one percent
- 1:07:27world that they live in is bubble and the kids don't just
- 1:07:32do this of their own accord, like they learn this.
- 1:07:36They learn to discriminate against each other, like this
- 1:07:40and it all comes from their parents, which we see like all
- 1:07:42of the parents and all of their mess as well.
- 1:07:45Oh yeah. Yeah, so but they don't offer
- 1:07:50any solutions, right? Like they're not like we should
- 1:07:53change this you know some characters kind of go through
- 1:07:57the wringer because they end up lying to be in a higher position
- 1:08:04in the school. Like they think she's a parvenu.
- 1:08:07They think like Tong. Tong is up.
- 1:08:08Yeah, a parvenu. Whatever.
- 1:08:10That is new money. Yeah.
- 1:08:13And yeah, I didn't understand the part of a new phrase.
- 1:08:15I didn't get it either. Like fine, whatever.
- 1:08:18And this other girl also started to get bullied because her mom
- 1:08:25ran a brothel. Wasn't it?
- 1:08:27Oh the brothel. Yeah, host club like yeah.
- 1:08:31That's right. Yeah.
- 1:08:32It was a messed-up. I know she was wildly successful
- 1:08:34so I was like, damn but that's not honorable God.
- 1:08:39Oh yeah, she said they were selling water bottles.
- 1:08:42I was like, what I bet you she was like Like what something
- 1:08:48stupid enough, that people will believe, my family made tons of
- 1:08:51money off of it, and no one's gonna go fact-checking.
- 1:08:54Oh yeah, we make water bottles with so water bottles.
- 1:08:59So, and at the end of the day, everyone was just kind of like,
- 1:09:03okay, they let these two slide. And that was it like the system
- 1:09:07was the same, you know, large of the same.
- 1:09:13Yeah, it didn't change. Nobody got bullied in the hot
- 1:09:16seat but that's because Kim. Woo, Bin's character like
- 1:09:19reformed himself and like that is that?
- 1:09:23Yeah, that's yeah. That's the only change was
- 1:09:25right. The hot seat was no longer that
- 1:09:28seat. Yeah, it was already a seat.
- 1:09:31Yeah, they took a power out of it.
- 1:09:33Hmm. Well, you know, little changes.
- 1:09:36Able changes are to guess the graduates of the next year's
- 1:09:40changed it up even more. But hopefully, what did you
- 1:09:44think about the whole drama with Rachel and Cubans character
- 1:09:51possibly becoming siblings and their parents being engaged?
- 1:09:57And then that having like a weird ripple effect on everyone
- 1:10:02around them and their relationship and like it was
- 1:10:05weird. Think it was weird.
- 1:10:07I think I you know, when I first started the show I was almost
- 1:10:10thinking that they were going to end up together like a Cruel
- 1:10:13Intentions thing. Like they're, yes siblings.
- 1:10:16But like they have anything either that or like the the
- 1:10:20parents would end up not getting married and they were just like,
- 1:10:26you know, being that right dating and right what not.
- 1:10:31I don't know why I think because they were both such horrible
- 1:10:33people. Yeah, you know I was Thing
- 1:10:36they're going. These two are absolute trash
- 1:10:39especially in the beginning. Oh yeah.
- 1:10:41That they deserved each other 100% like they were just the
- 1:10:45worst of the worst but then, you know, like we said, I, you know.
- 1:10:50Woo, Bin's character really did develop so much more than any
- 1:10:55other character in this show. So by the end, I didn't see them
- 1:10:59ever liked being anything else she stayed, but she stayed that
- 1:11:04petty angry. Yeah.
- 1:11:06Like Listen People lovers have been scorned before you after
- 1:11:11you and like you know, at the same time you need to learn when
- 1:11:16to take the L and she just refused she how outright refused
- 1:11:22after he straight up said to her.
- 1:11:24I don't love you. I like this girl.
- 1:11:27Yeah he like he didn't pick her up at the airport.
- 1:11:31Broncos was there was so many things he didn't do like yeah he
- 1:11:34didn't pick her up at the airport because it was too hot.
- 1:11:36He didn't feel like it, like, he didn't take her on a date for
- 1:11:39their anniversary of their their engagement.
- 1:11:42He didn't, you know, he did nothing for her enough, she was
- 1:11:47like obsessed with her. She caught feelings hard.
- 1:11:54Another thing, you know, add to the like the toxicity of 2013 of
- 1:12:00chasing somebody, you know, doesn't want you right treats?
- 1:12:03You like dirt but no. No.
- 1:12:06No, he one day, we'll love me. He'll love me, and he'll like,
- 1:12:09you know, chain and no, it's not going to happen.
- 1:12:15Yeah, and he was like, you're the one who's breaking the rules
- 1:12:18by catching feelings and we have, we're have an agreement.
- 1:12:21It's a marriage of convenience. Why are you catching feelings?
- 1:12:24That's against the rules and she was like, I don't care.
- 1:12:26I just I want you and that's that.
- 1:12:28Like, yeah, yeah. And they're using was our
- 1:12:31problem. Rachel was such and then her
- 1:12:34logic of. Well, if I end the engagement,
- 1:12:37he'll want to be with me. Delusional Watson.
- 1:12:42What where do you even put that together?
- 1:12:48Like what I just know that's over.
- 1:12:52So yeah, like again in 2013 I can it makes sense because yes,
- 1:13:00that is what somebody would do. Like I can guarantee you that is
- 1:13:04very much any other show you Watch What Happens, very similar
- 1:13:08character. Hers and everything like that
- 1:13:11with that same mindset of pricing.
- 1:13:13If I make them hate me, right? They'll love me.
- 1:13:16They'll come to me, they'll come around.
- 1:13:18Yeah yeah and it just like it was not that and then I thinking
- 1:13:24yeah yeah and then you know, their whole family Dynamic
- 1:13:29thing. Both both like I think they're
- 1:13:33both woobin and I keep like, I guess I should call him young
- 1:13:37do. And yeah.
- 1:13:38Rachel come through and reach Agha.
- 1:13:40Yeah, they you know their parents were just as shitty as
- 1:13:47my God. They were just horrible.
- 1:13:50They were real people. They were.
- 1:13:52Yeah, they were. I think they were also a
- 1:13:53marriage of convenience. They, oh, yeah, absolutely.
- 1:13:56They were never in, you know, anything and she lives Yeah, she
- 1:14:01loved the other secretary Soul. Chief secretary talked about
- 1:14:06this because I think this was a giant missed opportunity in the
- 1:14:09show. Is that the mom Rachel's mom had
- 1:14:14some sort of history with the chief secretary like they were
- 1:14:17each other's First Love or something.
- 1:14:18It didn't work out, Crash and Burn and then she became a
- 1:14:21cold-hearted money-grubbing bitch up evidently started, her
- 1:14:24own business, which find great love that for her entrepreneur,
- 1:14:28but then she started getting, she was going to get married to
- 1:14:30like an Abusive wildly macho, man, just for business, just he
- 1:14:38was, I am more man-whores. Well and then she got offended
- 1:14:42that he was a man whore and you're like, I'm like, you, what
- 1:14:44do you want? What do you want out of this?
- 1:14:46What do you expect? You want loyalty actually?
