I so agree, So Yeon is the delight that keeps delighting. She is wonderful, friendly, smart, and can cook to boot. I look most forward to their interactions at the Ramyun spot because she is so great. The cast has really fantastic chemistry and I am enjoying every bit of it.

CSW in combat suit is 😍

I really like how we get the reveal in bits and pieces each week. I really liked how Jung-shik was connected to all this. You can see how all this backfired. And of course I love how the friends react to this. They are in this together. For life. I love them!

And please, give me more Ramyeon lady!!

I like that Sung-han even when driven by rage/revenge has always put his clients first. I like how deliberate he is with each case. He doesn’t take up a lot of cases for this reason. It truly shows that he expects a lawyer’s sole purpose is to protect their client and give them their best. The lack of it was the reason for everything that went wrong with his sister. He had never forgotten it.

And I love that the show doesn’t force Sung-han to be the center of friendship. It was wonderful to see the other two on their own road trip. The show does a great job on balancing the friendship scenes.

This show continues to surprise me. I didn’t expect to enjoy this as much.

Do I just not like "quality" shows? I put this on in the background because I keep seeing people on here rave about it and I am never seeing what y'all are seeing. Is it an age thing? Is it a life experience thing?
I don't even remember if I've watched anything with older people as the main cast & characters.
But I feel like, maybe because they're older, this show is slower paced (might be the wrong phrase) and less dynamic. It's cool in a way because sometimes mellow is nice and it would probably/possibly be weird, annoying, or frustrating watching a group of messy 40 year old men vs this lovely brotherhood amongst these guys. I do like their friendship and I think it's enviable. I like how they each have their own arcs (for the most part) and how they engage with each other.

I really don't understand the nephew's father. His goal is to keep his family strong but what does that even mean? I don't understand why pretending his first wife & his son's mother never existed is the "best" thing for his family. The boy knows his mothee existed. He knows his uncle exists. Are they thinking that eventually, if no one talks about them and he doesn't see them, he'll just forget about them? He says he cares about his son but he's not showing care aside from the basics.

I don't understand why this rural family case was the "bait" she decides to use on Attorney Shin. Regardless the endgoal is divorce right? Is she also trying to get his client arrested for abuse? (I don't even know if he would be arrested for that). I don't even understand her fixation with him in the first place aside from him being the nephew's uncle and him wanting to be apart of the nephew's life. And then it's all just kinda explained as an inferiority complex.

Why did the wife's attorney want to hide the biological father? If she had a baby by someone else, she couldn't get divorced?

Thank you, @lovepark, for the weecap! I like it that Sung-han is really smart to be able to piece the little bits of information he and his staff gathers. I hope the foreigner wife issue is resolved, lest it be another issue of racism.

Thanks for the weecap @lovepark. I like the developments this week however something is not making sense to me. We know that Sunghan has now activated his main goal related to becoming a lawyer so I was confused that a man with such a disciplined approach would be swayed when his enemy places a challenge before him. Surely, someone who practices piano for years to reach the level he performs at and had to work so hard to pass the bar exam would be focused on the task in hand. If Sunghan had sent the husband to another attorney he would have got on the step mum’s nerves which would have made her distracted and weaker and he could then have used this to his advantage in his own well prepared for plan. Instead he allows himself to be put on the back foot defending a case he did not need to be involved in.

I am glad the grandmother is team Sunghan but how annoying that the step mum was able to thwart it at the first hurdle. I also dislike that yet again grandmother is clearly showing a preference for the boy child regardless of the other issues the girl child should not be noticing a difference.

In the drama Thirty nine one of the three friends felt like a tag along and Jeongsik seems to have that role; he is not included in the work baseball hangouts and turns up at the meals at the noodle bar when the other two are part way through. It is good that he was more actively involved this time and there was one on one time at the baseball batting cage but I don’t like to see the dynamic where they stop what they are doing when he joins because in that sense he is treated like they all treat the newbie who is trying to come in to the trio’s guy time. I get friendship can be played out like this and it is clear they do genuinely care for each other but I struggle to watch these kinds of situations.

In other news…
I am interested in the company happy to have a reverse PPL for the benefit of the plot; in that the driver of an expensive convertible car gets backache while the passenger gets to sleep like a baby.

I don’t like to see babies around violence even in acting scenes as it’s not like they know it’s not real so I wonder why they showed a loving grandmother who has experienced domestic abuse herself in freeze mode when the argument was taking place and was getting dangerous. It would have made more sense when later emphasising how much the baby means to her mental health to have her panic run away to safety.

