Things I disliked:
The ending, it felt so rushed and convenient. Characters acted out of character and things were waaaay too “clean”.
I didn’t appreciate the “cancer storyline” regarding Jung so the “good mentor” disappeared and they’d put one whose personality and values made possible the whole “we’re using this, we’re using that” mess regarding the hacker’s statement.
I also didn’t buy kwo character. Like, at first I thought he’d be the typical coworker that is wary and a jerk but he ends up recognizing and even warms up to the mc. But with him the drama went too far, he did really shitty stuff and even the writers knew this, they made angel even say it out loud, as if by acknowledging this it’d erase that… they were really lazy in his redemption. It felt like too little too late and super forced, which ruined his character. Like the short conversation of him being the person that brings money home would just… make everything ok. And actually, before they made him way too two-faced, I shipped him with , but as the show progressed and his character did worse and worse things, I said to myself “nah, I don’t want her to end up to a selfish jerk like him”.
JunHo, eeehhh. I liked his relationship with Woo Young and the actor did an amazing work, but I wish the writers gave him more material regarding his own character backstory or interests. Like he felt a lot like Woo Young’s cheerleader rather than his own character.
I also got tired that apparently the only person that had good ideas and the cases were solved by was Woo Young. I understand the writers wanting to show that she is as capable or more than others without “autism” to do a proper work, but it did feel like the rest of the characters just… were there as background. I think they could’ve just let some of the cases be won by the other attorneys.
The two CEOs of the law firms seemed a little cartoonish to me. They had a few moments that could’ve given depth to them but were erased by “ahaha I’m so evil ad power hungry” scenes.
Regarding Woo Young Woo, I liked her character. I can’t talk myself about how the representation of autism is, since I’m not autistic myself and I don’t know a lot of people who are. But I found her character interesting and she made me smile in her relationships with others, like when she tried to find the chef of the meat noodles or said to that she was like a warm sun angel. I liked that she had boundaries but tried to navigate them regarding what she wanted or needed as she grew. I also think that this drama is good to start conversations of autism or pick people’s interest on it, for those that aren’t as knowledgeable (like myself) about it.
Her dad was so interesting, the love and frustration and him feeling powerless. And the inner fight between wanting to still protect his daughter and opening opportunities for her, but acknowledging she is her own person and becoming an adult and understanding that he has to make decitions with her or respect hers instead of the instinct of making them by himself thinking he is protecting her.