- 1:14:49Yeah, I was very taken aback by her, but the relationship that
- 1:14:53she could have had with the chief secretary, oh, could have
- 1:14:56been. I told you, yes, they had that
- 1:15:00scene where The he like, oh my God, where he just like, kisses
- 1:15:03her it, bro, even though I was like, well actually yes, so
- 1:15:12she's engaged. They had this really tense
- 1:15:15conversation with her fiance and then the chief secretary is
- 1:15:18there and the hyung is there, sometimes brothers, or two And
- 1:15:26one minute, you know, he's the chief secretary is getting an
- 1:15:32earful from the machismo fiance who's being extremely rude.
- 1:15:36The chief secretary gets up and talks on the phone, with his
- 1:15:39sons. Like yeah, I'm going to be home
- 1:15:40late. Don't wait up for me.
- 1:15:41It's fine. Then.
- 1:15:43Boom, like he turns around and like, plants went on her in this
- 1:15:48hallway. I don't know where and it's this
- 1:15:52steamy makeout session. In public here in this.
- 1:15:56What hotel? I guess.
- 1:15:58Yeah. I was so taken aback.
- 1:16:02I was completely surprised. My wig was snatched.
- 1:16:05That was one of those moments where I was like, I do not
- 1:16:08remember this at all. At always very I was like, oh
- 1:16:12and I drama. Okay.
- 1:16:14Oh okay, okay, okay G13 on this, but okay.
- 1:16:20All right. Very missed.
- 1:16:24Because they never should probably wash because they,
- 1:16:27yeah, they never be. Don't come back tonight.
- 1:16:29Just, they just like showed that like I think in a future
- 1:16:32episode. Kim Tans mother has the photo.
- 1:16:39Yes of them that, which only time it's ever really circled
- 1:16:43back. Right?
- 1:16:45Right. Because they never like she's
- 1:16:47waiting for him to call her and he's like, this isn't a good
- 1:16:50idea. I'm not going to give you my
- 1:16:51number. If you really want my number,
- 1:16:53you'll figure it out and then she does like figure it out and
- 1:16:56calls him at like they don't develop anything.
- 1:16:59It doesn't become this like Saucy side plot that you want it
- 1:17:03to be, especially with that. Like episode 6 like boom makeout
- 1:17:08session, no other character gets that not even the main people
- 1:17:13get such a like intense scene where it's I'm just like, wow,
- 1:17:20why? We'll put that in it like yeah,
- 1:17:22yeah, it was, it was. Yeah, I think they expected to
- 1:17:26make it more and then ended up just going.
- 1:17:28You know what, we got other things to deal with that.
- 1:17:31We have to address that this is just gonna know.
- 1:17:33We have more like Singing and more shocking.
- 1:17:37Crying crying wallowing self-loathing.
- 1:17:42Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:17:45Love those parts. Love.
- 1:17:47There was, I remember there was one part where I just, I had to
- 1:17:51sit there and just go. Why are they crying?
- 1:17:55Well, the staring at each other, which part was that?
- 1:17:58Yeah, I know, there were so many, it was I want to say he
- 1:18:04had Kim Tan had just been like, kicked out of his house.
- 1:18:09And he goes to see her at the coffee shop.
- 1:18:13I think that he just he imploded the engagement and he said the
- 1:18:17truth that his mother was. Yes, oh yes.
- 1:18:20Oh yes, I dragged him out of the room and it was like how could
- 1:18:24you do that? Blah blah.
- 1:18:25And it like you know, obviously he doesn't really understand
- 1:18:29that it's dry a giant deal and yeah, I think his dad slaps him
- 1:18:36Yeah, probably yeah. And then he goes back to the
- 1:18:40coffee shop because he went to the coffee shop before this
- 1:18:43whole thing went down. Then he went home, did some shit
- 1:18:46and then went back to the coffee shop afterward and he just shows
- 1:18:51up. And why is he crying with like
- 1:18:52his mouth open? Yeah, I've ever really tearing
- 1:18:56at each other and she starts crying too, and then she starts
- 1:18:59crying. And I'm like, why are you?
- 1:19:01Crying. No words have been said is
- 1:19:03happening. I yeah, it.
- 1:19:05Is like I just and I think that's how the episode ended and
- 1:19:09then like it came back like the next episode and they're still
- 1:19:13just crying. They're still there and like
- 1:19:15nothing has been explained and you're just like somebody
- 1:19:19explain why they're crying to each other.
- 1:19:21I I guess you there were a lot of those seasons though but
- 1:19:25know. So many of those scenes you're
- 1:19:27absolutely right where there's no reason why she should be
- 1:19:30sympathy crying. Such a weak character such a
- 1:19:35week. Actors for Thomas on.
- 1:19:37I just again that parchin 8 got always got those characters.
- 1:19:42I like really just could never get behind her acting because I
- 1:19:46always even when I hadn't watched the show, I had seen
- 1:19:50clips and stuff of it and I went, this is what I saw from
- 1:19:54her in boy. No Flower Boy, Next from her in
- 1:19:59like, you know, all these other shows that I've washed.
- 1:20:01Right, I'm like, right, like know.
- 1:20:03Hey, Tupac SHINee but I just don't really Stand how she made
- 1:20:07it. You know, I think, I don't know.
- 1:20:12I don't know. She's beautiful.
- 1:20:14She's very beautiful. Oh, yeah.
- 1:20:16And I think, I think you know, that might have been her selling
- 1:20:19point, and they said, can you cry?
- 1:20:22And then they said yep. Okay.
- 1:20:25And there's now he's like, oh yeah, you know, I just, it's
- 1:20:29very frustrating to watch most of her dramas like again.
- 1:20:34I think she works better maybe in smaller Doses and that's why
- 1:20:37I like her movies the movies. Yeah, I agree.
- 1:20:40But like first of all, why was the show 20 episodes?
- 1:20:45It was such a struggle. It was right?
- 1:20:48What's it doing evidence? I could have easily been 16
- 1:20:51nowadays, Ali 12:10. Maybe just took a, tighten it up
- 1:20:58so much. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:21:00But you take out a lot of those plot points that were like
- 1:21:03unnecessary like table. What's his name?
- 1:21:09The kid in his tutor. Oh my God.
- 1:21:12Come from the and his to. Yeah, that is tutor but also
- 1:21:18like she was with the wicked brother brother.
- 1:21:22Yes. Yes, like, oh my God, oh my God.
- 1:21:30Love triangle. And then, I know you had brought
- 1:21:37it up but like I say, I did not understand the animosity between
- 1:21:44Kim Tan and kill. His first name was Juan young.
- 1:21:53Wait, no Kim Wan. It was yeah.
- 1:22:00Yeah, they're brothers. And they have similar names.
- 1:22:03Yes, I so yeah, I just couldn't understand the animosity.
- 1:22:09He had like, so I don't get it either.
- 1:22:13Like, oh it, like it was cruel. It was cruel.
- 1:22:17It was, it was cruel. And like, I get hit, like, I to
- 1:22:20an extent, I understood, you know, he was worried about the
- 1:22:26business and like, you know, nothing, whatever shares, but
- 1:22:30from everything that they said about Kim Tan, like it didn't
- 1:22:36make sense that he would become know this.
- 1:22:38CEO or take can wands, right space?
- 1:22:43So like why did he even said, I don't want it.
