DRAMA KOREA THE HEIRS EPISODE 1 UPDATE
When the episode is over, I will go back to my notes, fix them up a bit and update part by part on each recap post while waiting for the torrents. I will be trying to capture as much as possible while I am watching the episode.
I am no Softy so I can’t post updates while the drama is airing. The order will go like this (cough, anyone recognize this line?). So with fingers-crossed, I am looking forward to this drama and recapping it, and being part of a community of fans. I’ve giggled and whined, complained and squealed every time there was new information about this drama because while I like pretty, it doesn’t feed my brain nor make up for the lack of sleep I so dearly love.
Filled with some of the hottest names in the industry, pretty boys and girls, and sounding like the quintessential Cinderella story. The Heirs will be my first “normal”drama, and what a one at that. As a matter of fact, what I like most about fantasy-sageuks is the exploration of everyday human emotions in the midst of a fantastical world. They make up the bulk of my favorites I just don’t write about them as much. That doesn’t mean I don’t like regular everyday dramas. This isn’t a conscious decision I just like my dramas epic and/or with lives at stake. In addition, the drama I was crazy about before this blog was Secret Garden. I haven’t recapped long at all, but looking at the past three dramas I completed (cough, or didn’t), I have only covered fantasy-sageuk dramas. This drama might be the biggest sensation this year (for all the right or wrong reasons), or it might be the biggest flop, but it is definitely the prettiest drama. I am sitting here filled with trepidation and excitement. It seemed like it would never come, but here we are. He sits back, drinks coffee, stares into the sunset, and writes. One of these is Choi Young Do, tall, handsome genius, with rancid personality, who learns that before getting his own stately resorts, he'll first be getting same aged, equally beautiful and "pleasant", step sister, Rachel Yoo, who's also engaged to be married to none other but his arch enemy, Kim Tan.Our hero writes. Meanwhile in Korea, we see group of privileged, spoiled high schoolers, the future 1% of Korean society, who all seem to be familiar with Kim Tan, and not many of them are fond of him. Instead of calming her down, he suggest he might also be dealing in human organs to support this life style. Kim Tan who is same age as her, leaves with no parents around, in a big, luxurious house, which makes her immediately assume he's a drug dealer. At first reluctant to go with a guy who seems all to well acquainted with LAPD, she agrees to go with him simply so to not spend the night on the street. This entire exchange is observed by mysterious Kim Tan, who has completely different set of problems, but decides to take Cha Eun Sang's problems on, as well. After her sister notices her, they have a fight, she takes all of Cha Eun Sang's money and runs off, leaving her to cry and gather her broken dreams of the pavement. Her sister is not only not getting married, but is also not at university, and is earning money working as a waitress, and maybe some shadier side jobs as well. However, what she finds in America is far worse than she could ever imagine. She resolves to go to America as well, and get better life.
However one day, Cha Eun Sang learns that her sister is about to get married, and realizes she'll never return to Korea, so she'll forever have to wash dishes. Cha Eun Sang can't wait for her sister, who's her idol, to come back to Korea, and start earning money, so she can stop washing dishes and get a degree herself. Cha Eun Sang and her disabled mother both have to work hard, humiliating jobs, in order to support her older sister who's at university in America.