Grab some popcorn, take a last trip to the bathroom, and then buckle up because K-drama The Penthouse 2: War In Life gets the ball rolling as soon as your finger presses play and does not stop until the end credits roll.
Writer Kim Sun Ok returns to The Penthouse season 2 with the original cast from season 1, including Eugene, Kim So Yeon, and Eum Ki Joon, for another makjang adventure to send our heads spinning. Keep your eyes peeled on the screen because, if you blink, you will miss someone getting murdered and someone else getting blamed for it. All par for course in The Penthouse season 2.
Below are mini recaps for episodes one through four of The Penthouse 2: War In Life compiled with care for your enjoyment! Beware, there are spoilers! All episodes can be found with full English, Spanish, and Portuguese subs on the KOCOWA streaming site.
THE PENTHOUSE 2 EPISODE 1
Episode 1 gets started quickly and in a hurry with a two-year time jump to a championship singing performance at the high school we are all familiar with: Cheong A Arts High School in Seoul. The kids are giving it their all on stage, and the parents are watching with riveted eyes. But we cut to someone getting stabbed at this performance and falling down a flight of steps, their dress bloody from where the object pierced their body. Yes, someone gets stabbed in the opening minute. Season two is not playing around, everyone.
However, that was only a tease because we hop back four months before the high school performance, where we are filled in on just what has been happening to the Hera Palace tenants in the last two years.
Briefly, Dan Tae and Chun Seo Jin (the two people having an affair in season one), are now engaged. Ha Yoon Chul might possibly be dead after Dan Tae had him thrown in a river in New York, and Oh Yoon Hee is still on the run after being blamed for Sim Su Ryeon’s murder which Dan Tae actually committed. We also find out that Lee Gyu Jin is a congressman who pretends to be a man of the people but is still as corrupt as always, and Kang Ma Ri is her usual gossipy self along with Go Sang Ah.
As far as the kids go, Bae Ro Na is being bullied for being the daughter of a murderer and she is enrolled at another high school in Seoul. At Cheong A Arts High School, Yoo Jenny is bullied by the Hera kids for being nice to Ba Ro Na once. Yes, they are just as ruthless as always, and I cannot wait to see them get what is coming to them. (Am I the only one?)
Though there is plenty of crazy to go around this episode, this episode centers on Dan Tae’s deranged maid who loves Dan Tae with an unkempt passion and hates any woman who so much as breathes around him. A lot of the maid’s vitriol is targeted at Seo Jin in the form of bloody notes and posters that she secretly places around the house for Seo Jin to find. She gets found out by Dan Tae and Seo Jin which leads her to getting fired (and beat up to boot!) by Dan Tae’s thugs. This leads her to lure Bae Ro Na to her apartment to kill her because the deranged maid believes, with all her heart and soul, that Bae Ro Na’s mother brought Dan Tae so much pain and suffering, which is why Bae Ro Na should die, in place of her mother.
Ro Na is rescued by her on-the-run mother, Yoon Hee, who secretly follows Ro Na everywhere despite Ro Na having two incognito security details following her around. However, the crazy maid has crazy maid strength and is able to put up a good fight with Yoon Hee.
Yoon Hee is rescued by Logan who follows Yoon Hee everywhere (there is a lot of covert following to be had in this episode). He chides Yoon Hee on doing something this stupid and reminds her that he agreed to protect her daughter. To everyone’s surprise, the maid quickly overdoses on pills in front of them with the hopes of blaming Yoon Hee for her death. The scene is amazingly realistic as we watch the maid curl up and die on a lifesize pillow of Dan Tae.
Her plan may have worked, but Logan thinks fast and forges a suicide note which makes it look like the maid ended her life from her grief of being the one that really killed Sim Su Ryeon. This note, along with a lack of Yoon Hee’s fingerprints at Su Ryeon’s crime scene and all the obsessive objects of Dan Tae that the maid had around her house, exonerates Yoon Hee.
Episode one ends in fabulous form with Yoon Hee and a-still-alive Ha Yoon Chul crashing Dan Tae and Seo Jin’s engagement party in a helicopter. Looking like Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Yoon Hee and Yoon Chul hop out of their ride and greet everyone as husband and wife which shocks all theHera Palace residents that we love to hate.
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THE PENTHOUSE 2 EPISODE 2
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Question of the day: Who is the sanest person in The Penthouse 2? Is there a sane person in The Penthouse 2? Inquiring minds would love to know. 😉
Love what you see? Then catch the next episode of The Penthouse 2 on KOCOWA! If you love rooting for anti-heroes like in How to Get Away With Murder (by Shonda Rhimes), or enjoy a clever fast-paced show like Lupin on Netflix (I’m talking the kind that grips you and doesn’t let go), then you must watch The Penthouse 2. With The Penthouse season 1 already in the wraps, and season 3 greenlit, you will have plenty of fast-paced drama watching ahead of you!
The Penthouse 2 airs every Friday and Saturday. Subscribe to KOCOWA, the ultimate destination for Korean TV, to catch The Penthouse 2 with full English, Spanish and Portugese subs as soon as the next episode is available!
