I am in a rewatch and to be honest, at 8.6, this drama is underrated. It gets an 8.5 for Kim Myung-min's voice alone lol. It's really an outstanding drama and incredibly well written and people who think otherwise either don't know what good writing actually looks like (unfortunately many young people especially aren't exposed to good writing anymore) or weren't patient enough to allow the story to develop. Every "plot hole" you think you see is a plot element waiting to be explored, you just need to have the patience to wait for it. Law School is a commitment. It's a time commitment because there is no early payoff, you have to commit to the entire series. And it's a cognitive and attention commitment because it's not a casual watch that you skim IG while watching.
I thought the ending wasn’t bad, just unsatisfying. Clearly someone assumed they would get a second season that is apparently not going to happen. My big problem was the Adamas itself. It’s ultimately just a McGuffin; there is never any real reason why people want it except it’s an expensive diamond, but the company seems to completely control the SK economy so there’s no reason to really want a big diamond so badly.
She did a great job on Hospital Playlist. Accurately playing a patient with a brain injury with motor skills issues can’t be easy and she was very authentic.
I finished a rewatch and raised my rating from 9.0 to 9.5, so the same rating as Hospital Playlist and Reply 1988 for me. I might even enjoy this one more than HP. The casting was perfect, the main four are so freaking cute, charming and endearing, every one of them. I got so protective of all of them every time a professor yelled at them or scolded them 😆 (even if I recognize they usually deserved it, though not always). Professor Dr. Ryu became my favorite character outside of the four and Dr. Ku, he's the perfect doctor and teacher. As in other dramas I have seen him in (Agency, Delightfully Deceitful), Lee Chang Hoon stole every scene he was in. Professor Dr. Seo was great as well, same for Lee Bong Ryun, another scene stealer. I-yeong saying hello to the baby when it was born, like her, was ridiculously adorable. Even Professor Dr. Cho getting softened up near the end, and him getting awkward with Sa-bi were fantastic ways of humanizing him, he isn't a bad guy, just needs to chill out (he's going to end up a patient, himself, if he doesn't; Dr. Kim Jun-wan will need to work on his heart).
The OST is fantastic, but that's to be expected from a Reply/HP universe drama.
There is a second season built in, second year for the residents, one new junior, a new Professor. How would they not do another season? I don't even care if anyone from HP makes cameo appearances, the main four, Dr. Ku, and the professors stand on their own.
The one under-appreciated thing about this drama is the OST. Seriously check it out, you hear plenty of bits of it in the show, but check out the actual OST album. Loved all the characters, and especially how Ha-na's dad ended up subverting expectations for the common chaebol president character. Her grandpa, the "High King", in many ways, too, ended up subverting the norm by being the one who was most open to the idea of his granddaughter ultimately taking over his company. Also, the flip of the executive and secretary trope was outstanding and Son Na-eun and Han Joon-woo did great with it.
It’s a shame we’ll never see the heights she might have reached, if only she hadn’t been foolish enough…
Yeah main role upcoming in a drama with Lee Jae Wook and Shin Ye Eun and directed by the director of Fiery Priest. Significant role last year in one of the most popular and awarded dramas in history. Her career is really down 😂. I can only assume that you’re trying to dredge up the press conference from 11 years ago. She apologized… 11 years ago (but didn’t need to, no one cared except losers like you who’ve never read a book without pictures because you spend all day on Soompi). I think I hear your BK shift manager reminding you to flip the burgers.
A fun zombie (mostly) comedy; it's only a few fairly short episodes. It's gory, but it's over the top gore that is done for very non-serious effect. Nothing to be analyzed or taken seriously.
Once I got past Korean Adam Driver annoying the crap out of me (his character improves and also gets less screen time as the story develops) this drama kicked into high gear. Chun Woo-hee is made for these types of roles and she kills here just like she did in Atypical Family. Just beware, “delightful” might be the wrong word for the story, it’s a bit dark and what the main characters have went through can be rough to watch.
When she’s helping him write the document management program, I was happy to see her point out he spelled “function” wrong. But on the other hand didn’t get why he was clearly writing modern JavaScript in a C file in 1997 😅. (The C language has no “function” keyword, it’s a C file because in the blue file header bar at the top, the file name ends with .c and in 1997 that would have been a top choice of language for a program like that, so they got that right. Writing an enterprise document management program in three days is something we can chalk up to dramatic license.) It’s 2026, I thought we made an effort to make code actually make sense when we showed it on screen. Aside from my pedantic software engineering complaint, I’m enjoying this drama!
i hate MDL devs for not firing this Alice weirdo.My 10 yro sister would write better than her
In English, “dev” means developer, the people who write the code that makes the site work. For a site like this, they are almost certainly contractors and would have nothing to do with the people who write the news articles.
The OST is fantastic, but that's to be expected from a Reply/HP universe drama.
There is a second season built in, second year for the residents, one new junior, a new Professor. How would they not do another season? I don't even care if anyone from HP makes cameo appearances, the main four, Dr. Ku, and the professors stand on their own.