*Actors: If you're watching it bc you like those actors that's good - everyone shows decent skill and whole cast is truly talented. It's satisfying in this matter, because some of the characters will surely stay in one's mind for awhile (for example little psycho girl, or a girl with a smiling heart, or one black knight;)).
*Music: It's good. Sometimes annoying with its timing, but good. And I noticed two new, very nice songs. Besides that I’m all for rock, so all rock-like music pieces were like honey for my ears;) Unfortunately they were noticeable only in first part of the story...
*Overall: Strong 6. This drama surely has its own atmosphere. It’s very well made and it can really hook you up for a couple of episodes. Unfortunately in the same time, it belongs to the category of shows in which 'forward button' is easily abused -> Conclusion: it could be better if it would be about 7 or 8 episodes shorter.
~Cheers!
(and I apologize for grammar mistakes;))
P.S. I really love Lim Ju Eun, who played Jun Hyun Joo. To be frank, I stared to watch this drama because of her!, so it was veeery disappointing when it turned out that she was just background character... Ah, such marvellous actress overlooked again.
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Let's start off saying, this show had SOOOO much potential. It had a wide selection of talented actors and actresses as well as its fair share of enjoyable OSTs. I'm not kidding - as much as I grew to hate kimtan though I loved him at the start, Lee Minho is as talented an actor you can get. I really wanted the super-popular woobin to see what was so great bout him - and he didn't disappoint! DIdn't like his character at the start but grew to root for him and feel for him :') an cry for him too.Kang Haneul and Choi Jin Hyuk did a great job playing their roles Hyoshin and ChoiWon (love rivals too), the girl they loved, Hyunjoo did a fab job too. One of the few times I remembering tearing and crying in the show was because of them! so *applause* for them! Kang Minhyuk and Krystal did a GREAT JOB as Chanyoung X Bona, absolutely loved them , they're one of the reasons I kept watching. I loved Kimtan's and Eunsang's mums together too. THey're so adorable! ALso one of the pairs that kept me through the show. Park Hyunsik fro ZE:A proved that idols can act too! He was so cute and I loved him lots as Jo Myungsoo
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The main story is too shabby, nothing that you haven't seen before. But it's not too bad, trust me, I used too hate Park Shin Hye ('You're Beautiful' drama fault) and I don't really understand this love for Lee MinHo... But I watched, all 20 episodes, without wanting to give up, I'm a survivor, and you know how I survived? SUPPORTING CHARACTERS. >> Moment - Changmin
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The story was very typical. Rich boy falls in love with poor girl and vice versa. So what made this interesting to watch? Well honestly it's not the story line because that had me lost in the middle of the series. What actually made me continue on watching was the characters. I was very much interested in the character development of the actors that I couldn't help but finish the drama because of them. Yes the male lead Kim Tan was a mopey teenager with so much daddy issues while our female lead did nothing but cry her eyes out on all the bad things that has ever happened to her. And so I waited for their progress, thinking that maybe something drastic would happen in their lives and their characters would evolve on that awaited change but unfortunately - Heirs failed me big time.
But!!! One thing that this drama did right for me was casting Kim Woo-bin. It was my first time to see him in a drama and I fell in love with the bad boy image of his character that I had a hard time moving on from his role. I had a bad dose of second lead syndrome because of him.
Music wise, there was nothing note worthy but it did add to the onscreen chemistry, so I have nothing against it. I would recommend this drama for the Lee Min Ho and Kim Woo-bin fans out there. But over all... this isn't going to be in my list of must watch drama of 2013.
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The central plot was not really developed but we are able to get the gist of the story. As for characters, I think Kim Woo Bin is the only actor that stood out for me and I believe he successfully portrayed his character well. He truly gave me SLS, and character growth was excellent as well. In fact, I would say that the sole reason I managed to finish this rather bland drama was due to Young Do (KWB's character). Lee Min Ho and Park Shin Hye were OK, cute moments were fluffy but nothing made me swoon. Acting was generally okay, just that, like I said, character development was lacking.
At the end of the drama there weren't satisfying resolutions for most of its characters, which I believe is due to the fact that there are so many characters. Hence, at the end of the day, this drama delivers cute moments, your typical high school drama and solutions that were not really meaningful in resolving the major plot issues.
