Doctor Lawyer

Subpar execution, expected twists, predicted ending.

A doctor was framed for malpractice, forced to admit guilt, had his medical license revoked and jailed for two years only to return as a lawyer 5 years later to exact revenge against those who threw him under the bus.

Kinda lame storyline, right? Wait til u see the ML, he’s even worse. Can only hold one type of expression throughout the show - furrowed eyebrows, agitated/confused eyes with constipated look. A pure downer when the main poster made him look so dashing and sinister. The only things that kept the show from falling apart are the fiery prosecuter ex fiancee of his - the FL, and the conniving korean american lobbyist - the SML - who keeps stirring the pot with unexpected moves.

The ending plottwist is also expected, u kinda get the hints as the show progressed cuz they showed too much. I wouldve prefered if they had made do without those hints.

I wish these kdrama directors would make their actors who supposedly play characters that lived abroad to take conversational english classes so that they can deliver their english lines right. It’s really cringy to see how these supposedly koreans living abroad who came back only to speak English that no audience can really understand. The only one who can speak decent english on this show is Jayden’s sidekick. Honestly I dont really expect them to speak with an accent like native speakers, but at least pronounce them right so people can understand without relying on the english subs. So far that i’ve seen, the only character that managed to pull off korean-living-abroad role is Stella Hwang from Partners for Justice, and thats because the actress Stephanie Lee is Korean American. That is how the english should be delivered for roles who are supposed to be from abroad. And if the actors cant speak it, the least the directors could do is not include english in their lines. It makes the roles less convincing when they speak poor english.

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Another Doctors/Lawyers Drama

**STORY**
Well yes, we know how Korean Doctors/Lawyers dramas are mostly the same.

The start two episodes will define the idea of the drama about how the story will start and what will be the end. It's pretty boring if you can already guess the story of the drama from the start. Fighting for justice or getting the revenge for the close ones as most dramas provide. But since the drama have So Ji Sub, you'd think it should be a better one.

The story progress and we see some interesting twists in the story and they are not as predictable as the first two episodes were suggesting. The character of Jayden Lee is an addition to those interesting twists. His mysterious and unique character boosts the fun afterward. You will love him in the drama and his acting, he is the real MVP.

The revenge scheme goes on slowly and is kinda boring, to be honest. We also get to see some other characters and their stories related to the hospital again. Seems like it will be same thing on and on unless there is anything different before the end.

After the 10th episode, the story starts to go fast forward and we get to see some interesting plots in the story. Its slowly connecting to the first few episodes of drama and going pretty well. Right after the 12th episode comes the real exciting moments of the drama. Most dramas starts are the boosted parts and ends are pretty boring and normal. But for this one it is opposite. You will love the ending of this one more than the start.

**ACTING**
Yes So Ji Sub and Im Soo Hyang played their roles good but the best acting was done by Shin Sung Rok (Jayden Lee) and Lee Dong Ha (Goo Hyun Sung) overall.

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rewatch value did not do justice for the review ✌?

It’s the truth always comes to light kind of drama.

The beginning was slightly boring with some kind of political and personal interest involvement, but things got better as the story flow. Kinda curious on how many bad people they actually had, how they will be punished and how many people were sacrificed during the process.

So Ji Sub did a decent job portraying a doctor lawyer trying to search for the justice, yet it’s not his best act in my opinion, more or less flat for the character itself. I find Im Soo Hyang didn’t quite fit the role as a prosecutor. The ones who got me interested in the drama was Shin Sung Rok with his amazing acting as a lobbyist and you will never know whose side he’s on, and Lee Joo Bin did beyond expectations as I thought she didn’t have something important for the storyline.

Overall it’s a quite good drama if you’re looking for a legal crime mix with medical drama or if you’re a fan of So Ji Sub.

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SO GOOD YOU WOULDN’T REALIZE YOU’RE ON THE LAST EP

Still didn’t give a 10 as I felt like the team of ML and FL were always winning. Like I wanted some outsmarting between the two parties but their team + Sungrok was just SO much smarter than the head of the hospital. The one who had the heart were also kind of predictable once you’re on the last 3-4 episodes. Wanted Sungrok to have a different ending as well because he’s smart but I guess killing the head of the hospital was his only revenge for having her mother killed. Nevertheless, it was good I didn’t realize I’m on the last episode. I hope there will be a season 2 but since the plot was finished, I guess there’s no need for it.

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Starts slow but gets pretty good

Before I get into the cons of this drama, I'll lead with the pros.

One - both lead and supporting actors did brilliant jobs. In that department at least there was nothing lacking, especially the three leads.

