Heirs - Inheritors

While in Poland, my friend recommended me to see Inheritors with a warning that this is an old series and the actors wear old school late 2000s clothes and have flip phones 🙈🙉🙊 So as this drama was recommended by many on various social media and having my buddies' confirmation that it is cool to see, I searched for Heirs on Viki. 

It's been almost 9 years since the drama was released, the appearance of the actors and the quality of the series have changed drasticaly! Park Shin-Hye hasn't changed that much, I mean yeah she grew up but her face even now is round and adorable.... but Lee Min Ho! He has come a long way from the horrible haircut from Boys Over Flowers to current look (I solemely apologize to longtime K-drama fans, I will never see this drama exactly because of the hairstyles and clothes of the leads). The 2000s stayed good by him 😂😂😂 It is honestly strange and hard to look at it and compare him toThe King in Ethernal Monarch or simply in the photos from the recent photo sessions 😆😅😂 He did very well growing up!

Moving on to the plot. It starts in US (in California to be exact) where Kim Tan, the second son of Jeguk Group CEO, studies. He was send abroad to study but it's more an exile due to his complicated status in Korea. One day he meets Cha Eun Sang who searches of her older sister. A few random situations make Eun Sang move in for few days to Tan's villa. Time passes and he feels falling for her bur never knowing that she's the daughter of his longterm family's housekeeper. Unfortunately his fiancée, Rachel Yoo (Kim Ji-Won), decides to visit the villa as well and she is .... slightly dissatisfied with the housemate 😅 She tries once again to convince him to come back to Korea. Tan decides to move back to Korea and join his highschool mates but all he thinks about is to see Eun Sang once again. Fate likes to play tricks and lovebirds meet very quickly 😇😈

The description is one thing, but what happens after Tan comes to his family home and re-enters high school's walls is a total social avalanche & disruption. Some are happy he came back but others are angry or feared. There was planty of secondary characters and here are the more interesting ones:

• Lee Bo-Na (played by Krystal) - first girlfriend of Kim Tan and now they are something like friends (?). She doesn't believe in friendship between man and woman. What I like about Bo-Na is that she evolved from spoiled CEO daughter to friendly girl that Eun Sang in finding her place. At the beginning I thought she will be as Yoo Rachel but luckly she got better in time!
  
• Choi Young-Do (Kim Woo-bin) - next ex- in Tan's life but this time its a ex-best friend. The combination of his frustration and his short-tempered character ended up taking over as Tan disappeared to harass others. He is ranked highest in the school system but his grades do not reflect it. Despite his intelligence, he and Tan end up in the bottom of the student highscore list. His father, Choi Dong-wook is mercilessly strict and physically abusive towards him, and engages with him in judo matches to get him to do things. He is a complicated character who fights with himself and the rest of the world throughout the series. It is interesting to watch him change when he is with Eun.
• The most original and total icon of this series is Jo Myung-soo (Park Hyung-sik). He is the most laid-back character of all in the drama, and he does whatever it takes to not be qualified of taking over his parents' law firm. He is super playful and loves taking photos. He is mostly in friends with Young-Do but what's interesting that in his hangout cave on special photowall you can find pictures of all his friends - including both Tan and Young-Do. His character brightens up whole serie and God bless him for the laughs 😆💜

 

I went into this drama without big expectations and what I imagined - I got. It is a good drama but it didn't exactly got me. I give it 6/10.... or maybe I could strech it to 6,5/10 because plot was nice and I liked how the characters were diversed. As mentioned before, there was many side characters and at one moment I was overwhelmed with them but in the same time they where quite developed so this is a con that turned out to be a pro. I like dramas where plot is not only about the leads and theirs families. Here we have the enemy, friends, their families and some past. I like it 😊

I was warned that the story even though ok doesn't have much to offer and not much happened indeed. Everyone was fighting about something that wasn't there - I think this explains it the best. Even the narrator at the end even says something like "not much has changed" and I couldn't agree anymore 🙊🙉🙈 

Music.... I know it was 9 years ago but the music.... not my cup of tea .... 😬👎

I don't think I'd rewatch Heirs but will mention it when people ask about old dramas and beginings of Park Shin-Hye, Lee Min Ho and Kim Woo-bin. There was plenty of funny moments and crazy outfits that need to be spreaded! In overall it was a alright drama, but not worth the hype it got in the Internet. I am aware that it old and in the past it was a wow.... This is why it is still OK. It proofs that the drama was not that bad as the starring cast is still present on the screens and developed their carees. Their acting was really good and that saved the drama!