It’s the freaking weekend baby I’m about to…watch more of this show. Honestly though, doing these things helps me to decompress from a work week. It’s fun to just write something just for fun and not have to stress out over it.
Unfortunately, I think these next two episode are finally going to be digging into the whole trauma storyline that the Korean original had. I’ll just have to grit my teeth and watch it then.
At least we’re going to start out with Secretary Kim and BMC falling helplessly into each other’s arms because that’s a thing that happens in real life. But that plotline keeps making its presence known, from the missed calls from Cyrus to the research Kim asked her blind date to do.
And we get out biggest hint to that plotline when BMC wakes up from a recollection all distressed and scared and asking Kim to stay the night. Which she cutely misunderstands as having sex because we all know — we who’ve watched the Korean original — that it’s about to get not cute with this accursed storyline pretty soon.
Apparently that starts right now because Cyrus finally makes his presence known to our two leads. It’s all cordial between him and Kim, but it’s a lot more tense when it’s between him and BMC. This is more of Paolo’s wheelhouse as an actor though so it’s nice for him.
Secretary Kim and BMC start talking about that the next day, but it’s quickly overshadowed by a corporate emergency — a rival company has stolen their speaker for an event and is pre-empting their marketing campaign for…I don’t know exactly but it’s BIG BUSINESS. So BMC says SIKE and suggests let’s pre-empt them back by moving Prime Alpha’s event two weeks earlier. Which as someone who has a lot of friends in PR, marketing, and advertising, is just asking for mass resignations. There’s a difference between trusting your team and giving them impossible tasks, Brandon! But at least to Brandon’s credit he’s down in the trenches with the rest of them.
BMC and Secretary Kim end up being locked in a darkened theater and we get to see some prime Kim Chiu Ghost Bride face. But we quickly move on from that to the Plotline and again, this is more Paolo Avelino’s wheelhouse as an actor and he’s putting the work in that Kim has been doing in the past few episodes.
While Secretary Kim and BMC are locked in the theater, we finally get the Chansung storyline from the Korean adaptation. I like that storyline more than the Morpheus one to be quite honest! Now is the local version of Chansung up to snuff? Not quite but then again it’s quite a task to do that.
I know he didn’t look like that during What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim but he still wasn’t something to scoff at either!
Back at the theater, Kim accidentally leads BMC by the hand and I’m not afraid to admit it, the kilig was there! Which was immediately squashed by that boner killer of a speech from BMC. Why the hell are you even bringing up nationhood it’s not like all the episodes before this has set up Prime Alpha as integral to the country’s history? You haven’t built it up the same way the Korean original built up the business Park Seo Joon was running there.
My meh mood is further aggravated by the diving into That Plotline. To be fair to the production, they’re not making it too much, if that makes sense. There’s no overwrought dramatic music or anything of that sort that the original had. Although I may be misremembering the original since it’s been some time since I watched! And I guess the hilarious in your face product placement is also helping defuse it.
But we really are going to be all in That Plotline today as Cyrus and Brandon face off at the office after Cyrus bribes Secretary Kim with a way to contact Morpheus, a bestselling author whose real identity viewers of the Korean original already know. Again, there’s tension between the two brothers but quite honestly Jake Cuenca has done sibling rivalry better in Tayong Dalawa.
Also, was this tension between the dad and the elder brother present in the original? It’s throwing me off because I always remember the dad as the comedic relief. We’ll see where that leads later on, but for now, Secretary Kim has made contact with Morpheus aka Cyrus and things are about to get messy.
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