I-sang-han byeon-ho-sa U-yeong-u (2022)

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   norimee

   The kind of sentimental and whimsical that I like and enjoy in Korean television.
   The show does a good job showing a young woman on the autism spectrum navigating life in a professional setting.
   I just learned, that there will be a second season and I can't wait. 6 days 17 hours ago
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   Siskoid

   Park Eun-bin is amazing in Extraordinary Attorney Woo, playing a rookie lawyer with autism spectrum disorder navigating a difficult professional world and a timid and wholesome potential romance for the first time in her life. I've seen trailers of other things she's been in and she's frankly unrecognizable here as the open-faced (and open-hearted) Woo Young-woo. Obviously, this is a fiction, and her awkwardness is counter-balanced by a photographic memory when it comes to the law. Still, the coping strategies are very real, and Park's performance remarkably consistent. The court cases are varied and very Korean, for lack of a better expression, but while they deal with South Korean realities, I don't think they're alienating (though I of course don't believe every plaintiff in Korea court blurts things out like they do on the show). And of course, it's K-TV, so it's very sentimental. Mostly through the music, but there's no denying that the characters and story are very cute. Even her foils at the office eventually tend towards their better selves, and the romantic subplots are so clean as to evoke the school yard. I mean none of this in a derogatory way. I often laughed and wept over the same same episodes. The only time I think it crossed the sappiness line for me is the "working holiday" two-parter, which is something that occasionally crops up on series where "production value" is added by going on location. These episodes often seem bought and paid for by local tourism and feel padded. But otherwise, I've got no complaints. While the 16 episodes work as a complete arc, without any real dangling plot threads, I've just read the show was renewed for a second season. Works for me, since I was going to say I was satisfied with what we have, but definitely love the characters enough to want more. 1 month 1 week ago

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