I went in blind without reading any reviews, so I don't know if this is a popular or unpopular opinion, but in mine, at least, SSR stole the show. Might be a bit biased - I've always had a thing for slightly unhinged, jaded anti-hero types who go just far enough that they're still toeing the moral line without outright crossing it, and he played the Jayden role to a T, making him my favourite character in the show. All the more so because of SSR's amazing acting. So forgive me for going into a bit of a character study here.

I'm not a very ends-justify-means person, but he was just righteous enough, although underhanded and manipulative, that it made him all the more appealing as a character, with the hidden truths and character development that made me love him all the more, right up to the very last scene with him in it. I was a bit dissatisfied by his (rightly deserved) ending simply because I found myself rooting for him despite my best instincts. But again, that bit of righteousness in his choices brought him his deserved ending so who am I to complain?

I also really loved Yoona as a character (though the acting felt a bit lacking). A competent, independent woman who refused to be defined by and lean on the powerful men in her life, who didn't allow her ambition to take shortcuts with her job or interfere with the ethics of her decisions as a medical researcher - I wish she'd gotten more screen time, and a happy ending with the person she loved.

Two - the remarkable attention to detail. While I personally have neither medical knowledge nor knowledge regarding Korean law, it seemed to me that the research was well done with respect to both. Especially since they went so much in depth with all the on screen surgeries. If anyone here has medical knowledge to correct me, then feel free, I'm quite curious how accurate it actually was. But that isn't the extent of attention to detail - when you pay attention, you end up noticing a lot of small details regarding behaviours and situations that add a certain realistic depth to the plot that is easy to overlook, and easier not bother usually because people don't pay that much attention. I wouldn't be able to give examples without spoilerizing so I won't.

Three - revenge. I've not come across a satisfyingly done revenge plot that I didn't end up loving, though I have come across those that left me completely dissatisfied with their open (admittedly more realistic) endings where things aren't quite resolved and the revenge didn't quite manage to come through after "The End". In that aspect this one was as satisfying as could be, cathartic in a way only a truly good revenge plot can be, with all the moments of truth spectacularly dealt.

Now cons - holy shit, was this show was a slow starter. And by that I mean slow enough that it took me about five months - seriously - to get through the first two episodes. Considering the one-third-episode-long surgical scenes that wouldn't make much sense to me anyway since I have no medical knowledge to appreciate his (projected) genius, all of that should have been completely skippable, but I couldn't even skip them because of how important they were plot-wise. That and that time spent (probably another third of the episode) on character development for a character who, you know from the premise, is going to die within the next twenty minutes. Especially considering that one-third-episode-long surgery was on the very same character, who, minor spoiler, will be dead about five short minutes later real-time (and a day later inside the show?). Knowing that from the premise, it took me a lot of patience to get through the tragedy, so I kept getting distracted by other things whenever I tried to start watching this show - about five months, maybe a bit more.

The second issue (sort of a continuation of the first, really) - the number of on-screen surgeries going on throughout the entirety of the show, and the amount of time spent witnessing them. As I said earlier, without medical knowledge to understand the importance of what was happening, all it did was bore me and make me lose patience.

Third was the makjang-level of dramatics from some of the plot - so ridiculous that I found it a little hard to believe it could possibly happen in real life, starting from the premise itself. While it was interesting to watch regardless, and was good if I could shelve the logical side of my brain, I found it rather hard to believe that anyone would be able to get away with digging out a live person's heart and killing people left, right, and centre. Also, I understand that Koreans are obsessed with appearances, but is it so bad that a mother would make her five-year-old daughter undergo painful plastic surgery? I'm not Korean, so I don't know what the extent of possibility is for that, but as an outsider at least, it seems horribly outlandish to me.

All in all, I loved it despite all the things I found annoying, and I definitely do think it was worth watching.

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siamo onesti, l’abbiamo tutti finita per Jayden, no?