- 1:22:46You said it countless times. I don't want it.
- 1:22:48It's yours. It's not what I wanted to do and
- 1:22:52that he's not dude, I hate you like go to California.
- 1:22:56Like I don't want to see you. I don't want it.
- 1:22:59Like you are not my brother and it's like, what?
- 1:23:03What? And then, like a logic, it was
- 1:23:05magical, it was so illogical and then like, you know, Whoever
- 1:23:09dropped the bomb about Kim Tan, being the Mistresses son and not
- 1:23:17his actual whatever. And then they're like, okay,
- 1:23:20that's the perfect time to give him all of the shares so that he
- 1:23:24can now actually be the CEO like highest shareholder.
- 1:23:29Whatever. What the Mania around, them, it
- 1:23:35looking shares. Okay, so let's break this down
- 1:23:39really fast because I let I think you're touching on just
- 1:23:42like the family dynamics of Team times family, which for some
- 1:23:48reason, their dad. We'll call him chairman Dad?
- 1:23:53Yeah, wants his sons to fight for control over the company
- 1:23:59because that's what he did. Evidently yeah, was wheeling and
- 1:24:02dealing, and chopping off heads in his younger days to gain
- 1:24:07control over this conglomerate, which fine.
- 1:24:10So, he believes that his sons should do the same, and he sort
- 1:24:16of bread this animosity into both of them.
- 1:24:20However, Kim Won. Older brother was really keen on
- 1:24:23just hating the, the younger brother ever since they were
- 1:24:27children because he just felt like the dad owed it to him to
- 1:24:37negate him to negate, the younger brother, like Keen fan
- 1:24:41out of, I don't know what like for what does he owe that to his
- 1:24:45older son to not give any affection to the younger son?
- 1:24:48I don't know. I'd again It's not really.
- 1:24:54Told that well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 1:24:57All you get this weird flashback before the dad has an aneurysm
- 1:25:01right where he feels sort of guilty for not giving any
- 1:25:06affection toward to keep, then I guess it was, because the first
- 1:25:11wife died and that was Kim ones. Mom.
- 1:25:13And then, the dad had this really stupid time.
- 1:25:18I guess where he thought, oh yeah, I'll get married to this
- 1:25:21lady. We won't have any kids.
- 1:25:23Then I'll just have a mistress on the side and have a child
- 1:25:26with a mistress. And bring her into our home.
- 1:25:29I'm absolutely. And have her not be able to
- 1:25:32leave said home because we don't want people to find out so she's
- 1:25:36basically a prisoner in this home in the Mansion like what
- 1:25:42it. So I only just a problem is that
- 1:25:45the chairman dad is a robot. Like he's not a human because he
- 1:25:50has no feels no compassion. Nothing, not know.
- 1:25:54Love nothing toward his sons. Especially Keen time because of
- 1:25:58course, Kim Tan is the one, stirring, the pot throughout the
- 1:26:00show. And someone ends up, like
- 1:26:05softening towards Kim Tan towards the end, and they team
- 1:26:07up, and it ends up being like them against the dad.
- 1:26:09And then the dead whole, this is, I feel like this is bad
- 1:26:12writing because then the Dad instead of them squaring off
- 1:26:16against the dad4real right in the final episodes because he's
- 1:26:19been such an antagonist or both of them throughout the whole of
- 1:26:22the show, they just make the chairman dad have an aneurysm,
- 1:26:26they take him off the plane board.
- 1:26:27Completely and the boys have to team up to save the dad's spot
- 1:26:32as chairman of his own company. So I'm like where is that like
- 1:26:35why? Yeah.
- 1:26:37Why is this the thing now? Yeah and it truly kind of felt
- 1:26:41like a saga of drama to me like especially toward the latter
- 1:26:45episodes where you have like the bones of a saga cook.
- 1:26:49You have the main couple like they meet under strange
- 1:26:52circumstances outside of the palace.
- 1:26:55So to speak, then drama drama. Emma drama angst, pain, second
- 1:26:59male lead second, female lead, love, triangle, love rectangle,
- 1:27:02Ang's pain, breakup reunions and then bam political machinations
- 1:27:07that had been on the fringes of the show really amp up and
- 1:27:12someone stages a coup. Like, that's what happens
- 1:27:14though. Wife stages a coup and I'm like
- 1:27:17that is basically a psychic like the recipe for isaku.
- 1:27:20Yeah, yeah. And that's what happens in airs,
- 1:27:23right? And it's no coincidence that
- 1:27:25they're talking about like heirs And the throne and all the court
- 1:27:29like shit. Right that?
- 1:27:31Yeah. Very reminiscent of they think
- 1:27:33they're royalty. They think this is their little
- 1:27:35kingdom. And you know, what are they
- 1:27:38going to do? This is a power play that's
- 1:27:40happening in the background for most of the show and then and
- 1:27:44and episodes it becomes like the main thing.
- 1:27:46Yeah. So it's annoying.
- 1:27:49It's I think it was a cop out. It is a cop-out, absolutely
- 1:27:54especially because you want the chairman die.
- 1:27:57Dad to get some sort of comeuppance, you want him to get
- 1:28:02absolutely or you want him to genuinely sort of feel empathy
- 1:28:07or sympathy and realize what he did.
- 1:28:10Yeah, what he did, he ruin their life actively ruin their lives.
- 1:28:14Exactly when the lives of both of his, the women in his life,
- 1:28:18who are for all intents and purposes, like the mistress, mom
- 1:28:23is taking care of him. He's like not working and he's
- 1:28:27real. Basically retired because of his
- 1:28:28health and she's living with him and, you know, caring for him
- 1:28:32and being there for him and he's looks down on her.
- 1:28:36He thinks she's lesser, he doesn't want anyone to know
- 1:28:40that. You know, that came down was
- 1:28:43born out of wedlock, that he's the son of a mistress and I'm
- 1:28:47like, you did that, like, it's all him and he doesn't, he
- 1:28:51doesn't realize that he's the freaking issue.
- 1:28:54Yeah, he's the problem. Yes.
- 1:28:56And he starts He's blaming the mom at the end of the show, he's
- 1:29:00like it's because of your low class blood that like, Kim Tan,
- 1:29:02like turned out this way. And this whole thing happened
- 1:29:05and like like how can you when he went off?
- 1:29:08I do, he said that to her, I was like, if you don't leave him
- 1:29:14right now, oh my God. I yeah, I hated it and he was
- 1:29:20like and you know like there's always going to be characters
- 1:29:22you absolutely hate and I don't want him honestly I didn't I
- 1:29:27want him to ever get redeemed right would have loved for them
- 1:29:31to get that comeuppance. I would have loved for them to
- 1:29:35take him down and say, hey look, you don't need to fight family
- 1:29:41to make your life successful family.
- 1:29:44Helps you be successful, right? And you can suck it.
- 1:29:48Yeah. And like like you said, they
- 1:29:50didn't get to do that. No it come.
- 1:29:52So close though made me so angry.
- 1:29:54They get some clothes angry because the mom Ends up leaving
- 1:29:58him, he's home alone. Kim Tan is like, you're not?
- 1:30:03I'm not we're not related anymore.
