Premiere Watch: Doctor Slump
by missvictrix
Time slot: Saturday-Sunday
Broadcaster: JTBC
Genre: Rom-com, medical
Episode count: 16
Global streamer: Netflix
Reasons to watch: Woo hoo, cute rom-com alert! Park Shin-hye and Park Hyung-shik are teaming up to bring us Doctor Slump, the story of two doctors who have reached rock bottom in their lives. They knew each other as students when they fought for the #1 spot in their class, but now life is very different [and our hero Park Hyung-shik is very swoony].
While the ratios for the healing/romance/medical elements are still unknown (I’m hoping for 50/40/10), the fact that we’ve got one of the screenwriters from My Roommate is a Gumiho here bodes well, since that drama managed to juggle a lot of things and still be fun. In terms of the cast, we can also look forward to Yoon Park, Gong Sung-ha, Jang Hye-jin, and Hyun Bong-shik.
TL;DR: Park x Park cuteness in a story of hitting rock bottom but finding healing and happiness once again
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1 Unaspirated
January 26, 2024 at 8:12 PM
어떡하지!? So excited!
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
January 26, 2024 at 11:20 PM
I read the translation and heard Otoekay in my head😆 I just listened to it and I was right😊
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
January 26, 2024 at 11:36 PM
I should have said the written translation was What should I do?
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Unaspirated
January 27, 2024 at 5:09 AM
Yes! Sorry if this was obscure, it’s what PHS’s character says in Strong Woman when Bong-soon is being adorable and he doesn’t know what to do with himself. It’s now what lots of people say whenever PHS does something adorable like ~existing~ 😍
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
January 27, 2024 at 11:05 AM
I remember that scene it’s one of the popular ones that pop up everywhere🥰 I love it when characters say that word.
Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
January 27, 2024 at 3:02 PM
hahahaha! Existing......lol!
🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 27, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Hehehe... great explanation for muggles. I love the ~ existing~ part!! 😍
🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 27, 2024 at 11:28 PM
While even the most hard core of fans would find it difficult to defend ALL parts of Strong Woman Do Bong-soon. Some parts are truly iconic and have become not only eminently quotable but legit legendary!! 🔥
🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 27, 2024 at 11:31 PM
^^ Ottoke @CecilieDK re: SWDNS's cult status and PHS ~existing~.
Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
January 27, 2024 at 11:38 PM
@seeker thanks for the correct spelling. I wrote it phonetically because I couldn’t remember how I found it last time I looked it up.
🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 28, 2024 at 1:12 AM
Ah! No worries @Reply1988 If we were to spell check each thread ... okay too scary to go there. 🤣
Midnight
January 28, 2024 at 2:18 AM
As a 2PM fan, ottoke has a completely different connotation for me! 😆
DancingEmma
January 28, 2024 at 1:36 AM
In oettoekaji’, the ji’ part is one of the many endings which can be added to a verb stem. It serves a number of purposes including confirming something you already know but not entirely sure (in intimate speech). Also, if you are talking to yourself/posing a qn to yourself, you would use that ending.
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
January 28, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Thank you for the mini language lesson, I am always learning. I just assumed it was one of the politeness terms as most of the time I hear the word they say it without that ending.
Seon-ha
January 27, 2024 at 10:57 AM
What did you folks think? Is this half "mystery drama" (to solve how PHS was framed) and half "revenge drama" (to get back at how PSH has been treated)?
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Koalatown
January 27, 2024 at 11:11 AM
I don’t think revenge, but I do think the mystery will need to be solved. Hopefully the desire to help right a wrongly framed situation is what the 2ML will do and that is how he meets 2FL as well. Unfortunately what Haenul experienced is too common in medicine- bullying, overworking subordinates and then blaming them for failures. I had a senior once try to join a paper after it had been written and he had done none of the work.
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 27, 2024 at 11:41 PM
I would really love that story arc of the 2ML. Its awesome when they not only have their own story but also a loveline. 2ML/FL having their own importance in the drama apart from hanging around the OTP and / or entangling the OTP loveline is good writing! 👍 👏
Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
January 27, 2024 at 11:55 PM
I bet the senior couldn’t see why joining the process after the fact would be a problem!
🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 28, 2024 at 1:16 AM
Unfortunately this type of work bullying in not just in medicine. 😪 @Reply1988 Good point. Such "seniors" feel justified in taking credit for the "team" work without acknowledging the person/s who actually worked.
Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
January 27, 2024 at 6:27 PM
I think the mystery will be resolved early because the drama focuses more on healing and rom com.
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 28, 2024 at 1:19 AM
It would be a different drama if mystery was focused on as an important plot point. It would create an imbalance within the plot. I too hope it is not emphasized upon.
Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
January 28, 2024 at 6:09 AM
He has a long way to go. He is billions in debt, his friends have left him. A doctor who shot to fame on social media and then shot down by that same social media (I loved how they made ths turn for a very young doctor, he becomes the star when everyone else is still turning out their thesis papers), his healing will have to come from many different ends. To recreate the magical connection and trust he had earlier would be a journey in itself.
In all honesty, we just have to look at what happened in recent times due the social media exploding on half truths.
🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 27, 2024 at 11:34 PM
I don't think the "mystery" would be dealt with anything but cursorily as an aside. I don't think there is any "revenge" angle either. 🤞
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Seon-ha
January 28, 2024 at 3:56 AM
So what, exactly, will be spending 15 more episodes on??
🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 28, 2024 at 4:06 AM
@attiton Rom-com with a sprinkling of healing like a cherry on top! No drinking please, thank you very much - side eyeing that Jeju drama.
Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
January 28, 2024 at 6:14 AM
@attiton Rebuilding the trust I think would be his biggest challenge. He went all out very early - talent, name, fame, no real hardship and it comes crashing down. She works like a zombie and finds out it means nothing at the end to the true achivements in life. She carries the expectations of the people around her, but also that she is hard on herself.
They would make such an awesome team - he the surgeon, she the anesthesiologist.
The other thing that surprised me is that their chemistry is spot on. I always knew PHS could work his charm on a rock, but PSH is surprising me and in a good way.
2 peiyeelai
January 26, 2024 at 8:14 PM
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3 peiyeelai
January 26, 2024 at 8:15 PM
I will just read the recaps for this drama. Too busy with preparing exam papers.
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
January 26, 2024 at 11:16 PM
Oh gosh, timing is not your friend if an hour of relaxing drama watching is too big an ask😒
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peiyeelai
January 27, 2024 at 1:58 AM
Timing is my enemy this weekend
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DancingEmma
January 28, 2024 at 1:40 AM
Are you drafting exams? Or preparing to sit for an exam? If the former, I empathise. Drafting a good exam is a time-consuming and tiring task.
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peiyeelai
January 28, 2024 at 3:13 AM
Drafting ...
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 28, 2024 at 4:08 AM
That is more challenging IMO. 😳 😊
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peiyeelai
January 28, 2024 at 5:00 AM
Tiring as well
Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
January 28, 2024 at 6:15 AM
Good Luck!
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peiyeelai
January 28, 2024 at 7:20 AM
Thank you
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4 chichiri
January 26, 2024 at 8:27 PM
comeback of psh?? im seated😊
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
January 26, 2024 at 11:15 PM
🥳Welcome to the DB comments, hopefully this drama will have lively comments on the weecap so we can all have fun.
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5 Bunny Sonaki
January 26, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Crossing my fingers here. I am getting more nervous about romcoms more than thriller dramas these days as writers tend to do a weird mix. Genuinely hoping this one turns out nice. The two Parks are reuniting and I am excited for it.
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 27, 2024 at 12:00 AM
So true! Such an special description "weird mix" is exactly what rom-coms have become. It's almost safer to stick with action / thrillers.
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
January 28, 2024 at 10:51 AM
😬 Me watching today’s episode why mixed genres I was laughing so hard and then I wasn’t 😡
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6 Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
January 26, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Surely the real TL;DR: is Park x Park cuteness🥰
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 27, 2024 at 12:00 AM
👌
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Diana Hansen
January 27, 2024 at 11:50 AM
She said PHS back in cuteness! That means no flower suits for him!
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 27, 2024 at 11:57 AM
Flower boys don't need flower suits.
Trees (Groot) sometimes sprout flowers. 😆
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Nessa (Bebe) 🌹
January 27, 2024 at 9:24 PM
What about giants or beanpoles? What do you suppose they sprout? Because at 183CM/ 6-ft., PHS is a giant to me, me being only 4’10 😅😅😅
🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 28, 2024 at 1:26 AM
@bebeswtz Well IMO flowers can make everything better. Giants, Beanpoles, Flower boys. Even the 190.5 cms (6 feet, 3 inches) Groot i.e. Rowoon.
Gikata
January 28, 2024 at 2:46 AM
@bebeswtz the two beanpoles in question - Hyungsik and Groot aka Rowoon - sprout heart eyes, of course! Not quite sure about flowers, but it's entirely possible as well - after all, they're both of a flowery beanpoles class...
@seeker wow, it's 190.5 now? Someone's been watered well lately!
🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 28, 2024 at 3:40 AM
@Gikata @bebeswtz
Ta da!! Pictures of Park Hyung-sik and Rowoon spouting flowers!!
🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 28, 2024 at 3:54 AM
@Gikata @bebeswtz
Apparently Rowoon was so embarrassed about his height that early in his career he said he was only
189 cms i.e. 6 feet, 2 inches. 🤣
There was also an issue about who to cast alongside him in The King’s Affection.
Gikata
January 28, 2024 at 11:13 PM
@seeker awww, they're in full bloom indeed! Guess the spring is really coming - my neighborhood cats certainly think so, if the last night's free concert was any indication...
Yeah, I've noticed that being outside of golden 180-something range is not very desirable in this field whether you're shorter OR higher... My current favorite Chinese human beanpole has the same struggles apparently - to the point of outright refusing to reveal the exact number, only reluctantly admitting it's above 190)))
But he sprouts flowers too, bless!7 antonio83
January 26, 2024 at 11:37 PM
Let's hope no serial killers
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 27, 2024 at 12:00 AM
🤞
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
January 27, 2024 at 12:14 AM
I am confident we will have a different style of rom com as Welcome to Samdalri showed we have turned a new corner. I hope that we have seen the last of that ridiculous genre mix.
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Diana Hansen
January 27, 2024 at 11:51 AM
You have my vote!
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 28, 2024 at 1:28 AM
🗳 I put mine in the ballot too!
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
January 28, 2024 at 10:52 AM
I was full up eating my words today clearly I was tooooooooooooo confident yet again😡 proper bitter.
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8 🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 27, 2024 at 12:17 AM
Can't we get 90% romantic that is healing enough for me! Rest 10% can be anything which is easily ffwd-able.
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
January 27, 2024 at 2:00 AM
I love that whatever the 10% you are fast forwarding through it so it doesn’t taint the genre you like😆
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Nessa (Bebe) 🌹
January 27, 2024 at 9:24 PM
This 💯 🙏🏻
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 28, 2024 at 1:29 AM
🫰
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
January 28, 2024 at 10:53 AM
I am hoping we have seen at least half of the 10% and it will wrap up next week so we can have the 90% funny and sweet.
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 28, 2024 at 11:54 AM
Hahaha! I don't think is happening anytime soon. At least till the last week. But I do hope the frame-up and other mystery issues don't take up more than 5-7 mins each week.
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9 CasualDramaFan
January 27, 2024 at 1:05 AM
To watch live or not? Should I wait till few episodes to pile up or binge it when it ends? So many options...
I think wait till four episodes are aired and then decide whether to dive into it or not...
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
January 27, 2024 at 2:01 AM
Yes that sounds like a good compromise because you can binge and join the live watch or avoid it completely if it gets bad reviews.
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zindigo
January 27, 2024 at 2:23 PM
I was going to start watching this weekend but something's holding me back. Maybe it's that I don't want to be disappointed. There have been too many disappointing highly anticipated series lately -- including PHS's first drama after military service. I think waiting for a few episodes to stack up so you consider them as a batch is a good idea. I will probably join you!
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10 loveblossom🌸
January 27, 2024 at 8:53 AM
AHHH I'M NOT READY!
Behind on current shows.
I don't have a classic rom-com in the mix so I want to give this a try.
And PARK HYUNG SHIK. 😍
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11 Koalatown
January 27, 2024 at 9:34 AM
I totally binged the first episode as soon as it dropped and I personally think it is striking a very nice balance between comedy, drama and a bit of mystery. PHS and PSH are mostly doing the comedy during their high school year and although I was worried about them pulling it off I think it’s working. They seem reasonable as students or at least better than the couple in Samdari. The scenes in the OR and the aftermath of that were heartbreaking.
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emsel
January 27, 2024 at 9:58 AM
I liked the first episode, but I'm skeptical of this drama having enough content for 16 episodes.
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StacyA
January 27, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Same here. Ep 1 was all setup. PHS's character was definitely framed.
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Koalatown
January 27, 2024 at 10:32 AM
I totally agree. I think that anesthesiologist is suss.
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StacyA
January 27, 2024 at 10:58 AM
Yup, I 100% agree.
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Dylan [JooJoo couple, fighting!]
January 27, 2024 at 8:48 PM
I mean, with the amount of suspicious glances he was doing…
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 28, 2024 at 1:32 AM
His eyes were all shifty. Then when he shone the light at the end it was chilling.
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12 Diana Hansen
January 27, 2024 at 11:55 AM
This year has barely begun and I am sooooooo far behind on watching already and it looks like the best is yet to come! Can't wait to start this one. If anything, the leads will carry this show and make it worth watching! But, lets have a good story and a good ending!
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13 Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
January 27, 2024 at 3:13 PM
I sluurrped the first episode. Brownie points:
Both look very at home in school uniforms. I was worried about this part, but a certain innocence in both shines through.
