cherkell:
We return to the most vacant boulevard in all of Gangnam-gu, where Our
Leads are still standing in the middle of the intersection in a
tertiary Wrist Grab to End All Wrist Grabs. Bean Princess pulls her
wrist away first, saying to Good and Bad Heir that she can’t do this
anymore. Good Heir finally recognizes that he’s been the source of all
her pain, but insists she come with him. Bad Heir insists that she
doesn’t go with Good Heir.
EOTTOKE?!?
JoAnne:
Psssst - go with the eyebrows, Beanie. Do it.! Do it! I know she
won't. There's not a chance in hell she will. What can I say? I ship
Woo Bin with everyone and everything on Earth.
cherkell:
Beany slowly takes Goody’s hand… but then wraps her other one around
his (which is the universal symbol for “ain’t gonna happen, buddy”).
She tells Goody that they’ve come this far, but she’ll take her leave
now. And leaves him with his outstretched hand still lingering in the
air.
JoAnne: I was very confused for about 2 seconds. I missed that day in universal symbol class.
cherkell:
Bad Heir tells Goody that he still has a way of making people leave
his life, and he takes off after Beany leaving Tan standing in the
middle of the intersection, staring at nothing as usual.
JoAnne:
(Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee for Bad going after her because I LOVE when he is
just NICE.) But I call unfair on that comment. Bad initiated that
falling out, NOT Good.
cherkell:
Bad Heir catches up with a crying Beany, and tells her to stop lest
people think he kidnapped her or something. Beany sobs on and on and
Baddy asks if she wants to skip her first period P.E. class and
celebrate. Celebrate what, we never hear as Beany reminds him THIS is
why he is in 98th place in their class. As Beany staggers away, Bad
Heir wonders why she doesn’t understand him.
JoAnne:
Totally read that as 'do you want to skip your first period?' and
aside from a momentary marvel at how late that would be for a girl who
is at least 18...I got stuck on how COOL it would be to have a boyfriend
with the power to make periods go away. Well, I mean. Yes. Ok. I
realize NOW that they all have that power, theoretically. YOU KNOW WHAT
I MEANT.
cherkell:
Good Heir returns to the Rooftop of Defeat, flashing back to all the
hand-holding he and Beany did in prior episodes. Thinking he has better
things to do, Goody instead stares at Beany holding up the gymnasium
wall in her P.E. class. Baby Heir and Stringy Hair arrive coo-cooing at
each other, when Stringy runs over to chide Beany for leaving her house
before breakfast.
JoAnne: So happy about
this little friendship blossoming. Stringy has won me over with her
annoying/cute ways and yes, I saw where drunk Kakashi admitted it had
happened to her, too.
cherkell:
Goody then chides Baby for not answering his phone when he went out
looking for Beany. Baby retorts that he’s not Kim Tan’s personal
secretary, but Goody claims it was an emergency. Baby wonders if Beany
ended up staying at Bad Heir’s hotel, but Goody flashes back to an
earlier conversation when Beany didn’t know Baddy’s family owned a
hotel.
JoAnne: Yeah, because of course that's where she'd go. You dumb ass, Kim Tan. That is exactly what #100 would think.
cherkell:
In the boys’ locker room, Goody asks Baddy if Beany cried after
leaving him hanging in the middle of the street… and then tells him that
if Bad Heir thinks he has a snowball’s chance in hell, to think again.
Beany is his and to back off, jack!
JoAnne:
I still have such a hard time imagining Kim Tan doing the things that
Young Do has done to torture students. Do you think Young Do got worse
after losing his mom and his bud? And that when it was the two of them
together they were more normal asshole but not dangerous type bullies?
cherkell:
As Baddy searches online for Beany’s Fakebook information, Stringy is
giving what-for to Thick Heir since all the pictures he took of her at
the MT make her look fat. Thick claims that the camera never lies, and
Stringy wants the “real” pictures of her. NOW. They aimlessly bicker
back and forth, all the while Thicky keeps pinning snaps on his Wall of
Shame.
JoAnne: I love how these three mess
with each other, and yet: in movies in the US where you have a bully
kid, even the kids who are 'friends' with the bully are actually pretty
scared of him. Young Do's friends aren't afraid in the least. Does
this mean he gets redeemed super fast? Not sure how I feel about that.