- 1:30:07Deuces out. And the old man is left in that
- 1:30:09giant mansion by himself. Yeah, the brothers have
- 1:30:13reconciled like there now like on pretty good terms and I'm
- 1:30:17like okay great like he's gonna live with regret or something
- 1:30:21that he pushed everyone away and he was like dead wrong and
- 1:30:26everything is entirely. Mentality, the way he lived his
- 1:30:30life and instead, he just like heels over.
- 1:30:33He's in a coma for like three episodes or something.
- 1:30:36Yeah. And they have a rally around the
- 1:30:38old man, to, like Stave off the coup.
- 1:30:40And I'm like, this is so wrong. Like you had just let first of
- 1:30:44all, just let him die. Like I wish you'd just die and
- 1:30:47they have to tell you what the Fallout of that versus he's in a
- 1:30:50coma and he may or may not, you know, get out, come back.
- 1:30:55Yeah, come back out of it. Oh my God.
- 1:30:57Good. Yeah, I'm streaming.
- 1:31:00Yeah, let me see. Yeah, a lot of my notes are
- 1:31:07about Rachel because I just say everyone is so annoying.
- 1:31:12Yeah yeah! Oh and then the kid I'm looking
- 1:31:21at the thing Yong Yong. Su buy the kit Park.
- 1:31:26Hyung sik. Yeah.
- 1:31:27How can you say like yeah his character was so stupid but like
- 1:31:34the best comedic relief of that entire show like when he camps
- 1:31:39out. Oh, yeah, cuz Kim Khan and tall
- 1:31:44and song are like in his young and Kim Tan changes the
- 1:31:48password, and when they come out, he's just there with his
- 1:31:51camera. I was dying.
- 1:31:54I was dying. And then when they had him be
- 1:31:57the The DJ at Uncle and he's like getting back together and
- 1:32:05party. First of all who ever has a
- 1:32:10Getting Back Together party like so extra.
- 1:32:13It's and then it gets ruined because Rachel pulled a Rachel
- 1:32:17and like it was great. Oh my God, it was hot.
- 1:32:22He was probably my favorite character simply because of that
- 1:32:27because He was just so literally there just for the comedic
- 1:32:31relief of that your show, and I absolutely loved it.
- 1:32:34I agree, completely, I think what frustrated me about looking
- 1:32:43at my notes in, this is terrible like, you know, you had this
- 1:32:47female lead who's tired of living life, right?
- 1:32:51She's tired of like hustling and she has this moment in episode 7
- 1:32:56were again. Outside of Where she works.
- 1:32:58He's bothering her at work and she says, like Kim time keeps
- 1:33:01making her uncomfortable, she just wants to be left alone, so
- 1:33:05she can graduate and live a better life.
- 1:33:07Once used legally, an adult, but she keeps feeling trapped.
- 1:33:12So she says this really stupid line.
- 1:33:15I don't know how Kamon suck wrote this.
- 1:33:16She says, I'm really lost about what I should do right now.
- 1:33:20Which I don't like it when, like, women characters are like,
- 1:33:25I don't know what to do. Yeah.
- 1:33:29Right. Yeah.
- 1:33:30I think she does were the one who always.
- 1:33:32Exactly. Exactly there.
- 1:33:34Who said that? Somebody had a great quote about
- 1:33:37that. Where I think it was.
- 1:33:38Oh my God, Reese Witherspoon. I think it was.
- 1:33:41Yeah, it's a tiger. She said yeah.
- 1:33:44Like women always want to do Yemen.
- 1:33:47Would never ask what on man. Ask said, a woman has the
- 1:33:53solution. And it's funny because actually,
- 1:33:56now that I think about it, in my, in my book that I just came
- 1:34:00out with. Yeah, he goes.
- 1:34:03He goes, like, what do we do? And she's like, funny, you
- 1:34:06asked, and she pulls out like a whole plan.
- 1:34:09Alright, what they can do to to make this salute like to solve
- 1:34:13the problem you're telling me, she's been wallowing and hasn't
- 1:34:16come up with any solutions. A single plan, a single plan,
- 1:34:20Ass. I don't think so.
- 1:34:21Then he answers her because she's like, amusing.
- 1:34:26I don't really, I'm really lost about what I should do and he
- 1:34:28says, this is terrible. Like this is such a red flag.
- 1:34:32He says, do you want me to tell you?
- 1:34:34Get out of my house tomorrow. Will that be hard?
- 1:34:38Do you want to continue going to school?
- 1:34:41Then I want you to start liking me and be sincere while you're
- 1:34:45at it. I like you.
- 1:34:50All right. God, direct ride.
- 1:34:56Just this is romance. Yeah this is apparently as like
- 1:35:02and they were all like that back.
- 1:35:04Then if you think about it they were all like that back then
- 1:35:07where the man said you liked me. Yeah.
- 1:35:10Yeah. What nothing like that.
- 1:35:12That's not how this works. That's not how this works.
- 1:35:15There is such, there's nothing like a confession with the
- 1:35:18threat of him, throwing her out of the house if she does.
- 1:35:21Right. Right.
- 1:35:22Yeah. But then when y'all do, what
- 1:35:25y'all do, Or do yeah. When he confesses it's an actual
- 1:35:33confession. Yes.
- 1:35:36And I'm sitting there going, you're telling me he doesn't get
- 1:35:39the girl. What was like?
- 1:35:42He straight up like explains to her.
- 1:35:45How she's like changed his perspective of.
- 1:35:48Yeah. Everything that he thinks and
- 1:35:51like, how he's made these changes and he will continue to
- 1:35:54make changes to get her to like him because he likes her so
- 1:36:00much. Yeah.
- 1:36:02And yet, she goes to the guy who says that to her says that.
- 1:36:06Yeah, she changes changes young, though so much that he ends up
- 1:36:12going to apologize to that guy that he bullied so hard.
- 1:36:15That he'd left the school. He sincerely apologize.
- 1:36:20Yes, I am. And I mean that's a giant moment
- 1:36:24of growth that content. Doesn't that have a moment like
- 1:36:26that? Where he's like, nope.
- 1:36:28Nope, I just some wrong. He's well, he does actually
- 1:36:32because I think he bullied that guy first and then in the school
- 1:36:37he was like stopping. He apologized apologized.
- 1:36:40He was like, look. Yeah, he does apologize, I had
- 1:36:42J. He's like look, I'm sorry, but,
- 1:36:45you know, he's already there at the beginning of the show this
- 1:36:47starts It's and he's already in that place, right where he's
- 1:36:50like. I know I was a bully.
- 1:36:51I know I started the system. You know I was wrong and I don't
- 1:36:56want this. No one's exactly.
- 1:36:57Yeah, yeah, but yeah, but the first kiss on the oh go ahead
- 1:37:02but heating up, but he makes all these dumb decisions and the
- 1:37:06only reason the only reason I'll give him that.
- 1:37:08He makes said dumb decisions is because he's a teenager I had
- 1:37:12like he playing a teenager. Yeah it because like I know what
- 1:37:16I was a teenager I Med. I made some very poor decisions.
- 1:37:21Meanwhile mine didn't cost my family, millions and billions of
- 1:37:25dollars but like very much. I definitely made poor
- 1:37:30decisions. So like I had to like you said,
- 1:37:32I had to keep, I had to keep reminding myself that they're in
- 1:37:35high school when they're going to make these mistakes
- 1:37:39decisions. Yes, exactly.
