The Impossible Heir | Review

A poor man becomes friends with a bastard-chaebol-heir.

Notable Actors/Actresses

Lee Jae-wook: Han Tae-oh

Lee Jun-young: Kang In-ha

Korean Title Translation

Royal Loader

Genres: Contemporary, Slight Romance

Year: 2024
Episodes: 12

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Cast

Lee Jae-wook: Han Tae-oh	Lee Jun-young: Kang In-ha

Romcom/Romance Checklist

How much of the plot is angst/romance?

0.25 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5

The ML: 

Cold–Lukewarm–Warm / Timid / Falls in Love First / Noble Idiot / CEO / General /

The FL: 

Bold / Cute / Cool & Independent / Falls in Love First / Better than ML / Noble Idiot / 

Describe the Relationship (the tropes):

Bickering Start / Childhood Connection / Cohabitation / Contract Marriage or Fake Couple / Enemies to Lovers / Hidden Identity / School to Adulthood / Love Triangle / Married Couple (Real) / Secretly in Love (F/ML) / Star-Crossed Lovers / 

Relationship Progress (officially together; first (official) kiss; breakup*):

Ep 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12

# of CPs (including main CP):
0 / 1 / 2 / 3

Ending:

Happy / Sad / Open Happy / Open Sad / Bad

Cyn-opsis

Han Tae-oh (Lee Jae-wook) befriends an illegitimate son, Kang In-ha (Lee Jun-young), to climb up the social ladder. Then he lets the chaebol have the girl he loves, but she is also using illegitimate-chaebol-nim for a life of luxury because her life sucks too. 

We're supposed to sympathize more with the exploiters (ML and FL) than with the exploited (2ML). 

Review

by cynlynn

This is remarkably bad.

Something looking this slick shouldn't be this lame. If there was scheming in this dethroning drama, it was scheming me into thinking there's a scheme somewhere in this plot. 

There's the 2ML, who you know is succumbing to evil, but when it happened it just felt so random. The 2nd ML just SNAPPED into a villain. Where exactly did it go wrong between the boys? I keep watching, hoping deep down 2ML must care about ML. I was stupid.

Show forgot it had a FL halfway through. I don't want to be speaking up for her because she bored me every second she appeared, but some respect here, hello? 

There might be something exciting. The 2ML's father's wardrobe. If he didn't have the CEO name plate in his CEO office, I would have thought he was a thug, modelling for 80s-curtain-patterned-shirts.  

Do I hate myself for finishing this? No. There's Lee Jae-Wook. Do I recommend you watch it for the same reason? Why not? Ha Ha Ha. Do it.  

Lee Jae-wook. This dude looks great in suits but better in sweats?? I love his body proportions. He’s got the 9-head figure. There's good bone spreading that wide shoulder. Then there's his beautiful protruding mouth too, haha. He’s not the typical handsome guy, but his eyes are expressive and his voice is gentle and commanding. He's just missing a good mouth, but that would make him too perfect 😉 (Please tell me I've convinced you to watch the show!) 

Vindication for Lee Jun-young 😭. He sucks in this role, but his character sucks more. I felt like he tried to compensate with his crazy-evil-acting. Yeah, no. He’s more natural in May I Help You where he's down-to-earth and effortlessly humorous.

That wraps my review, which became a pitch for another show...