Maybe he could just be redeemed to the point of cocky bastard. I could
be happy with cocky bastard. REALLY happy.
cherkell:
Suddenly, Stringy and Thicky notice a recurring theme throughout the
MT: Bad Heir longingly staring at Beany (and being stupid enough to be
caught on camera doing so). They both wheel around at the same time and
ask if Bad Heir’s got a jones going for Beany, since Good Heir and
Beany are the ones with the something going on.
JoAnne: I forgot no one knew, since WE'VE all been obsessing about it for a couple of weeks.
cherkell:
Thicky wants to know with all the gin joints and dive bars and
playgrounds he could hang at, why Baddy has to look for his first love
at their school? Stringy is amazed that Bad Heir has not had a “first
love,” but Baddy is more amazed at the pictures and if that is what he
really looks like in the real world… when he’s looking at Beany.
JoAnne: Sigh. 'So that's what I look like, when I look at her.' When a rock wall comes down, it comes down hard.
cherkell:
Thicky reminds Baddy that his “first loves” have never worked out, and
Stringy gets all nostalgic and tells them to look at Tan and her.
Thicky reminds her that their relationship was all one-sided and stuff,
since Stringy just followed him around like a puppy. More bickering
about the state of the world continues…
JoAnne:
The running gag about her delusional belief that Tan is pining for her
is actually one of my favorite things. I don't know if this girl can
act, but in this role, at least, she's hilarious in just the right way.
cherkell:
Good Heir returns to his Palatial Mansion with KiMistress nipping at
his heels, wanting to know if Beany went to school and if they saw each
other, yada yada yada. Goody wishes she would shut the hell up, but
KiMistress reminds him that if KimPapa finds out his hormonal failings,
he’s gonna be shipped back to the States so fast it will make his
almonds spin.
JoAnne: Tiny, tiny almonds. Swinging forlornly. Never to be picked, never to be enjoyed.
cherkell:
Goody wants to know if KiMistress is really happy living like that,
with him not being able to call her eomma in front of everyone. She
wistfully says it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. She’s moved into the
master bedroom and hoped his father would finally make an honest woman
out of her, but it didn’t turn out like that.
JoAnne:
Their love for each other gets me every time. Kim Tan and KiMistress
both are actually very simple, direct people who've been pushed around
by everyone else in their lives who matters to them, and they didn't
seem to think they had any choices in that. Something tells me KT don't
feel that way no more.
cherkell: He asks if
KiMistress wants the same thing for him and Tempermental Heir
if/when/maybe they get married. Goody may never ever be able to
introduce her as his mother, but she pooh-poohs that and tells him that
as long as it works out for Tan, she’ll stay miserable… but will bear
that cross for her son. All Goody wants her to do is take off the piggy
socks that Beany accidentally left at his SoCal house – they’re his!!!
JoAnne: His mind is made up. This will be interesting.
cherkell:
Beany goes around grabbing flyers and visiting real estate offices in
hopes of scoring a room away from the KiMansion. Possibly finding a
prospect, she pings her mom to bring her clothes and meet her at 5.
Goody
decides to show that he can run a half-block without dropping dead, and
meets up with Messed-Up Heir, who gives him what-for on calling out a
senior right before his finals. Goody decides to come clean with hyung,
saying the School President is not his mom – he has a real mom out
there, but KiMadam ain’t her. Messy doesn’t believe him at first, but
if it is true, why is Goody coming clean all of a sudden? Good Heir
says he did it as an experiment to see how scary it would be to tell
someone… and it was pretty scary!
JoAnne:
Somehow, I thought he would have confessed this to Most Under-Utilized
Hottie previously. You know, when he was hearing how Sunbae tried to
kill himself or something. Like they would have bonded over secrets.
Guess not. It just seemed like they'd had some conversations.
cherkell:
GumiHeir summons Baby Daddy to his office and wants to know what side
Secretary Yoon stands on right now after hanging GumiHeir out to dry at
the last Board Meeting. Handing Baby Daddy a cappuccino made from the
latest model Keurig One-Shot, Baby Daddy asks if it may perchance be
poisoned. GumiHeir tells him the thought crossed his mind. Several
times. But have a seat anyway.
JoAnne: One
Shot! I do want to know what Baby Daddy's end game is, now that I see
there might actually be one. Is it just to stay alive? I always
thought he was secretly on the side of brotherly love, but now that we
know - oh wait, do we know it yet? I don't think so. Well, we kinda
do. PapaTan is an ass. If he's an ass...Baby Daddy has to be careful.
