‘Eve’: Is Seo Yea-ji’s K-Drama a Remake of the ‘Revenge’ Series From 2011?
Some K-dramas are remakes of American TV series like The Good Wife, Entourage, Suits, and a few others. The recent June K-drama Eve is shaping into a treacherous story of revenge led by actor Seo Yea-ji, but is based on the series Revenge? Fans might find both series have strikingly similar storylines as Eve still has more episodes to air.
[WARNING: This article contains mild spoilers for Eve and Revenge.]
Seo Yea-ji plays a female character whose family is taken from her in ‘Eve’
The basis of Eve is all about fiery and drama-filled revenge. Lee Ra-el’s father was the CEO of Jediks semiconductor company which has a firm footing in South Korea. As a teenager, she witnesses the people her father thought were loyal to be plotting against him. She and her mother witnessed the henchmen of the future prime minister, and LY Group beat and tortured her father to sing over the company.
In the end, Ra-el witnesses her father’s demise and death at the hands of the corrupted elite. Her mother disappears, and Ra-el is left to fend for herself in the United States. The Ra-el people once knew vanished. Thirteen years later, Ra-el set her plan in motion after infiltrating herself into a loveless marriage among the elite that destroyed her family.
While Eve still has a long way to go, fans theorize Ra-el’s plan might shift in favor of the one person she is after. After learning of his past and possibly his own motives, Twin Flames might seek revenge together. Eve’s K-drama storyline has a similar feel to Revenge from 2011, here is how.
‘Revenge’ is also about a woman who wants retribution for her past like ‘Eve’ K-drama
In 2011, the ABC series Revenge was a hit and watched by a large audience during weekly new episodes. The series starred Emily VanCamp as the lead character Emily Thorne. In reality, Emily Thorne is Amanda Clarke. As a young girl, her father buys a house in the Hamptons, and her life changes. Her father meets his employer Victoria Grayson (Madeleine Stowe).
Soon FBI agents arrest her father for the crime of helping a terrorist organization. He is trialed and arrested but is killed by associates hired by the Graysons. Amanda spends most of her childhood in a juvenile facility with no parents. Knowing the Graysons are to blame, Amanda vows her revenge and returns to the Hamptons as Emily Clarke.
Her plan? To infiltrate the elite and get close to Victoria. But along the way of her master plan for revenge, Amanda learns some startling truths about the people around her that sway her morals. The K-drama Eve holds similar plot details as Revenge, which some fans have noticed.
Will Ra-el follow a similar storyline to Emily Clarke’s from ‘Revenge’ in ‘Eve’?
So far, Ra-el has shown and not shown much emotion in the K-drama. The character battles between her revenge, which had made up most of her life, and her own feelings.
A Reddit fan has seen Revenge comments, “I like the direction everything is going in. I watched the original/inspiration American show (Revenge) and so I kind of know what may/should happen, so I’m all in. Not a real spoiler but if they want to keep it similar to the American show, then everyone really has to gear up for LaEl to be a very grey FL.”
The fan also comments that Yoon-kyum is similar to Daniel Edward Grayson (Josh Bowman). In both the K-drama and series, the male characters are who the female lead uses to break everything down from the inside. Daniel in Revenge is the eldest son of the Graysons.
When it comes to other characters, the fan speculates Eun-pyeong in Eve is a mixture of characters from Revenge. Victoria Grayson can be speculated to be So-ra, but not the mastermind extreme as the American series.
