He bullies a hapless fellow student with a baseball while his lackeys snicker. Next we meet CHOI YOUNG-DO ( Kim Woo-bin), hotel heir and Big Man on Campus back in Seoul.
Doesn’t it sting that nobody’s on his side? Tan just looks around idly and thinks, “I’m too lazy to hate anyone.” (Why hello there, Yoon Jin-seo, what are you doing in Heirs?) Overacting American Friend asks how Tan feels about his family relationships, or rather his lack of them. Tan sits at a cafe and is served by a waitress who speaks to him in Korean. But while there’s no literal throne at stake here, royalty seems an apt metaphor: There’s only one crown in this family, and Big Bro’s gonna wear it. Their father is the Jeguk chairman and Tan its future heir.
Hyung’s name is KIM WON ( Choi Jin-hyuk), and at 31 he’s the president of Jeguk (Empire) Group. “If possible, don’t even come back.”Īnd thus Tan realized that his study abroad was more like exile, and that his cold older brother was staking his claim on what he thought Tan might steal from him. “People with money just eat and play-they don’t bother with dreams,” he’d said. His narration tells us of the parting words with which his older brother sent him abroad to the States, so blunt and succinct: No need to get good grades, just have fun and live lightly. He’s played by Lee Min-ho, but you either knew that already or this is your first drama ever). May as well introduce him off the bat: This is 18-year-old KIM TAN (pronounced tahn and not, say, like the English word tan. I dunno whatchoo got to be so angsty about, uber-rich teenager hero-manchild, but the music and mood tells us he is Very Serious On the Inside about something. And then… a broody shower scene on the beach. Our hero surfs the day away with his buddies, laughing it up and looking light-hearted. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Īudio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. There’s acting talent on both sides, individually, as well as character warmth and depth, and then you add in chemistry to the mix and I think we’re looking at a potential sensation. And perhaps most importantly for a romantic comedy, I really like the leads together. (I can NOT wait for the show to head back to Korea.) There are hints at emotional depth and layered characters-well, some of them, but as the ones I refer to are mainly the principal cast I think we’re fine on that score. I see flashes of promise here and there, in between the parade of stars and starlets, poking its head out from behind the wall of embarrassing English. I know, I’m a little surprised that I did, but also relieved because I was pretty much going to watch this drama regardless. My reaction to the premiere: Measured optimism. With the massive promo machine accompanying this drama-which got going about seven months in advance of its premiere, which is approximately six months more than the average other drama-you had to wonder if they were building it up to a fever pitch that no reasonable drama would be able to match in execution. My biggest concern about Heirs would that it would be all hype, no follow-through. 826 OctoJanuHeirs: Episode 1 by javabeansįinally-and I mean FINALLY-we see the premiere of the most-hyped drama of the year, Heirs: He Who Wears the Crown, Endure Its Weight, which for purposes of efficiency and just plain sense we will be calling, simply, Heirs.
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