I thought he was just being wise and inscrutable under the head of
absolutely atrocious hair, but now I don't know.
cherkell:
The gents have a heated conversation about what KimPapa promised Baby
Daddy to help get Jeguk stocks transferred to Good Heir’s name, but Baby
Daddy decides to pull out his trump card to diffuse Won’s anger.
Showing him a Samsung Galaxy III tablet with Tutorina’s name all over a
Jeguk press release stating she’s joining the conglomerate as their
first cradle-to-grave sponsorship, GumiHeir goes ballistic and asks why
he was never consulted prior to this appointment? Baby Daddy said the
orders came straight from the top… from KimPapa.
JoAnne:
Won is much quicker than I am to understand the true implications.
Because frankly, don't you think it would be GREAT press for the heir
to the empire to fall for the match girl the empire saved? I mean,
assuming you aren't the match girl with your business all out in the
streets but then again, honestly, why is it embarrassing to be poor and
helped by a foundation? It's not the KID'S fault. It might not be
anyone's fault. Some people are poor. It's not always a character
failing.
cherkell:
Won storms into the KiMansion and slowly opens the door to KimPapa’s
study to see Tutorina already there with him. KimPapa called her to
ostensibly “chat” about Tutorina’s fine upstanding qualities having been
the first sponsorship evah by the Jeguk Group. Won still protests that
he should have been told about KimPapa’s plans first, since now
everyone in Korea will see the press release in a few hours.
JoAnne:
If we go with the assumption that Won doesn't know that KimPapa knows
about Won and Tutorina, then why Won thinks he should have been
consulted about the foundation business is beyond me. A foundation is
run separately from a business. Ostensibly.
cherkell:
GumiHeir still tries to protect Tutorina by saying she will be labeled
an orphan and will never survive at Jeguk High, no matter what “good
intentions” KimPapa had in the first place. Never mind his actions
making Won look like a downright pabo! KimPapa tells Won this is
exactly why he did what he did in the first place – if someone’s gonna
be the Bad Guy to break them up, it might as well be him. Won looks
like someone stole his lollipop, and tells KimPapa that he never did get
the chance to tell Tutorina himself how he felt.
JoAnne:
Wow. Even bigger whiny baby than I realized. Still, not being in the
position of trying to maneuver through that political minefield, I
guess I can't say what I would do. Then again, he bought her a necklace
and asked if he was ever going to get to sleep over, so what did he not
confess, actually?
cherkell:
Tutorina tells KimPapa that she will abide by his orders, and excuses
herself to leave. Won tells him that he’s never disobeyed him in his
life and did everything in his power to get himself to where he is
today. But KimPapa disagrees, since apparently he thinks he did all the
heavy lifting to get Won in his current position – by having him as a
son. So is he wrong in actually acting like his FATHER in the Tutorina
Debate? Won needs to straighten up and get married soon. Won agrees…
that he needs to straighten up at least.
JoAnne:
Not sure which surprised me more: the fact that Won doesn't
understand that he is in the position he's in at least in part because
he's the owner's son, or the fact that dad doesn't acknowledge that Won
has done his best to actually be good at and worthy of the job. Or...is
Won NOT actually good at the job? Making him the world's hottest and
yet most un-sexy, whiny, ineffectual loser of a man in existence? HOW
COULD THEY TURN GUMIHOT INTO SUCH A WUSS? I won't forgive you, show.
cherkell:
Tutorina comes out of the KiMansion sobbing and runs into Good Heir,
who takes note of her plight and offers to hail her a cab. Tutorina
thanks him but all she wants him to do is to make sure that Won doesn’t
come after her. GumiHeir does finally come out of the house to Tan
saying the person that just left wants to walk alone, but Won decides
he’s too lazy to walk and gets into his car instead.
JoAnne:
He had no intention of going after her. Is that it? Dad says no and
he just gives up? Wow. Dreamer Tan is more of a man than you are,
Wonnie. In what universe is this RIGHT? Where in the FUCK does a show
get off making Lee Min Ho more manly than Choi Jin Hyuk? I PROTEST. I
DOTH. I doth protest MIGHTILY, in fact. Gumi, my love....you should
have just said no to this drama, for the same reason that Woo Bin was
right to say yes. A good secondary character can be all you need to win
the lottery (remember, oh, I don't know...GU FAMILY BOOK?). This wins
you no prizes, my love. I weep.
cherkell:
Good Heir tells his hyung that he’s not looking too good, as Won tells
him to stop with the brotherly concern and to watch his own back.
