Before Young-do can get a word in edgewise, he shoos her out the way she came. Tan quickly covers it up like they had a date after school, and apologizes to Eun-sang for having to reschedule. He wonders what their relationship is, and jokes that it only leaves one possibility: “You’re siblings.” Shh, we’re in a drama! Don’t make jokes about things like that. The love triangle has another three-way run-in, but this time it’s in Tan’s front yard and Young-do isn’t exactly pleased to see that Eun-sang is chummy enough with Tan to be making house calls. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Park Shin-hye – “Story” for The Heirs OST Īudio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. I’m pretty sure that both boys actually like her, but I’m also sure that they hate each other more, which sort of clouds that teeny tiny thing called motivation. The frenemy war rages on, and the two suitors literally declare that they will be fighting over Eun-sang because they have nothing else to fight over. It’s a less traumatic episode than the last few, which I guess isn’t saying a whole lot in the grand scheme of things. "The Heirs" is directed by Kang Sin-hyo and written by Kim Eun-sook and features Lee Min-ho, Park Shin-hye, Kim Woo-bin and Jung Soo-jung.579 NovemJanuHeirs: Episode 10 by girlfriday The main point in the drama's favor is that Eun-sang is clearly resisting these efforts to be defined as the girl in a Cinderella story, and while her success has been limited, that's been more a result of her attitude rather than a contrivance of the script. Orion's column last week defines a specific kind of problematic narrative in Korean dramas wherein a poor girl who was supposedly competent before now becomes weak in the face of her romantic partner- and I have to admit that Eun-sang's story hews pretty close to that kind of story framework. If the drama is trying to signal that Yeong-do's way of thinking is preferable to Kim Tan's brand of heroic romanticism, the argument it presents is a fairly compelling one- even as the occasional moment where we see that even heirs need friends every once in awhile.Īt the same time, I do need to acknowledge at this point that "The Heirs" might not be as clever as it seems. Even when the main Kim Tan and Eun-sang plot gets tiring the adventures of the various characters always makes for a good breather, as more fights break out where aggressive business-like behavior is a clear asset. Cliffhanger notwithstanding, I'm somewhat doubtful that the drama is actually going to go anywhere with it this time.īut I still like "The Heirs" because it's able to go about it with such style. Technically speaking the storyline of "The Heirs" is kind of repetitive- we see this conflict play out between Kim Tan and Eun-sang repeatedly, and there's never anything that could be called a meaniningful rupture in the relationship. This fails quite spectacularly, as Kim Tan ends up so emboldened by this move that he accidentally exposes the romantic entanglement to the one person who should absolutely not be made aware of it under any circumstances. But these attempts always fail and this episode is no exception to that rule.Īs if inspired to prove Yeong-do wrong, for example, Eun-sang tries to head off Kim Tan's latest romantic advances by being more affectionate and kind in her rebuff this time around.
Eun-sang has, for pretty much the entire series, been living in fear of constant disaster and has had to act in a placating way to try and avert it. That probably doesn't sound like a good thing- but the argument he makes is surprisingly persuasive.
Hatred and spite toward fellow human beings.
Yeong-do has finally shown what he can offer Eun-sang in terms of a romantic partner.
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