Eun-sang & The 3 Heirs ~ To Heir Is Human ~ To Have ☮ ♥️ & C☯ntentment Is Divine
[Spoilers are quarantined at the end]
It's not what you think: Let's zoom out to look at Heirs from a broader angle.
Viewers are divided over its appeal. Admittedly, with this production team, H should be better. It falls a touch short, yet it has worth. H has 🅾 new- It did "plagiarize" Boys Over Flowers, just a tad ~ Rich▪guy▪meets▪poor▪girl▪elite▪family▪run▪sch⚙⚙l▪same▪male▪lead▪ smh. Fine. Period Romances never run out of dukes, & Kdramas will keep trotting out CE♻s. I wish they'd retire or take a long vacay. Give a 👮 a 🎰. By & by, it's the 📣, 📝 & 🎭 that forge the path to excellence. Furthermore, beyond the nearly identical premises, the ying☯yang.
Now to what H has, besides CEOs. In ep1 we greet Kim Tan (Lee Min-ho) & Cha “Eun”-sang (Park Shin-hye). Tan's the 2nd son of Chm Kim. H displays an extreme setting that is sadly plausible in an ultra-conservative & patriarchal society. Tan's family is (pause) complicated. Dad's got:
1. A deceased wife - son, Won, is Tan's older brother.
2. A legal wife -Ji-sook, on 📃 /only/ is wife & Tan's legal mother. Her office has moved, but she has her title. To the 🌏 she's Tan's mother, yet she's openly contemptuous of him. She runs the HS, & makes the family public SHOWings. In 1 painful scene, Tan's in her office for causing trouble. Others look on curiously while she treats him like a bug in need of a foot.
3. Ki-ae, the cloistered wife-tress & Tan's true Oma, has all the material trappings her ♥ could ever want, but she's ▫trapped▫. No one can know that Tan is illegitimate, or even that she e✖ists. Imprisoned💔, she is a material girl no longer. Additionally, though Tan adores Won, Oppa will always see Ba$+ard-Tan as a threat. He makes sure Tan is sent to a Calif HS. Won intends that Tan never return. Consumed w/ anger before he left 🇰🇷, Tan created the bullicracy @ school, but was able to mello out 🏄 in CA (laughably spot-on, right?).
Eun is in HS. She lives w/ Mom & works all the jobs she can. As Mom is a mute w/ few options (she's literally silenced) she works as a maid. They're poor. Older Sis, at sch⚙⚙l in Calif, sends word that she's getting married. Elated, Mom empties her $avings for sis. This is Eun's chance for escape! She decides to deliver the 💰 herself. Even though she can't reach📞Sis, she still flies to CA, only to be ⚡broadsided😳⁉ when she discovers Sis is ⤵
🚫 getting married
🚫 in school
🆘 in squalor 🏚
🆘 w/ an abuser
Reeling, Eun can't react when Sis: 🎤C'mon, takes the 💰 &🏃💨-Wu! Wu-woo🎶🎸🎶 (Ty, Steve Miller). The debacle plays out like Live@5 multiplying the humiliation. Tan saw it all, t👀. Long~📖~short, Tan puts up Eun @ his cliffside digs & Tan's "digs" are scary. He claims he's a 💊dealer when he's not claiming to be an illegal organs broker. He thinks her 😲 is adorable. For a few days, it's chats, scrapes, a family visit, a run in w/ Tan's (arranged) fiance, Rachael (she didn't like Eun) a family gathering, school tours, & pancakes. Eun doesn't know who Tan is. Doesn't (want) to care. Hmph. She'll never see him again, anyway. Esp after meeting his dour relations &horrid fiance.
Back in 🇰🇷, Eun finds Mom is now a live-in maid. So, Eun is now ▫️confined▫️ in a ▫cramped▫ room w/ mom. She helps w/ tending to Lady Ki-ae. She sees Ki-ae's agony. It's meant to pain us. Ki-ae is deeply 😞 & bitterly demanding🍷 - until she brightly announces that her son, Tan, will return‼
😳Whaa?
