The most clickbait kdrama EVER.
The only thing I loved about this messy drama was Kim Woo Bin and Kim Ji Won I loved their characters and their acting. I loved their chemistry. I wished they were the main couple instead of the poorly matched main couple.I also liked Krystal although she wasn't a part of main leads. I like Park Shin Hye, but this must be her worst drama for me. I disliked Lee Min ho for years after this drama. I really avoided him at all cost. I forced myself to watch his drama Legend of the blue sea ONLY for Jun ji Hyun. I understand why it's a classic beginner Kdrama as the cast is really top tier and today's A-list actors/actress' , but they really got wasted with the poorly written characters and poor plot.Was this review helpful to you?
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Love it
Regardless of the negative comments, I love this drama.the cast did was perfect. each one did a great job and I can't wait for Season 2.
I have watched this several times and will watch it again and again.
The story is typical. Rich boy/poor girl etc...but the way it was done and the acting, each actor did their role perfectly and that's what made this a 10. I wish I could have scored it higher.
Watch it for yourself and then judge. I highly recommend it.
After watching this drama, I looked for more dramas with these actors, not just LMH, although I love him the most :)
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The rewatch value is quite high even though maybe not as much compared to acting because I could watch this show over and over again but just probably not completely finish it because I get bored quite easily and just find it difficult to completely finish a show and towards the end it gets ever so slightly draggy.
There are particular things that I wished happened in this show such as maybe be a bit different to a typical one. For example I wished the main female lead doesn't end up with the male lead but it's quite obvious that would happen. I wanted her to end up with Choi Young Do because I loved his character it was so perfect and he changed for her which I love. Also it was extremely disappointing that Kim Won the heir of Jeguk group didn't end up with Jeon Hyun Joo as I really loved their couple and it was heartbreaking that he chose the company and business over her but regretted that decision the rest of life as it's shown in the end. I wish that he took the courage like his brother and chose her over the company and that shareholders meeting as he was one of my favourite character in it.
The cast was perfect and i mean it every character had the perfect role for them and I liked all the characters no matter how they were portrayed to be. The relationship between the mistress and the maid was so good and sweet they made my day and the brotherly bond between the heirs of Jeguk was so good as well. Hyo Jun was also one of my favourites after Kim Won they both liked Jeon Hyun Joo and I didn't really mind who she ended up with but as Hyo Jun was a student she wasn't going to end up with him. I wish we saw more of the other characters as well and I wish we saw the development of Hyo Jun and Rachel after their kiss. So yes that might have been lacking more about the other cast members. In addition, Rachel portrayed her character very well, at first I thought I wouldn't like her because recently I watched Descendants of the Sun and her character was very different so I thought she may not be able to portray her character well but she exceeded my expectation. Also someone else that I have similar views on was Lee Bo Na as I had also seen her recently in Bride of Habaek and her character was so much more harsh and she portrayed herself in this as a lively girl very happy and overly jealous. She was so perfect and I've enjoyed watching her in both.
There is one thing that I did not understand the reason why Kim Tan was exiled to America three years ago I thought they were going to reveal the reason gradually but now I think it might just be because of the fact he's an illegitimate child.
Ughhhhh there's just one thing and I know ranting about something is annoying and I've mentioned this earlier but I really really wanted Kim Won to get with Jeon Hyun Joo like they had such cute scenes and he loved her just why did their relationship have to end like that. This is going to bother me for a while.
Anyways really enjoyed it overall and I hope that you all give it a chance and keep watching because more me at the end of the episode it made me want to watch the next and i watched it all in 2 days so highly highly recommended.
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Lots of relationship angst that doesn’t always make sense
Where the to start? I know this is a romance, but they don't actually establish the relationship between the leads before they go straight into angst. He then goes into stalker mode and head games and, wow, not a healthy relationship.This show is about guys using women and making all sorts of poor decisions. It gets wearing and I couldn't really care about them at the end.