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Overall it was a good drama. There were hot guys, cute girls, good (but typical) story line, music was so-so, & I got some laughs out of it. I would recommend others watch it. ENJOY!~)
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Only reason I give the acting a 4 is because I would like to give Woobin a ten personally. Oh my god did you see how amazingly he read his character and gave him layers? How one look could say more than a long string of lines? He was amazing in this drama, and I had never watched him in anything else before, so this was the drama that made him my favourite actor.
Anyways, don't watch this drama, seriously. It's not worth it!
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The story is full of clichés, some of them infuriatingly abundant in other kdramas as well: rich boy/poor girl, bad boy/good girl, lots of wrist-grabbing and bullying, love against the odds, family issues... yada, yada. It falls apart at times; I couldn't quite figure out why things kept happening in the most painful way for our protagonists - other than, of course, the fact that the show must go on for 20 episodes - since there seemed to be just drama for the sake of drama. I still ate it up like a fool, though: glued to my screen, waiting to see what other plight would befall our poor duo. Sugar cravings, anyone?
The acting is adequate: as many other reviewers have observed, the supporting cast shines through the main characters' bickering. I especially enjoyed Kang Ha Neul and Kang Min Hyuk, who were incidentally two of the least problematic characters in the show. I can't say that Lee Min Ho or Park Shin Hye were bad - they just weren't anything special. (Besides, as far as I'm concerned, nobody can shine through their role if they're dressed like LMH was. Good grief, first the animal prints of City Hunter, and now those tacky dress shirts and fugly sweaters.)
The fact is, I don't believe anyone's role was well fleshed out. The "love triangle" is an archetypical one; the heroine, while showing some pleasant spazz in the beginning, is later being thrown around like a tennis ball; the male protagonist grabs the heroine from the wrist and is rather insistent she obey and follow him around (and she listens!); the third corner of our triangle is the "bad boy" of the group, being shown as a rather despicable human being but having a change of heart midway. In this role, Kim Woo Bin actually did a very good job. I loved to hate him, and although it is clearly shown he can't be forgiven for his shitty behavior, he repents and grows as a character. All the supporting actors had a story of their own, and I could sympathise with them, but it was never shown as much as I wanted; just inferred.
Since, as I said, I literally devoured the episodes one after another, I might have given it an even higher rating, were it not for a tiny little detail: the problematic aspects of the romance. A romance where the heroine almost never follows the male protagonist by her own free will, but is instead constantly forced by wrist-grabbing, as well as a romance where the heroine is constantly acted upon instead of having a say and her own agency, is one of my biggest pet peeves and it took away from my enjoyment. Some might find it romantic; I find it obnoxious and outdated. Another thing is that the love triangle never really worked for me, and the reason is quite simple: no matter how much of a development Kim Woo Bin's character had and how much you root for his happiness, one can never excuse his constant bullying and belittling his classmates and his love interest alike. I mean, even the main love interest was a bit obsessive, but KWB's character takes the cake!
The TL;DR version: Watch for the laughs, be aware of the problems. Drink a shot everytime there's wrist-grabbing, or bad fashion sense, and play a guessing game of when "Love Is The Moment" will start playing out of nowhere - you won't regret it.
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And Kim Woo bin is a great actor and extremely attractive and all and I quite look forward to seeing him in other dramas but theres something a bit too villainous about his features that makes me think it'll be very difficult to make him the sole lead in a successful romantic drama and the comments here about him solely carrying the heirs is just plain ridiculous and dense. Lee Min Ho is as ever, an incredible actor, - as at home in front of the cameras as he is in a suit and Park Shin Hye has become the great actress I'd always known she would grow up to be after watching her in stairway to heaven.
The storyline was simple and cliched, true, but I think that is the beauty of it. Not every drama out there is going to be the next great original work of art - if that is your belief you should give up now. There is nothing wrong with a drama just being entertaining. This show is no City Hunter but its a fascinating new take on something we've all watched a millon times - it is new, mordern, funny, quirky, youthful, sometimes sad, and oh so romantic. It is itself.
