What if Cordelia Chase were a Korean prosecutor? Prosecutor Princess welcomes you

[dangermousie]

This cap (by rubie of soompi as are the rest of caps in this post) basically symbolizes everything about this drama. I can't explain it but it does.

I love Prosecutor Princess ridiculously much - in fact, instead of watching now-subbed eps of Cinderella Unni, I keep refreshing the viikii PP page hoping links for ep 4 get fixed.

I kept thinking of who Hyeri reminded me of and only today it finally hit me - she is the Korean Cordelia Chase (Buffy and Angel). I've seen Legally Blonde comparisons but they don't fit - except for similar love of fashion, she and Elle of Blonde have little in common.



Hyeri is smart, blunt, fashion-obsessed, materialistic woman with delightful joy and forthrightness. She has ample abilities but no interest in her prosecutor job - she only passed the bar because it's her father's dream to have a prosecutor daughter and her father holds the purse strings - if she does not do what he wants, he will disown her and as she tells In Woo (about whom more below) without any attempts to cover the truth up - she doesn't want to live on her own because she wouldn't be able to afford the lifestyle she likes without her father.

She says things that are true but other people are too polite to say, she has awesome comeback skills (just watch her totally pwn the women who bitch about her behind her back in ep 2), but she is also pretty self-absorbed and not much on empathy. She is smart but she doesn't like hard work.

I haven't seen many kdrama heroines like her (she is like a more mellow Anna of Fantasy Couple) and I adore her.

But the drama doesn't just boast the awesome Ma Hyeri character. There are a number of awesome characters in addition to her. (The writing is by the writer of Brilliant Legacy and it shows - it's so rock-solid). It doesn't look like a drama with your typical quadrangle but one that will (hopefully) end up with 2 otps with the same type of shuffling that When It's At Night had.



We have Se Joon (the scrumptuous Han Jung Soo), a senior prosecutor in Hyeri's department. A by-the-book workaholic (I may be odd but few things are hotter to me than a man dedicated to and good at his job), Se Joon is both puzzled, put-out, and drawn by Hyeri with her atittude and sharpness. You see, she looks somewhat like his dead wife, a woman Se Joon still mourns. Once he saves Hyeri from a pretty nasty fate, Hyeri develops a crush on him which complicates things mightily.



We have the awesome Jung Sun (Choi Song-hyun), an experienced, dedicated female prosecutor. She is appalled by Hyeri's lack of dedication and unsuitable clothes (every prosecutor wears a proper and somber suit and then there is Hyeri in her pinks and greens). Jung Sun has carried a torch for Se Joon for a long time - they are close friends (she even has her mother take care of his little girl on weekdays) but Se Joon is not the type to let anyone in easily, not even her. I ship her and Se Joon quite a lot.



And then we come to my favorite character (except for Hyeri herself) - mysterious, assured lawyer In Woo (played by my MAJOR crush, Park Shi Hoo). In Woo is sharp, incredibly capable, with a wicked sense of humor and a dark past, and he sort of follows/protects Hyeri for reasons of his own. Whenever Hyeri and he are on screen together, the drama sparkles - their verbal back-and-forth, overlaid by pretty powerful chemistry, makes my head spin in the most delicious fashion. In episode 3 we find part of the reason he is so invested into Hyeri - they were friends in childhood and she was very nice to him when something (unspecified as yet) horrible happened. He wanted to repay her and I presume fell for her asap - who could blame him - she is gorgeous and awesome. But I can't help but think there must be something more to it for him (otherwise why would his secretary be involved) - probably something involving her powerful but shady father. Either way, I love their interactions, especially since the makers of this realized the simple truism that Park Shi Hoo looks at his sexy best when he angsts. Mmmmm. MMMMMMM. (In some ways, his role is that of a tradtional secondary guy - the one who is nice to and in love with the heroine while she chases the unattainable main guy (Se Joon) and finally wins him over. Only here In Woo is the main guy so yay!).