*Pulls my hair screaming*
*Sighs* Finally, I get to write a review on The Heirs. It's been a very long time since I watched it.Let's see, where do I begin from?
Firstly, I will begin with the wonderful skills of all the actors. Each character was portrayed well (and the bad characters unfortunately) and the drama was also directed wonderfully.
Sadly, the plot was full of many sad and crying scenes, well according to MY memory.
Problems were attacking the Main lead couple from all angles and it was just too unrealistic for the age range they were supposed to be in.
Mind you, they were supposed to be teenagers, in highschool/ secondary school. I remember while watching it, I was also in junior secondary school.
Anyways, I bet no one is interested in my life story and we are all here for the drama review. The OSTs were on flick and I can still recognize any the Heirs song but the plot...
No, the plot had me on sabbath against high school kdramas for a while...a long while.
It may not be as bad as I portray it to be but y'all have to agree with me that there were just too many antagonists causing problems.
Rewatch Value? Never! Go ahead. Watch it so that we can have a good discussion.
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Being South-Asian myself I was well used to dramatic plotlines that were well removed from reality but I don't think anything quite prepared me for The Heirs. Sometimes it felt like things happened just because the writer was able to write it into the script. It was so ridiculous at times I found myself having to pause the episode just to take in what was going on. I also believe the show took on a few too many sub-plots, towards the end a lot of the conclusions to these plots were incredibly rushed. However, I think The Heirs is an interesting watch if you go in knowing how legitimately ridiculous it is, its sheer madness is magnificent.
Overall I liked the acting in The Heirs and I think the casting was done quite well in some areas, for example, Tan and Won actually did look like brothers but everyone cast as teenagers looked way too old. I found Krystal's character annoying but I think that's just how she was designed (also I can't stand valley girl accents). Park Shin-Hye did her stiff rigamortis kiss thing but I've come to learn that's just how she acts in every kiss scene so minus points there too. However, as ridiculous as the show got the actors always delivered.
The music in The Heirs was well-fitting albeit a tad annoying at times its been 5 years and "LOVE IS THE MOOOOMMMEENNNTTT" still echoes in my head from time to time. Anytime anything slightly romantic happened in it would come BOOMING. Besides that one track, the rest of the soundtrack was nice and mellow.
Realistically I likely won't rewatch the heirs but a little part of me feels like I would just for the nostalgia of it all, despite its flaws there is still something very iconic about it. Love it or hate it, its impact is everlasting.
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Totally not worth the hype. Disappointing story.
If cliché has a limit, this drama breaks it. Extra marital affair, Illegitimate child, dominating stepmom, rude brother, short tempered ex-girlfriend, family dispute, forced matrimony, you name it... and its there.The story is about 'Prince charming' and the 'Beggar maid', quite literally in this drama( Eun Sang worked as a maid in Kim Tan's house). What I dont get is : kids in school, making huge decisions of life like marriage and stuff, like seriously. What would it take to make it a story about college-goers, that would at least make some sense. Kids in school are pretty much clueless about a lot of things, and their thoughts, beliefs and feelings are prone to change.
Knowledge is power, but here we see school going kid (who sucks at academics, bunks classes, literally never studies) attending shareholder's meeting (with no prior exposure), making business deals, just ridiculous 🙄.
Though the story was crappy, the acting, given that it was a star studded drama, was well and good. I really like the acting of Kim Ji Won as Rachel. She's done a great job.
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Trainwreck of emotions
Yes i know i call it a trainwreck but it is tainwreck with a good story and that in the end i want a season that is happy that you can get in a drama to keep it.20 plus a special christmas special episodes of a teenage love story the main pair being similar to a Cinderella story
the music gets annoying real fast same sound clip playing over and over
the cast was great and makes me want to watch more of their works
Now back to my trainwreck comment its a wreck that watched once and have no problem doing it again now i have heard rumors of this show getting a 2nd season sometime in 2022 and i hope the rumors are true the characters deserve a chance at being happy
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The most clickbait kdrama EVER.