Their father is having Won trailed, and Tan is next (if he isn’t
already). Telling Goody to not do anything to put a stain on their
family, Won peels on outta there.
JoAnne: Leaving a sh** stain on my heart. I'm so disappointed right now.
cherkell:
Goody wanders down to the bus stop to see Tutorina waiting. Asking if
she is his brother’s girlfriend, Goody wants to know how she recognized
him. Perhaps Won might have talked about him to her? Tutorina says
Won actually did talk about him, saying that his dongsaeng got all tall
and stuff and is honest and kind and they have the same eyes… and
Tutorina deduces Won was right. That statement puts Tan back into Stare
and Glare Land.
JoAnne: Um, I'm there with
him. So Wonnie does love his baby brother, and yet can treat him so
coldly as if he were a threat? Is he ready to give up everyone he loves
for the power of being the boss? *Weeping for the man he could have
been.*
cherkell:
Bean Mom gets ready to meet up with Beany, but has already written out
a note to KiMistress that she’ll work until the end of the month.
KiMistress reacts sadly to that news, but gets annoyed thinking that
Bean Mom is leaving now (when she’s only going to meet her daughter).
JoAnne: KiMistress can't live without Bean Mom. I'm giving them a couple name. KimBean. Momstress. You pick.
Shuk: [tiptoeing in] I vote KimBean!! [tiptoeing out]
cherkell:
And that she does. As Bean Mom waits for Beany, Bad Heir plops down
at a table across from her and calls Beany, who gives him no time of day
since she’s got plans and hangs up on him. But as she walks up to
where her mom is waiting, she sees Bad Heir as well and hides around the
corner. Beany calls him and he asks her out for noodles, to which she
agrees as a diversion to get him away from her mother. Bad Heir
motorbikes to meet up with the deceptive Beany, and Beany breathes a
sigh of relief.
JoAnne: He's so HAPPY.
cherkell:
Bean Mom tells Beany she gave her notice to the KiMistress and Beany
tells her she’s found a few places to live: the cheapest being 10
million won (~ $9,450 USD) for key money and 350,000 won (~ $330.00 USD)
for its monthly rent. Bean Mom asks where’s she staying, and Beany
says she’s at a friend’s for the time being. But Beany is late for one
of her 4,705 part-time jobs, so seeya!
JoAnne: I'm always amazed at the 'poor' people who can get their hands on 10K, 30K, you name it, for sudden expenses.
cherkell:
She meets Bad Heir at the intersection as agreed, where Baddy notices
the shopping bag in her hand and equates 2+2=5 after remembering the
ahjumma sitting across from him at the conbini. Ordering Beany to stay
put for 10 or 15 minutes, Baddy leaves her at the corner fuming.
JoAnne: Puts the lie to that whole #98 thing, if you ask me.
cherkell:
We see Bad Heir waiting outside the KiMansion as Bean Mom comes
trudging along. Baddy asks if Beany is at home since he’s having
trouble contacting her. Bean Mom doesn’t answer for a bit, but then
types on her phone that Beany went to work. The wheels start turning
under Baddy’s overgreased hairdo, as Good Heir comes walking up the
driveway and runs into Bad Heir motoring in his direction.
JoAnne:
He was so genuinely polite to Bean Mom. And so genuinely shocked and
concerned after. *singing* I will go down with this ship, and I won't
put my hands up and surrender, there will be no white flag above my
door... Dammit. I know a few minutes of nice doesn't make up for hours
of evil. And I know Kim Tan is gonna do some shit that makes me swoon.
It's really just about the those little micro emotions you see flit
across Young Do's face. They KILL me. Because to me, there was a sweet
boy in there once, and shit happens, and the sweet boy went to hide in
the attic while the evil twin fought battles against everyone. And it
just KILLS me.
cherkell:
Tan wants to know why Baddy was coming from his front gate, as Bad
tells him he’d like to move to his neighborhood since there’s so many
interesting people living there. Goody tells him to knock off the
wisecracks, and Baddy tells him to stop being so cranky because Beany
left him high and dry back at the crosswalk.
JoAnne:
Can you please just kiss and make up? No? Just kiss then? Come ON.
It doesn't have to be a commitment. Just two consenting adults....no?