- 1:37:41What's a stupid decision? The first kiss up on the
- 1:37:44rooftop. Did you, did you open?
- 1:37:48She's been through a very stressful scary.
- 1:37:51Few minutes eating with young do because he's in the middle of
- 1:37:56like bullying, her not bullying her.
- 1:37:58He's trying not to bully her, but he's so aggressive and
- 1:38:01intimidating, that she's scared shitless and he makes her sit in
- 1:38:05the hot seat at lunch. She thinks that he's bullying,
- 1:38:08her, he's not, he's trying to woo her go figure.
- 1:38:11Yeah, and the boys Clash, Kim Tan screams for her to get up.
- 1:38:17Because seems like disrupts the whole lunch that they're having
- 1:38:22and she young though trips her like you on purpose.
- 1:38:27And you know, she'd breaks up this fight.
- 1:38:30That's about to happen by saying like like take me out of here.
- 1:38:33So, Kim time. Thanks.
- 1:38:34Yeah, rooftop. Yeah.
- 1:38:35She's crying on the roof and decides in a frightening, Lee,
- 1:38:41lack of sense at all to answer young those call because he
- 1:38:44calls her on her cell phone. Yeah.
- 1:38:46And she's like, In a frenzy, she's like, well, he knows the
- 1:38:49truth. I'm not a parvenu.
- 1:38:52Yeah, poor person. And, you know, to stop her from
- 1:38:55answering the phone Kim Tan. Just aggressively kisses her on
- 1:39:00the rooftop. Yep.
- 1:39:02Yeah, that I have to say, I didn't like any of their kisses.
- 1:39:07Oh my God, same only hide it. The only one that I was like,
- 1:39:14you know what? This is passable and it was the
- 1:39:17store. George room case in episode
- 1:39:19sixties favorite, really? I think it was like, his hand
- 1:39:28grabbed her chin or something. And I was like, so but directly
- 1:39:33preceded by him aggressively and desperately telling her not to
- 1:39:37do as he says to wait. Every time has to go and he
- 1:39:41says, and he confiscates her passport.
- 1:39:43Like it's like, oh, God. Yeah, the red flags so maybe the
- 1:39:57only the kiss I like it was when he He pecks her like twice.
- 1:40:05I can't remember everything that you like, because she's like,
- 1:40:09Hawking and he's like, why don't you shut up.
- 1:40:11If you don't drop him in the kiss you?
- 1:40:13Yeah, and they like pecks or twice.
- 1:40:15I think I think that's because she kept talking.
- 1:40:18She kept. I thought that one was yeah, I
- 1:40:21thought that one was cute because I was like, okay that's
- 1:40:23like a little but even so like my guy, my guy did not know a
- 1:40:32good Moment at all to, to kiss at all.
- 1:40:37No, no. It was always like, forced.
- 1:40:41Yes, yeah, yes. Yeah.
- 1:40:44Oh gosh, yeah. The reunions party though for
- 1:40:47the friends, Getting Back Together.
- 1:40:49Rachel not Rachel, you know, I'm talking about the her BFF and
- 1:40:56Crystal Crystal scared. I'm looking.
- 1:41:00Yeah. Broken up and then they get,
- 1:41:01yes, yes. She was the daughter of the
- 1:41:05woman. Yeah.
- 1:41:09Rachel does a Rachel and it's like this whole trap to get her
- 1:41:12to reveal that she's poor Kim Tan shows up.
- 1:41:18Flips, the drinks over that she brought from her job and pulls
- 1:41:23her out of the party. And she tells him, like I wanted
- 1:41:27to tell the truth. I'm not ashamed of being poor.
- 1:41:31I'm just really ashamed of the lie that, you know.
- 1:41:34You kind of forced me into this life saying I'm part.
- 1:41:37I'm a parvenu. Which first of all, yes, he did
- 1:41:41force her in like telling this lie and being like, yeah, she's
- 1:41:45a parvenu because he spoke on her.
- 1:41:46Behalf fine. Second of all a fucking course.
- 1:41:50She's a ashamed of being poor. Yeah, because she kept up with
- 1:41:55it yet she come up with the lie. No one told her to write that
- 1:42:00her mom was a housewife on her intake form at school when she's
- 1:42:04really a housekeeper. Like that was like a case in
- 1:42:07point right there. Yeah.
- 1:42:08She was like, literally a shame. No.
- 1:42:10She's like a housewife. Yeah.
- 1:42:13And the teacher was like, isn't she a housekeeper?
- 1:42:16She's both. Oh yeah.
- 1:42:18She's both like, what came time was nowhere near her and she was
- 1:42:22still lying about Her mom, she's ashamed.
- 1:42:25Yeah, yeah, 100%. So I hated that all of us and
- 1:42:29she was like, I'm not ashamed of being but bitch.
- 1:42:31Yes, you are just admit it just admit that you're ashamed of it
- 1:42:36and I probably would have more respect for you.
- 1:42:38Right? For admitting that.
- 1:42:39You were she? Yeah, yeah.
- 1:42:42So, but now she's taking the bull by the horns, which is
- 1:42:44fine. But like ultimately I was just
- 1:42:48really frustrated throughout the show that Kim Tan is constantly
- 1:42:52taking away her. See and she lets him, you know,
- 1:42:56he sways her, he badges her into lying for appearances in the
- 1:43:00name of survival. I put air quotes there and he's
- 1:43:04always just yanking her around. Pushing your grabbing her
- 1:43:06telling her what to do. Sit here.
- 1:43:08Get up. Leave, where are you?
- 1:43:10And it's super toxic. It's so toxic.
- 1:43:13It is. It's insane.
- 1:43:16I'm talking. It was and yet like, like you
- 1:43:19said, when you watched it and 2013 it probably wasn't Like I
- 1:43:23was like all right like you know, but I was just like, all
- 1:43:31right like I just took it like it wasn't.
- 1:43:33I wasn't question. Yeah.
- 1:43:36Yeah like it's exactly know it's hard to explain but while today
- 1:43:40we question it today I'm like questioning heart.
- 1:43:44Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
- 1:43:46But he finally lets her sort of Take the Wheel here because they
- 1:43:51get back to the get back into the party.
- 1:43:53She gets replacement drinks and he watches her confess to being
- 1:43:59poor stupid. But anyway and then he even
- 1:44:03stops her best friend from like Fearing, and this is actually a
- 1:44:08good part because he's, they asked him like, oh, was Kim Tan.
- 1:44:12Also fooled. Did he also know that she is
- 1:44:15poor? Yes stuff.
- 1:44:16And he was like, yeah. I was fooled and like, I
- 1:44:19paraphrase here, but she says something.
- 1:44:22Yeah, she acted all strong, but look, she's trembling and planet
- 1:44:26of course. He knew.
- 1:44:27Yeah. Pouring.
- 1:44:29Like he knew that she was gonna like confess.
- 1:44:30Yeah, nothing. Yeah.
- 1:44:31Nothing changed. No.
- 1:44:33So. But then they have this, like,
- 1:44:35really cage Moment, they don't believe this like, oh my God, oh
- 1:44:45my God, oh my God, oh, he's slowly like strips off her work
- 1:44:52apron, which is like, why is this?
