![]() ![]() ![]() She’s either one step ahead in the game, or she’s just that good at playing it. Ye-nam has a high-level prosecutor as a husband, and a police bureau chief that doubles as her “cleaner” (dude, he’s scary) - but even with these puppets, Jenny seems to be on top. It’s very strategic and chess-like, and while their moves matter a lot, their success is also impacted by who’s on their side. They make their moves and wait from above, while their people carry them out. The storyline is important in and of itself, but it also showcases the rivalry between Ye-nam and Jenny. Is Ye-nam powerful enough to handle it? It doesn’t seem like it, and pretty soon the mayor is back at Jenny’s feet. Ye-nam tries to woo the mayor away from Jenny with plates full of money (literally) and a party yacht with girls and drugs, but when one of the hired girls dies of an overdose, things spiral out of control. When we meet them, they’re playing a high-stakes game over who gets to control the mayor, and thus have a presidential candidate – and the international city development project - in her pocket. At the start, this plays out as the power struggle between the oldest daughter of Dae-oh Group, WIE YE-NAM ( Park Hee-bon), and Jenny. Because in Secret Boutique, information is power, and Jenny seems to hold the most of it.Īt the crux of the drama is Jenny versus the chaebol family that took her in. What her “clients” don’t realize is that once she’s helped them, they’re essentially in her power. What’s really happening, though, is that Jenny solves powerful people’s problems - and that means “dealing with” everything from scandals to murders. We’re told that it’s a boutique law firm that handles cases other firms can’t because they’re strictly confidential. J-Boutique is also Jenny’s law firm, so to speak, not that what she does has anything to do with upholding the law or justice. Jenny runs J-Boutique, which does a whole lot more than sell high-end merchandise. Twenty years later she’s arguably more powerful than the two daughters of the family, though all three run a separate piece of the conglomerate. Jenny went from scrubbing tubs in an exclusive bathhouse, to being thrust into the chaebol fire pit in which she now thrives. We learn that Jenny’s been involved with the Dae-oh chaebol group since her childhood, when KIM YEO-OK ( Jang Mi-hee) saw something in her, and took her in. When she enters the room, everyone is buzzing with the question, “Who is Jenny Jang?” - and that might just be the thesis statement of the drama. She’s got the sass and swagger, but also a depth behind her performance we quickly sense there’s a lot going on underneath the glamorous sheen of her demeanor. Kim Sun-ah is on fire here - I love her in this role so far. Our heroine is JENNY JANG ( Kim Sun-ah), and from the minute she appears on the screen, we know she’s a force to be reckoned with. The opening episodes feel a bit like Heartless City plus Mask - we’ve got the tightly woven layers of power, corruption, alliances, and loyalty, but set in a ruthless chaebol world where our heroine doesn’t exactly belong. ![]() ![]() It’s a little less melo than I expected, and a bit more action, intrigue, and female-strong badassery. SBS’s latest Wednesday-Thursday drama, Secret Boutique, made its premiere this week, and it’s bursting with noir-y goodness. The cooling system remains quiet and effective, even under heavy loads.19 SeptemJanuSecret Boutique: Episodes 1-2 (Series review) by missvictrix The fact that it can handle "Jedi Survivor" as well as it does is a remarkable achievement. This makes the excellent performance displayed by the Elevate in games that are a few years old like "Battlefield 2042" more indicative of its performance. Games like "Jedi Survivor" and "Lord of the Rings: Gollum" launch in a sorry state where even computers equipped with RTX 4090 cards struggle to run them consistently. However, this is more an indictment of the poor optimization of modern AAA games than it is a critique of the Cobratype Elevate. The computer was tested primarily using a 2560 x 1080 pixel monitor, so in cutting-edge games that push the limits of graphics fidelity, you might need to do some fancy settings footwork if you want to run them at 4K resolution or achieve consistent ultra-high framerates. Even in the latest and most demanding games like " Star Wars: Jedi Survivor," the Elevate delivers consistent frame rates of around 60fps with maxed graphics with raytracing, only occasionally dipping lower. The Elevate was able to handle "Battlefield 2042" at maximum settings, including ray tracing, and maintain frame rates between 130 fps and 144 fps. This performance translates to real-world gaming prowess. ![]()
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