Queenmaker opens to the strands of a familiar narrative tune: horrible people getting away with horrible things.
Thanks to entertainment zeitgeists like HBO’s Succession, watching individuals scrape the bottom of the morality barrel and come up empty has never been hotter watercooler talk.
Queenmaker initially seems cut from the same cloth: Hwang Do-hee (played by industry legend Kim Hee-ae) is a PR fixer for the Eunseong Group, a corporate conglomerate overseen by a massively rich family who aims for even more riches.
This makes Queenmaker’s introduction go down easy; such familiarity is deceptively relaxing.
Then the first episode’s ending hits, quite literally: a body falls from above, crashing onto Do-hee’s car, and the series reveals its ruthless true hand.
Queenmaker is a revenge tale and a hopeful fantasy in one, no bones about it.
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