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ivybis

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ivybis

United States
Life korean drama review
Completed
Life
2 people found this review helpful
by ivybis
Nov 1, 2021
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 7.0
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 5.0
Rewatch Value 5.0

More Drama Than There Really Is

The one thing that sticks out is how every small thing is a big thing in this drama. Administration and doctors are many times at odds with each other because admin oversees the money making aspect of healthcare while doctors just want to treat their patients to the best of their ability.. This sometimes leads to disagreements on how a hospital is run because it may curtail the way a doctor works. In this drama, however, this daily minutiae is life and death--and that isn't quite believable. Add a suspicious death and that raises the stakes, except maybe it was more of a red herring.

We spend episode upon episode watching the ML walk all over the hospital eavesdropping and inserting himself here and there. You don't get a sense of the characters because there is little backstory on them except for the main leads. I found myself caring little about the characters, but kept watching. At about episode 13, the drama got better. All of the sudden the writing seemed to improve and we finally started seeing a warmth that was missing in the first part of this 16 episode drama.

I enjoyed the ending much more than the beginning because it had very little to do with the happenings at the hospital. Perhaps if the focus had been more on the people rather than the hospital bureaucracy, I might have enjoyed it more. Bureaucracy doesn't make for a good drama. People do. Seems like they figured it out in the end.
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