Netflix brings the South Korean Extraordinary Attorney Woo to a wide audience so viewers can follow the life of a young autistic attorney, Woo Young Woo. Woo lives in Seoul with her father who worries about his brilliant but very different daughter.
We see Woo struggle to deal with her mental health and the challenges of working with her fellow attorneys. Extraordinary Attorney Woo effectively shows how Woo adjusts to adulthood as an autistic person who just wants to fit in. But the series also demonstrates the inner mind of Woo–who loves whales–and how she struggles to overcome the cruelty some people display toward people with autism.
Woo struggles with interpersonal relationships. She often finds herself hyper-focused on particular topics like the fine points of the law which leads to overlooking how other people feel when she only has her goal in mind. This series portrays Woo’s flaws as natural flowing from her autism. But Extraordinary Attorney Woo celebrates her quirks and mannerisms that make Woo…extraordinary! If you’re in the mood for a heart-felt and dramatic legal series out of the ordinary, check out Extraordinary Attorney Woo! GRADE: A
Sounds really boring. Certainly not the South Korean follow-up to SQUID GAME we were hoping for.
Michael, no squids in EXTRAORDINARY ATTORNEY WOO. Just an autistic brilliant woman struggling to survive in Korean culture.
What’s interesting is that the foreign film market imploded back in the early 2000s because Americans had gotten too lazy to read subtitles. Yet at about the same time a new generation of young people were growing up on Japanese and Korean movies and TV and have a real curiosity for foreign offerings like we haven’t seen since the heydays of the art cinemas. What goes around…
Byron, I have CLOSED CAPTIONS on for everything I watch on TV. The sound on many TV shows is terrible and actors mumble a lot!
There is an article on https://.slashfilms.com/673162/ that explains why dialog is now so hard to understand. Esp Christopher Nolan, which I noticed in Oppenheimer especially.
I liked the two episodes I saw of this show although they ran long.
Patti, yes, I thought EXTRAORDINARY ATTORNEY WOO could have been edited down to a hour. The problem with dialog on TV and in movies gets worse each year! Thanks for the link!
https://www.slashfilm.com/673162/heres-why-movie-dialogue-has-gotten-more-difficult-to-understand-and-three-ways-to-fix-it/
Not for us. Tried the first episode and neither of us cared for it at all.
Twee.
Jeff, I fell for Park Eun-bin as Young Woo before the first episode was over. The blend of struggle and brilliance hooked me!
I also keep the subtitles on all the time on streaming things and they work pretty well, but the subtitles I get through my tv are frequently too small and I haven’t figured out how to make them bigger. If film makers solve the sound problem maybe they can work on the next big problem–the fact that we can’t see in the dark.
Our problem with subtitles, Michael, is when they are written in white and they show them on a white background.
Jeff, the CLOSED CAPTION options are too limited. Some TV manufacturer needs to address this issue and the result will be a bump in sales!
Michael, I’m just as annoyed as you are with the midnight darkness in most TV programs. And the phony UV night vision glasses are NOT the answer!
It is well written: The lotus blossom is the fairest flower! I don’t get premium services so I’ll never see this!
Bob, I suspect you might like EXTRAORDINARY ATTORNEY WOO. It might be available later this year on other TV platforms.