You're no fun.
cherkell:
Good Heir wants to clock him big time, as Baddy says he’d love to
stick around and get the snot beaten out of him, but he’s got someone
waiting for him and he takes off. Baddy rolls up on the sidewalk to see
that Beany has already beat cheeks and left. We then see Beany walking
through one of the underground malls that connects the subway stops and
she looks inside the bag of clothes Bean Mom dropped off to see her “I ♥
California” t-shirt back from her visit to LA.
JoAnne: Oh, Mom.
cherkell:
While she waxes nostalgic about her trip, Bean Mom texts her that a
chingu on a motorcycle dropped by the KiMansion and not to tell her
friends that they live there, arraso? That puts the fear into Beany and
she races off to find Bad Heir. And he’s still waiting on the corner
when she runs up to him. Bad Heir rattles off that Beany is the
daughter of the housekeeper who has a speech impediment.
JoAnne:
How long was he going to wait? Hoping for her to return? *sniff* He
didn't even say that to her, he muttered it to himself. He is so gone.
cherkell:
Beany calls him out for coming to the KiMansion unannounced, so tell
her classmates or not tell her classmates… just don’t do anything until
after they’ve moved out. Baddy takes the not-so-high road and starts
teasing her until Beany yells at him to warn her before he does
anything. FINALLY Baddy shows a teeny tiny actual feelings towards
Beany by saying she’s got such a tragic life, but he’s not going to do
anything about it. They should have just gone to eat noodles and that
be the end of it. He motors off, leaving Beany wondering what the hell
she just witnessed.
JoAnne: That scene came
across a bit differently to me. She rolls up assuming he's going to
screw her over and he says he won't but she just keeps pushing and
finally he blurts out that he can barely deal with his own pain, how
could he possibly add to hers, and he has no idea what to do or how to
act now. Much swoonier my way...I'm sorry, I can't even snark about
this boy at this point. Hopefully next week.
cherkell:
Meanwhile, at the golf course where Good Heir and GumiHeir are meeting
up with Bad Daddy and Bad Heir, Baddy’s appa tells him the ground rules
for today’s match: Bad Daddy will lose to Won and Bad Heir is to beat
Good Heir senseless. Goody and Won discuss why they have to do a deal
with Hotel Zeus is because they’re the only option at present. Won
reminds Tan to be benign in their interactions with the other gents so
as not to show their negotiating cards right off the bat.
JoAnne: How could this possibly end well?
cherkell:
Lots of golf shooting and golf clapping ensues. Baddy is still trying
to get Goody’s goat by playing the illegitimate child card and Goody
ain’t having any of that by telling Baddy to stop being such a dickweed –
he’s got a golf club in his hand, remember? Baddy is trying to figure
out the most shocking way to tell his story of the bastard son dating
the housekeeper’s daughter.
JoAnne: Except
we know he's not, really. He wants to hurt Tan, but he doesn't want to
hurt Bean. Quite the dilemma. I wonder if wanting to hurt Tan will win
out in the end? Keeping him true to his asshole self?
cherkell:
Goody sighs and figures out that Baddy figured it out, and states that
they make a cute couple, no? Bad Heir tells Goody that he doesn’t
sound confident about that, which makes Goody grab Baddy by the collar
and threatens him to not blackmail Beany over that information. Baddy
asks why he, of all people, should be blackmailing Beany… when it’s Tan
he will be blackmailing if Tan continues to keep protecting Beany. If
Goody backs away from her, then Baddy will protect everyone. Get it?
JoAnne:
Tell me how #98 and #100 can keep all this shit straight because I was
number #1 or #2 almost all the way through and...sometimes this is just
a mess.
cherkell:
With Goody’s hatred rising, he inches closer to Baddy and says he will
go back to his old ass-kicking days just to see Baddy, his whole
family, their families’ families and anyone associated with those
families go down in flames. Baddy just laughs that off as drivel
spouted from a bastard child’s mouth… but Tan reminds him that Bad Heir
said the same exact thing a mere three years ago (and we see that
exchange in a nanosecond flashback).
JoAnne:
For a brief moment, I see the steel that actually supports Tan's spine
and I think ok, at least one KimBro has actual balls.
cherkell:
Goody says yes, he is an illegitimate child. But he is still the
second son of Jeguk Group, and with his father on his side, does Baddy
even think he has a freakin’ chance to ruin him? Both boys then flash
back to Baddy’s intent to beat the crap out of Goody, but decided
against it and they both ran back to the ddukbokki restaurant where
Baddy’s birth mother was waiting for him. Apparently they wuz too late
and she had already disappeared.
