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thewayneOh, man - this was brilliant! I've only watched the first ep thus far, but I loved it, and I'm spoiling the first five minutes or so of it. Little girl is diagnosed with autism, at the age of five hasn't spoken yet and is rather unresponsive. Walking back home with her dad (mom apparently passed away, cause unrevealed) dad is confronted by their landlord and accused of sleeping with landlord's wife and is assaulted.
The little girl freaks out at the violence and starts speaking, citing Korean criminal code regarding assault! Turns out she's memorized law books (where they came from, as they are in the house, apparently isn't a point worth discussion) and has them down letter perfect. Jump forward some 15 years or so and she's graduated law school at the top of her class and is reporting to her first job at apparently a pretty prestigious law firm.
And is handed what appears to be a fairly simple assault case, where a wife is going to be tried for whacking her old husband in the head with an iron, which Woo wants tried as an attempted murder as it actually is a civil case. The details are interesting.
Beautifully shot, with ingenious CGI inserts that are well-woven with her autism. Feels a bit like Monk, substituting autism for OCD and the practice of law for law enforcement. Lots of chuckles, feel good bits, and the final scene of the first ep was a big "Whaaa?" moment. The second ep should be quite interesting and I'm looking forward to watching it.
I'm not normally a fan of law or law enforcement shows, partly from working at a major police department for nine years, but this one I really like.
I was actually planning on watching a program that I'd just heard about called Kleo, but for some reason decided to watch Woo, and I'm very glad that I did. I'll get around to Kleo later.
The little girl freaks out at the violence and starts speaking, citing Korean criminal code regarding assault! Turns out she's memorized law books (where they came from, as they are in the house, apparently isn't a point worth discussion) and has them down letter perfect. Jump forward some 15 years or so and she's graduated law school at the top of her class and is reporting to her first job at apparently a pretty prestigious law firm.
And is handed what appears to be a fairly simple assault case, where a wife is going to be tried for whacking her old husband in the head with an iron, which Woo wants tried as an attempted murder as it actually is a civil case. The details are interesting.
Beautifully shot, with ingenious CGI inserts that are well-woven with her autism. Feels a bit like Monk, substituting autism for OCD and the practice of law for law enforcement. Lots of chuckles, feel good bits, and the final scene of the first ep was a big "Whaaa?" moment. The second ep should be quite interesting and I'm looking forward to watching it.
I'm not normally a fan of law or law enforcement shows, partly from working at a major police department for nine years, but this one I really like.
I was actually planning on watching a program that I'd just heard about called Kleo, but for some reason decided to watch Woo, and I'm very glad that I did. I'll get around to Kleo later.
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Date: 2022-09-24 07:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-09-24 05:02 pm (UTC)btw, finished Kleo last week. quite good overall, though the ending is somewhat meh
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Date: 2022-09-24 05:05 pm (UTC)I heard a review of it this week and the reviewer was a little disappointed. It was interesting enough for me to give it a shot. I really enjoyed our trip to Germany and time in Berlin and I'm a bit of a sucker for things set there, such as Atomic Blonde and Run, Lola, Run. I hope you like Woo.
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Date: 2022-09-24 05:08 pm (UTC)speaking of Berlin in series. Babylon Berlin? One of my personal top favs! Another period though, Weimar esthetics
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Date: 2022-09-24 05:11 pm (UTC)We watched, IIRC, the entire first season and enjoyed it. Don't remember if we started the second. Quite enjoyed it, just got distracted with other things. Our TV watching really fell off over the last year or so.
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Date: 2022-09-24 11:56 pm (UTC)I'm like you, not a big fan of law type shows.
Hugs, Jon
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Date: 2022-09-25 02:42 pm (UTC)This was quite interesting. The law side was a part of the show, but not a major part. If you have Netflix, you might give it a shot. The view into another country is always fun for me.
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Date: 2022-09-26 01:04 am (UTC)Disney+ and Hulu and everything I can get on my Roku. lol...
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Date: 2022-09-26 01:50 am (UTC)I had Hulu for a while, but wasn't watching anything on it so I cancelled it.
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Date: 2022-09-26 03:24 pm (UTC)