momo

I came across an article which says "Recently, a Korean newspaper site confirmed that the second season of the TV blockbuster Hospital Playlist has officially set a broadcast date in the first week of June." (Google Translation). I don't know how believable it is, and I didn't see info on their source. Other than that I didn't find any other info online.

I'm actually getting a bit mad that we're not getting any credible info, only speculation. They could at least tell us which part of the year this is going to be released. And to people who throw around dates in the comments - please provide source, don't spread confusion. Thanks!

Source:
https://kenh14.vn/hospital-playlist-2-an-dinh-ngay-chieu-doi-dau-truc-tiep-voi-penthouse-3-20210411152959164.chn

(Very slight spoiler for plots in first episodes of Dr Romantic; It's Okay That's Love and Life ahead)

I also wanted to mention that the fact that Jin Woo's seeing his "healthy brother" in his mind, while he's a doctor, didn't sit quite well with me. I'm not an expert in mental illnesses, but shouldn't he be treated for that, and be taking medication? I get that he was seeing a psychiatrist when he was younger, but in the present it wasn't mentioned? I mean, like I said, I have no real experience with such situations, but in other dramas, like Dr Romantic or It's Okay That's Love, such plots were handled way more seriously. (If anyone is more experienced in the field and could teach me about it if I'm wrong, I'd be really glad!

It was... Fine I guess? There were things I enjoyed and things that were really meh. I liked how there's no truly good or bad character, everybody has flaws. But on the other hand, I somehow didn't really like the ML (Jin Woo), and mr Goo's storyline was way more interesting for me. There were a lot of moments when I felt that the show dragged way too much. I also felt like the ending could have been better too, more decisive and less draggy... I know that a lot of people watch it after Stranger, but I think it's better not to watch those two one after another - in my opinion it just shows that Stranger is way better. Maybe it's just that I fancy more dynamic shows, if it's not a slice of life genre.

Pushing all of that aside, mrs Kang is one of the best characters I ever had the pleasure to watch! She really put some life to this show.

I didn't think I'd miss this show so much! Honestly, I got so attached to the characters. Would love to see one more season.

I had something similar when I watched US tv shows with multiple seasons - even if I really enjoyed season 1, I never got to watching the next season, too much time passed and I wasn't interested anymore

I have no problem dropping dramas if I see that it will be really cliche or the male lead is really toxic - two of the things I hate the most. I actually don't really mind spoilers.

I have more of a problem with boring dramas - like when I'm halfway through the drama, and I realize that I don't enjoy it at all, and it's pretty much a waste of time. I could skip scenes, but I don't really like that. On the other hand, I was seriously bored in the 2-3 eps of Prison Playbook, and then it became one of my faves, so I guess you never know XD but situations like this are like 1 in 10, and I can't force myself to watch so much mediocre dramas. I can force through 4-5 eps, but that's my maximum.

I'm not really one who likes rewatching (recently tried CLOY and dropped it halfway through, even though I seriously loved it the first time), it's just pretty boring for me. But with this one, I picked it up for the second time recently and immediately got so hooked again! It's one of the best dramas ever for me, even though the characters are really annoying at times, that's just the way life works - you have sides of people you love, and others that you hate. Recommend it to everyone!

I'm seriously craving more Hospital Playlist! I really hope there won't be a time skip, cause I want to see every little bit of Winter Garden couple dating and being awkward with each other lol (though there probably will be a 1 year time skip, so that Song Hwa comes back to the hospital).

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, I can understand your point of view, even if I don't share it 100% haha. But I understand it a little more after your explanation and it makes a little more sense to me. I guess in the end it's just a shame that the writers didn't clear up any misunderstandings we might have earlier on... Especially when they were handling serious subjects, such as having a baby, it should have been handled with a lot of care. It's great that a lot of people enjoy the ending, but for me, my heart still aches a bit as my expectations haven't been met...

Haha, I am on the same train of trying to cope with the ending for the past week. I like your theory a lot, I just wish that, at the very least, after going back to present, BH realised that he remembers all of memories from his past reincarnation, and can live happily, preferrably even meeting reincarnated CJ (doesn't matter for me, if he is reincarneted as a man or woman).

But on the other hand, in this situation they could have left BH in Queen's body, and after living a long life, transferring to his male, present-day body. Because it doesn't make a difference if it's BH or SY in the body, if they are the same soul. If they were the same soul, there wouldn't be any reason not to do that...

