Legal romance Woman With a Suitcase teases lighthearted laughs

by girlfriday

Okay, so this cute romantic vibe in the first teaser is totally not what I expected for this drama, but I’ll take it. MBC’s new Monday-Tuesday legal drama Woman With a Suitcase comes from the writer of Gap-dong and was originally described as the story of a woman clawing her way back to success after being falsely imprisoned for a crime. Now it seems like an upbeat underdog success story with a romance, so I’m not sure what to expect, but it’s not like I’d be disappointed in the least if Choi Ji-woo came back with something bright and cheery — more Twenty Again, less Temptation.

Choi Ji-woo stars as a successful office manager at a law firm, who’s so good at her job that she’s essentially a lawyer without the law degree. She carries a suitcase stuffed full of legal briefs everywhere she goes, always ready to work at a moment’s notice. After suffering a major setback and hitting rock bottom in her career, she’ll pick herself back up, go to law school, and start her own practice.

Joo Jin-mo (Beloved Eun-dong) is her love interest, a prickly tabloid company CEO who was once a promising prosecutor. Nobody knows how he gets all of his secrets on celebrities and politicians, but he’ll use his powers for good by helping the heroine whenever he can. Co-starring are Jeon Hye-bin (Oh Hae-young Again) as Choi Ji-woo’s half-sister, an ambitious lawyer who resents living in her sister’s shadow and will stop at nothing to win, and Lee Joon (Vampire Detective) as a bright-eyed idealistic lawyer who believes in the fight for justice and can’t pay his office rent because of it.

The first teaser features Choi Ji-woo and Joo Jin-mo just erupting into giggles instead of focusing on their work. And in a different scene, she says to him, “You’re persistent,” and he tosses back, “Well, for starters you’ve succeeded in igniting my competitiveness.” It feels like a breezy romance with light bickering and cute chemistry, and I have to say, there’s a much bigger chance that I’m going to watch this now.

Woman With a Suitcase follows Monster on Mondays and Tuesdays beginning September 26.

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