![]() When we meet them, they’re playing a high-stakes game over who gets to control the mayor, and thus have a presidential candidate – and the international city development project - in her pocket. At the start, this plays out as the power struggle between the oldest daughter of Dae-oh Group, WIE YE-NAM ( Park Hee-bon), and Jenny. Because in Secret Boutique, information is power, and Jenny seems to hold the most of it.Īt the crux of the drama is Jenny versus the chaebol family that took her in. What her “clients” don’t realize is that once she’s helped them, they’re essentially in her power. What’s really happening, though, is that Jenny solves powerful people’s problems - and that means “dealing with” everything from scandals to murders. We’re told that it’s a boutique law firm that handles cases other firms can’t because they’re strictly confidential. J-Boutique is also Jenny’s law firm, so to speak, not that what she does has anything to do with upholding the law or justice. Jenny runs J-Boutique, which does a whole lot more than sell high-end merchandise. Twenty years later she’s arguably more powerful than the two daughters of the family, though all three run a separate piece of the conglomerate. Jenny went from scrubbing tubs in an exclusive bathhouse, to being thrust into the chaebol fire pit in which she now thrives. We learn that Jenny’s been involved with the Dae-oh chaebol group since her childhood, when KIM YEO-OK ( Jang Mi-hee) saw something in her, and took her in. When she enters the room, everyone is buzzing with the question, “Who is Jenny Jang?” - and that might just be the thesis statement of the drama. She’s got the sass and swagger, but also a depth behind her performance we quickly sense there’s a lot going on underneath the glamorous sheen of her demeanor. Kim Sun-ah is on fire here - I love her in this role so far. Our heroine is JENNY JANG ( Kim Sun-ah), and from the minute she appears on the screen, we know she’s a force to be reckoned with. The opening episodes feel a bit like Heartless City plus Mask - we’ve got the tightly woven layers of power, corruption, alliances, and loyalty, but set in a ruthless chaebol world where our heroine doesn’t exactly belong. ![]() It’s a little less melo than I expected, and a bit more action, intrigue, and female-strong badassery. SBS’s latest Wednesday-Thursday drama, Secret Boutique, made its premiere this week, and it’s bursting with noir-y goodness. 19 SeptemJanuSecret Boutique: Episodes 1-2 (Series review) by missvictrix
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