Singer Heo Yeong becomes overly immersed in Real Love Lab: Poison Apple 2.
The cable channels SBS Plus and Kstar co-produced variety show Real Love Lab: Poison Apple (hereinafter Poison Apple) season 2 will premiere on Nov. 1 at 8 p.m. The show, which captivated viewers with its distinctive format of "experimenting on lovers' love," returns for season 2 even spicier and more ruthless, and we looked at the key points to watch for in the premiere.
# Client vs. Apple woman, a pre-meeting power struggle?
A new watching point for season 2 is that the client meets the "Apple woman" who will seduce their partner in advance. The client in the first episode is a woman known as a "Teto woman" who is dating a man four years younger called an "Aegennam," and she requests the "love experiment," saying, "My relationship with my boyfriend has become boring and I have broken up in the past. My boyfriend seems too gentle and kind." A tailor-made "Apple woman" is brought in, and during the pre-meeting she spares no provocative remarks. She asks as if for permission while dropping a warning: "Is it okay if I wear tight clothes?" "During the operation I might have physical contact, is that okay?" The client laughs confidently, saying, "My boyfriend will never fall for it," but when the "Apple woman" says, "What if I end up liking your boyfriend during the experiment?" the client snaps, "What are you talking about now?" The client's confession that "I almost said a defamatory remark. It scratched me emotionally" and studio MC Lee Eun-ji's comment that "the meeting felt like a UFC match," and Yoon Tae-jin's remark, "I thought I was watching Love and War," amplify vicarious tension. Curiosity builds about the pre-meeting between the client and the Apple woman that chilled viewers.
# Irresistible Apple moves and an inescapable operation
After the pre-meeting, a tailored "plan" for the lead (the client's boyfriend) is carried out. Under the motto "start meticulously and finish perfectly," the production team devises the so-called "deadly poison apple operation," shocking not only the client but also the studio MCs. Noting that the client and the lead like to get their fortunes told, they hire an actor who seems more like a shaman than a shaman to set up a "fortune-telling build-up." They also leverage the fact that the lead sometimes works as a model to create a natural meeting with the Apple woman, producing a situation from which it is impossible to escape.
Above all, the Apple woman follows through on the "deadly poison apple" attack she warned about in the pre-meeting, driving the lead to the extreme. The client, trying to remain composed, even finds her face flushing from the Apple woman's high-level Apple moves. The client also follows closely behind the lead and the Apple woman as they move locations, saying she felt like she was "tracking an affair," and experiencing intense emotional swings. All eyes are on how the lead will react to the irresistible "deadly poison apple" attack and what the client and the lead will say about the "experiment results" during the sealed-room talk after the Poison Apple operation.
# Immersion and viewing fun maxed out by 5CM's stormy wit!
Studio MCs for season 2 Jun Hyun-moo, Yang Se-chan, Lee Eun-ji, Yoon Tae-jin and Heo Yeong are all dating-show super-immersers and are personally close, producing wild chemistry from the first recording. New additions Yoon Tae-jin and Heo Yeong made a big impact with candid, refreshing remarks that flipped the studio. Yoon Tae-jin said, "I'm usually not good at flirting, but I think I should learn from the Apple woman this time," and then, faced with the Apple woman's unimaginably audacious flirting, he said, "I can't watch this," and fell backward, drawing laughs. By contrast, Heo Yeong, saying, "If my boyfriend acted like that, I'd slap him," expressed vicarious anger and increased immersion.
[Photo] Provided by SBS Plus, Kstar.
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