Eun is able to avoid Tan for days, but as denizens of the 🏰, they are both sent to that elite HS. Day 1 is a blunt primer on the rigid 🕸castes🕸
🥇Old💲 mega-rich
🥈New💲 stock$
🥉Well off/🔝position$ (Eun's BFF since childhood is a🥉)
Last+least are scholarships↪bully🔍 fodder. Eun keeps her 👁👁 ⬇ but those heirs invariably f◻rce interaction. It 🏍 from there. Since Tan is home, Eun tries to avoid him, too, but Tan works to see Eun at all 🕘s.
H's theme is 🔳CAGES🔳
▪ Cages of power: Bosses, parents, bullies, -ALL people w/ power spread misery for their own sadistic satisfaction.
▪ Cages we allow: Enduring cages to hoard wealth & status saps the spirit.
▪ Cages we lock on ourselves; what one wants can be a cage, ref: Ki-ae.
▪ Inflating our own importance (pride) is a self-snare. Talk abt fantasy! ▫Pride▫ will blow up all of one's relationships b/c it gushes out of self absorption. {▫Greed▫ sprouts up from ▫pride▫ (Going for more, for the win, b/c U deserve it) &/or ▪emptiness▫ (using $ to fill spiritual & emotional needs). Forget you. Go help a poor soul..}
▪ Poverty is a cage
▪ Wealth is a cage. Greed, family, boards, the public, & 'keeping it phony' in their rigid circle, confines the rich.
▪We also see how the 🌭 is made, or rather, how the voracious zombies are spawned, as H's theme is actually: The Choices ☑ We Make once ▫Caged▫.
Time to, as w/ Ki-ae's empties🍷, clear out some of H's mess: Without doubt, Heirs has H-err😞rs. It's unfocused, it wanders, it stalls. More grave, are the Heir-etical logical 🕳s that could have easily been smoothed. Intermittently wonderful & sloppy writing smells of: "1st draft▶Now▶Tequila🍹🎉". A smidge more mental exertion would have sent H 🚀🌌. H has blown chances. It even feels choppy at times. (Perhaps it's 'blunt like Tan'?) Tan's Blondie-whiteboy-bro causes unease at H's start - He painfully can't 🎭, but fo-sho seems 😜 to hang with. H's pace is relaxing for the more flexibly ranged. If you are one whose ⚪👟are always 🥛⚪, you'll likely find it has too much SN 😴 😴Z💤.
Look at the team. Scripter Kim Eun-sook is proven talent: Mr. Sunshine, Goblin, Descendants o/t Sun, etc. H's directors have 0 duds. The 🎭 is Excellent- really. Is a mediocre romance the best they could pull off? NO! H is more, & it's by design. It's a fact that ▶They tell us◀ the 💘 is bland thru Hyo-shin: "You both continue to shoot your boring romance..." (Me: Spontaneous L😆LS). But wait a sec. W🅰Du🅿🅿⁉ Where did /that/ come from? It's so 🎯. Is it a marker? Is the love story a chalk outline? N🅾thing here; ↗l👀k↕else↖where?
Why⁉ H😮w❔
🤔: "What am I missing?"
H is, as its title indicates, abt ✳The Heirs✳ It contrasts Tan, Won & Yeong-do. Won's shocked agony from an unexpected knife in the heart & Yeong-do's ground in, long suppressed pain that's now popping the pressure valve are arresting. Tan's function is the maypole. H rev♻lves around him. Tan chooses love over the cage of wealth & status. He displays tremendous courage & 0 hesitation to dive 'all in' for Eun. Once he finds Eun, it's Peace🕊Out! He's finally found a home. Eun tries to remain 😑 while pursued by Tan, who commits 1st & fully. No looking back. They'll all have to catch up to Tan. Yeong-do eventually demonstrates the profound courage of internal honesty. There's hope for Yeong-do, while Won faltered, falters again, & chickens out.
