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MerryMerino

Taiwan

MerryMerino

Taiwan
The Heirs korean drama review
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The Heirs
3 people found this review helpful
by MerryMerino
Mar 29, 2016
20 of 20 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 4.5
Story 4.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 2.0
Rewatch Value 1.0
Very solid beginning, even though the American actors they hired were horrible. As long as you can get past that you are on fairly solid footing. I enjoyed it at the beginning, and thought the meet-cute was well done. And then the second half of the show happened and you wonder why the hell you are watching this. Nothing in the story makes sense, and you can see that they really faltered in how to actually move the story forward once Kim Tan was back in Korea and his relationship with Cha Eun Sang starts to actually move forward beyond creepy stalking. So let me tell you why this drama IS worth your time: THE. SUPPORTING. CAST. Basically everyone but the lead couple make you drawn into what's going on and they all do an amazing job with the measly little scraps they are given. I really wanted to know more of all of their stories, and infinitely less of the lead couple. They were cardboard and a waste of life. Why do people love Lee Min Ho again? I can't for the life of me figure this out. Park Shin Hye is right there with him. Why do people love her? I'm so confused. I was irrationally invested in Young Do and Rachel's brother-sister relationship for the abysmal screen time they got together. I needed them to be together and awesome close friend-siblings forever, because every time they were together was amazing and so funny. They had that warring "I can't stand your face but I still have to love you so I do" thing that siblings have and did it so well. Bo Na and Chan Young were also my favorite thing in the universe. So sickeningly adorable and stole the show from anyone else that was in the scene with them individually or as a couple. Also, thanks CNBlue for giving me another human I irrationally love. I already LOVE Krystal, but Kang Min Hyuk was new to me and now I have another kpop star that I need to quit that life so he can be in dramas all the time. I wanted a better ending for Kim Won, but we can't have everything. I mostly just wanted a reason to be invested in him enough to be invested in his ending. Now there's a character who got the short end of the stick. If the lead couple's screen time had been cut in half and the story had been distributed evenly among the rest of the characters it probably would have been a much better show. I'm also very convinced that the ending would have been better if it was a Taiwanese drama. But then I wouldn't have Krystal or KWB, so maybe not. That ending is a disaster though. And OMG that song. Way to be heavy handed with the OST. I love Taiwanese dramas irrationally, so you must be really aggressive with the soundtrack for me to not like you. Plus in general it's horrible song, and if I never hear that song again it will be too soon.
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