After getting bored of watching the Marathi serials on Zee Marathi, I completely stopped watching them. The stories have no logic and no effect to hold on to the viewer's attention. Even if I watch it after two months, the story hasn't really moved ahead, and I completely lost interest and stopped watching it. I get updates from my son and husband sometimes, when they watch that 20-minute episode in 3 minutes by fast-forwarding it!
Extraordinary Attorney Woo, a Korean series on Netflix, was a welcome change. The series was released a few months ago. I had watched the teaser, but didn't delve deep into it. It has 16 episodes, and currently it's just one season. We watched one episode daily after dinner. It was quite a long time, about one hour. It's a story about a brilliant junior attorney who has an autism spectrum disorder, which is a developmental disability, and that hinders social communication and interaction with people around her. She joins a firm and finds her way among her peers and bosses, sometimes awkwardly, sometimes in a funny way. She also fights cases in the courts with the help of her photographic memory. She is a genius and can ingest loads of information about the law, rules, and regulations in a single reading. There's a parallel story about her birth mother and her father that also makes up an important part of the story-telling.
Woo Young Woo has an obsession with whales, and every time a brilliant idea hits her, it's usually the whales that she sees floating and dancing around. Her colleagues adapt to her being different and help her in every possible way. They learn to accept her for her character, and she tries to understand normal human beings in her own sweet way. The love story between her and the assistant, Lee Jun-Ho, is brought out very delicately and beautifully. All the supporting characters have done good justice to their roles, and they all seem very relatable and real.
All the episodes are done well, and it definitely brings a smile to your face after one episode ends. The Korean community, people, and circumstances are so Asian, so very much like us Indians!
The character of Woo Young Woo is acted so well by the Korean actress, Park Eun-bin, that you almost fall in love with Attorney Woo Young Woo. Her awkward body language, her eye movements, the way she responds with short syllables, irritation at loud noises, and sudden changes in the environment around her that lead to outrage have all been brilliantly portrayed on screen. Kudos to her and everyone else who worked on this refreshing K-drama, which was different but still fun to watch.
I strongly recommend you watch it!
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