Why should I make an exception for her just because she is your friend?” “To me, there are only two types of women in the world: Women whom I have dated. “Omg Hyun Min,” says Mannequin, addressing herself to the man, “I can’t believe you’d date my friend.” Upon seeing Mannequin, Skankity Hoe stops and looks embarrassed. We know she’s a skankity hoe because their exchange goes like this: Just then, a guy walks by with a skankity hoe on his arm. See the vacant expression on her face? Get used to it. We’ll call her Mannequin because she has just about the same level of expression and charm as a piece of plastic.
It’s fancy and nice, just like the generically beautiful girl standing there in a trendy pink mini-skirt with jean jacket. Sorry, but you’re too plain to be the main character. He then drives off before she can thank him. Helmet handing the purse back to the lady it was stolen from. She follows him all the way to an empty side-street, where she sees Mr. Hey drama fans, do you like martial arts fights? How about motorcycle chases? See, we’ve got it all! “What? Robbery? You’re dead meat,” yells Ha Won and follows after him with all the put-put power her scooter can manage. Random dudes subdued, Motorcycle Helmet steals a purse from them and speeds off on his bike. The best thing about this scene is you can get close-ups of the stunt double and no one will know the difference. On her way back from a delivery, Ha Won comes across a man in a motorcycle helmet using ninja moves on some random dudes. Don’t tell me that any company would go through the trouble of training someone only to have them work a few hours once a week. That brings our part-time job count up to eight, and that’s just silly. Sporting a crisp school uniform, she zooms about Seoul on a scooter, delivering pizza to hungry undergrads. With our premise set up, it’s time to show our strong, female character hard at work at YET ANOTHER part-time job. With a flourish, she finishes tying up a poopy diaper and flings it across the room where it lands on a copy of Cinderella. That would be a really great message if the show’s entire premise didn’t say the complete opposite. You have to rely on yourselves to find happiness!” “So girls,” finishes Modern Cinderella Eun Ha Won, addressing herself to the three little girls she nannies, “don’t wait around for a prince to come support you. No Korean woman would ever share her man, no matter how much money he has. My husband wants me to inform you that he finds this incredibly appetizing. Yes, that is a fried chicken burger stuffed between two lumps of uncooked ramyeon and flavored with gochujang.
I’m counting three jobs that deal directly with poop, plus Lotteria, which is actual shit.
“Girls these days don’t have time to meet prince charming because of their part-time jobs.” THIS IS A MODERN, GRITTY DRAMA REBOOT OF CINDERELLA. Translation: DO YOU THINK THIS DRAMA IS ABOUT FINDING YOUR PRINCE CHARMING? YOU ARE WRONG. Until one day, her prince charming came along and they lived happily ever after. She was abused and made sad by her evil stepmother and stepsisters. Opening Narration: “Once upon a time, there was a lovely girl named Cinderella. This drama unabashedly steals ideas from older, more successful dramas, yet still manages to be both incredibly boring and incredibly stupid. Child abandonment, chaebol scheming, and paternity tests? Absolutely. Improbable living situation that results in hi-jinks? Check. Four handsome, single men with serious personality flaws and lots of money? Check. Impoverished high school girl living with abusive relatives? Check. Are you ready for something truly awful? Something so painfully bad that I had to binge-watch Trapped in the Closet to help me forget about the senseless waste of money, talent, airtime, and brain power that went into its creation? Welcome to Cinderella and the Four Knights. If there’s one positive thing that can be said for this drama, it’s that those who created it were simply checking off items on the list of Things That Drama Fans Like.