- 1:44:53So sensual actually put some a corsage as if it's a fucking
- 1:44:59prom and he kisses her on the forehead and I'm like, what is
- 1:45:03my question was my question? Those corsages was do.
- 1:45:07They think Americans have like, studies get together were Union
- 1:45:12parties and we put corsages on and like celebrate people
- 1:45:17getting back together. No, sorry.
- 1:45:21It's not how that works. Yeah, so watching too many.
- 1:45:27They've been watching too many prom.
- 1:45:28Oh my God, movies. Oh man.
- 1:45:31So let's talk real fast about conquering those character
- 1:45:34because okay. Is the kid who like he's older.
- 1:45:38I think he's a senior while they're sophomores or something
- 1:45:40like that. And he has a very interesting
- 1:45:44subplot that I thought like, well, does the, they didn't
- 1:45:48like, they didn't build it enough.
- 1:45:50I don't know. It was very juicy.
- 1:45:51Nope. Because he skipped never mind
- 1:45:53the whole, like, he has a crush on his tutor thing and like, it
- 1:45:56doesn't work out, it's like, half baked, whatever.
- 1:45:59But he skips the csat, and his mom and dad are calmly, but
- 1:46:05firmly, Suffocating and overbearing and they're choosing
- 1:46:09his future for him and he's just expected to comply.
- 1:46:13And on top of all this, they've been talking back and forth and
- 1:46:17hushed tones about his suicide attempt, which the mom is like
- 1:46:24completely denying or dismissing Waters it.
- 1:46:28And, yes, it and it's nauseating to see him at home with his mom,
- 1:46:33and how, like, your kind of Reid for his character towards the
- 1:46:37end, especially like, right before he enlists.
- 1:46:40I'm like, they better not. He better not try to under live
- 1:46:45in sin again because yeah, you know, I feel like he was put in
- 1:46:50a corner. Yeah use completely trapped and
- 1:46:55and I remember in like the first episode you ever like saw him
- 1:46:58again. What's he like ran to the kids
- 1:47:01bathroom? I think it was yeah.
- 1:47:04Young young who's back? A through.
- 1:47:06Yeah. And at the was like, yeah.
- 1:47:09I'm like, what the heck? Like, what's what's going up
- 1:47:12with him? Like, you could, I could like,
- 1:47:14clearly tell. And then like, he he talks about
- 1:47:17how he doesn't eat. Yeah.
- 1:47:19Literally. Just lived on those like ginseng
- 1:47:22packets and his pills and then like, you know, he brings up the
- 1:47:26fact, he liked was hoarding his father sleeping pills or
- 1:47:30something so that and you're sitting there and the moms just
- 1:47:33got this like almost Crazy. I'd like you're not gonna I will
- 1:47:40make sure you don't make do anything.
- 1:47:42Yeah that I don't say you can do.
- 1:47:46And I'm like, this kids story is like insane and I almost wished,
- 1:47:54they focused more on it. I wish we saw more of his, his
- 1:48:00character and absolutely, because I wanted to see.
- 1:48:05I wanted to see like his struggle and I wanted to see
- 1:48:08him. Absolutely.
- 1:48:09I'm past it and like, survive it essentially.
- 1:48:12Mmm, and I'm sad, we didn't really get to see it.
- 1:48:15Absolutely. Yeah.
- 1:48:17Um the other this is just like a funny side note.
- 1:48:23They do this like group project which comes to nothing and the
- 1:48:27boys end up at the coffee shop where and song works.
- 1:48:31And she goes, Woo. Bin says his ideal group project
- 1:48:35Partners would be him, Thailand song, Suzy & Hyuna, which art
- 1:48:41like you're not alone is like, oh my God, but he ends up start
- 1:48:45co-starring with Z and Susan will be fine.
- 1:48:48And I'm like, oh my God, what is he just he nailed that.
- 1:48:53He knew, he knew teacher. Absolutely, yeah.
- 1:48:58The when time becomes the largest shareholder I don't want
- 1:49:02to talk about the shares like that much.
- 1:49:03But like this is all while he's under house arrest, his dad the
- 1:49:09chairman dad is such a royal asshole because he's actually
- 1:49:13pleased that Kim Tan. Feels isolated and then he's
- 1:49:18lost his entire family and whatever budding relationship
- 1:49:22that he had with his brother was squashed with the shares and he
- 1:49:27just says like, that's the The weight of the crowd you bear.
- 1:49:30Yes. Well God, that's freaking
- 1:49:32statement. God if I don't have to hear that
- 1:49:38again I know I would love it. I would love to never hear that
- 1:49:43again. I know, I think in episode 17
- 1:49:49there was just a lot of wallowing because they break up.
- 1:49:51She moves to that Seaside Town very Boys Over Flowers of her
- 1:49:55and it truly it's like a remake of Boys Over Flowers and time
- 1:50:02goes to his brother and says save and song from father and
- 1:50:06from Me home school friends and even the future, she dreamed of.
- 1:50:09I ruined it all. I did my best to stay with her.
- 1:50:12But why is this the only way to protect her?
- 1:50:14Why does leaving have to be the solution?
- 1:50:16Which I'm like again if you just think through it a little longer
- 1:50:21if that's not the only solution. And I love how he says like even
- 1:50:27the future she dreamed of what was the future?
- 1:50:30She dreamed of. She never know she had no
- 1:50:33chance, she had no emotional and she had.
- 1:50:36No, anything like I didn't even see her draw a little Doodle.
- 1:50:40And say I want to be an artist like there was nothing to that
- 1:50:44girl. Nothing.
- 1:50:44Like she was literally middle grade.
- 1:50:47She was 57 in the class of 100 like if she was like in the
- 1:50:52hundred and she was number one eye back.
- 1:50:54Okay. She's gonna be not gonna doing
- 1:50:57great things. She's 50 s.
- 1:50:59Hmm, like she was 52nd in the school and when she filled out
- 1:51:04before she switched school, she Filled out like one of those
- 1:51:08questionnaires like what are your preference schools and
- 1:51:10stuff like that? Yeah, she had no schools listed
- 1:51:14and what she wanted, but like what was her dream?
- 1:51:16It said like to get a job. Unlike definition of a purse of
- 1:51:21a character with literally no goals, no Ambitions, no
- 1:51:25personality. Nothing were certain.
- 1:51:27She has no Talent. Like sometimes I have like, oh,
- 1:51:30I like to do this, like I'm creative in this way, like jazz
- 1:51:33nothing. Yeah.
- 1:51:34Nothing, not a zip zero, like there.
- 1:51:38Ah, So, yeah, he ruined her life, but like, what did she
- 1:51:42have going for her? What life did she really have?
- 1:51:45Yeah, she probably had a better life in that Beach town.
- 1:51:48Then she had being in like the airs world.
- 1:51:53Yeah. And then also just said, no
- 1:51:56nothing like a crushing. Defeat from a tyrant dad to
- 1:51:59bring on some self-loathing because then he starts on like
- 1:52:01the self-destructive like nonsense that he did ways,
- 1:52:06always always suddenly an aisle. List.
- 1:52:16So they fit every like old literally.
- 1:52:19Okay, drama Trope, living that you would roll your eyes at into
- 1:52:23this 20 episode. I know, absolutely everything.
