I purposely opened season one of "Modern Beauties" with the four original housewives – Susan Mayer, Bree Van De Kamp, Lynette Scavo, and Gabriella Solis – leaving their home, Wisteria Lane. In this episode you are also introduce with the new housewives – Bao Han, Nhu Loan, Tu Quyen and Minh Tuyet – even though they are no where near being housewives, but extraordinary beauties.
In the next episode “Home” you sees and know where the ‘beauties’ lives – in the old house of one of the housewives, Gabriella Solis. I thought that was most appropriate because there were five of them living together and that was the biggest house out of the four. Then we all realizes that Minh Tuyet wasn’t as sweet or innocent in episode one, but a fake, manipulative person. Van Quynh appears during this episode as Minh Tuyet’s little sister. This episode wasn’t only to show where the housewives live, but shows how reckless and evil Minh Tuyet is to push an old lady, Khanh Ly. Also to shows how distance and silent between the two sisters.
Episode three “War Arising” got more exciting and interesting as there was a murder case that happens in the back yard of Eddie Britt. However, it turns out it wasn’t her when she returns from a night out she wouldn’t tell therefore she was taken to custody and questions by Tu Quyen. When Eddie was being asks outside the office one of the housewives in the neighborhood, Huong Lan, confronts the way the ‘beauties’ dress and act. Ho Le Thu, Eddie’s co-workers, also steps in to support the housewives even to the point that she slaps Huong Lan across the face. This episode left many confused because they have no idea why that dead body was in Eddie’s backyard. And also interested because we all love a fight!
When episode four “Rise of the past” began the ‘beauties’ and housewives still fight, but stopped by Tu Quyen. As the episode progresses we learn about their past and how different they were during their high school years. I did this because it was entertaining to see the ‘beauties’ throws secrets that they have kept for years at each other. Then the episode ends with Van Quynh confronting where Minh Tuyet was at last night. This causes speculation that Minh Tuyet was the killer of the dead body in Eddie’s back yard. However, Van Quynh was only asking about the egged incident about Khanh Ly’s house.
We then meet Bang Kieu, the son of Khanh Ly, in this episode. Khanh Ly seems to dislike Minh Tuyet, but who can blame her since she did push her off the taxi. This episode is named “Asking her out” because Bang Kieu and Minh Tuyet share an intimate love-at-first-sight that he ask her out the next day.
On Bang Kieu and Minh Tuyet’s first official date they runs into a killer, Huy Vu; who we later finds out that he was the past lover of Tu Quyen, but to why he personally targeted this shop. We don’t know! At the same moment we are introduced to Luong Tung Quang, he was supposedly in the coffee shop waiting for Huy Vu to make a move. The two gets into a fight, but because of the mistake of Bang Tam, the owner of the coffee shop, Huy Vu manage to take advantage. This episode “Coffee Shop” was specifically written for excitement and lure in more viewers.
Andy Quach, a police officer under Tu Quyen, confesses his love toward Tu Quyen since he knew that once Tu Quyen enters the coffee shop, she might not make it out alive. Tu Quyen rejected his love since she was his mentor, teacher. I wanted Andy Quach to tell Tu Quyen that he loved her because I wanted to show what happened to Huy Vu to causes him go crazy and hold citizens hostage. At first I wanted to kill Huy Vu off during this episode, but then I wanted more of him in the near future therefore I let four person get shot – Huy Vu by Tu Quyen, Ha Vy also Huy Vu’s wife, Bang Tam, and Andy Quach while trying to save Tu Quyen. “Dead love” indicates to the viewers and Huy Vu that the love shared between Tu Quyen and he was over.
This episode starts out with Andy Quach dieing in the ambulance still confessing his love to Tu Quyen; who stayed by his side. Andy Quach manages to stay alive with minor injures while Bang Tam; who also manage to survive was more major. After Andy Quach wakes we also learn as other characters in the story that he and Tu Quyen were going out. During the funeral of Ha Vy, Tu Quyen finds out that Huy Vu is still alive which also represents the title “Rise from the dead”.