JoAnne:
Even then, their personality differences were clear. Tan was reaching
out to his friend because he's essentially a warm-hearted person, and
Young Do was stuck on his high horse because if he lets go for a minute
all is lost...and then Tan finally reaches a point where he says fine,
stay there. And we all know what it cost Young do: a last moment with
his mother. I can see why Young Do hates him so much, and I can see why
the guilt of that might have made Tan re-evaluate some of his
behavior..but I also think that Young Do knows exactly how much of that
is his own fault, and his lashing out at Tan is at least in part because
he can't beat himself up enough. And now, for this girl,Tan is willing
to use that to illustrate what he can do...he's taking this fight
seriously. I had no idea that Young Do's mom left relatively recently
before this, so that was a surprise. I thought she'd been gone since he
was little.
cherkell:
So Goody reminds Baddy one last time to not touch Beany OR ELSE. And
they should also act like they don’t know each other, since Goody has
better things to concentrate on than messing up Baddy’s hairstyle for
the rest of his life.
JoAnne: I wonder at the wisdom of informing your closest enemy that you have something big going on...
cherkell:
Back at ConHugeSchool, Beany is stealing glances at Goody as he grabs
books out of his locker, but Goody just strolls on by her once done.
Beany sighs a sigh of relief and heads to the radio station studio,
where Stringy Heir is looking at all the gifts the girls sent Messed-Up
Heir for him winning the Asia Youth Short Film Contest. BUT OMG did she
know that Bad Heir has the hots for Beany? And it’s a secret between
her, Thick Heir and Beany! SHHH!
JoAnne: More scenes with this girl, please. Never thought I'd say it, but there it is.
cherkell:
Messy then comes in saying his ears were burning because those two
were talking about him. Right on cue, Good Heir arrives to
semi-congratulate Messy on his award but asks what type of genre short
he entered in the competition. Messy says it was a “murder by love”
sort-of entry… just the same genre that Beany likes. Stringy asks her
if that’s true, and Beany spits out that she’s an aficionado of the
Horror Genre: Thrillers, occult, splatters… and it’s her dream to make a
horror movie full of hopes and dreams.
JoAnne: I've seen better subtext on Saturday morning cartoons. Come on, show. Do better.
cherkell:
Messy is more interested in hearing why Tan and Beany are avoiding
each other’s eye contact right now. Stringy tells those two they don’t
have to do that on HER behalf. *snerk* As Tan gets ready to leave,
Messy asks why did he stop by anyway? Goody says it was because he just
wanted to see him, and leaves Beany with her mouth hanging open as
usual.
JoAnne: I will NEVER get tired of
two things; Kang Ha Neul's portrayal of MUP Heir, and Stringy's
delusional world. If they kill MUP...I keep thinking about that damned
chalk outline. He wouldn't do that though.
cherkell:
Good Heir goes over to see KiMadam in her office and asks her to
invite Tempermental Heir to dinner. If he calls her for an invite, she
won’t meet him. He doesn’t want to get KimPapa involved either, but
KiMadam is annoyed that Tan only considers her his “mother” only when he
wants something. Goody attempts an apology, but KiMadam offers her own
as well but says she’s busy these days and will make an effort to get
the women together to discuss. Flashback to her and KiMistress’s last
meeting where she threatened to send KiMistress back to the nightclub
where KimPapa first met her.
JoAnne: I may have bounced in my chair at this point because I so totally know what's coming next and I support it yes I do.
cherkell:
On the other side of the golf course is Tempie Mom who works for an
outdoors-wear company and is previewing a few of their newer outfits in a
sort-of runway show (greens-way show?) for the Snooty Ladies Who Lunch.
Tempermental is there working the show since as she puts it, she’ll
eventually be running the company and her mother won’t hand it to her on
a silver platter.
JoAnne: They complimented her on speaking nicely. I thought she was snotty and rude.
cherkell:
A strange ahjumma wanders through the Snooty Ladies crowd with a phone
glued to her ear. Tempie Mom is livid on how she wrangled an
invitation, as Tempie says that’s Se-yeol’s eomma (from school). And
why shouldn’t she be invited, since her family made their money from
drinking water. Tempie Mom corrects her and says yeah, it’s water
alright… Se-yeol’s mom owns the largest hostess bar in Gangnam!
JoAnne: And she's doing nothing with that information?
cherkell:
Hostess Mom is apparently talking with KiMistress about her faux pas
in pretending to be Beany’s mom and paying for all the MT expenses and
stuff… and what she’s done will eventually hurt Tan in the end.
