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feel-good drama
The first episode was exhausting for me. About three times I was tempted to stop watching altogether. And that’s where the half-point deduction comes from. I stayed for Jung Kyung Ho, and already by the second episode I didn’t regret it. Granted, when I saw the lawyers from the Pro Bono Team, I had the worst possible premonitions. Seriously—a case about who owns a dog? And yet the case was handled so brilliantly, so humorously, so cleverly that I had an absolute blast watching it.
This drama is above all about intelligent dialogue and intelligent people. The entire Pro Bono team may be a bit ideologically eccentric, but the drama takes care to show their backstories and explain where their idealism comes from. It doesn’t do this in a heavy-handed way—sometimes just a few sentences from one character, a single scene, explains exactly “why.” As a result, I grew fond of them quite quickly, especially since their cases are not about any kind of “woke” ideology, but about fighting for a specific person with a specific problem, and only occasionally placing that fight in a broader social context.
But this is where something truly great appears—Kang Da-Wit. Intelligent, cunning, able to make use of all the small arrangements and leverage points in the judicial world, shining there like the biggest stage star—showing respect for people, for the office, and for institutions, but also with a huge wink of the eye. Against the background of this whole ideological bunch, he feels like a breath of reason and freshness.
And perhaps most importantly—this drama gives a sense of satisfaction. Every character is three-dimensional, capable of change, and every case, even if it doesn’t unfold perfectly, at some point provides a feeling of fulfillment. For me, this is a total feel-good drama. Apart from the first episode, not a single second is wasted.
This drama is above all about intelligent dialogue and intelligent people. The entire Pro Bono team may be a bit ideologically eccentric, but the drama takes care to show their backstories and explain where their idealism comes from. It doesn’t do this in a heavy-handed way—sometimes just a few sentences from one character, a single scene, explains exactly “why.” As a result, I grew fond of them quite quickly, especially since their cases are not about any kind of “woke” ideology, but about fighting for a specific person with a specific problem, and only occasionally placing that fight in a broader social context.
But this is where something truly great appears—Kang Da-Wit. Intelligent, cunning, able to make use of all the small arrangements and leverage points in the judicial world, shining there like the biggest stage star—showing respect for people, for the office, and for institutions, but also with a huge wink of the eye. Against the background of this whole ideological bunch, he feels like a breath of reason and freshness.
And perhaps most importantly—this drama gives a sense of satisfaction. Every character is three-dimensional, capable of change, and every case, even if it doesn’t unfold perfectly, at some point provides a feeling of fulfillment. For me, this is a total feel-good drama. Apart from the first episode, not a single second is wasted.
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