Princess Aurora Episode 1

I had been warned about this show so naturally I just had to watch it. Frankly I wasn't that impressed. At least with the first episode.

 

 

We begin with Oh Geum Sang (played by Son Chang Min of Heartless City) in a white upon white room, dancing with his Mid-life Crisis Girlfriend whose name I didn't catch. Geum Sang confesses his love for her but Mid-life Crisis Girlfriend is tired of just words, she wants action. When is he going to leave his wife for her?

 

Elsewhere we meet Geum Sang's baby sister, Oh Ro Ra/Aurora. She's meeting with the mother of Prosecutor Gang, the man Aurora is considering marrying. The mother, like all drama mamas, doesn't think Aurora is good enough and is too poor for her precious son. Aurora tries not to be distracted by that extremely long nose hair hanging down the woman's face.

 

Suddenly Aurora simply can't take it any more. She pulls her manicure kit out of her purse, grabs the older woman's head to hold it steady, and clips that annoying hair herself. For one brief moment I thought this show had potential but then it turns out this was simply a daydream of Aurora's.

 

Geum Sang invites his wife, Lee Gang Suk (played by Lee Ah Hyun), out for a relaxing massage at the spa. It's here, right in front of the masseuses, that Geum Sang works up the nerve to ask for a divorce. You're a class act, Geum Sang. Gang Suk is totally blindsided by this request and refuses to give him a divorce. This spa's walls must be paper thin as customers in the room next door laugh themselves silly as they listen to the couple's fight.

 

Aurora returns home to her palatial mansion. We learn Aurora's family is actually very wealthy. She just portrays herself as a working-class girl because she wants to find a man to love her for herself, not for her money. She must also have been a late-life baby as her mother looks old enough to be her grandmother.

 

Aurora informs her mom that she's dropping Prosecutor Gang because she can't stand the guy's mother. Suddenly Gang Suk rushes in to tell the women about Geum Sang's request for a divorce. Aurora decides to side with her sister-in-law and help Gang Suk keep her marriage together.

 

Geum Sang and his other brothers, Oh Wang Sang and Oh Soo Sang, meet for lunch and rationalize how it is unnatural to expect a man to stay with the same women for decades. They all must be having a mid-life crisis.

 

The episode ends rather oddly. Three women meet together at the large home of Hwang Ma Ma (played by Oh Chang Suk). He's in bed already so the three women kneel around his bed and start chanting. No, don't ask me what the heck is going on. I have no idea.