Not when Mannequin is so attractive and so very desperate. Mannequin storms off because it’s unconscionable that Lip Smackers could ever desire another woman. Is it love? Is it hate? Does anyone care? The two stare into each other’s eyes with a passion that fanfiction writers only wish they had the prowess to convey. “Hey, Ji Woon, you better not be insulting my woman,” he says as he folds a 50,000 won bill and lovingly tucks it inside Ji Woon’s jacket. So how does our Fairy Godmother come to Cinderella’s defense? If the Fairy Godmother had a thing for underaged girls, that is. Up until this point, the show has gone to great lengths to illustrate Lip Smackers as the Fairy Godmother of this Cinderella story. This sets off a media storm of speculation and exposes this poor high school girl to the ridicule of Helmeted Avenger (“You’re just doing this for money, you cheap whore!” *throws wad of cash at her feet*), the ire of Mannequin (“How dare you date my Lip Smackers!”), and the anguishing embarrassment of being party to ruining a stranger’s wedding. Lip Smackers promptly reveals himself as a Class A Asshole when he dresses her up as a bride and presents her as his fiancee. It may be just a step above prostitution, but it’s a living, so Ha Won agrees. With her college education in jeopardy, Ha Won needs to make cash fast, and just such an opportunity presents itself when Lip Smackers offers to pay her to go to Grandpa’s wedding as his date. She decides to use all of her savings to pay mom’s rent. Ha Won discovers that her absentee father has neglected to pay the crematorium fees for the last five years, meaning that dead mom’s ashes are homeless. Every scene with her in it seems to take 10 times longer, make 5 times less sense, and have the emotional impact of a lukewarm cup of tea. Her interests are designing boring cocktail dresses and obsessing over Lip Smackers’ relationship status because they had a brief fling 10 years ago, and she’s never gotten over it. Have you tried not treating three grown men like children?
The show wants us to see him as a kindly grandfather type who just wants his family to love each other, but the deeper you get into his backstory, the more sinister things become. He’s head of Hanneul group, and his goal in life is to make money, find true love (fifth time’s the charm!), and to get those darn grandsons of his to behave.Īnd by behave, I mean carry on the proud chaebol tradition of screwing over regular people and not pursuing any interests outside the narrow scope of building and maintaining an evil conglomerate. Winning essayist gets a pair of socks in either grey or green.įinally, we have Teh Chairman/The Chairman/Grandpa. Leave your flavor suggestions and a 200 word essay on how that flavor suits his personality in the comment section. I like to think that Lip Smackers is a Strawberry Peach Flavor type of guy, but I’m open to suggestions.
I’m not going to go into their full character bios right now, but their names at the moment are (from left to right) Homeless Chic, Helmeted Avenger (Ji Woon), and Lip Smackers (Hyun Min). Next, we have the three Kang cousins, who are all fabulously wealthy, incredibly attractive, and very single. She works 10 different part-time jobs in order to pay for her college tuition and escape her life of sadness through education.Īnd, as every Gangnam tiger mom will tell you, better education also means better marriage prospects! She’s a nice character trapped in a terrible drama. Let’s review.įirst, there’s Eun Ha Won, our plucky main character whose backstory sort of mirrors that of Cinderella if you squint really hard. Last episode introduced us to our delightful cast of generic drama characters. “What is it?” I asked, fully expecting to hear that the hamster had escaped to parts unknown and that the cats seemed unusually content.
I’d like to dedicate this post to my beloved husband, who paused his exploration of the new WoW expansion to come bursting into my Fortress of Solitude at 11PM to inform me that we have a serious problem. As much as I bitched and moaned about having to watch Cinderella and the Four Knights again, it was really a very cathartic experience.