Jeongnyeon – The Star is Born: Episodes 7-8
by mistyisles
Sophisticated emotions and strain on all sides drive our up-and-coming performers to make drastic selections with devastating penalties. Our heroine has a historical past of studying from her errors, but when she’s not cautious, she received’t be taught some classes till far too late.
EPISODES 7-8
Jeong-nyeon’s impromptu track is a literal showstopper (and never in a great way), however fortunately Hye-rang improvises a dance to deliver everybody again into the story they’re purported to be telling. Troupe Chief Kang chews Jeong-nyeon out backstage, however she has no thought what she’s executed incorrect. She poured her entire self into her character! And the viewers went wild! Isn’t that what she’s purported to do?? The reply, in fact, is not on the expense of the story and different actors, however Jeong-nyeon doesn’t perceive this till her fangirls inform her they don’t keep in mind a single factor in regards to the present besides her track.
Banned from performing for the foreseeable future, Jeong-nyeon resolves to be taught from her errors and spends her spare time analyzing and working towards each position within the manufacturing. In actual fact, everybody throws themselves into extra rehearsals, and we’re handled to watching numerous pairs put their very own spins on the identical tension-fraught scene. We’ve already watched Ju-ran and Younger-seo dial the chemistry as much as eleven on this scene, however now we get to see Jeong-nyeon strive it reverse Okay-gyung and Ju-ran in flip. With the latter, issues get so intense that it unnerves Ju-ran to the purpose she will be able to’t recite her personal strains with out imagining Jeong-nyeon in Younger-seo’s place.
Then we get one more pairing for The Scene, as a result of Ju-ran sprains her ankle whereas saving Younger-seo from some falling lights (we’ll come again to that). And wouldn’t you recognize it — Jeong-nyeon is the one one who has Ju-ran’s strains memorized. Troupe Chief Kang isn’t glad about it, however she doesn’t have a lot selection however to let Jeong-nyeon fill in for Ju-ran that night time.
Now it’s Younger-seo’s flip to be *unnerved* by Jeong-nyeon’s up-close depth. Younger-seo freezes, and Jeong-nyeon improvs simply sufficient to deliver her again into character. The present is saved (once more)! Troupe Chief Kang praises each ladies for his or her fast restoration and lifts Jeong-nyeon’s probation — she’s an official trainee now.
So, what was up with these lights? Nicely, the identical factor that was up with somebody trying to vandalize Younger-seo and Ju-ran’s costumes and with Troupe Chief Kang’s workplace being ransacked and its secure cleaned out. Do-aeng rapidly deduces that shady finance supervisor MR. GO (Ryu Seung-soo) is accountable, however Troupe Chief Kang refuses to report it for worry phrase will get round that the troupe goes below.
Sadly, Hye-rang continues to be serving to Mr. Go. She seems to have two predominant targets: 1) bribe reporters to cowl up some unspecified facet of Okay-gyung’s previous and a pair of) forestall the youthful technology from overtaking her and Okay-gyung as gukgeuk superstars. Whereas Okay-gyung doesn’t know every part Hye-rang is as much as, she suspects sufficient that they’ve a nasty argument and slip right into a interval of hostile silence (on Okay-gyung’s half) and silent seems of longing (on Hye-rang’s).
Then it’s audition season once more, however with a twist. The upcoming manufacturing is a joint efficiency with a number of different gukgeuk troupes, and our trainees have the chance to audition for the youthful variations of the lead roles. The catch? They’ll be auditioning in pairs. Jeong-nyeon, Ju-ran, and Younger-seo had been already teetering on the sting of an unofficial love triangle, however now there’s an outright competitors between Younger-seo and Jeong-nyeon for Ju-ran’s affection partnership.
To each ladies’ shock, Ju-ran chooses Younger-seo. She says (hurtfully, to each) it’s as a result of she’s scared Jeong-nyeon will get carried away once more and he or she received’t have the ability to rescue the present like Hye-rang did. However she later admits to Younger-seo that what actually scared her was what she felt whereas appearing reverse Jeong-nyeon. Poor lady is catching emotions and doesn’t know what to do with them. Devastated, Jeong-nyeon reluctantly companions with ex-mean lady PARK CHO-ROK (Seunghee), who at the least believes in her skill to be taught from her errors.
Strain builds like loopy because the audition approaches. Newspapers play up the rivalry between the daughters of two well-known singers, in addition to the truth that whichever trainees get the lead roles are principally assured to grow to be the subsequent Okay-gyung and Hye-rang. And if that and Ju-ran’s rejection weren’t sufficient to make Jeong-nyeon second-guess herself, Hye-rang swoops in to prey on her vulnerabilities. If Jeong-nyeon desires to beat Younger-seo, Hye-rang says, she’s going to should work for it. As in, apply in a mountain cave for hours on daily basis till your throat bleeds degree of labor.
By no means thoughts that an episode in the past Younger-seo was the one sobbing as a result of she’ll by no means have Jeong-nyeon’s pure expertise — now Jeong-nyeon spirals as a result of she will be able to’t probably catch as much as Younger-seo’s years of coaching. They’re two sides of the identical imposter syndrome coin, and far as I wish to shake some sense into Jeong-nyeon, it breaks my coronary heart the best way she tells Younger-seo that singing — and doing it exceptionally effectively — is kind of actually all she has.
Everybody from Cho-rok to Younger-seo to Troupe Chief Kang tries to speak Jeong-nyeon out of it, however she’s turned down a path of determined self-destruction and there’s nothing anybody can do to cease it. It’s really terrible to look at, particularly as soon as we be taught that that is precisely how Jeong-nyeon’s mom wrecked her voice and her singing profession endlessly. (And talking of wrecking issues endlessly, I feel it’s secure to say Hye-rang has crossed a line from which her and Okay-gyung’s relationship is unlikely to recuperate.)
When the audition rolls round, Jeong-nyeon arrives late, feverish, and barely capable of converse. However she insists on pushing via. Even after her voice offers out mid-song, she begs to be allowed to complete the audition. It’s clear that not being allowed to complete would destroy her emotionally, so Troupe Chief Kang reluctantly permits it. There’s not a dry eye within the theater as Jeong-nyeon and Cho-rok ship essentially the most emotional efficiency we’ve seen but, with Jeong-nyeon’s voice breaking horribly all through. Someway, her voice comes BACK simply lengthy sufficient for a robust end… after which she coughs up blood and collapses on the stage, and the episode fades to black in profound silence.
I’ve to say, the entire solid has been killing it, however main props to Kim Tae-ri for Episode 8 specifically. That nightmare sequence the place she thought she misplaced her voice and couldn’t even scream took my breath away, as did the uncooked emotion of the audition which will or will not be Jeong-nyeon’s final.
The very fact it may — and will — have been prevented simply provides to the tragedy. Even when Jeong-nyeon hasn’t completely ruined her voice, she’ll have a protracted, painful highway to restoration, and he or she might by no means get the identical probability at success that this joint manufacturing would have supplied. I do anticipate she’ll discover a solution to bounce again finally, although. Cho-rok was proper that Jeong-nyeon doesn’t are likely to make the identical mistake twice — she makes new errors, and learns new classes the toughest approach potential, however she does be taught. It’s simply extremely unhappy that she needed to be taught this lesson by repeating her mom’s mistake as a substitute of being given the steerage and instruments to keep away from it.
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