To everyone surprise Huy Vu is still alive, but remain in a coma. We then hear Tu Quyen saying she still loves Huy Vu and Andy Quach heard. This was done purposely because I wanted to show a sign that the couple wouldn’t stay with each other long since Tu Quyen only went out with Andy Quach because she was scare that if she rejected him like she did to Huy Vu. Andy Quach would go crazy! Bang Kieu and Minh Tuyet accept the request from Bang Tam to take care of the coffee shop until she is all well. We then know where Bao Han works and how her co-workers are not to kind to her. Nhu Loan then told off a model, Cat Ly, fighting for a job that uses their body. Because of all their promises of being better this episode was named “Making promises”.
This episode shows the other side of the ‘beauties’ being slob and being 'normal'. Tu Quyen actually admits that she still loves Huy Vu, but she didn’t want to hurt Andy Quach’s feelings. Cat Tien was introduces into this episode as another police newbie under Tu Quyen. At first Cat Tien was excited and happy to be under Tu Quyen, but soon turns when she realizes she like Andy Quach. Once Tu Quyen sees Andy Quach and Cat Tien sitting under a tree talking and laughing, Tu Quyen takes it the wrong way and it leads to a “Misleading evidence”.
“Ancient love” is the name of this episode because we are introduce to “Lu Bu”, an online chatter that Bao Han nevers know. I know most of you are confuse to why I used Lu Bu and Diao Chan as the screen name of the two. Diao Chan is known as one of the four ancient beauties in China and Lu Bu was one of her intimate lover. Tu Quyen and Andy Quach fights over the incident between Cat Tien and Andy Quach leaving him unfocused during driving which leads to a car accident.
Tu Quyen hurriedly gets to the hospital to check on Andy Quach because she now realizes she did love Andy Quach. Once Tu Quyen and the other ‘beauties’ gets to the hospital, Tu Quyen sees Cat Tien there taking care of Andy Quach. Tu Quyen gets angry and the two officially breaks up. We only hear that the person Andy Quach collides with is Vy Nguyen which will be more features in the near future. Tu Quyen was “Crying in the corner” because she finally realizes after she sees Cat Tien being by Andy Quach’s side that she do love Andy. She fakes to be drunk around the other ‘beauties’ because she didn’t want them to be worry over her.
The day of the re-opening of the coffee shop there were no customers at all until Tu Quyen shows up covered in mud. Because of Tu Quyen the shops got filled up by nosy customers who wonder why Tu Quyen was in mud. Dalena, a random customer, asks Minh Tuyet why Tu Quyen was in mud and Minh Tuyet manages to explain. Tu Quyen wanders off and meets Luong Tung Quang; who made her smile. He asks her out immediately which made Tu Quyen happy. This is why I named this episode “A good day after all”.
This episode was inspired by forth of July and the “Fireworks”. Luong Tung Quang and Tu Quyen go on their first date. The date was absolutely romantic until Tu Quyen chase after a robber. However, Luong Tung Quang didn’t mind and seem impressed by it. This will be explains in season two of the story. We then meet Henry Chuc; who searches for his wife, Dalena, the custumer during the previous episode.
Bao Han starts “Day dreaming” at the beginning about her lover online. This episode shows how evil Bao Han’s co-workers are to her. Calvin Hiep, ones of the company designers, stole her designs when she was sleeping after she spends all that time during the forth of July to draw the designs. Ky Duyen, her boss, does not believes her because Calvin Hiep have the designs causing Bao Han to be embarrass and angry. After bumping into Trinh Hoi, Ky Duyen’s husband and also Bao Han’s other boss, Bao Han starts to like Trinh Hoi, but she knew nothing was going to happen since he was already married. This episode also shows us that Van Quynh is a great cook when she makes fried eggs.
The “Surprise discovery” about this episode is that Minh Tuyet and Tu Quyen finds out that Dalena is the dead person in the yard of Eddie Britt. The confusing thing is that Dalena was written down as ‘dead’, but she was talking to them the week before. Van Quynh goes to her first day of cooking class with two of her best friends, Huynh Gia Tuan and Angela Tram Anh. To her dismay the teacher of the class is Huong Lan; who assign her an assignment on the first day.
This was one of my favorite episodes through out the whole season because I took the most time writing every details and movement of the ‘ghost’ supposedly the ‘dead’ Dalena. When I was writing this I got chills because I was imagining the incident… During this episode Tu Quyen wakes up in the middle of the night to find her self being haunted at first by Minh Tuyet who plays a trick on her, but turns out to be a real ‘ghost’ in the bathroom who left her with “A clue”. The clue left many readers stunned and confused, but it will be answer in season two. Bao Han and Trinh Hoi goes to breakfast at the coffee shop and Bang Kieu mistakenly saw them kissing, but they were not. Yes! Bang Kieu will have a large part in the Trinh Hoi - Bao Han - Ky Duyen love triangle later on in the near future.