come dice il titolo, nonostante le abbia dato 9, ma ci arriveremo sul perché, devo essere sincera con la mia votazione e dire che non avrebbe avuto lo stesso punteggio se non ci fosse stato Jayden. parto col dire come mai ho dato nove: la ragione del mio nove è che mi è piaciuta proprio tanto la parte “medical”, avendo fatto poi da poco l’esame di cardiologia mi sono emozionata quando a qualcuno hanno fatto un miectomia (cosa che ho visto citare solo nei libri e che viene considerata una manovra difficile, rischiosa e veramente rara da proporre) e overall la parte medica, anche se con alcune imperfezione (ma chi non è del campo non le coglie), è stata molto apprezzata (anche la parte sull’Alzheimer e tutto). passiamo al perché, anche se al netto i miei voti sono alti (a parte il RWV, ma per questo se andate a leggere la recensione di Big Mouth e di Manner of Death è scritto perchè ad alcune serie io do voti al RWV bassi), comunque la serie non mi ha convinto fino in fondo. non voglio fare spoiler, quindi cercherò di essere il più spoiler free possibile: allora prima cosa la trama, è un pelo scontata e dopo aver visto BM (altro prodotto sempre di Dplus) mi ha un po’ delusa come cosa (alla fine siamo sinceri i colpi di scena di BM sono signori colpi di scena), in quanto molto prevedibile. e voi mi verrete a dire “eh, ma fattela tu la trama” e ci può stare come critica, però diciamocelo, dopo i primi quattro episodi si può intuire chi ha cosa nel torace e dove andrà a parare la situazione. mi sarebbe piaciuto avere qualche sorpresa nel finale, ecco solo questo (per intenderci, non chiedo come in BM che anche quello che sembrava avere la plotline più noiosa di tutta la serie invece aveva dei segreti, ma almeno lasciare qualcosa di non prevedibile per il finale…). passiamo ai personaggi: allora come ho detto già due volte il centro di tutta la serie è il personaggio di Jayden (attore che ho scoperto fare il cattivo in My Love From the Star, serie che ho rimosso alla velocità della luce da quanto non mi è piaciuta): accattivante, misterioso ed interessante nel momento in cui lui era in scena effettivamente lui la possedeva, mi spiace per gli altri protagonisti, però non ho sentito la stessa potenza di personaggi in loro due. l’attore protagonista era monoespressivo (voi come al solito potete criticarmi dicendo che dovrei fare io l’attrice, e come sempre avreste ragione solo che siamo sinceri, non sono l’unica che ha notato questa cosa, quindi forse o diventiamo tutti attori o c’è un fondo di verità) e troppo retto. e voi mi direte “grazie al c*** Lucrezia è l’impostazione del suo personaggio” e ci sta, solo che rende la situa noiosa. onestamente ero più interessata alle mosse che avrebbe fatto Jayden piuttosto che a quelle del protagonista perché erano abbastanza scontate e non gli si tirava fuori un’emozione a morire, nemmeno se qualcosa non andava secondo i suoi piani. per la protagonista, ho trovato un po’ piatta anche lei, ma almeno lei qualche emozione (soprattutto rabbia e dolore) me la mostrava (poi non voglio fare spoiler, però quel fatto che le compare negli ultimi quattro episodi assomiglia molto a quella cosa che succede alla moglie dell’avvocato in BM per quanto sia repentina questa comparsa). poi i tre devo dire hanno chimica come gruppo quando sono in scene assieme, anche se, e lo ripeterò fino alla morte, la scena viene sempre rubata da Jayden. devo essere onesta i protagonisti non hanno molta chimica come coppia (ne prima ne dopo il TS) mentre la hanno moltissimo Jayden e Im Yoo Na, infatti mi sono trovata a dire che vedrei subito una serie dove i due attori recitano di nuovo in coppia (un po’ come quelli di Devil’s Plan andate a leggere quella recensione per capire cosa intendo) e ho sempre fatto il tifo per loro come coppia. tornando a noi, la consiglio comunque, per varie ragioni, e alla fine torniamo sempre li, la prima fra tutte l’interpretazione del personaggi di Jayden, poi perché comunque la storia è interessante e perché comunque intrattiene, anche se devo fare una critica, che forse nella recensione di BM non avevo messo: le serie di 16 episodi di Dplus hanno questo vizio, che sono lente per i primi 6 - 8 episodi per poi entrare nel vero vivo della storia e accecare in maniera repentina nel finale, ecco, è un po’ meh come cosa. però è un bel medical ed è un bel legal drama (yes pun intended)

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I'm not a So Ji Sub fan, so I was going to give this a miss until I saw that the second lead was Shin Sung Rok. Ah, Shin Sung Rok. Such a mixed blessing you are! Great actor. Sexy (to me, anyway). And always the bad guy. Well, honestly, he does evil better than almost anyone, but there's so much more to this actor. Will there ever be a drama where I can just quietly fall in love with him over 16 episodes? Apparently not. I keep hoping, but I've heard that evil roles are more fun to play, so he just goes from one flavor of evil to the next. My watch list is full of half-watched dramas, where I gave up on any redemption for him.
DoctorLawyer is another one of those dramas full of scheming, subterfuge, and unpleasant, self-centered characters whom you are bound to dislike. The plot is appropriately convoluted, with an ending that gives everyone their comeuppance. I actually dislike dramas like this, and half the time I end up rooting for the bad guys, because the good guys are so impossibly goody-two-shoes. I definitely did not care for Im Soo Hyang, who was still screening as Woori the Virgin when she showed up here as a lawyer - with not much difference of character. Well, I watched it to the end. If this is your cup of tea, you might enjoy it. But you should probably read someone else.s review, I obviously have a jaundiced view.