- 1:52:26Yeah. Oh my gosh, let me see the Mom
- 1:52:32leaving the chairman Dad, but he, but then, the chairman dad
- 1:52:35finds that absurd, like he's like, that's a that's absurd
- 1:52:40that you try to leave me that. You think you can leave me any
- 1:52:43I'm in Deers it he commandeered, her freedom and like all his
- 1:52:46minions start packing her bags. I'm like oh my God.
- 1:52:50Yeah ticketless I think I have just a few things left to talk
- 1:52:57about if that's okay. So there's a reference to the
- 1:53:01movie, The housemaid in one of the earlier episodes.
- 1:53:04I don't know if you caught it, I caught that because the mom the
- 1:53:10made mom she finds She's doing cleaning the bathroom tub,
- 1:53:15squatting with like, oh, yes exposed and it's a reference to
- 1:53:20the housemaid like that erotic Thriller.
- 1:53:23Which stars Jen DeLeon from Crash Course in Romance?
- 1:53:27Like, that's where people know that from now.
- 1:53:29Yeah, Andy Jim day from squid game, so that's why my mom
- 1:53:35played in. Catch that rope mom walks in, as
- 1:53:37like, freaked out that she sees the made Town songs, mom, like,
- 1:53:42in that position, she looks. It's kind of like it's unusual
- 1:53:45and her legs are out. And she's like, what are you
- 1:53:47doing that? Because from that, I had no
- 1:53:51idea. Never, oh my God.
- 1:53:54Yeah, especially now that I kind of remember that movie better.
- 1:53:59I don't know if I hadn't. I don't think I had watched it
- 1:54:01at that point. Yeah, I don't think I had
- 1:54:04watched it at that point, but now I'm like, oh my God.
- 1:54:07Now you get the referee. Yeah, it's an adult actually in
- 1:54:10a very adult reference, it's for the not for the kids.
- 1:54:13I would say, I have in my notes, they're always doing drastic
- 1:54:18things to each other and to end song, just to prove a point,
- 1:54:22like, young do pushes her into the pool, just to say that
- 1:54:27that's what Kim time will be doing to her.
- 1:54:29Yep. He'll pretend to have her and
- 1:54:31then just like, let go just Opera.
- 1:54:33Yeah, just drop her. And she, I mean, she responds
- 1:54:37like I already knew that but like is one of like the most
- 1:54:44iconic scenes of that that show because like, that's I think one
- 1:54:48of the first things, I think I ever saw that show dropping her
- 1:54:52into the water and then Kim Tan coming out and kicking him.
- 1:54:56Go my foot slips. Yeah.
- 1:54:59Yeah. The force proximity or skinship
- 1:55:02that she knew. Ever gives consent for and she's
- 1:55:06visibly freaked out every time. It just gives me the ick now,
- 1:55:11you know, Ian, do grabs her and pulls her in for like a side hug
- 1:55:15in front of Kim Tan which is like yeah.
- 1:55:17They were on opposite sides of the cross street where he
- 1:55:21somehow found her like. Yeah.
- 1:55:25And he just says I want to see what lengths can sign will go
- 1:55:28through for you. What logic, bro, Magic.
- 1:55:36Sorry, 2013, logic. I know on a real honor real
- 1:55:41Rachel throws away her uniform into the trash.
- 1:55:47And she, when she finds her school uniform, she finally,
- 1:55:51slaps, Rachel, because Rachel's insults her mom.
- 1:55:55And she's like, I can take any insult.
- 1:55:57You throw at me, but don't insult my mom, and I'm like, but
- 1:56:01you know what, like she needs to act.
- 1:56:03We apply that to herself. It was everything else.
- 1:56:07Yeah. Every literally because, yeah, I
- 1:56:11mean, it took that much. But finally, she slapped her
- 1:56:15episode fiscal actually deserve the slack.
- 1:56:17She deserve 20 times over honestly.
- 1:56:21Chairman the chairman. He, yeah, chairman died.
- 1:56:26He wants her to break up with Kim Tan and chooses this
- 1:56:32ultimatum in a week. Yes, yes, yes.
- 1:56:35I already know. There's always amazing.
- 1:56:37He has two tickets on the table. Two plane tickets.
- 1:56:41And he says, you know, you can go the first option is, you can
- 1:56:45go wherever you want, you break up with Kings done and you can
- 1:56:49go wherever you want. Be at the Korean Countryside, or
- 1:56:52the UK, or the us or friends wherever, it doesn't matter, or
- 1:56:57you get 15 more days with King Don, and you can, like, spend as
- 1:57:02much time with him as you. And then I get to choose
- 1:57:06wherever your shipped off to and it won't be as nice as the u.s.
- 1:57:11the UK or France. And I was like, first of all
- 1:57:15like this is not your child. Like how can you tell an
- 1:57:20underage kid, where the hell they should go and ship them off
- 1:57:25to god-knows-where and it's like what are the parental laws in
- 1:57:30this country is? Yes, yeah.
- 1:57:33It's someone else's child and he's just like this is how it's
- 1:57:37going to go. And I'm like, first of all, fuck
- 1:57:39you again, Paul. And thankfully she doesn't
- 1:57:42choose anything that he like she doesn't choose any of the
- 1:57:47options. They just go to live like
- 1:57:50wherever she gets out of the car.
- 1:57:52She was like at the airport and then they like did Switcheroo
- 1:57:55and she ends up like not leaving the country.
- 1:57:57Yeah. Yeah, it's bizarre.
- 1:58:00Yeah. Weird.
- 1:58:04Yeah, we were talking earlier about Keen tons,
- 1:58:09self-destructive kick and he comes home looking like Tyler
- 1:58:12Durden like straight-up Fight Club and the chairman dad says
- 1:58:17that his Antics aren't cute anymore and I was like pause,
- 1:58:20pause pause, pause, pause, you thought that him getting beat up
- 1:58:26every night and just completely losing.
- 1:58:28His shit was cute initially. You got it with the he's just in
- 1:58:35a silly goofy mood, right? Right.
- 1:58:41So it's just so and then, sometimes sounds so, whiny, when
- 1:58:45he asked begs his brother to send him to America and that
- 1:58:50very same, like the next scene or something.
- 1:58:53So, it's like not, why does unsung want this guy?
- 1:58:59Like I still I pick, I pick woobin.
- 1:59:02Like we had like, yeah, he had so many red flags in the
- 1:59:05beginning and he was, he's literally the definition of
- 1:59:09that, the memes of women, who say, I can fix him.
- 1:59:13Yes. But she actually thinks, if she
- 1:59:17actually fixed him, she did what we dream of doing, and she
- 1:59:21didn't choose him. I can.
- 1:59:23So flippin, I just get so angry at that like bag.
- 1:59:29That like like you said, he Lee becomes the best character.
- 1:59:36He becomes the best character. Oh, oh, you know, there's a
- 1:59:41really good moment between him and her mom because he got the
- 1:59:45first of all, he's stalking her in a later episode when they're
- 1:59:48in the seaside town, but she's not at home.
- 1:59:50The mom sees him and she invites him inside, and he cries because
- 1:59:57she made him a home-cooked meal and he do like feel a bit for
- 2:00:01him. Yea, Yeah, right.
- 2:00:03You because he lost his mom, he does.
- 2:00:05Like no clue. She knows up and ran away.
- 2:00:08Let's talk like this. Okay?