Won grew up secure, certain the company is his birthright. His self-worth is🕸in it. N🅾_one's_gonna_wrest_it_from_him. That another option could ever tempt him is beyond his limited imagination. For 20 entire yrs Won watched Ki-ae. Once she got what she wanted, she saw it morph into her cage. Won 👁, but didn't learn. Yeong-do's father is abusive & hyper-critical. His mother left many yrs ago. YD, in turn, is a cruel bully at sch⚙⚙l 😬. He comes to understand his choices & their implications during H.
The cadence is a msg. The entire show is mostly 1 tempo, especially at sch⚙⚙l. The episodes come & go with us tagging along. It's easy to like Tan+Eun & want them to thrive. They do have wonderful moments. But when the 🎼 reaches emotional crescendos, it's for Won & Yeong-do's critical times, not E & T's. After a repeat round of clobbering ea/other @ sch⚙⚙l, YD & Tan are tasked w/ listing the other's faults. The 🎥 pans round. We watch them gravely _Staring_Thinking_Reflecting. In front of each is 📑&🖋 ~ Are we waiting to see who picks up the 🗡 1st? But neither one of them 📝 anything. What they know about eachother includes PAIN. They've seen the other's pain. Is their emoting🌋 even about hate? Or anger, maybe? Projected anger? The scene, the circling 🎥 & the acting is all weighty. Tan & YD have crossed the threshold into the forward-progress zone.
All the 🎭 is✨ - No one wriggles the chin like Park Shin-hye. In Sisyphus, she proves her range by time-traveling, stompin bad guys, & rock-shockin 💔s. Honestly, she ✨ as an 👁rolling kicka$$. LMH does his usual. ▪Kim▪W👀▪bin▪Just▪Steals▪The▪Show▪ as Yeong-do. Kim Ji-Won (My Liberation Notes/Diary-8.9, Lovestruck in the City-7.3), as Rachel, also stands out. With Grace-Kellyesque carriage, Ms Kim is a military surgeon in Descendants Of The Sun-8.3. Choi Jin-hyuk (💘 him in Tunnel-8.1, loathed Rugal-3.7) plays Won with depth, slowly revealing that his ice cage has fissures. A thaw has begun.
But Wait! There's more!
Fashion. Fashion. Oh, it's 💰 w/ 👁-🍬. Smart & amusing reparte↪it's fun hanging w/ these heirs. One duo gets adaww-able quicklly. Mom gets better&better&better w/ Ki-ae. The family 🆚 business chess game 🕸viewers, holding 👀2📺. At the end, H has an amazing dream scene. It's fab, dahling.
Kdramas regularly deconstruct parent-child relationships. Pressure on their society is so oppressive that they, shockingly, have the 4th highest suicide rate in the 🌏, w/ students & elderly @ top risk. In 🇺🇸, we've a glut of 👶-dults all snug @home w/ M&D. Their mindset is a tragedy. Our loose ways are eating our kids alive via "kindness." A bit too strict is better than excuses, ☑victimization & willful 🙈blindness. Balance takes determination and less self.
Will you like H? Re: fantasy, humans populate a -10 realism ↩to↪ fantasy +10 scale. We +5s & ⬆⬆ like H, as it's into our zone. Realists will shame us by trashing our 📺. Don't be bullied! Don't deny your core programming‼ And NO calling H a 'Guilty Pleasure'! A GP is a feature that's awful - no one likes it, but you just /do/). GP has become a soft slur of romances skewed fantasy+ w/o regard for quality. Dings aside, H contains ⚙⚙dles of g⚙⚙d stuff. It isn't remotely awful. Granted, the + msg is t⚙⚙ garbled, which botched H u67u6y66y the delivery. But w/o doubt: WE, in the +zone, are being repressed‼😠 Say it LOUD: "I love Boys O' 💐 & Heirs‼ S😤 what⁉" My peeps, It's okay, it's really just fine, to 💘 Heirs. It's mostly Good➡VG, & at times, it's superb.
See YOU & your goals honestly. Adjust. 🚫 caging you or others.
