OKAY.
FORGET EVERYTHING ELSE.
TWO EPS INTO MYUNG WOL THE SPY AND IT IS LOVE LOVE LOVE.
Have you ever laid awake at night and thought, all I really need in life is a zany action comedy about a female North Korean spy under orders to marry the hottest chest-baring celebrity of South Korea and make him defect to the glory of the motherland?
BECAUSE IF SO.
IF SO.
THAT DREAM CAN COME TRUE.
Two eps - just two eps! - and we've already had bickering, kissing, explosions, bedside visits, secret identity hijinks, and one very memorable masquerade ball interrupted by rappelling chain-wielding ninjas.
Also, the hero is shirtless.
A lot.
And the heroine kicks people in the face.
And...
*brain explodes from awesome*
EVERYONE NEEDS TO WATCH THIS.
This is Myung Wol. She's a highly trained North Korean agent who can fuck you up with a pen.
Unfortunately, her orders are to marry the target, which leaves her somewhat at a loss.
It should be noted that when she gets her orders (seduce, marry, convert) she looks at her superior and goes, "Can't I just kill him instead? Or blow something up?"
OUR HEROINE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. :D :D :D
This is Kang Woo, the hottest singing/dancing/acting sensation in South Korea. How hot, you may ask? Well, let's just say he can't even wear shirts because they would spontaneously combust on his skin, so UNFORTUNATELY FOR EVERYONE he just goes half-naked most of the time.
It's very unfortunate. Very.
YES, THESE ARE ALL RELEVANT. ALL OF THEM. Eeeeeeevery drop.
Kang Woo is so hot and so fabulous that he doesn't have time for lesser mortals (aka anyone not himself or his own reflection in a mirror). This puts him at direct odds with Myung Wol, whose career literally depends on him.
So she just stalks him.
She needs his autograph (long story) but he refuses to give it. She reacts by FOLLOWING HIM THROUGH THE ENTIRE CITY OF SINGAPORE, chasing him on stolen motorbikes, using her belt to bungee-jump over stairs. When she finally catches him, she demands an autograph by THREATENING HIM WITH BODILY HARM. LOLOLOLOLOL.
"If you don't give me your autograph in five seconds I'll use force."
"Force??"
"5. 4. Are you right-handed?"
"What?"
"3. 2. I don't want to hurt the hand used for signing."
"Shut up. Give me a pen. Give me. I'll sign."
"If you had agreed in the first place, we wouldn't have wasted time."
"Isn't this much better than a signature? Treat it as a wonderful memory."
"And don't follow me anymore!"
Next stop: a masquerade ball! Myung Wol pretends to be a valet and steals a random woman's car and dress (later in the scene you see a middle-aged white lady wandering around in a pink shift, telling the police "SHE'S HERE SOMEWHERE!").
She can't dance at all, it's hilarious. And she spends the whole time craning her neck and looking for Kang Woo, who looks really good even in a glittery feathery mask, it must be said.
IT'S OKAY, GIRL, I WOULD LOOK TOO.
She eventually finds him on the roof (and pulls a pen out of her bra!!! ALWAYS BE PREPARED) but before she can get that damned autograph... THE NINJAS COME.
SHIT, DON'T YOU HATE IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS?
Okay, so, this is pretty much the most awesome scene ever. Chains? Karate? Myung Wol handles it all without even dirtying her dress. She even uses her pen as a weapon. TAKE NOTE, RAPPELLING CHAIN-WIELDING NINJAS OF THE NIGHT. YOU HAVE MET YOUR MATCH.
Her only mistake... was not realizing the ninjas were actually her fellow agents undercover. And that guy she nailed with a pen was her direct superior. OOPS.
In Myung Wol's life, screwing up at work doesn't mean a typo. It means accidentally skewering your boss.
UNFFFFFFFFFFFF. His name escapes me, but I think Hot Superior covers it. Does anyone remember Powerful Opponents? Yeah, he aged well.
I'm pretty sure he has a thing for Myung Wol, too. He's very serious and focused, almost antagonistic, but then he turns around and praises her and defends her and worries about her safety.
As her superior, of course.
Awww, isn't it sweet? And then you remember you're rooting for the success of a North Korean agent who goes around calling people "comrade"......... errrrrr.
Myung Wol's next attempt is to dress as a schoolgirl and infiltrate Kang Woo's movie set. Of course, because this is them, they wind up arguing and something explodes.
DO YOU HEAR THE SIZZLING? BECAUSE I DO.
When she wakes up in the hospital he wastes no time in telling her not to expect anything. "Just because you saved my life, do you think I'll agree to whatever you want?" He doesn't recognize her from before and calls her "student" (lololol, she's 30).
"I will always remember your face," he says, and leaves.
LOL.
Myung Wol makes one last attempt to fix her mistake, except it can only be done by scaling his porch (!) and breaking into his house (!!!). And then he comes home early.
I THINK HIS SPIDEY SENSES ARE TELLING HIM SOMETHING.
LOLOLOLOL.
I JUST...
I CAN'T EVEN...
THIS SCENE...
LOLOLOLOLOLOL.
He still doesn't recognize her. He thinks she's just a really, really devoted fan. "Do you really think a big star like me could fall in with an ordinary high school student? I think you've been reading too many manhwa. ...Are you from a chaebol family, though?"
He's thinking about how unsuitable she is for a wonderful guy like him. She's thinking about how she'd like to break his neck. HAHAHAHAHA.
This is the scene where she's ordered to marry him. "You might as well let me kill him!"
BUT NO, THIS HAPPENS INSTEAD. :DV
fklsdjfsdkfjsdf I have so much more to say about this drama but this entry is getting huge. JUST KNOW IT'S AWESOME, HILARIOUS, AMAZING, PERFECT, ETC AND EVERYONE SHOULD BE WATCHING IT, BECAUSE I NEED MORE SQUEE BUDDIES.