Triple
She's a figure skater. He's a grumpy care bear. Together, a FILTHY INCESTUOUS ROMANCE of hugs, puppies and birthday parties!
Triple is from the same people who brought us Coffee Prince, which means you're guaranteed three things:
1) There's great music,
2) No one dies or secretly has cancer,
3) Love polygon! This time with -- gasp -- stepsiblings. According to fandom it was gross and disgusting and they were appalled, just appalled by the romance blossoming between two grown unrelated ex-stepchildren. I mean, it was PRACTICALLY INCEST! They played in the rain. He bought her a puppy! What kind of sick world are we living in?!
Our heroine, harbinger of incestuous doom.
She's an aspiring iceskater who wants to try her luck in the big city, so she packs her bags and heads to her stepbrother's house, where he lives with his two best friends and all their wacky romantic entanglements.
Her brother turns out to be a grumpy jerk, so it's up to Haru to pop his bubble. (And it was really hard not to type "cherry," because if anyone wears the pants in that relationship, it's bright, sunny Haru who views everything with determined shoujo fists ("why do you say 'FIGHTING!' in your sleep?") and THROWS herself into what she wants.)
LOOK AT THAT FILTH.
HEAD FOR THE HILLS!
That's right, this drama is so cute THERE'S EVEN A PUPPY. He is fluffy and adorable and he gets into everything and rests his little paws on Hwal's shirt to watch him iron. ♥ ♥
I don't know what happened to Lee Sun Gyun after Coffee Prince, but suddenly I found him really attractive. Maybe it's because he finally found a use for that tongue.
Thank you, Lee Sun Gyun, for existing!
Rounding off the household is Hyun Tae, a cute, sweet, adorable... stalker.
You learn to roll with it.
Everything clicks in place when you see him with a copy of Twilight. Biggest unintended laugh ever. When you realize he thinks he's Edward Cullen, SUDDENLY IT ALL MAKES SENSE. "Why are our watches synchronized, Hyun Tae? How do you know what time I pick up my milk in the morning? Have you been visiting my mother in the hospital again?" "Look, I slept in your front yard! I wanted to be close to youuuu!!"
On the other side of devotion we have Haru's #1 fanboy, whose excitement at being IN HER PRESENCE! actually makes him trip himself. (IT'S ADORABLE.)
He tries desperately to court her...
Which she appreciates...
Not at all.
Not that it stops Hwal from being jealous. Which he hides well. I mean, just look at that face. Doesn't it scream "I totally don't care and am completely at ease with this situation"?
He is so not interested. Which is why he cooks for her and buys her presents, and why they have late-night phone calls when they're apart, and he calls her back after they've already hung up just to be like "uh... uh... don't go in my stuff while I'm not there!"
Like taking candy from a nubile young stepsister.
WHORES WHORES WHORES. Look at that bare ankle. Fuck, it's like I'm watching porn.
To wit: cuteness, iceskating, sweet shippiness, PUPPIES, and a totally not-romance between two completely platonic stepsiblings who just happen to laugh and hold hands and watch each other sleep and live in adjoined rooms and moon in the darkness all alone when they're separated. Yep. Nothing to that relationship.