KiMistress is more worried about Bean Mom leaving their employ, to which
Hostess Mom rails on her to keep her around since she knows all the
dirty laundry on her household having worked there for so long!
KiMistress says she didn’t think that far in advance!!!
JoAnne: Let me guess. She was #100 as well.
cherkell:
Bean Mom arrives with a note that KiMadam is coming over with Tempie
and Tempie Mom for dinner, which sends KiMistress into spasms when she
confronts KiMadam in their foyer and accuses her of trying to screw her
over. They get into a pissing contest over having the family portrait
with KiMadam included hanging up in the living room.
JoAnne:
I loathe that woman in every role she ever appears in, and my heart
breaks for the poor KiMistress even as I remind myself she had no
business sleeping with another woman's husband in the first place.
cherkell:
KiMistress plays her last card in saying that it would be grand if
Tempie’s family found out that KiMistress is the… erm, mistress of their
house now. But KiMadam has one more trick up her sleeve, and that is
to tell KiMistress that TAN requested the dinner, not she. You could
have knocked KiMistress over with a feather upon hearing that news
flash.
JoAnne: I am VIBRATING with excitement and anticipation.
cherkell:
Beany wanders the streets on her way to the Mango Six for work when
she sees Good Heir waiting for her at the entrance. They stare at each
other for a lonnnnnng time when Tan finally walks up to her so they can
stare at each other closer up. Goody asks if she feels better about
leaving home, or more specifically, about not being able to see him
anymore.
JoAnne: <Insert teen angst>
cherkell:
Goody says that he saw Beany in his dreams overnight, and as Beany
protests that she’ll be late for work, Tan swoops in with the LAMEST
WEAKSAUCE KISS EVAH to shut her up. She protests some more, and Beany
gets another anemic peck in return. Goody is there mostly to warn Beany
not to go back to the KiMansion tonight, even if the KiMistress calls
her to apologize and ask for her return.
JoAnne:
Pecks. He gives her pecks. But since she goes into a catatonic state
for anything more, maybe he's just trying to be playful. He could peck
me. I wouldn't mind. I'mma save the deep throat drown me with lust
kisses for Woo Bin.
cherkell:
Back at the KiMansion, the guests have arrived and KiMadam orders
KiMistress to her room lest she be found out as Tan’s birth mother.
Bean Mom joins her with a glass of water and writes her that they just
sat down to eat. And that they do, only with no Goody there just yet.
JoAnne:
I do not find it at all possible to sympathize with the conventionally
wronged woman in this scenario. All my sympathies go to the dimwit who
couldn't keep her hands off someone else's man And yay! KimBean strikes
again!
cherkell:
They exchange their pleasantries as KiMadam passes around a bowl of
California almonds to much snickering. Bad Daddy asks Tempie if she
still plays Go for some unknown reason. Just then Tan arrives with
apologies for missing dinner, but asks if he can show Tempie his room.
She’s all over that like a cheap suit!
JoAnne: Seriously, I expected her chair to flip over backward. Poor delusional girl.
cherkell:
So Goody takes her upstairs, as Tempie rails on him for bringing back
the dreamcatcher from the States. Ordering her to take a seat, Tempie
complains that she was never invited to his house when they were
engaged, so now that they’re breaking up, she gets a ringside seat to
see exactly what Bad Heir saw at his house and tattled to Tempie about.
JoAnne: You didn't think she began the dinner thinking she'd won, and figured out the truth when she saw the dream catcher?
cherkell:
KiMadam is reminding KiMistress of her place at the KiMansion for the
forty-eleventh time. KiMistress reminds KiMadam that she has guests
downstairs and to get out, but that earns KiMistress a glass of water to
her face instead. Tan enters to see the aftermath of that incident and
helps KiMistress dry off. Grasping her hand, Goody tells her to not
let go… and drags her out of her room, all the while with her scared to
death where he’s taking her.
JoAnne: This
scene was actually truly a heart grabber for me, was it for you guys?
That bitch, and that poor dumb mama trying to so hard to 'behave' in
her little box, and the son who's cast himself in the role of
protector...it remains to be seen what happens to their lives after all
this, of course.
cherkell:
Tan drags KiMistress into the living room where everyone is having
coffee and finally introduces her as his birth mother with everyone’s
mouths hitting the floor. And because he’s the second son/bastard child
of the Chairman of Jeguk Group, this is why he wants to cancel his
engagement to Tempie.