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"Doctor Lawyer", as the name suggests, is a drama about Yi Han, a doctor who ends up becoming a lawyer with the purpose of punishing doctors who commit medical malpractice.

Yi Han had basically a perfect life with his girlfriend Seok Young, but everything changes when her brother dies and Yi Han is framed for it. In fact, it's all part of a scheme by the hospital, who stole Seok Young's brother's heart to put in a rich patient.

You can tell from the moment Jayden shows up that he's the person who won Seok Young's brother's heart, so it's not a mystery to be discovered. What we really discover are all the crimes that the hospital director committed and that until the end, he didn't think he did anything wrong. It's also easy to find out about Jayden's revenge, his actions suggested that he was looking for something more than money and after all, he was just another victim.

It's a good drama that focuses on crimes committed by doctors, an interesting theme that hasn't been explored much. The acting is great, as is the development of the story, but the biggest problem is that nothing surprises, everything that happens is predictable.

Shin Sung Rok is simply sensational, he totally outshines the rest of the cast <3

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Even So Ji Sub couldn’t save this drama

Sigh, we have waited five years for a So Ji Sub drama! This was probably the most anticipated drama for me. I loved him in Oh My Venus, The Master’s Sun and even Terius Behind Me, but what did I just watch?

Doctor Lawyer could be best described as the drama that could have been, but was not. I don’t even know where to begin.

1.) The whole concept and idea of the show was just too over-the-top. I feel like the villains of the drama had too much power and it was just not an enjoyable drama to watch. I understand the need for shock value and drama, but sometimes just writing a bunch of evil things the bad guys do and not really understanding laws nor how ridiculous some of the things that happen was just too much.

The bad guys basically did anything and everything and they always seemed to have the upper hand, which made it not enjoyable to watch.

2.) Shin Sung Rok, second male lead slightly outshined So Ji Sub. What could have been a great bromance was basically second male lead out acting the male lead. I was really disappointed on how flat and mono-tone So Ji Sub was. I know he can act, but why didn’t he express any of his emotions? The star of the show for me was Shin Sung Rok. He’s acting range was really good and his character had a lot of depth and development.

3.) I was very happy with the lack of romance. I think any romance on the show would have been too much and it would have felt cringy. There was a touch of warm conversations between the FL and ML, but nothing more and that was good.

4.) The drama was not a drama but a boring show. Even though the villains were over the top and there was a lot of angst, the show was in itself VERY BORING. I don’t think 16 episodes were needed. Everything could have been wrapped up in 10 shows. The last show was a rehashed of everything said and done. It was very sloppy writing.

The only reason why I stuck with the drama was for So Ji Sub. I have to show my support! I just wished he went back to rom-coms because he truly shines in that genre.

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good plot twist!!!

Love the drama for the plotlines, overall good organization, sequencing and structuring of the main plot. The sub plots, although they are only a few , good enough to show the interconnection between characters and well supporting the main plot. In addition, I love the science behind the cardiorespiratory medicines displayed in this drama, the critical scenes in the OT - WOW, kudos to Yi Han and so Ji sub for mimicking the way a surgeon would behave!!!Further more, the procedures that they have showcased in the drama are OK and quite detailed, so good effort there!!! The pacing just nice and the plot logics are OK too. love to see the main villain and the main protagonists strategizing and counter - strategizing each other's plans. Lee Kyoung Young - wow - this person is really good in playing his role in depth . I really despised his demeanor in this drama !!!

Cast - wise, yes love to see the anti - hero - SSR - wow what a charismatic actor he is . Nice. Love the sense of ambiguity thrown into his character!!! You'd be wondering on which sides he is siding with though. The good or the bad guys??? which then lead to a question about WHO is he nd ultimately WHAT is his motive ? WOW. cool. Yuna Lim - - brilliant , a lady with a good sense of judgement and ethics, she is independent intellectually and emotionally brilliant - she judges every situations with her mind; not the heart even though we know who is her love interest is...the rest of the supporting casts are superb too.
Love the plot twist - it keeps me guessing WHO is having Seok Ju's heart from the get go - from one suspect of recipients to the next in each episodes hahaha . Apart from that , the plot is set up in such a way that I keep on wondering the' WHY 'or motive of one character, why does one character seem to harboring so much grudge against the main villain compared to the other , YEAH , their motives. Good narrative, and for those who love the medical sides of it, the drama is not boring though, if you really into it, the terms are OK. and I must say , they managed to water down some of the medical results and so on. I like the way So Ji Sub performing clinical examination on Yuna Lim and Sunae, wow, he looked very professional and like an experienced clinician - well he is an actor though , hahaha. Good medical advisor they have consulted here. yeah I love the issues they showcased in the drama - medico legal issues. cool idea. So , the drama is nice to watch and very enjoyable.

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