It's a shame since there are some good actors and some characters with potential, but those characters get sacrificed in the name of plot points and then this falls apart. Ugh.
Points for featuring a mute character and naming the American school after Robin William's character in Dead Poet Society.
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What we got though, was a whole lot of nothing. There was no plot to speak of and honestly, most of the characters were frankly unlikable. You should never judge an actor by the character that they play, but my goodness did this dampen my love for Lee Min Ho and Park Shin Hye.
Story:
Cliches galore - the drama basically took the most overused elements of Asian dramas and combined it into one. The fact is, some of the characters did have crazy parents and you could kind of understand their pain - but this was never fleshed out and instead you basically have very shallow characters who never seem to develop much. There was just a lot of posturing, a lot of yelling, and tears.
Cast/Acting:
The only reason to watch this is because the cast is visually so, so pretty. Lee Min Ho was disappointing and while he was absolutely charming in Boys Over Flowers, he faltered here, and was outshone by Kim Woo Bin, whose character was honestly terrible, but Woo Bin had a natural bad boy charm that worked really well. I get that Kim Tan was such a one-dimensional character, but I also think this showed Lee Min Ho's limitations as an actor. I've always loved Park Shin Hye despite her inability to do romance scenes, but the character of Cha Eun Sang was basically the type of character that she should never play. Park Shin Hye does best when her character is funny and sassy, and this...was not it (see: Pinocchio for an awesome PSH performance).
There were a couple of other shining members of the cast: the moms, for one, and Kim Ji Won as Rachel, who was your standard Mean Girl, but Kim Ji Won's performance brought some dimension to the character. As noted by many, Krystal and Minhyuk's characters were adorable and I looked forward to their scenes (Krystal as a spoiled brat is hilarious). Kang Ha Neul and Choi Jin Hyuk were wasted in this drama and I would have loved to see more of them.
Music:
Love is the moment~
Yeah, enough said - some of the songs on the soundtrack were way, way overused and started interrupting any momentum that was building up.
If you are going to watch this, turn off your brain, and just watch it for the cast.
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Forgettable. Cheesy. And, Unoriginal.
Let me say that I watched this show MONTHS ago so I might be incorrect on some things.This show is like a item that you're excited to buy, then realize that the item is terrible and regret buying it. This is EXACTLY what the heirs is.
Depise the story having a great start, the writers wasted it and made this show SO un watchable.
We first have Eun Sung. Not the worst Female Lead but more annoying much, all I remember her character is for crying. That's it. Then there's Kim Tan, honestly they could've made him look more appealing? I like Lee Min Ho but they make him not my taste in this drama. Then there's the average SML bully, Young Do. There's nothing to his character expect BEING a bully. Maybe being a bit funny and sarcastic but that's it. The first episode is Eun Sung going to America to meet with her sister, after that, the sister is not mention anymore?! Like? What? Not even in one other episode? This show is SOOO predictable. Poor Woman Rich Man falls in love with Poor Woman first, second female lead get's jealous as much as the second male lead does. There's NO twists in this show that I haven't seen in other shows. That's how bland this show is. I respect opinions but people who give this higher than a 9 are down right crazy. I say this to even be worse than Boys Over Flowers.
The Acting wasn't that special at all, y'know. Nobody screw up which was good but not so special.
The Music, GEEZ. Don't get me started. The SAME track I keep hearing in the background is TRASH. The fact that I even use to like the intro song makes me think about my taste months ago. Boys Over Flowers DEFO had better OST than this trash of a soundtrack.
The re watch value. GEEZ AGAIN! SO LOW! I CANNOT EVEN BRING MYSELF TO REWATCH! I mainly want to re watch because of all the main leads but it's so hard. So much scenes are useless to even re watch, the only scene I can bring myself to re watch is one of Episode 9's ones with Kim Tan and Young Do. And let me just say that I can even re watch Boys Over Flowers, the show with low ratings on this website. I think it proves my point on this show's re watch value.
