K-drama The Penthouse season two: wickedly fun and twisty drama has lost none of its addictive power
- Kim Seo-yeon returns as Cheon Seo-jin, prima donna of the Hera Palace luxury high-rise, once again up against her nemesis Oh Yoon-hee, played by actress Eugene
- A dalliance, a death, and a deliciously overblown party entrance in the opening episode signals a resumption of the power plays between their two camps
This article contains spoilers of the show.
Last October, the debut of the addictive drama The Penthouse delivered a shot of adrenaline. Over 21 episodes, the melodramatic series took us through the delicious and scandalous high and lows of the back-stabbing inhabitants of the luxurious Hera Palace tower block.
While it’s still early enough for us to be mixing up our calendar years, for the characters of the show the break has stretched to around two years, and the season opener jumps back and forth a few times as it resets its board.
Prima donna Cheon Seo-jin (Kim Seo-yeon) and her nemesis Oh Yoon-hee (Eugene) are clearly thinking several moves ahead in what promises to be a deliciously twisty game of power plays between their two camps, with allegiances shifting between them along the way.