The only thing I loved about this messy drama was Kim Woo Bin and Kim Ji Won I loved their characters and their acting. I loved their chemistry. I wished they were the main couple instead of the poorly matched main couple.I also liked Krystal although she wasn't a part of main leads. I like Park Shin Hye, but this must be her worst drama for me. I disliked Lee Min ho for years after this drama. I really avoided him at all cost. I forced myself to watch his drama Legend of the blue sea ONLY for Jun ji Hyun. I understand why it's a classic beginner Kdrama as the cast is really top tier and today's A-list actors/actress' , but they really got wasted with the poorly written characters and poor plot.¿Te ha parecido útil esta reseña?
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Love it
Regardless of the negative comments, I love this drama.the cast did was perfect. each one did a great job and I can't wait for Season 2.
I have watched this several times and will watch it again and again.
The story is typical. Rich boy/poor girl etc...but the way it was done and the acting, each actor did their role perfectly and that's what made this a 10. I wish I could have scored it higher.
Watch it for yourself and then judge. I highly recommend it.
After watching this drama, I looked for more dramas with these actors, not just LMH, although I love him the most :)
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The rewatch value is quite high even though maybe not as much compared to acting because I could watch this show over and over again but just probably not completely finish it because I get bored quite easily and just find it difficult to completely finish a show and towards the end it gets ever so slightly draggy.
There are particular things that I wished happened in this show such as maybe be a bit different to a typical one. For example I wished the main female lead doesn't end up with the male lead but it's quite obvious that would happen. I wanted her to end up with Choi Young Do because I loved his character it was so perfect and he changed for her which I love. Also it was extremely disappointing that Kim Won the heir of Jeguk group didn't end up with Jeon Hyun Joo as I really loved their couple and it was heartbreaking that he chose the company and business over her but regretted that decision the rest of life as it's shown in the end. I wish that he took the courage like his brother and chose her over the company and that shareholders meeting as he was one of my favourite character in it.
The cast was perfect and i mean it every character had the perfect role for them and I liked all the characters no matter how they were portrayed to be. The relationship between the mistress and the maid was so good and sweet they made my day and the brotherly bond between the heirs of Jeguk was so good as well. Hyo Jun was also one of my favourites after Kim Won they both liked Jeon Hyun Joo and I didn't really mind who she ended up with but as Hyo Jun was a student she wasn't going to end up with him. I wish we saw more of the other characters as well and I wish we saw the development of Hyo Jun and Rachel after their kiss. So yes that might have been lacking more about the other cast members. In addition, Rachel portrayed her character very well, at first I thought I wouldn't like her because recently I watched Descendants of the Sun and her character was very different so I thought she may not be able to portray her character well but she exceeded my expectation. Also someone else that I have similar views on was Lee Bo Na as I had also seen her recently in Bride of Habaek and her character was so much more harsh and she portrayed herself in this as a lively girl very happy and overly jealous. She was so perfect and I've enjoyed watching her in both.
There is one thing that I did not understand the reason why Kim Tan was exiled to America three years ago I thought they were going to reveal the reason gradually but now I think it might just be because of the fact he's an illegitimate child.
Ughhhhh there's just one thing and I know ranting about something is annoying and I've mentioned this earlier but I really really wanted Kim Won to get with Jeon Hyun Joo like they had such cute scenes and he loved her just why did their relationship have to end like that. This is going to bother me for a while.
Anyways really enjoyed it overall and I hope that you all give it a chance and keep watching because more me at the end of the episode it made me want to watch the next and i watched it all in 2 days so highly highly recommended.
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Lots of relationship angst that doesn’t always make sense
Where the to start? I know this is a romance, but they don't actually establish the relationship between the leads before they go straight into angst. He then goes into stalker mode and head games and, wow, not a healthy relationship.This show is about guys using women and making all sorts of poor decisions. It gets wearing and I couldn't really care about them at the end.
It's a shame since there are some good actors and some characters with potential, but those characters get sacrificed in the name of plot points and then this falls apart. Ugh.
Points for featuring a mute character and naming the American school after Robin William's character in Dead Poet Society.
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What we got though, was a whole lot of nothing. There was no plot to speak of and honestly, most of the characters were frankly unlikable. You should never judge an actor by the character that they play, but my goodness did this dampen my love for Lee Min Ho and Park Shin Hye.