- 2:00:10Really fast. And that, we're not going to
- 2:00:11spend like 30 minutes on this, but honestly like what the hell
- 2:00:14was? His mom thinking?
- 2:00:16She not only abandoned her child, but she was in town.
- 2:00:22Yes, she was. There she was, she was there.
- 2:00:26He was there, she could have easily got.
- 2:00:29She knew where they lived. She knew where he went to
- 2:00:31school. She knew everything and she did
- 2:00:34not reach out. She didn't reach out and no find
- 2:00:38him reconcile with him and take him away from that crap.
- 2:00:43Head dad, what the reason? She left, the reason she didn't
- 2:00:46leave because of him, she left because of the dad, right?
- 2:00:50Right. Beeping, why why not take your
- 2:00:53son out of that? Why leave him there to
- 2:00:55essentially, become a new version?
- 2:00:58Yeah, like Dad 2.0, like, why would you allow That as a
- 2:01:02mother. Yeah.
- 2:01:04And then the final episode, he finally plucked up.
- 2:01:06The courage to go see her because she left a business card
- 2:01:10with the owner of the snack shop.
- 2:01:15Of all things and he drops by. And she's like, I'm so sorry, I
- 2:01:19meant to, like, go, see you, you've grown up so big and
- 2:01:23strong, and I'm so sorry. And I'm like, what kind of
- 2:01:27mother? Yeah.
- 2:01:29Does she think she is? Because honestly, wrong choice
- 2:01:35after wrong choice for that lady, like, fine, you feel,
- 2:01:37Under Pressure, you feel like you got to get out of Dodge or
- 2:01:40whatever. But she didn't go nowhere.
- 2:01:42Yeah, yeah, she stayed. She A date.
- 2:01:46Yeah. That we're both like out of
- 2:01:51breath. Like, I know, because I do like
- 2:01:57this line from time in, this is an episode 19 I right after,
- 2:02:01like they have the birthday press conference for Keith on it
- 2:02:05and he takes ki-moon song as his date is hot date and she's
- 2:02:10wearing red and all this stuff. He says to his dad, I want her a
- 2:02:13lot more than the life. Or offering me.
- 2:02:17And I was like, I okay. Yeah.
- 2:02:22Yeah. That's a good one.
- 2:02:24That is definitely a good quote. Yeah, absolutely.
- 2:02:27So, the last thing I want to talk about is the, the older
- 2:02:30brother the hyung, and his sudden engagement to this woman.
- 2:02:37Who's, like, it's all gehen another marriage of convenience
- 2:02:41and his teacher on and off again, girl, like, finds out via
- 2:02:47the media, she reads an online article and finds out.
- 2:02:50He's in Aged after he had told her time and time again.
- 2:02:52Like just wait for me, I'm going to come back for you.
- 2:02:55We're going to do this and she ends up, like, seeing him for
- 2:03:00the last time uses the giant Wishbone to wish for a breakup
- 2:03:05from him, which I thought that was like, a given.
- 2:03:08But all right. Yeah, yeah.
- 2:03:10If your man's goes on a business trip and comes back and gives
- 2:03:16you a giant Wishbone and is like, you get to make a wish,
- 2:03:20Fish, like they do this in the states, whoever gets the bigger,
- 2:03:24half of the bone gets to like get a wish or whatever granted.
- 2:03:30What would you do like, gives giant Wishbone?
- 2:03:35I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, I did not understand.
- 2:03:40That whole thing at all, like, again, like they had all these
- 2:03:45random relationships that they didn't like build or anything
- 2:03:51like that, like they had them kind of start off.
- 2:03:53And then you saw that he like, ran to her house, you saw like
- 2:03:57all of this stuff and they're all decided they just like
- 2:03:59fizzled. And we're Right here.
- 2:04:01See anything at all of a sudden. It's the, she's the teacher and
- 2:04:05he bumps into her there. And then She and then again,
- 2:04:11just Fizzles, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing.
- 2:04:14And all of a sudden he's engaged like, you didn't have a
- 2:04:16relationship. You are not dating.
- 2:04:19You are nothing. Like you were nothing in that
- 2:04:22entire thing. It didn't make any sense.
- 2:04:24He's getting sensitive. No, no, I would have rather her
- 2:04:28got with the kid. I would have rather had gotten
- 2:04:31with him, dude. It because he actually cared and
- 2:04:34liked her for who she was. He didn't care where she came
- 2:04:37from anything. He just liked her.
- 2:04:39He had this really spicy moment with her where he hosts the
- 2:04:43ramen or Ramen I thought that was like so stupidly cute but
- 2:04:50also like sir. Yes sir sir he goes and sniffs
- 2:04:56our breath because he had seen her eating the ramen Ramen.
- 2:04:59Yeah. He pushed back their study our
- 2:05:01like 20 minutes or something's like I'm running.
- 2:05:04Like these are scarfing down the ramen.
- 2:05:06Yeah, everybody shop and And like it's very thoughtful of
- 2:05:10him. But at the same time, he's just
- 2:05:12like, put on the Moose, I'm going to come.
- 2:05:15He's like, would you eat ramen and then her face?
- 2:05:22Oh my God. The moment that moment.
- 2:05:25Yeah. Okay.
- 2:05:26Thoughts on the ending. Any thoughts on the final
- 2:05:29ending? It ended like it.
- 2:05:35Yeah, it just like didn't literally it just ended.
- 2:05:40It didn't have this like, great big enjoy enjoying.
- 2:05:45Like, yeah, it just ended this. It was kind of like.
- 2:05:48Okay, that's cool, that's cool. You wrapped up what you need is
- 2:05:53to wrap up and you left all the other things that you completely
- 2:05:56forgot a few episodes back. So it was I I think it's really
- 2:06:03messy. I think it's for some reason,
- 2:06:07the shot of them just like walking in the snow together.
- 2:06:12We're stuck with me like that. Visual of them holding hands and
- 2:06:15walking together. I was like, okay, that's cool
- 2:06:18but it's very unclear. Like, has time passed.
- 2:06:21Yeah. Just like just after graduation
- 2:06:23is. This 10 years down the line?
- 2:06:25Like, he was imagining. Yeah.
- 2:06:27Earlier. Like what is aren't they?
- 2:06:29What is it? Mary like this the thing it's so
- 2:06:32unclear. Yeah yeah which I do not enjoy
- 2:06:35ambiguous ending. I did not like no closure.
- 2:06:40Yeah. No not ever.
- 2:06:42Yeah, just ended. Yeah.
- 2:06:43Just end like we're just going to endure.
- 2:06:45We're going to keep on going and we're just going to keep loving
- 2:06:47each other and that's it. Yeah.
- 2:06:49Like that was the voice. Hope for the best.
- 2:06:51Yeah, let's hope it all works out for us.
- 2:06:53So what? All right.
- 2:06:58Well, I think I have come to the end of my notes Here For The
- 2:07:01Heirs. He had a lot to say, I had a lot
- 2:07:05of qualms with it and ultimately I think we kind of felt very
- 2:07:08similarly about The Heirs and I hope this was a good experience
- 2:07:14for you talking. I had so much fun.
- 2:07:16Yeah, so much fun. I'd love to be on another one.
- 2:07:19So oh great. Maybe I won't have you watch a
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