Bao Han goes to work with a surprise to see Trinh Hoi had stand up to her and is determine to find out the truth about the stolen designs. Both Calvin Hiep and Bao Han decided to sit down and draw one of the designs. Nhu Loan goes to a job interview at the Gucci Company; a modeling company. Tu Quyen once again tells Andy Quach that “It’s over” between the two.
Calvin Hiep didn’t know how to draw the designs that he was assigned. However, Ky Duyen switches up the designs therefore both Calvin Hiep and Bao Han were equally qualify as being the owner. Tuong Khue, another designer, felt sorry for Bao Han and steps forward to say what he saw with Ky Duyen switching designs. Calvin Hiep of course gets fire, but you should realizes that he’s not mark as a guest star but a supporting characters therefore I guarantee that this isn’t the last of him. Tran Thai Hoa, the owner of Gucci Company, interviews Nhu Loan and loves her presence and confident therefore hired her on the first day. The title of the title is “Drunken mistake” because at the end Andy Quach goes out to a bar with Cat Tien to uses wine/beer as a pain reliever. Because of his drunkenness he supposedly slept with Cat Tien.
Andy Quach wakes up to find himself naked in Cat Tien’s bed. We then hear the side of Cat Tien, she only tricks Andy Quach about the two sleeping together to only get him to stay by her side and not any one else. As Bao Han, Nhu Loan and Tu Quyen talks about their daily life they sees Minh Tuyet hugging a mysterious man; who she says is her long time friend. During a crowded moment Tu Quyen sees Henry Chuc and Dalena arguing in the street, but couldn’t find them once she gets out to the street. At the police station we are inform that Tuan Ngoc, the police chief, that Cat Tien and Tu Quyen are now partners. Tu Quyen of course got furious because she thinks Cat Tien is still very fresh and new. This is “Just the beginning” of their corals and arguments. In season two the two will gets into more fights and misunderstanding.
Van Quynh finishes her fried eggs that Huong Lan has assigned to her. However, she switches up the menu to her way because she felt that she was right. During the way to school Van Quynh accidentally almost hit Duong Trieu Vu twice with her car. I made Agela Tram Anh, Huynh Gia Tuan, and Huong Giang to be so annoying in the car is because I feel that this is how teenagers drives these day. Always talking on the phone, eating or is being irritated by close friends which can lead to accidents. Bao Han and “Lu Bu” continue to chat and we find out that he works in the same office as Tu Quyen. Yes! He has appeared in the story. This is the beginning of the on going deadly argument between Minh Tuyet and Bang Tam where Minh Tuyet asks Bang Tam if she can sell her the coffee shop, but Bang Tam refuses. Van Quynh “Fail task” was when Huong Lan thought she did a horrible job at following directions. Angela Tram Anh tricks Van Quynh to teach her the specialty ingredients to making fried eggs so she could teach Duong Trieu Vu; who she knew that Van Quynh likes.
On Nhu Loan’s first day at work she was presented with a horrible dressing room and worst photo shoot possible; she was to lie in mud. After lying in mud Nhu Loan had to take a shower with only cold water and the bathroom she was in even had roaches, but because to the roaches she accidentally bumps into Tran Thai Hoa’s hand. Tu Quyen and Cat Tien continue to argue while Bang Tam continues to refuses Minh Tuyet’s offer. At the end of this episode I thought it was really cute how Van Quynh knew how to comfort and makes the ‘beauties’ happy after “A hard day at work”.
After seeing the photos token of Nhu Loan in the mud Tran Thai Hoa gets furious at how unprofessional it was. He gets fascinated by Nhu Loan and gets her to be the lead model replacing the other model which gets Ngoc Lien, Tran Thai Hoa’s wife, angry. I added the part of the nosy husband and wife, Quang Minh and Hong Dao, because I wanted to show how Tu Quyen could be a strong police women, but at the same time could also be sensitive and sweet. Cat Tien asks in this episode about the door that has never opens – “Lu Bu” room. Minh Tuyet comes to visit Tu Quyen just to uses her, she wanted the information about Bang Tam therefore knocking hot water on Tu Quyen’s file. During this incident Cat Tien films the whole thing. Minh Tuyet is “Threatening” Bang Tam now after she couldn’t get her to sell the shop. Minh Tuyet says that if Bang Tam doesn’t sell her the shop, she would hurt her little brother who has cancer. I know that you readers think that is too far of Minh Tuyet, but in season two you will find out why she had to do it.
