MattPeddlesden
Kent, UK
This almost became my first drop. After the first episode I just didn't feel inclined to watch more, it's a bit over the top and I hadn't warmed to any of the characters - so I went away and watched something else and then came back... and then binged the entire rest of it as I got more and more engrossed in it. It's funny, but whacky at times, but there's some really great serious moments in it too and the underlying message is a good one.
If you liked Good Manager (Chief Kim, or whatever you want to call it!) then it's similar humour style to that.
Most of the characters are relatively "normal" but the main lawyer whose nickname is "Goethe" is quite seriously over the top and was the main reason I took a while to warm up - they hit you at full speed with his characters weirdness - but, stick with it, you will almost certainly warm up to his character and it becomes all the more amusing later on when other characters start imitating him to great effect.
Fundamentally it's a legal drama / comedy, there's no notable romance involved (not strictly true, but it's a total side plot), and it's about a law firm called B+G and one of their former team, an ace lawyer Go Tae Rim who is now out on his own and is all about the money money money.
Major high point for me - unlike so many other legal dramas this one excels at pointing out that a lawyers job is to represent their client as best they can, it is NOT to seek out "justice" and the show does a good job to highlight WHY a lawyer cannot do that. Whether the client is right or wrong is not your job to determine, it's the system, if you get a bad person off their charge you're not at fault, the prosecution are for not doing a better job. In this way, Go Tae Rim appears brutal and single minded - but one of the best "true" representations of being a lawyer i've seen in a show.
The FL is amazing, whether it's being serious in the court room, funny and delightful in other scenes or painfully hurt and suffering as she deals with a case she is involved in at the start, the range she shows is fantastic. I'm definitely going to be watching more of her work. She was also in Romantic Doctor Season 1 and a guest on Hotel Del Luna as well as a few others.
The ladies in this are great characters - whether it's the FL who develops from innocent inexperience to a strong willed, strong minded woman who can take on the world, or Director Min, who is already strong but learns how to let others in.
It's a good story, good ending, some good humour and some great characters. Definitely worth a watch.
If you liked Good Manager (Chief Kim, or whatever you want to call it!) then it's similar humour style to that.
Most of the characters are relatively "normal" but the main lawyer whose nickname is "Goethe" is quite seriously over the top and was the main reason I took a while to warm up - they hit you at full speed with his characters weirdness - but, stick with it, you will almost certainly warm up to his character and it becomes all the more amusing later on when other characters start imitating him to great effect.
Fundamentally it's a legal drama / comedy, there's no notable romance involved (not strictly true, but it's a total side plot), and it's about a law firm called B+G and one of their former team, an ace lawyer Go Tae Rim who is now out on his own and is all about the money money money.
Major high point for me - unlike so many other legal dramas this one excels at pointing out that a lawyers job is to represent their client as best they can, it is NOT to seek out "justice" and the show does a good job to highlight WHY a lawyer cannot do that. Whether the client is right or wrong is not your job to determine, it's the system, if you get a bad person off their charge you're not at fault, the prosecution are for not doing a better job. In this way, Go Tae Rim appears brutal and single minded - but one of the best "true" representations of being a lawyer i've seen in a show.
The FL is amazing, whether it's being serious in the court room, funny and delightful in other scenes or painfully hurt and suffering as she deals with a case she is involved in at the start, the range she shows is fantastic. I'm definitely going to be watching more of her work. She was also in Romantic Doctor Season 1 and a guest on Hotel Del Luna as well as a few others.
The ladies in this are great characters - whether it's the FL who develops from innocent inexperience to a strong willed, strong minded woman who can take on the world, or Director Min, who is already strong but learns how to let others in.
It's a good story, good ending, some good humour and some great characters. Definitely worth a watch.
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