βLife~Pain~Romance~Joy~Food~Song~Healing ~βοΈ~ Drama That Resonates
Grey's Anatomy, Take Your Scalpel & Go Home. K-Band-Aid is In The HOWSE-pital
I put off watching this highly rated show for a while because I found the name unappealing. Well, what's in a name? This series follows 5 friends from college who eventually end up working at the same hospital in Seoul. Now that they are all back in Seoul, they resurrect their college band by working on 1 song a month, to ensure they take time to be together. Whether the above pre-screening sounds like a solid basis for a hospital drama or not, it's merely the setting. What matters is the relationships, particularly as embodied in the writer/director/actors. In any case, HP has stitched together an outstanding fellowship of talent. Stick with the regimen for 3 episodes, at least, before determining its effectiveness. Ep1 gets off to a slow start and there are several scenes that won't be understandable until later. Once things get rolling they never slow down again.
HP is about friendship first, but also caring+respect for others, love, parents & children, music, and lots and lots of #food. The hospital scenes, including staff dynamics and operating room procedures, feel realistic. The characters are a delight.
Here's a shout-out to Jo Jung-Suk. I fell in love with him when watching the divine Oh My Ghost-10. He delivers another slam dunk with his performance as Dr. Lee Ik-jun. Everyone does a great job.
This just pertains to season 1. I haven't started season 2 yet.
As a side note, there's a realistic basis for the show. The positive connection between surgeons and music has actually been studied. The participants currently playing a musical instrument, at the time of the study, performed the laparoscopic tasks significantly faster than those who did not. They determined that visuo-spatial abilities used in laparoscopic performance clearly may be enhanced for individuals playing a musical instrument. It seems obvious that finger strength and dexterity should also be positively affected.
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Suggested Age 12& up, with a caveat: One unmarried couple is shown in bed together with enough skin showing to infer what's unmistakably been going on. Any parents who object to that, be advised. The counter-balance is the realistic medical setting, along with reinforcement of good character.
In order of ~lite&trite~ to ~heavy&serious~ you may also like:
A Witch's Love 7.8,
Live Up To Your Name-7.6;
Love to Hate You 8.9,
Her Private Life 8,
Touch your heart 8.2,
Crash Landing On You 9.1,
Oh My Ghost 10,
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha-8.4,
When the Camellia Blooms-8,
It's Okay Not To Be Okay 9,
Romance is a bonus book-7.9,
Love Struck in the City 7.3,
Be Melodramatic-8.7,
Misaeng-9.1,
My Liberation Diary-8.9,
Move To Heaven-8.4,
My Mister 9.5,
I'll See You When the Weather is Fine 9
Something in the Rain-8.6,
I put off watching this highly rated show for a while because I found the name unappealing. Well, what's in a name? This series follows 5 friends from college who eventually end up working at the same hospital in Seoul. Now that they are all back in Seoul, they resurrect their college band by working on 1 song a month, to ensure they take time to be together. Whether the above pre-screening sounds like a solid basis for a hospital drama or not, it's merely the setting. What matters is the relationships, particularly as embodied in the writer/director/actors. In any case, HP has stitched together an outstanding fellowship of talent. Stick with the regimen for 3 episodes, at least, before determining its effectiveness. Ep1 gets off to a slow start and there are several scenes that won't be understandable until later. Once things get rolling they never slow down again.
HP is about friendship first, but also caring+respect for others, love, parents & children, music, and lots and lots of #food. The hospital scenes, including staff dynamics and operating room procedures, feel realistic. The characters are a delight.
Here's a shout-out to Jo Jung-Suk. I fell in love with him when watching the divine Oh My Ghost-10. He delivers another slam dunk with his performance as Dr. Lee Ik-jun. Everyone does a great job.
This just pertains to season 1. I haven't started season 2 yet.
As a side note, there's a realistic basis for the show. The positive connection between surgeons and music has actually been studied. The participants currently playing a musical instrument, at the time of the study, performed the laparoscopic tasks significantly faster than those who did not. They determined that visuo-spatial abilities used in laparoscopic performance clearly may be enhanced for individuals playing a musical instrument. It seems obvious that finger strength and dexterity should also be positively affected.
IMHOγ°π
π¬9 π€6 π9 β‘4 π8 π¦5 π΅ 9 π¨6π9
Suggested Age 12& up, with a caveat: One unmarried couple is shown in bed together with enough skin showing to infer what's unmistakably been going on. Any parents who object to that, be advised. The counter-balance is the realistic medical setting, along with reinforcement of good character.
In order of ~lite&trite~ to ~heavy&serious~ you may also like:
A Witch's Love 7.8,
Live Up To Your Name-7.6;
Love to Hate You 8.9,
Her Private Life 8,
Touch your heart 8.2,
Crash Landing On You 9.1,
Oh My Ghost 10,
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha-8.4,
When the Camellia Blooms-8,
It's Okay Not To Be Okay 9,
Romance is a bonus book-7.9,
Love Struck in the City 7.3,
Be Melodramatic-8.7,
Misaeng-9.1,
My Liberation Diary-8.9,
Move To Heaven-8.4,
My Mister 9.5,
I'll See You When the Weather is Fine 9
Something in the Rain-8.6,
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