So, just like it was said before by @Anjelle, the writers should be specific about such a major part of the narrative... I guess I will forever be little torn with this show, just because the way I perceived it while watching turned out to be so vastly different from the way that it was ended and the way we 'should have' perceived it. I read theories while trying to cope, such as yours, which is a pretty good one and I can get around with, but my heart will forever ache a bit, thinking of lost chances with this show.

I agree with you on the subject of CJ - to be fair, I was a bit uncomfortable with the way he treated HJ. The audience kinda overlooked it (I'm guilty of that too), because she did bad things as well, but CJ suddenly fell out of love with her and didn't admit it for a long time. He just forgot about her existence, even though she was pretty much left alone in the palace. I'm so glad that she got a good ending (though she kinda didn't, if we take into consideration that her position in society was pretty much screwed as King's ex-concubine).

I get where you're coming from with thinking of BH as 'stealing' SY body, however I was kinda okay with that. I personally believed throughout the whole series, that she was truly dead after falling in the lake, and I think BH believed that too... It also wasn't his choice to stay in that body, so it's kinda redeeming for him, at least in my eyes. But if we look at it from the perspective of last episode, knowing that SY was somewhere in there, hidden, it does leave a bad taste in my mouth.

That's why I wish that it was specified clearly: either SY is dead and BH is the only soul in her body (even better if he was SY-reincarnated), or that SY is alive, and BH wants to go back to his body, and leaving out those kissing scenes (not even mentioning the baby...). I had a lot of fun watching the show, and I was forgiving of the problematic aspects, but looking back I am more and more confused, because I interpreted the show in drastically different way, comparing to the writers.

I agree so much. Like, even if when they were kissing, BH was in the back, and SY is in charge, how can anybody be not affected by that? There is no way for friendship between CJ and BH in those circumstances, it would be such a messed up situation. Not even pointing out the fact that so much episodes were about BH's wondering if he's in love with CJ or not, and then missing him so much when he thought that CJ was dead. If it was SY in charge, what would be the point of these episodes, if she loved CJ all along?

I'm sorry, but they had sex and kissed, multiple times, and they had a kid together. For like 4 episodes BH was questionning himself, whether he enjoyed it or not, and both the series and the spinoff lead to believe that he did. How can you say that's just friendship? Even if he was in the back and SY was in charge, that's still a bit too messed up for friendship. I just don't know why people can't accept that it was really romantic love. It was never anything else.

Exactly. Even if SY was indeed more in charge of Queen's body after ep 7, it wasn't made clear, and I too had the impression that it was mainly BH's soul. The thing is, it was never properly explained why Queen's inner voice changed. So even if it was writer's intention for SY to be in charge, they should have made it clear, because a huge part of the audience believed that the one in charge was BH, based on Queen's behaviour.

I haven't really found any comments on that, so I'm gonna write it myself - the scene in ep 15, where they met the person that caused the accident was pretty cruel. For sure, that man did something terrible, but he suffered 13 years and devoted his life to paying FL's hospital bills, trying to make up for it. Through the entire show we were told that ML should lead his life well, leaving his guilt behind (Jennifer had that plot as well), but then we get to that man and the writers don't even want us to try to understand his situation... I get that Jennifer and FL were mad at him, but for a show that's supposed to be focused on healing, I just felt bad at that moment. Believe me, anyone can make mistakes, and if they want to make up for it and change, we can try not to villainize them even more. I know it's a difficult subject, I just wish it was handled with more delicacy.

You're totally right. Even if they wanted to send BH back to the future, this could have been executed so much better, to show us that he is indeed happy. Throughout the whole show I felt that the writers really understood the characters and relationships, and developed them really well, but the last episode proved me wrong and left me quite heartbroken. Like, they were doing the spinoff, why wouldn't they add a scene with BH in the present there if they didn't think about it earlier?
I also agree with you on BI. His father did show affection to him in the series, even if it was through a pretty cold facade. I didn't really feel that his father used him for political goals or whatnot. So why not show his father shed at least one tear, or show that he is wondering whether he sould have his son killed or not? I don't get it.

I don't know if it would make sense... I like the spinoff but some of the scenes don't fit in main series' timeline at all...

Yes, you can find it here for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exYrPMbz7Jw

I believe that Bong Hwan will meet all those people, reincarnated, in the future, as was suggested in the spinoff. I would prefer for it to be shown in the main series, but I'm not taking that sad ending of ep 20. BH and CJ deserve a happy ending together, if not in the show - for sure they got it in my heart.

I think that you could argue, if episodes 1-19 had an lgbt theme (I for sure thought that they did), but at the end it all came down to be pure queerbaiting, unfortunately.