Regardless, I wouldn't recommend, this show get's me somewhat mad after thinking about re watching it for even 2 minutes.
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My tastes in drama are not common and I am totally fine with not “fitting in” the norm or being a “garden variety” watcher.
The story is very simple, 2 rich boys like poor girl, rich girl likes one of them, big show of haves and have nots, we’ve seen this before.
What is it that really captured my attention? The characters! How damaged they all are no matter how much money they have. Great backstories and character evolution, nice romance and a big kudos to the actors for making this work with such a weak plot.
I’m not crazy, but the 9/10 I give it is based on my feeling, I guess this will go as one of my guilty pleasures ?
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I hated Choi Yeong Do and loved everyone else.
So Heirs was one of the first kdramas that I watched. I just started watching it again and I have to say that I have found out that what I am about to say is an unpopular opinion that not many people share hence its unpopularity. I hated the character of Choi Yeong Do. I could not sympathize with him. He was such a jerk. Even knowing how he turned out that way, I still couldn’t like him throughout the series. I loved Kim Tan and Cha Eun Sang together. That was young love. My favorite characters were Bo-Na, Yoon Chan Yeong, Kim Tan and Cha Eun Sang. I loved those two couples and how different they were from each other.Even after Choi Yeong Do admitted his feelings for Cha Eun Sang, I still wanted to punch him in the face. Ugh it was so frustrating that I could do it. Choi Yeong Do was such a toxic and abusive character and I don’t understand how everyone loves him except for the fact that the actor is cute. WHATEVER!!!!!!
I understood Kim Tan and his love for his brother and feeling so hurt and trying to hard to get his older brother back. I hated that Cha Eun Sang kept running away.
I really enjoyed this drama as my introduction to the kdrama world because it was in 2013. These dramas are different today and it is nice to see the evolution.
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hi, hello, and welcome... to the most fun you can have watching a drama if you get down off your movie critic high horse and learn to love yourself. is this drama cliche? yes, most definitely. does that mean it's bad? no, you absolute sticks in the mud.
first things first let me tell you what i'm looking for in a drama and why the heirs is all of those things and more:
-i, personally, cannot stand when girls in dramas are the first to fall in love with the (usually cold and aloof) boys, and then we as viewers have to suffer her trying to win the boy over for numerous episodes and everything sucks. i find this unrealistic since women are queens and i, personally, immediately fall in love with them. thankfully, the heirs has my back, and our main boy tan is in love with eun sang from, like, ep 2 or 3. we stan a king with good taste.
-a realistic love triangle. now, any time a drama is like "here is a rich boy. here is a poor boy. here is a poor girl. poor girl has to pick between them" i'm over here pulling all my hair out because Whomst Is Trying To Marry The Poor Boy; Girl Get That Coin. anyway, the heirs never bothers with all that and gives us a "triangle" with two rich boys. thank you generous queen. (i hesitate to call it a triangle since she never expresses interest in one of the boys; he just likes her... but in kdramas the girl's opinion hardly matters i guess)
-a good beta couple/secondary couple. every review sings the praises of them so i won't harp on it but dear god in heaven they are the best thing ever maybe. love them. amen.
-a happy ending!!!!! who is trying to be sad after investing all that time!!!!! the ending is happy. i love it. so good.
okay now to address the Critics of this masterpiece of a drama:
-a common complaint i see throughout the reviews is that the storyline... goes nowhere? or makes no sense? or something? i loved the storyline, it never bored me, and the point of it all really resonated with me. to me, the story was fundamentally about children who had been broken down by the world/their parents/their circumstances and were just desperately trying to find love or meaning somewhere out there. there's an extended metaphor around this fake drawing of a dead body that keeps being graffitied on the school grounds which i'm just so enraptured by. if you just sit and think about the story for more than the ten seconds between episodes, you can see the meaning and how it maybe affects other children who are stuck in impossible situations or loveless families. anyway that's just my Two Cents.