QUOTE🗣
I struggled all my life to capture the most critical moment. But every moment of life... is critical.
IMHO〰🖍
🎬7 💓6 🦋6 🎨7 〰🖋8 🎵8 🎭8.7 🤔7 😅3 ☀7 🔚 9
👀📺again? 👍
Age 13+ (Illegitimacy) should like H. H is not one bit raunchy. Topics to 🗣: values, what truly matters, contentment, showing respect, courage & forgiveness. Internal honesty↪Yeong-do shows a level of honesty, re his motivations, that's pretty rare. Pride▪greed▪anger▪hate▪unforgiveness▪bitterness are burdens that we carry. When we let them go, ahh. Pe🕊ce.
〰 Live🕊Free. Thrive🌾 〰
⛔️SPOILER SECTION ⛔️
Chm Kim's pride spins it all. He has the 🌏, but no ♥. He's caged Won, Tan, Ji-sook, & Ki-ae (and Tan had begun to cage others). When Mr. Kim is on his deathbed, #2Ji-sook gathers the extended family & board mbrs to attempt a hostile takeover. To think that the wife he tossed aside would remain thankful & loyal proves Chm Kim's hubris. He imagines he's thriving, but self-deception became self-delusion, & his isolation allowed full absorption, which led to mummification. Ditto for the other Heir-etical parents. In reality, such parents (at all income levels, don't kid yourself) would die leaving wreckage in their wake. {Quick ad: Sit your heirs down, write your wishes on 1 page, & have them all sign it, even if you have a will. That could save your family after you're gone}
Won chose the company long ago. It's /his/ by /birthright/. His self-worth is ▫mired▫ in it, & hatred for Tan emanates from his latent anxiety that someone will gut him by stealing HIS position. His identity & security, his 1st (& last) 💘 is the company. That another option could ever tempt him had been beyond his limited imagining. Yet, he let himself fall in love w/ a commoner - An orphan! His choice is still never in doubt. 20yrs. Won has seen Ki-ae, only seeing human trash. Once she got what she wanted, he 👀 it morph into her cage, but he never learned. To save the company from Ji-sook, Won has to give up 💘 & marry a woman who will never be a wife to him. Even worse, his children could very well be her BF's & not his. Will he have the guts to get DNA tests? No matter. She will provide the ☑votes he needs. Gutted in the end anyway, he never augured this. Did he gut the rest of his life? Who will marry the woman HE 💘? He cries bitterly. Fade to ⬛
Yeong-do's father's abusive & hyper-critical. His mom left yrs ago. YD, in turn, is a cruel bully at school. He's odious, when we meet him; a typecast villain. He falls for Eun & sees a new way. He opens up enough for light to filter in. He matures sufficiently to u/s his past choices. YD has yet to choose his future path. His father is in ▫prison▫ which gives him the chance to change course & thrive. What will he do? 1st: He finds his mother. There's promise of a better future life. He even admits to Tan that he took his anger out on him - it's truly impressive baseline honesty. When a person starts the journey of internal truth, rather than trying to look good, we all benefit. YD demonstrates it by progressing from oppressor to confessor. If someone were to say that H is YD's story, I wouldn't argue. Post CA, he may have more screen time than Tan. His story is powerful; his growth, inspiring: H's resolution passes b/c ▪Kim▪Woo▪bin▪Just▪Steals▪The▪Show▪ as Yeong-do. Now I want to 👀 him in everything. ✳H is worth 👀ing for him, alone✳
How did the outline of the body start? Whether it was Tan's pain for his friend or not, Hyo-shin's suicide attempt insures its relevance for yrs. Pressured to the brink; Emotional cries for help; Emptiness; Hollowed; Crushed; Pushed⤵ off the edge: Parents of every economic level can be guilty of pushing their kids too far. Sure, kids need a push at times. Here's the test: Is this for my child's benefit, or abt appearances? We're in a time when increasingly more parents think parenting is for fueling their own pride. That's self-involvement & likely narcissism: It ain't parenting. You're there to correct your child's wrongs, not to screech at the 🌏 that your child does no wrong.
