This series was so hot; I created a study group to
watch it!
“The one who wears the crown must bear its weight...”
The Rundown
Behind the
name: Also known as “The
Inheritors,” “The One Who Wants to Wear the Crown Must Bear its Weight”
Country: South Korea, 2013
Genre: Teen Drama, Romantic Comedy
Network: Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS)
Director: Kang Shin-Hyo
Cast: Lee
Min-Ho (as Kim Tan), Park Shin-Hye (as Cha Eun-Sang), Kim Woo-Bin (as Choi Young-Do), Kim Ji-Won (as Yoo Ra-Chel), Choi Jin-Hyuk (as Kim Won), Kim Mi-Kyung (as Park Hee-Nam—Cha
Eun-Sang's mother), Kang Min-Hyuk (as Yoon Chan-Young), Krystal (as Lee Bo-Na)
Compare to: Boys Over Flowers, Romeo and Juliet (South Korea
style!)
Hate it or Love
it?
Love it!!!
Synopsis
in a Sentence: Poor, unassuming girl meets filthy rich bad boy
under unfortunate circumstances abroad and somehow, their fates lead them to
Korea’s most exclusive school where they must fight against the social
stratification that is high school (which is really a euphemism for the whole
world).
Written by Kim Eun-sook, who's coughed up scripts for shows like "Secret Garden" and "Lovers in Paris," it's no surprise that this one was destined to be a hit from the start. Get ready for strong female leads, witty comebacks & an all-round engaging script!
Written by Kim Eun-sook, who's coughed up scripts for shows like "Secret Garden" and "Lovers in Paris," it's no surprise that this one was destined to be a hit from the start. Get ready for strong female leads, witty comebacks & an all-round engaging script!
On Writing: The Plot
Three
cheers for the plot! The writing’s extremely fun and the dialogue is excellent!
Yes, it’s a bit cliché, yes, we’ve seen it all before, but if you’re going to
tell a story that’s been told before, this is the way to do it! Entertain us!
Make us wish that our lives were a teen series! Create a cast of the most
good-looking people in the world: make them witty and intelligent and rich and
stylish, make a love triangle-trapeze-circle or whatever shape you want it to
be and let’s feel the actors and actresses and watch the characters grow and
change and transform and lets dream it all happened! We L.O.V.E the plot! Much
fun! Very well done!
(4.5/5)
On Acting: The Cast
Where to start, where to start…
Honestly though, there are SO MANY actors to
rave about, but I’ve got economics to study, so here are a few shout outs:
· Shout out to Woo-Bin’s eyebrows! They
single-handedly enhanced Young-Do’s bad-assness!
· Shootout to Kim Ji-Won’s rendition of
Rachel. We’d like to see an East-West standoff between Rachel and Blair
Waldorf. A real Cold War.
· Kang
Min-Hyuk receives shootouts… no rather screams…boyfriends take note! This is
EXACTLY how you should be!
· Krystal proves she’s not
just a singer but also an actress. A bit of a show-off with the American
English though. Why not teach Min-Ho some enh?
· Being an alien is not
easy, so we hail Park Jun-Keum. Her character, Jung
Ji-Sook, is the weirdest thing since Crayon Pop.
· What are K-dramas
without villains? And Jeong Dong-Hwan’s rendition of Kim Nam-Yoon is so good; we think he’s a
despicable old man!
· She was Miss Korea in 1988, and she takes the
crown as Miss Heirs in this one too! Kim Sung-Ryoung is fun to watch!
A talented star-studded cast, a great script, can we ask for more?
(4.5/5)
On Production:
The Creativity
Yes we can! And
production delivers! It complements and takes on the clichéd story without making it
too cheesy, and we gotta give production props for that. Production knew just how far to
take it to make us want more, when to stop, when to pull our hearts out our
ribcages and have us eat it in a bowl of ice cream while we wished our lives were as
glorious as The Heirs’…
(4/5)
On
Resolution: The Conclusion
Ah,
this is where the ball drops. Yes, we gave The Heirs permission to take that
old story of love between different social classes in a high school full of the
most filthy-rich, good-looking people in the world, but what—exactly what—made
them think they could end the story in the cheesiest way possible? They tricked us until
the end!
(4/5)
The
Verdict: It’s what we’ve been
waiting for since Boys Over Flowers, and in some ways, even better!
Overall
Score = 17/20
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