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| Kim JiWon as Yoo Rachel |
I began watching the much-talked about new show “The Heirs/The Inheritors”, solely for cutie Park Shin Hye and super kewl Krystal of f(x) fame but I have to say that as the show went on, I began to realize that I didn’t really like any of the main characters- they were either rich and spoiled (like Kyrstal’s character) or poor and belligerent (Park Shin Hye). Throw in all the selfish and/or apathetic dudes in the show and I was ready to stop watching….Then SHE appeared onscreen, and WOW, did it INSTANTLY become another ballgame! SHE was none other than Ms Kim Ji Won, that pretty actress who stole my heart in TO THE BEAUTIFUL YOU, and MAN, was she DROP-DEAD GORGEOUS here!
If you recall back when I was watching TTBY, Kim Jiwon was the ONLY character I had any real sympathy with, and once again here in THE HEIRS, she is the one that I instantly sympathized with. I don’t know why that is, but something about the way Kim Jiwon plays her roles always makes me like her and want good things to happen to her!
In THIS particular show, Kim Ji won plays the character of Yoo Ra Ee “Rachel”, who is caught between her mother’s questionable marriage to a bigwig and her soon-to-be-stepbrother and an aloof fiancé bumming it off in Sunny California. This leads her to the shores of the US, where she has a brusque brush with Park Shin Hye (who is there to meet up with her “successful” older sister), and WOW, their rapport is so good, both so catty and sassy to each other, I instantly though, HEY, are these two girls going to end up comrades in the fight against all this serial snootery? I NEEDED TO SEE WHERE this story was GOING!!!!
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| Rachel confronting Eunsang when she sees her laughing at her |
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| Busted! |
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| Eunsang pretending to be Japanese to avoid Rachel's Scolding! |
Aw, but as soon as I jumped into Episode two, I could see that Kim Jiwon’s role was going to YET AGAIN be just another “foil” against the main girl character. ARGH, how can they take such an intriguing character and turn her into such a cliché? Shucks, they took such care with her introduction, I felt she was going to be a sub-heroine or at least someone inspirational to the plot, instead we get “mean jilted ex-girlfriend…AGAIN! DARNS!
Can I still keep up with this show if they continue to write her as a shallow character? I’m not sure, but MAN, one thing I’ve said many times is how much I love a girl dressed in pretty outfits and as the jet setting socialite Rachel, Kim Jiwon is ALWAYS dressed to the nines, looking totally SEXY and alluring, GAHHHH, I can hardly stand it!!!!
