Kim Won is followed by Secretary Yoon (Chan YoungРІР‚в„ўs dad) who is arranging the trip and meetings. IРІР‚в„ўm glad the drama picked the US for a location shoot, imagine trying to explain away half the characters in this drama coincidentally all showing up in a less popular overseas place for work, play, study, sister seeking, etc. There is nothing to apologize for since he was the cause of her powder present to her sister getting ruined.Р”В«ig brother Kim Won is headed to the US for a business trip. She thanks him for taking her in and he snarks that she has a very weird name.

She peeks inside and grabs a few items, but Tan turns on the lights and comes over to ask why sheРІР‚в„ўs eating expired items since that was all she grabbed.Р”В®un Sang promises to pay him back and tries to leave but he tells her to come back and clean up. Not sure why she didnРІР‚в„ўt tell him she was hungry since he just told her to get him if she needs anything. He hears sound and peeks over the railing to see Eun Sang headed to the kitchen. The living room is all dark and Tan is upstairs in his study. She realizes sheРІР‚в„ўs hungry and heads back out. She thinks back to her confrontation with Eun Seo on the beach. Ha! HeРІР‚в„ўs just there to open the door for her and says to call him if she needs anything.Р”В®un Sang goes inside and sits down with a sigh. He asks if she thinks heРІР‚в„ўs РІР‚СљonlyРІР‚Сњ a drug dealer and asks if both her kidneys are still intact. Tan rhetorically asks her what if he is?Р”В®un Sang heads to the guest room he directs her to, but then she starts backing up when she sees Tan sauntering towards her. She asks if he lives alone and even wonders if heРІР‚в„ўs a drug dealer (especially with his choice of friends). His answer is that heРІР‚в„ўs safer than this place.Р”В®un Sang goes home with Tan and sheРІР‚в„ўs utterly wowed when she walks into his beachfront modern mansion.

In real life logic, the answer would probably be РІР‚вЂњ call the cops and ask for help finding a safe place to stay tonight. In K-drama logic РІР‚вЂњ the answer is yes because he looks like Lee Min Ho and drives a Maserati. He can tell sheРІР‚в„ўs weighing the danger of staying her or going with a guy she just met, and she actually asks him if heРІР‚в„ўs safer than staying here. Kim Tan pulls up having turned around and asks her if she wants to go to his house. I will be so happy when the LA part ends and everyone puts on a school uniform and gets down to businessР”В®un Sang realizes staying outside in this neighborhood isnРІР‚в„ўt safe and grabs her suitcase and starts walking down the street. I was praying the drama could wrap up the LA portion today but it looks like the kids wonРІР‚в„ўt get back to Korea until episode 4 at the earliest. I will find all the secondary characters wholly unpalatable except for Chan Young, but heРІР‚в„ўs so adorable and awesome he makes up for the other charactersРІР‚в„ў lackings.

While Lee Min Ho and Park Shin Hye evidence about as much chemistry as two puppies sitting side by side, I quite enjoy their characterРІР‚в„ўs banter and interaction. The scenes in LA continue to be absolutely cringeworthy and atrocious anytime it involves a local denizen (thank god the surfer friend is in the hospital and out of commission). Heirs came along at just the right time in that IРІР‚в„ўve let go of expectations from her and find myself ready for a high school drama. All this is prefacing my realization that IРІР‚в„ўm actually enjoying Heirs, and the recapping process for this drama is a combination of grousing about the lame bits but humming along with the inoffensive cute stuff.Р”Р„ break up with a beloved can be a long and arduous process of letting go, and IРІР‚в„ўve had two dramas from Kim Eun Sook ( Secret Garden and A GentlemanРІР‚в„ўs Dignity) where IРІР‚в„ўve come to grips that sheРІР‚в„ўs not a writer that connects with me in general even if one of her dramas just happens to be my all-time favorite ( City Hall). It doesnРІР‚в„ўt have her snap, crackle, and pop to it, and even the two leads Lee Min Ho and Park Shin Hye feel like they are going through the motions at half energy. A writer will tell you that ghostwriting is always just a pale imitation of the writerРІР‚в„ўs voice, and I feel like Heirs is a lackluster version of a Kim Eun Sook drama. The start of Heirs gives me the impression that the popular screenwriter was hired to write a drama where the concept was handed to her РІР‚вЂњ rich kids in high school, toss a poor one into the mix, shake and stir and come up with something with her usual verbal dexterity to it. Episode 2 spanned a day in the life of meet-random couple Cha Eun Sang and Kim Tan, and IРІР‚в„ўve actually never watched a Kim Eun Sook drama where so little happens substantively but still IРІР‚в„ўm curiously bopping along. If you like what youРІР‚в„ўve seen so far, then chances are this is the extent of it.

I think watching Heirs/The Inheritors and expecting more is going to be mentally exhausting and ultimately unsatisfying.

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