Originally 〰️🖊 March 2022
It's not what you think: Let's zoom out to look at Heirs from a broader angle.
Viewers are divided over its appeal. Admittedly, with this production team, H should be better. It falls a touch short, yet it has worth. H has 🅾 new- It did "plagiarize" Boys Over Flowers, just a tad ~ Rich▪guy▪meets▪poor▪girl▪elite▪family▪run▪sch⚙⚙l▪same▪male▪lead▪ smh. Fine. Period Romances never run out of dukes, & Kdramas will keep trotting out CE♻s. I wish they'd retire or take a long vacay. Give a 👮 a 🎰. By & by, it's the 📣, 📝 & 🎭 that forge the path to excellence. Furthermore, beyond the nearly identical premises, the ying☯yang.
Now to what H has, besides CEOs. In ep1 we greet Kim Tan (Lee Min-ho) & Cha “Eun”-sang (Park Shin-hye). Tan's the 2nd son of Chm Kim. H displays an extreme setting that is sadly plausible in an ultra-conservative & patriarchal society. Tan's family is (pause) complicated. Dad's got:
1. A deceased wife - son, Won, is Tan's older brother.
2. A legal wife -Ji-sook, on 📃 /only/ is wife & Tan's legal mother. Her office has moved, but she has her title. To the 🌏 she's Tan's mother, yet she's openly contemptuous of him. She runs the HS, & makes the family public SHOWings. In 1 painful scene, Tan's in her office for causing trouble. Others look on curiously while she treats him like a bug in need of a foot.
3. Ki-ae, the cloistered wife-tress & Tan's true Oma, has all the material trappings her ♥ could ever want, but she's ▫trapped▫. No one can know that Tan is illegitimate, or even that she e✖ists. Imprisoned💔, she is a material girl no longer. Additionally, though Tan adores Won, Oppa will always see Ba$+ard-Tan as a threat. He makes sure Tan is sent to a Calif HS. Won intends that Tan never return. Consumed w/ anger before he left 🇰🇷, Tan created the bullicracy @ school, but was able to mello out 🏄 in CA (laughably spot-on, right?).
Eun is in HS. She lives w/ Mom & works all the jobs she can. As Mom is a mute w/ few options (she's literally silenced) she works as a maid. They're poor. Older Sis, at sch⚙⚙l in Calif, sends word that she's getting married. Elated, Mom empties her $avings for sis. This is Eun's chance for escape! She decides to deliver the 💰 herself. Even though she can't reach📞Sis, she still flies to CA, only to be ⚡broadsided😳⁉ when she discovers Sis is ⤵
🚫 getting married
🚫 in school
🆘 in squalor 🏚
🆘 w/ an abuser
Reeling, Eun can't react when Sis: 🎤C'mon, takes the 💰 &🏃💨-Wu! Wu-woo🎶🎸🎶 (Ty, Steve Miller). The debacle plays out like Live@5 multiplying the humiliation. Tan saw it all, t👀. Long~📖~short, Tan puts up Eun @ his cliffside digs & Tan's "digs" are scary. He claims he's a 💊dealer when he's not claiming to be an illegal organs broker. He thinks her 😲 is adorable. For a few days, it's chats, scrapes, a family visit, a run in w/ Tan's (arranged) fiance, Rachael (she didn't like Eun) a family gathering, school tours, & pancakes. Eun doesn't know who Tan is. Doesn't (want) to care. Hmph. She'll never see him again, anyway. Esp after meeting his dour relations &horrid fiance.
Back in 🇰🇷, Eun finds Mom is now a live-in maid. So, Eun is now ▫️confined▫️ in a ▫cramped▫ room w/ mom. She helps w/ tending to Lady Ki-ae. She sees Ki-ae's agony. It's meant to pain us. Ki-ae is deeply 😞 & bitterly demanding🍷 - until she brightly announces that her son, Tan, will return‼
😳Whaa?