JoAnne: His poor
mother is so terrified. Meanwhile I'm looking at the furious dad and
thinking how dare you be angry? THIS IS YOUR FAULT. And I'm so proud
of Kim Tan, who probably just did a very stupid thing...noble, morally
correct...but stupid. Wanna bet that fucking dad puts them both out on
the street?
cherkell:
Tempie Mom drags Tempie out of there, saying she’ll be in touch. Tan
just stands there as his father slaps him twice and KiMistress attempts
to take the blame for everything by ordering Goody to get down on his
knees and beg for mercy. Tan says he won’t do that until he has
something to regret; until then, he’ll live with the consequences of his
confession.
JoAnne: Remember I said Kim Tan would do something swoony? Dere it is.
cherkell:
After KimPapa calls Tan a fool, an idiot and a moron, Tan says he can
do whatever he wants to him, but don’t he DARE touch a hair on
KiMistress’s head. It’s all KimPapa can do to stagger back to his
study, as Tan escorts KiMistress to his room with a chorus of eottokes
in their wake.
JoAnne: Choke on it, Papa.
cherkell:
They return to his room and KiMistress asks why Tan had to do what he
had to do. So what now is she to do being outed like that, and in front
of his fiancee’s family no less?
JoAnne: I hope they can manage the price of his bravery.
cherkell:
In the meantime, Beany is getting yelled at by the Mango Six manager
for screwing up the totals today and not taking the garbage out and not
ordering the fruits for the next day. A chorus of apologies all around
for her being such a space cadet!
JoAnne: Seriously, if she's always a good employee and has an off night, does he have to YELL?
cherkell:
So Beany sucks it up and takes out the trash as promised. There she
runs into Goody in Extreme Stare Mode. She starts tearing up… and
Episode 12 ends on that high note!
JoAnne:
I found that quite touching, her tears in response to his without a
word even being spoken. I guess I have a HEART, though, unlike SOME
squeecappers around here...
FINAL THOUGHTS
cherkell:
ARGH ARGH ARGH. Maybe it's just because I've been run over by a truck
lately, but there's a whole lot of nothin' going on outside of Woobie's
magnificent stare and LMH's not-so-magnificent stare. I realize that 20
episodes need to be filled before the final credits roll, but this
going around and around with nada to show for it makes my head hurt.
And I agree with Jo that if we lose Messy Ha-neul to the Dark Forces,
not only tables will be flipped at my house -- bookcases and sideboards
are going over as well!!! I do give Tan a teeeeeeny bit of credit for
showing support for his birth mother and all that, but 'wrong place;
wrong time' will earn you a slap regardless of your Noble Intentions.
(Should we consider his actions Reverse Noble Idiocy then?) And
Young-do sweetheart, your Bad Boy Deluxe is making me cringe more with
every episode; he's already crossed over into Stalker Land, but there's
ways to do that without feeling like I need to press a restraining order
against his character. But on the inverse, we have the joy of seeing
Baby Heir and Stringy being all cute n' stuff, Baby Daddy and Tempie Mom
looking at each other like they want to tear each other's clothes off,
GumiHot still looking ExtraHot... and my brain eventually snaps back
into focus. Can I light a candle for those five possibly starring in a
sequel? Anywho, we're on the downward slide toward the Finale now.
Pick up the pace, dammit!!!
JoAnne: I spend
a lot of time these days thinking about how long it would take me to
forgive Woobie for his bullshit and fall extra hard for his alien boy
charm if I was 18. Okay, 35. Okay, 51. And then I spend a lot of time
thinking about how long I might regret that, eventually. Or not. Tan
is sweet enough but does not inspire me with Oppa-ness. He just seems a
bit...noodle-y. I guess I like my guys a bit harder. (That's what she
said.) Won. I think I have made my feelings clear about the TRAVESTY
that my Choi Jin Hyuk has allowed to have been committed upon his most
glorious person. Baby Heir is perfect, Thick will be fine if he gets
with the right woman to direct him, and Messy. Oh, Messy. Girls, stay
away from the suicidal boys. Just do. He may never do it, but that boy
is headed for a life where he's never happy and ends up drinking alone
in his study. You don't want that. Rachel, I just want you to find
someone who loves you back and suprises you into yourself. Stringy's
fine. Bean's gonna be fine too. I worry about Rachel. One more sleep
and I get to see you all again!
