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I won't make any conclusion until the drama is over.
3 episodes are a LONG TIME in drama world.

Thanks, that's very helpful.

Don't worry, there is no season 2.
So there will be no cliffhangers, and nothing in the story is for setting up future episodes.

Maybe just watch till the end?
Before feeling "disappointed" at your speculated ending?

If JSW is really absent from Season 2, I fear the ratings would actually drop.

They are just jealous. Right off the bat, they were claiming AoS is a rip off of some cdrama, which of course is not true. And they probably can't accept that K-dramas, including AoS have so much more international success that nothing they had came close.

Thanks, where do you read that Big Mouth is #1 in streaming? Did they also talk about the numbers?
I never found Netflix's release on country streaming numbers. I only found global total streaming hours viewed and country ranking. EAW has been #1 in Netflix in Korea for weeks but I was not able to get the actual hours viewed or number of viewers.

Attorney Woo is NOT a slice of life drama. It's a legal drama with different legal cases in each episode.
Where do you read that Big Mouth is #1 in Korea?
All the numbers I see, TV ratings, streaming, it is no where near #1.

Doesn't really mean much if they are on different platform? It's basically how many subscribers having access to the streaming. It's only comparable if they are available on the same service.
I still find it absurd that Disney is not showing k-dramas in so many markets. Because they own the rights, the dramas are not available in any other service outside Korea either. Seriously, if they don't plan to show it, then don't buy the overseas rights and allow others to stream it!
What are they thinking?

Official Netflix web site updated weekly:
https://top10.netflix.com/
They also have a downloadable Excel file with all the past data, from which you can calculate the cumulative hours viewed.
This is much better than flixpatrol which uses ranking which can be misleading and inaccurate.

Had high hopes for Alchemy, but they got greedy and dragged it out to too many episodes.

PEB’s performance alone is worth the hype; Attorney Woo is the best drama this year. It’s the drama to beat for Big Mouth.

On the contrary, I feel that fantasy drama is its strong selling point as there are very few other dramas, especially k-dramas, for this genre.
And no, it is no where close to Twenty Five Twenty One, which has a total of 171.6 million hours viewed. AoS has a total of 91.8 million hours viewed as of last week, so it would probably end up around 130+ million mark at the end of its run.
AoS would still be considered a hit, as I said, its numbers are decent.
But they could have hit a home run as this show has so much potential.

To be honest, I really was hoping AoS could do much better.
These are decent numbers but not amazing.
Currently, AoS ranks #15 in K-dramas in Netflix since June 2021.
It *may* be able to make it to Top 10 if viewership maintains for the last 2 weeks.
These are based on the number of hours viewed for streaming.
I feel that it would have done much better with a fewer episodes, faster pace story both domestically and internationally.

You can use VPN.

Latest Neflix global weekly (Aug 1 to Aug 7) streaming numbers:
EAW
#1 TV Show Non-English, 67 million hours
#2 overall English + Non-English just behind The Sandman 69.5 million hours.

It is now #5 most watched K drama in Netflix since June 2021, and should easily move to #3 spot in 2 weeks.

We are no where near the end.
There are 14 more episodes to go!

Don't speculate too much on English translation.
It has nothing to do with the Korean titles.
My guess was that it was simply a place holder for the proper English name.
The Korean title 환혼 (Hwanhon) literally means Return of the Soul; but it should mean more like Resurrection in this context. But if you just put it in Google Translate, it would give different translation as it can mean different things in different context.

It was never titled "Return" in Korean, so don't read too much in the translation.

Woo has IQ 164.
And what's your point?

EAW currently ranked #6 in Netflix most watched K-Drama (total hours viewed) since June 2021 (that's when Netflix started releasing weekly viewership stats).

It's currently behind
#1 Squid Game
#2 All of us are dead
#3 Hometown Cha Cha Cha
#4 Business Proposal
#5 My Name.
#6 Extraordinary Attorney Woo

At current trajectory, it should bypass My Name to move to #5 spot by next week.
And unless viewership drops significantly, it should move past Hometown Cha Cha Cha and Business Proposal in the final 2 weeks to be 3rd most watch Netflix K-drama since June 2021.
And #1 for K-drama with no English Dub (Squid Game and All of us are dead have English Dub and should have much higher viewerships in english speaking and western countries).