A question that thankfully rarely comes up when watching modern dramas is why do some K dramas have one character with a random gross personal hygiene habit? This time it’s the ear cleaning in public nemesis lawyer. In Let’s eat season one it was a boss/friend’s husband with a scratch and sniff approach. I find this trait so off putting that I walked away from series one of Let’s eat after the first couple of episodes as I didn’t know how often he would be popping up so came in at season two only to find a character with nasty...

I don't know if it is just me but I think that the show has become boring over the last two weeks. What keeps me from dropping it is the relationship between the three friends and So-yeon's character. At first, I liked Seo-jin but now it feels like her character falls flat. This is another show where the cast saves the day. Also, can anyone remove the annoying stepmother away?

Random side-note but for me the most amusing parts of the two episodes were the profile pics for Hyeong-geun and Jeong-sik. HG's is the impromptu photoshoot shot from last week while JS has full Joseon-era garb on 🤣. Couldn't help wondering if they lifted that photo straight off of Jung Moon-sung's villainous turn in Haechi 😂.

Wow. That was quite the twist at the end. I had assumed she had an affair after she had the child. My heart really goes out to the husband and his mother. The wife is such a monster.
I want to smack Jeong guk upside the head. Seriously.
Loving his mom (Cha Hwa Yeon) and the ramyeon girl
The swagger Hyeong-geon gets when the ramyeon lady asks him to come over for lunch was so funny. Jeong-sik’s immediate change of tone when he realized the producer is Seo-Jin’s visitor was also very funny
When shin sung han goes on and on about the hot lawyer, I thought it would be fun if seo Jin had said, “but where are we going to find THAT guy?”

I’m getting more fond of this drama week by week. I haven’t watched Thirty-Nine but guess this is a better version.

The characters are what made this a great watch - and I quite like how the back story is peeled off bit by bit and changing our earlier view. I can’t wait to see the backstory of the in-law family unfold. The new wife is obviously from a celebrated family (and I won’t be surprised if she’s from the family owning that law firm).

Regarding some commentaries as to why Sung-Han picked up the farmer case. This is an interesting point because to me this is the proxie case before the big battle. It also shows the fundamental difference between him and the new wife - one’s in this for justice and the other is winning at all costs. Our Attorney Shin from what we saw only picks up cases he sees worth fighting - a hallmark of his character.

The upcoming battle of Lady Ma’s divorce will be fascinating to watch. I wonder if the faultline between this couple originated from the second marriage of the son. And that was perhaps a marriage for enhanced wealth and power as the daughter-in-law seems to be closer to the FIL with whom she could do bargain.

And, like everyone said, the noodle shop owner brights up each scene she’s in. Amazing.

The chemistry between Seo jin and So yeon is great. In a different show, this could be the plot to them becoming a couple.

Great summary, and I'm not just saying that because I agree with you about Kang Mal-Geum. I like the way you help break down the plot points so I don't feel like I missed anything. Overall, I was tentative and not that invested in this drama at the start, and now I really like it and can't wait to see new installments.

The one piece that is weird to me is Attorney Park. I get why Young-ju is horrible to Sung-han. She resents that her husband was first married to his sister. But Attorney Park did something terrible and indefensible for the money of the connection with the chaebol family that would result from betraying his own client. You would think he would just shut up and not goad Sung-han, nor draw attention to himself in any way. But somehow he missed that memo and is just out there being evil in Sung-han's face for no particular reason.

Hyeong-geon's walk of accomplishment as So-yeon called him for the special menu was my highlight this week. And big fat capital YES I was scolded like a puppy when she later said the special menu could serve more than Hyeong-geon. Why did Hyeong-geon ask how the special menu came about. 'You should have just enjoyed it without asking🤦🏽😩' was went went on in my head :) To think I gallivanted side by side with him😩.

I like Choi Jun. I like that he's clear wjete his priorities lie but at the same time unreadable.

Seo-jin bursting Shin Sung-han's bubbles is another good chuckle. If you ask me, I won't have agreed with her if it is Hwang Shi-mok or Gu Seung-hyo. She's actually telling the truth. Sung-han doesn't have a chance beside this two guys and no it's not because he's older.
Sung-han trying to pull her sleeve after her rebuttal was comic gold. And dang! his eyeballs moved faster than anything in there. At least no one caught him doing that cause I'd die from embarrassment even if he didn't.

Thank you @lovepark for the recap. About the cases, this week feels many things happen (2 cases) yet not one has been resolved. Might be the last characters before the end, the grandmother case and the issue behind Shin Sung Han's (can't stop thinking about it since this only a 12 episode.) I love at least there is the grandmother in our attorney's side. I beamed just like Sung Han when she dropped Gi Yeong at his place regardless the abrupt ending. (the devil came)
I agree with your taking about their friendship. It surely has been through a lot and it shows and I love it. I'd love to see more.