Eun is able to avoid Tan for days, but as denizens of the 🏰, they are both sent to that elite HS. Day 1 is a blunt primer on the rigid 🕸castes🕸
🥇Old💲 mega-rich
🥈New💲 stock$
🥉Well off/🔝position$ (Eun's BFF since childhood is a🥉)
Last+least are scholarships↪bully🔍 fodder. Eun keeps her 👁👁 ⬇ but those heirs invariably f◻rce interaction. It 🏍 from there. Since Tan is home, Eun tries to avoid him, too, but Tan works to see Eun at all 🕘s.
H's theme is 🔳CAGES🔳
▪ Cages of power: Bosses, parents, bullies, -ALL people w/ power spread misery for their own sadistic satisfaction.
▪ Cages we allow: Enduring cages to hoard wealth & status saps the spirit.
▪ Cages we lock on ourselves; what one wants can be a cage, ref: Ki-ae.
▪ Inflating our own importance (pride) is a self-snare. Talk abt fantasy! ▫Pride▫ will blow up all of one's relationships b/c it gushes out of self absorption. {▫Greed▫ sprouts up from ▫pride▫ (Going for more, for the win, b/c U deserve it) &/or ▪emptiness▫ (using $ to fill spiritual & emotional needs). Forget you. Go help a poor soul..}
▪ Poverty is a cage
▪ Wealth is a cage. Greed, family, boards, the public, & 'keeping it phony' in their rigid circle, confines the rich.
▪We also see how the 🌭 is made, or rather, how the voracious zombies are spawned, as H's theme is actually: The Choices ☑ We Make once ▫Caged▫.
Time to, as w/ Ki-ae's empties🍷, clear out some of H's mess: Without doubt, Heirs has H-err😞rs. It's unfocused, it wanders, it stalls. More grave, are the Heir-etical logical 🕳s that could have easily been smoothed. Intermittently wonderful & sloppy writing smells of: "1st draft▶Now▶Tequila🍹🎉". A smidge more mental exertion would have sent H 🚀🌌. H has blown chances. It even feels choppy at times. (Perhaps it's 'blunt like Tan'?) Tan's Blondie-whiteboy-bro causes unease at H's start - He painfully can't 🎭, but fo-sho seems 😜 to hang with. H's pace is relaxing for the more flexibly ranged. If you are one whose ⚪👟are always 🥛⚪, you'll likely find it has too much SN 😴 😴Z💤.
Look at the team. Scripter Kim Eun-sook is proven talent: Mr. Sunshine, Goblin, Descendants o/t Sun, etc. H's directors have 0 duds. The 🎭 is Excellent- really. Is a mediocre romance the best they could pull off? NO! H is more, & it's by design. It's a fact that ▶They tell us◀ the 💘 is bland thru Hyo-shin: "You both continue to shoot your boring romance..." (Me: Spontaneous L😆LS). But wait a sec. W🅰Du🅿🅿⁉ Where did /that/ come from? It's so 🎯. Is it a marker? Is the love story a chalk outline? N🅾thing here; ↗l👀k↕else↖where?
Why⁉ H😮w❔
🤔: "What am I missing?"
H is, as its title indicates, abt ✳The Heirs✳ It contrasts Tan, Won & Yeong-do. Won's shocked agony from an unexpected knife in the heart & Yeong-do's ground in, long suppressed pain that's now popping the pressure valve are arresting. Tan's function is the maypole. H rev♻lves around him. Tan chooses love over the cage of wealth & status. He displays tremendous courage & 0 hesitation to dive 'all in' for Eun. Once he finds Eun, it's Peace🕊Out! He's finally found a home. Eun tries to remain 😑 while pursued by Tan, who commits 1st & fully. No looking back. They'll all have to catch up to Tan. Yeong-do eventually demonstrates the profound courage of internal honesty. There's hope for Yeong-do, while Won faltered, falters again, & chickens out.