Vina Uyen Mi, Gucci Company’s highest receptionist, takes some photos of Tran Thai Hoa and Nhu Loan hugging, but Nhu Loan only hugs Tran Thai Hoa because of her getting to be the lead model in the mud photo shoot. Trinh Hoi and Bao Han go on another ‘friend date’ and Ky Duyen gets jealous; she prints out all the pages between Bao Han and “Lu Bu”. “Minh Tuyet’s hardship” is when Khanh Ly come to the coffee shop and complain about this and that to Minh Tuyet even complaining about the water being to hot or cold. Cat Tien shows Tu Quyen her cell phone and the so called ‘evidence’, but Tu Quyen turns it around and makes Cat Tien looks stupid once again.
Bao Han and “Lu Bu” chats and he promise her that they would meet the next day at noon and she gets very happy. While she was chatting Ky Duyen takes photos of Bao Han in her office. I wanted to add this because I know that Ky Duyen is a very talented photographer. Minh Tuyet gets angry at Kieu Linh, lawyer, when she finds out that Bang Tam have not signed the papers. Bang Kieu coincidently finds Kieu Linh’s business card and at that time Tu Quyen calls when she finds out that Minh Tuyet have printed and searched for Bang Tam. Tu Quyen calls Kieu Linh and meets with him; she gets all the information about why Minh Tuyet needed a lawyer and all the information about Bang Tam. Tran Thai Hoa announces Nhu Loan promotion to being the top model during the week of Gucci yearly fashion show. “Getting blackmail” by Vina Uyen Mi because of her promotion Nhu Loan gets angry.
It all comes to the end. The season finale of “Modern Beauties” began with Nhu Loan pushing Vina Uyen Mi down the staircase. Not actually Nhu Loan, but her spilt personality. This will play a big part in her storyline in season two. Ky Duyen confronts Bao Han about the chatting and her husband. To her surprise Bao Han gets angry and throws the photos and pictures in her face. Tran Thai Hoa takes his friend, “Lu Bu”, to the mall where he will meet Bao Han. However, Bao Han shows ups very late almost missing the chance of meeting him. Once Bao Han sees who he is she was very, very surprise. You too will be very surprise at who it is. For the last time Minh Tuyet asks Bang Tam, but she refuses therefore Minh Tuyet gets angry and gets Bang Tam so angry that she slapped Minh Tueyt across the face. Angela Tram Anh uses her time with Druong Trieu Vu to show Van Quynh that he is hers; she kisses him while she sees. In anger Van Quynh drives crazily through the street. The season finale ends with Bang Tam getting hit by a car and leaving everyone confused at to who might the person behind the wheel be. Maybe Minh Tuyet because of her evil self, or Van Quynh and her reckless driving, or maybe even Bang Kieu who got distracted by the pouring rain.
Overall, I really liked how the season ended with so many mysteries still waiting to be resolves. I know I did this just to make you readers stay with me, but you must understand that if the finale is boring or not as interested then you would not return to read season two. So forgive me for my greedy-ness. I assure you season two will be less hectic and chaotic; maybe more chaotic than but not as rushed into conclusion as this season. Also understand that school will start in a few days for me so the releasing dates of the episodes will be only on a day a week; Sunday. However, when I’m on break you might see an extra episode here or there. Some readers have asked me which storyline I liked best and for me as the writer love them all. However, my favorites have to be the mystery behind Minh Tuyet’s evil deeds and Tu Quyen trying to solve the mystery behind the death of Dalena and Henry Chuc. As for Nhu Loan’s spilt personalities I haven’t thought of anything special for her storyline, but it will develop more during season two. Bao Han’s love storyline will get more complicated and interesting. I assure you! Last but not least I thanks all of you fans that have stuck with me throughout this whole season and hopefully you will return for season two. Also in the next few days I’ll be posting up the cast interview so more hints on next season. Thank you and enjoy!
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