Story:
Cliches galore - the drama basically took the most overused elements of Asian dramas and combined it into one. The fact is, some of the characters did have crazy parents and you could kind of understand their pain - but this was never fleshed out and instead you basically have very shallow characters who never seem to develop much. There was just a lot of posturing, a lot of yelling, and tears.
Cast/Acting:
The only reason to watch this is because the cast is visually so, so pretty. Lee Min Ho was disappointing and while he was absolutely charming in Boys Over Flowers, he faltered here, and was outshone by Kim Woo Bin, whose character was honestly terrible, but Woo Bin had a natural bad boy charm that worked really well. I get that Kim Tan was such a one-dimensional character, but I also think this showed Lee Min Ho's limitations as an actor. I've always loved Park Shin Hye despite her inability to do romance scenes, but the character of Cha Eun Sang was basically the type of character that she should never play. Park Shin Hye does best when her character is funny and sassy, and this...was not it (see: Pinocchio for an awesome PSH performance).
There were a couple of other shining members of the cast: the moms, for one, and Kim Ji Won as Rachel, who was your standard Mean Girl, but Kim Ji Won's performance brought some dimension to the character. As noted by many, Krystal and Minhyuk's characters were adorable and I looked forward to their scenes (Krystal as a spoiled brat is hilarious). Kang Ha Neul and Choi Jin Hyuk were wasted in this drama and I would have loved to see more of them.
Music:
Love is the moment~
Yeah, enough said - some of the songs on the soundtrack were way, way overused and started interrupting any momentum that was building up.
If you are going to watch this, turn off your brain, and just watch it for the cast.
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Forgettable. Cheesy. And, Unoriginal.
Let me say that I watched this show MONTHS ago so I might be incorrect on some things.This show is like a item that you're excited to buy, then realize that the item is terrible and regret buying it. This is EXACTLY what the heirs is.
Depise the story having a great start, the writers wasted it and made this show SO un watchable.
We first have Eun Sung. Not the worst Female Lead but more annoying much, all I remember her character is for crying. That's it. Then there's Kim Tan, honestly they could've made him look more appealing? I like Lee Min Ho but they make him not my taste in this drama. Then there's the average SML bully, Young Do. There's nothing to his character expect BEING a bully. Maybe being a bit funny and sarcastic but that's it. The first episode is Eun Sung going to America to meet with her sister, after that, the sister is not mention anymore?! Like? What? Not even in one other episode? This show is SOOO predictable. Poor Woman Rich Man falls in love with Poor Woman first, second female lead get's jealous as much as the second male lead does. There's NO twists in this show that I haven't seen in other shows. That's how bland this show is. I respect opinions but people who give this higher than a 9 are down right crazy. I say this to even be worse than Boys Over Flowers.
The Acting wasn't that special at all, y'know. Nobody screw up which was good but not so special.
The Music, GEEZ. Don't get me started. The SAME track I keep hearing in the background is TRASH. The fact that I even use to like the intro song makes me think about my taste months ago. Boys Over Flowers DEFO had better OST than this trash of a soundtrack.
The re watch value. GEEZ AGAIN! SO LOW! I CANNOT EVEN BRING MYSELF TO REWATCH! I mainly want to re watch because of all the main leads but it's so hard. So much scenes are useless to even re watch, the only scene I can bring myself to re watch is one of Episode 9's ones with Kim Tan and Young Do. And let me just say that I can even re watch Boys Over Flowers, the show with low ratings on this website. I think it proves my point on this show's re watch value.
Regardless, I wouldn't recommend, this show get's me somewhat mad after thinking about re watching it for even 2 minutes.
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My tastes in drama are not common and I am totally fine with not “fitting in” the norm or being a “garden variety” watcher.
The story is very simple, 2 rich boys like poor girl, rich girl likes one of them, big show of haves and have nots, we’ve seen this before.
What is it that really captured my attention? The characters! How damaged they all are no matter how much money they have. Great backstories and character evolution, nice romance and a big kudos to the actors for making this work with such a weak plot.
I’m not crazy, but the 9/10 I give it is based on my feeling, I guess this will go as one of my guilty pleasures ?
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