Won grew up secure, certain the company is his birthright. His self-worth is🕸in it. N🅾_one's_gonna_wrest_it_from_him. That another option could ever tempt him is beyond his limited imagination. For 20 entire yrs Won watched Ki-ae. Once she got what she wanted, she saw it morph into her cage. Won 👁, but didn't learn. Yeong-do's father is abusive & hyper-critical. His mother left many yrs ago. YD, in turn, is a cruel bully at sch⚙⚙l 😬. He comes to understand his choices & their implications during H.
The cadence is a msg. The entire show is mostly 1 tempo, especially at sch⚙⚙l. The episodes come & go with us tagging along. It's easy to like Tan+Eun & want them to thrive. They do have wonderful moments. But when the 🎼 reaches emotional crescendos, it's for Won & Yeong-do's critical times, not E & T's. After a repeat round of clobbering ea/other @ sch⚙⚙l, YD & Tan are tasked w/ listing the other's faults. The 🎥 pans round. We watch them gravely _Staring_Thinking_Reflecting. In front of each is 📑&🖋 ~ Are we waiting to see who picks up the 🗡 1st? But neither one of them 📝 anything. What they know about eachother includes PAIN. They've seen the other's pain. Is their emoting🌋 even about hate? Or anger, maybe? Projected anger? The scene, the circling 🎥 & the acting is all weighty. Tan & YD have crossed the threshold into the forward-progress zone.
All the 🎭 is✨ - No one wriggles the chin like Park Shin-hye. In Sisyphus, she proves her range by time-traveling, stompin bad guys, & rock-shockin 💔s. Honestly, she ✨ as an 👁rolling kicka$$. LMH does his usual. ▪Kim▪W👀▪bin▪Just▪Steals▪The▪Show▪ as Yeong-do. Kim Ji-Won (My Liberation Notes/Diary-8.9, Lovestruck in the City-7.3), as Rachel, also stands out. With Grace-Kellyesque carriage, Ms Kim is a military surgeon in Descendants Of The Sun-8.3. Choi Jin-hyuk (💘 him in Tunnel-8.1, loathed Rugal-3.7) plays Won with depth, slowly revealing that his ice cage has fissures. A thaw has begun.
But Wait! There's more!
Fashion. Fashion. Oh, it's 💰 w/ 👁-🍬. Smart & amusing reparte↪it's fun hanging w/ these heirs. One duo gets adaww-able quicklly. Mom gets better&better&better w/ Ki-ae. The family 🆚 business chess game 🕸viewers, holding 👀2📺. At the end, H has an amazing dream scene. It's fab, dahling.
Kdramas regularly deconstruct parent-child relationships. Pressure on their society is so oppressive that they, shockingly, have the 4th highest suicide rate in the 🌏, w/ students & elderly @ top risk. In 🇺🇸, we've a glut of 👶-dults all snug @home w/ M&D. Their mindset is a tragedy. Our loose ways are eating our kids alive via "kindness." A bit too strict is better than excuses, ☑victimization & willful 🙈blindness. Balance takes determination and less self.
Will you like H? Re: fantasy, humans populate a -10 realism ↩to↪ fantasy +10 scale. We +5s & ⬆⬆ like H, as it's into our zone. Realists will shame us by trashing our 📺. Don't be bullied! Don't deny your core programming‼ And NO calling H a 'Guilty Pleasure'! A GP is a feature that's awful - no one likes it, but you just /do/). GP has become a soft slur of romances skewed fantasy+ w/o regard for quality. Dings aside, H contains ⚙⚙dles of g⚙⚙d stuff. It isn't remotely awful. Granted, the + msg is t⚙⚙ garbled, which botched H u67u6y66y the delivery. But w/o doubt: WE, in the +zone, are being repressed‼😠 Say it LOUD: "I love Boys O' 💐 & Heirs‼ S😤 what⁉" My peeps, It's okay, it's really just fine, to 💘 Heirs. It's mostly Good➡VG, & at times, it's superb.
See YOU & your goals honestly. Adjust. 🚫 caging you or others.
QUOTE🗣
I struggled all my life to capture the most critical moment. But every moment of life... is critical.