-another complaint is that there's no chemistry between the leads. unfortunately i cannot give the blind sight. there's chemistry. goodbye.
-'eun sang is boring' or 'eun sang cries too much.' first of all, accusing a girl who works several part time jobs while also attending school, whose sister vanishes to america, whose mom can't hold down good jobs because she's mute, who keeps getting bothered by rich boys who she doesn't want to be bothered by, whose life keeps getting turned inside out at every turn......of crying.....too much.......is a little, hm, Sexist. just saying. anyway, if you think a GIRL (literally....an underaged child) who does all that, gives back sass as good as she gets it, stares down millionaires without fear, and has an incredible capacity for warmth, forgiveness, and love is boring then i literally have no words for you. eun sang deserves the world; i would die for her.
anyway to make a long story short i love the heirs and critics of it can choke. i've seen it maybe ten times by now. I Know What I'm Talking About. thank you for your time. go enjoy your non-cliched terrible dramas while i love this very good one. bye.
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Good Weights
Good-looking Cast – I think I should stop mentioning this point because this is common for almost all Korean shows. A good-looking cast is the USP for most Korean dramas. If not the cast then, at least, the male protagonist has to be extremely handsome to appeal to its target audience i.e. young girls. The Heirs does indeed score high on a cast full of eye candies. Lee Min Ho (Kim Tan) is an Asian heartthrob and has a huge fan following across Asia. It is said that The Heirs was in the news after Lee Min Ho was finalized as its lead. Fans kept a tab on minutest of development in the show. The female lead, Park Shin Hye (Eun Sang) is one of the most successful Korean actresses and has a loyal fan base of her own. Together they made a very interesting couple.
Competent Supporting Cast – The subplots of the show were reasonably interesting and the supporting actors did a marvellous job with the limited screen time they had. I simply loved Bo Na and Chan Young’s love story. Bo Na was the show stealer and her easy chemistry with Chan Young was really enjoyable. Kim Tan’s arch rival Choi Young Do’s gradual growth with each episode in the show was also very interesting. His character seems to grow on you and you eventually start liking him despite his rotten ways.
Amazing Outfits – Since the story is about rich kids, the cast flaunted some chic and classy outfits. Rachel Yoo’s (Kim Tan’s fiancee) wardrobe was the best amongst the girls. Sadly, the female lead was the daughter of a housemaid so she could not sport expensive dresses and jackets.
Bad Weights
Cliched Storyline – If the show was talked about then I am sure it must have been majorly for its cast because the storyline did not have much to offer. It is the same old rich boy falls in love with a poor girl, defies his family for her and they live happily ever after. There are viewers who still enjoy the Cinderella concept but it can be a drag sometimes.
Too Many Subplots – Though the subplots were interesting it could have been a little less chaotic. There were too many characters and each of them had a back story. I would often get confused trying to link the stories together. Most of the time I would be wondering who is marrying whom, who is whose mother, who is having an affair with whom and so on.
Pathetic Theme Song – The song ‘Love Is The Moment’ By Changmin would be played each time there was a romantic scene between Kim Tan and Eun Sang. I am sorry to lambast the song but it really killed ‘the moment’ for me. I wish they played some other song (actually any other song) instead of untimely hammering “love is the moment” in our ears. It’s really annoying to hear a man scream the same words at a very interesting and awaited point of the show. Actually, the song itself is not that bad. It just did not suit the show.
The show beam balance has an equal number of good and bad weights which means that I enjoyed the show as much as I disliked some aspects of it. It has many special moments that made me go ‘awww…’ at the same time, it also had me go ‘what the heck….’ more than once.
The Heirs is for those viewers who enjoy watching beautiful people fall in love and fight against the world to be together. If you are looking for some sensible power conflict amidst a love story then do not opt for The Heirs because it does not offer you that.
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