It's a great show - my only regret is that it wasn't produced four years ago, when Min Ho was the right age, and Min Ho if you ever see this I hope you've finally graduated from highschool once and for all.
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The Heirs ( i.e. How To Write One Of The Most Overrated Korean Dramas Of All Time)...
Nearly every drama watcher out there will at least once probably ask or seek out advice from more experienced drama watchers for their advice or recommendations on dramas. Whilst this may differ from watcher to watcher ( depending on some of their respected tastes), the common pattern for K-Drama watchers will most likely be one or more the following; Goblin, Strong Woman Do Bong, SKY Castle, Descendants Of The Sun ( and/or) The Heirs.The Heirs. Oh, where do you even begin with this one? The warning flags that SBS had to cast several top-notch romance drama actors Lee Min Ho, Park Shin Hye and Kim Woo Bin to attract viewer ratings, or the fact that Kim Eun Sook was involved in the scriptwriting for this show, it is hard to tell.
All joking aside The Heirs is probably what most can classify as a '' hot mess'' ; the show has a brilliant cast of very successful actors and ( whilst Eun Sook's writing can be hit or miss) it did have the potential to actually be a well-written satire upon the wealthy debutants of Korean society. Instead the show rode too heavily upon many cliches and thus lead to too many gender, racial and unrealistic stereotypes within the drama.
In the beginning of the show, the usage of LA as a setting is used as '' exotic'' eye candy for Korean viewers, however, there are two notable things here for international watchers; the first being out of all the beautiful and intriguing cities in the world, they had to chose LA in hope of appeasing the satisfaction and interest of ''young'' audiences. The second most notable trait ( even for non-Americans) is that there are some notable racial stereotypes towards foreigners being a little too ''assertive'' and ''laidback'' as well. Whilst it should be noted that a lot of this setting is used to glorify our hero Kim Tan rather than focus on details of racism, ( as an older comment has mentioned) there is also the notable problem of "sweetening" the reality of youth culture as well.
This is particularly seen of course with Kim Tan. Considering that he spent a lot of time in the U.S. and his backstory is far from being a fairytale, you would still perhaps consider that he would have turned to '' other'' methods ( i.e. drugs or alcohol ) or at least had some signs of realistic emotional trauma considering his upbringing. This isn't to glorify or disrespect elements of modesty in Korean culture, however, Kim Tan is most prominently a character in the story who is an '' outcast'' amongst his family. With years of emotional gaslighting and manipulation (particularly by his brother and father), it was hard to actually see Kim-Tan as being a genuinely developed or well-written male lead, especially towards actually developing a bond with someone as cluelessly naive as Eun Sang.
Our female lead Cha Eun Sang ( Park Shin Hye) was sadly just as badly-written as a character. Female leads don't need to be '' sassy'' or '' fighters'' to be well-written and rounded characters. Instead Eun- Sang was more of a ''ragdoll'' between the two bratty male leads Kim Tan and seeming '' dangerous bad boy'' Choi Yeong Do ( Kim Woo Bin- perhaps one of the few likeable actors and characters in the show, until they did viewers over with that usage of terrible story progression) who just happily let her seams be ripped apart by emotional manipulation rather than actually being something called an '' individual'' and putting her foot down when both characters crossed the line. In fact to make this matter worse, it wasn't just the male leads who stepped over her as Rachel ( Kim Ji Won) slowly allowed Eun- Sang to become her own sandbag of bullying and the dreaded and stereotyped female animosity as well. Perhaps my one note of praise does go to the portrayal of the unusual friendship between Eun- Sung's mute mother Park Hee-nam (Kim Mi Kyung) and Kim Tan's mother Han Ki-ae (Kim Sung-ryung) over the course of the show, which was endearingly more intriguing and heart-rendering than any of our main couples.
As countless reviews have stressed this fact before, however, The Heirs is incredibly overrated for what it is actually worth; a good cast goes to waste with poor story writing, characterisation, inconsistencies , cliches and tropes. The Heirs is no more than Boys Over Flowers repackaged with a couple of tweaks here and there by Eun Sook ( well, about from Lee Min Ho) and more headaches for sensible drama watchers as we try to guide ourselves of sixteen episodes through something which is just a hot mess even in the beginning episode. Certainly a waste of time.
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