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Extraordinary Attorney Woo korean drama review
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Extraordinary Attorney Woo
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by vampbunny
Aug 23, 2022
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 10
Story 10.0
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 10.0
Rewatch Value 10.0
This review may contain spoilers
Wow! I know this drama has gotten a ton of great reviews, and I hate to just add another one to the long list, but this drama is so well done. The writing and characters are so natural and they all flowed so nicely with each other. I didn't feel as though the story jumped too much, but the main part of the story does become a background point towards the end of the show. I also felt as the episodes went on, the cases became not as interesting as starting out, but was an amazing end to a wonderful journey with Attorney Woo.

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Attorney Woo's character was so refreshing and constantly had me smiling and laughing. The way she holds herself and knows that she has autism and what comes with that, but still makes a conscious effort to be aware of everyone else was one of my favorite things about her. The ups and downs of her and Jun-ho's relationship is rocky and hard to deal with, but in perspective flows with how she is dealing with learning to love, accept love and her autism all in one. Everyone constantly looks down on her and views her as weird, but she is incredibly smart and knows + loves the law. I just kept wanting more and more of her on screen, and I can't wait for season 2.

Jun-ho's character is so sweet, but I felt like he was mostly just there in some cases for the plot of them falling in love. While he does work with them, he is in a completely different department and you only hear from one other person in this in just 1 other cutscene. I also felt like he was never straight-forward with his feelings and emotions until it was the very moment that it needed to be said, so much so to the point that his friend thought he was talking about another woman. My one actual flaw with his character is that while he falls in love with Young-woo and loves her even with her autism, he never stands up for her until it reaches a point. His friends he runs into call him her caretaker and he doesn't put a stop to that chat until he meets up with them again. Same with his sister, she was talking about Young-woo and how he shouldn't let his parent's meet her, but he barely said anything to stand up for her.

My favorite side character was Jung Myung-seok. The way he cared for each of his lawyers and listened to their ideas and jumped off of them to help teach were some of my favorite moments. I also loved his character growth of being very wary of Young-woo and her autism, to fully embracing and accepting her and offering a full position on his team. I was very upset when his stomach cancer popped up and was hoping they weren't going to just kill him off for the sake of the drama of it. I'm very glad they kept him alive, and added some very wholesome moments of him and Young-woo in the hospital. The backstory of him and his ex-wife added such a piece to his character that truly showed you why he was the way he was. His love for the employees and Young-woo at the end just fills your heart, and I loved seeing him happy on his trip to Jeju.

Choi Soo-yeon and Kwon Min-Woo are great side characters, but I feel that Min-woo's development is very late into the show. Soo-yeon starts out very wishy-washy towards Young-woo as they went to law school together, so she gets how she is. She warms up quickly to her and they become friends, helping each other on several cases and getting them done well together. Her search for love was so funny, and while I was sad her and Hairy's date didn't work out; I was glad that her and Min-woo finally realized their feelings. The one downfall to her storyline I feel was her dating the guy who used her for money.. I feel it didn't fit too much into the story line and was just used as a bridge for her to get to Min-woo. Now, I had very up and down feelings on Min-woo. He would do something that would make me so mad, but then redeem himself by being sweet and charming...just for that to get shot down again by him doing something awful again. His hatred for Young-woo makes no sense other than he wants to be the best, but can't with her there. He also does many things to get her behind and get ahead even though they are a team? He figures out that her mom is a famous lawyer for the opposing company and writes a huge blog post that he DOES NOT get in trouble for writing, all the while constantly asking whether Young-woo is going to get in trouble or not. He doesn't get a great development until the last 3 episodes when he finally realizes that standing up for your friends, even if you look stupid, his more courageous and sexy than being the worst person and a "good" lawyer.

The small story line with Han Seon-Young and Tae Soo-Mi and their hatred of each other made no sense to me especially in terms of story aside from Young-woo being related to Soo-Mi and the world doesn't know. She wanted to use Young-woo to get her back, and even had her dad's permission to do this which I thought was also another random thing to add into the story right at the end. Nothing comes of this storyline either as Seon-Young doesn't publish the article and Soo-Mi goes on to become the Minister. She does get her karma when her son commits a crime and actually has to get in trouble for it and she has to own up to it as well.

All in all, this show was really great and I can't wait for the 2nd season as it's been announced already.

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