IMHO〰🖍
🎬7 💓6 🦋6 🎨7 〰🖋8 🎵8 🎭8.7 🤔7 😅3 ☀7 🔚 9
👀📺again? 👍
Age 13+ (Illegitimacy) should like H. H is not one bit raunchy. Topics to 🗣: values, what truly matters, contentment, showing respect, courage & forgiveness. Internal honesty↪Yeong-do shows a level of honesty, re his motivations, that's pretty rare. Pride▪greed▪anger▪hate▪unforgiveness▪bitterness are burdens that we carry. When we let them go, ahh. Pe🕊ce.
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⛔️SPOILER SECTION ⛔️
Chm Kim's pride spins it all. He has the 🌏, but no ♥. He's caged Won, Tan, Ji-sook, & Ki-ae (and Tan had begun to cage others). When Mr. Kim is on his deathbed, #2Ji-sook gathers the extended family & board mbrs to attempt a hostile takeover. To think that the wife he tossed aside would remain thankful & loyal proves Chm Kim's hubris. He imagines he's thriving, but self-deception became self-delusion, & his isolation allowed full absorption, which led to mummification. Ditto for the other Heir-etical parents. In reality, such parents (at all income levels, don't kid yourself) would die leaving wreckage in their wake. {Quick ad: Sit your heirs down, write your wishes on 1 page, & have them all sign it, even if you have a will. That could save your family after you're gone}
Won chose the company long ago. It's /his/ by /birthright/. His self-worth is ▫mired▫ in it, & hatred for Tan emanates from his latent anxiety that someone will gut him by stealing HIS position. His identity & security, his 1st (& last) 💘 is the company. That another option could ever tempt him had been beyond his limited imagining. Yet, he let himself fall in love w/ a commoner - An orphan! His choice is still never in doubt. 20yrs. Won has seen Ki-ae, only seeing human trash. Once she got what she wanted, he 👀 it morph into her cage, but he never learned. To save the company from Ji-sook, Won has to give up 💘 & marry a woman who will never be a wife to him. Even worse, his children could very well be her BF's & not his. Will he have the guts to get DNA tests? No matter. She will provide the ☑votes he needs. Gutted in the end anyway, he never augured this. Did he gut the rest of his life? Who will marry the woman HE 💘? He cries bitterly. Fade to ⬛
Yeong-do's father's abusive & hyper-critical. His mom left yrs ago. YD, in turn, is a cruel bully at school. He's odious, when we meet him; a typecast villain. He falls for Eun & sees a new way. He opens up enough for light to filter in. He matures sufficiently to u/s his past choices. YD has yet to choose his future path. His father is in ▫prison▫ which gives him the chance to change course & thrive. What will he do? 1st: He finds his mother. There's promise of a better future life. He even admits to Tan that he took his anger out on him - it's truly impressive baseline honesty. When a person starts the journey of internal truth, rather than trying to look good, we all benefit. YD demonstrates it by progressing from oppressor to confessor. If someone were to say that H is YD's story, I wouldn't argue. Post CA, he may have more screen time than Tan. His story is powerful; his growth, inspiring: H's resolution passes b/c ▪Kim▪Woo▪bin▪Just▪Steals▪The▪Show▪ as Yeong-do. Now I want to 👀 him in everything. ✳H is worth 👀ing for him, alone✳
How did the outline of the body start? Whether it was Tan's pain for his friend or not, Hyo-shin's suicide attempt insures its relevance for yrs. Pressured to the brink; Emotional cries for help; Emptiness; Hollowed; Crushed; Pushed⤵ off the edge: Parents of every economic level can be guilty of pushing their kids too far. Sure, kids need a push at times. Here's the test: Is this for my child's benefit, or abt appearances? We're in a time when increasingly more parents think parenting is for fueling their own pride. That's self-involvement & likely narcissism: It ain't parenting. You're there to correct your child's wrongs, not to screech at the 🌏 that your child does no wrong.
Originally 〰️🖊 March 2022
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