The pacing is excellent. Some in-your-face humour, over-the-top achievement shots (and the humble but not truly humble, self-deprecating comments, lol), and the surgery scene - take the cake and the cream.
There are three things this show establishes in the very first episode that I love right off the bat:
# You rise like a meteor; you crash and burn like a meteor;
# No guarantee slogging your life away will get you anywhere in real life;
# Depression is real, and it's essential to seek help.
And, of course, PHS - you never can not like this guy. His eyes - when he is trying to save his patient - reel you in the very first frame. And he provides the necessary laughs as well. (And yes, I am still trying to wrap my mind around his switch between the Crown Prince and this crackjack goofball avatar).
Park Shin Hye is fresh and so very natural in front of the camera that it's effortless.
Worry factor: So far, none.
@attiton, I am looking forward to your GIFs for this one, lol!
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 28, 2024 at 1:37 AM
Wonderfully expressed. All such great points. 👏 👏
The drama really drives home the importance of work-life balance.
PHS is totally believable in both avatars - teenager and doctor. While I was most apprehensive about the teenage look, it was the best part and would have been disconcerting to have another actor given the pacing. Eagerly awaiting the new episode. 😍
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Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
January 28, 2024 at 6:01 AM
It's unbelievable how believable he is - the way he makes that face - "She is getting ridiculous by the day" when she empties the coffee pouch in her mouth had me laughing so hard.
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 28, 2024 at 8:05 AM
He is crushing so hard!! 🤣🤣🤣
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Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
January 28, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Por guy is all googly eyes and the dame can't see beyond her text book page lol
14 Dylan [JooJoo couple, fighting!]
January 27, 2024 at 8:47 PM
This was honestly really good! I wasn’t that engaged in the first 10 mins - esp with the usual cringe comedy of drunken ajummas pulling each other’s hair and what not - but then idk, I got pulled in with the struggles each of them were going thru and the merest, intriguing outline of their high school past. Also wow, FL started the hostilities towards him right from the get-go? I want to see her perspective…
Looking forward to tomorrow when they actually meet. I’m assuming hilarity ensues. Also shoutout to jealous doctor sunbae. He may be jealous but he is right, Ml was super pampered by his friends… and look how that turned out…
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Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
January 27, 2024 at 9:15 PM
I am loving Yoon Bak. These two were cracking as brothers in What happens to my family. He also played a doctor in that (while PHS played his jobless younger brother who gets everyone's short end) but this turn is so very different from that potrayal and I am loving it.
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mmsik16
January 27, 2024 at 9:33 PM
His high school gang ended up being “user-friendly” people. But I had a chuckle knowing that the shorter friend played his eunuch in his other drama, OBY. He pampered his crown prince then too.
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Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
January 28, 2024 at 5:52 AM
hehehe! That eunuch guy is a hoot. The moment I saw him I cracked up. He gave us some of the funniest moments in OBY (How did you keep that hidden in your dress?
That's nothing Your Highness...LOL!)
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 28, 2024 at 1:43 AM
I don't think FL is hostile she is just super focused on studying and later working for 17 hours a day, even timing it with a stopwatch without wasting a single second. Yes, it would be nice to look at the scenes from her POV.
I think there is much to be uncovered in the teenage phase so let's unravel it along with the show. 😊👌
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15 Gikata
January 27, 2024 at 11:22 PM
Happy to report that while it wasn't fun kind of fun, it was better than my pretty low expectations. Still on the fence of high school whatever and comedy parts, but everyone else was pretty nice. Hyungsik is precious as always - those expressive eyes! - and I always preferred Shinhye in melo over other genres. Maybe it will be like FBND which is my favorite work of hers to date. Title should be DR DEPRESSION though, because a mere slump doesn't quite describe what poor leads are currently going through. More on the plot under recap.
Directing is pretty good - lightning changes depending on the mood, angles... Overly white main filter (plus heavy "dreamy" blur in flashbacks, agh!) hurts my sensitive eyes though - is it result of too many less irritatingly lit historical dramas in a row or I just need some sleep? No glaringly bad styling either - except on the photo above, ha! Now let's see where writing takes us with all that...
P.S. ML coquettishly wondering why the close-up video of him at work went viral had me chuckling. Are you REALLY sure you don't know, babe?)))
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 28, 2024 at 1:49 AM
Dr. Depression is more like it but then how many would actually tune in to watch. 🤣
P.S. Ottokaji we would watch it even if it was called Tylenol or some such - advertisement or drama.
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Gikata
January 28, 2024 at 2:26 AM
To be fair, DR SLUMP isn't that attractive as a title either. It sounds silly at best and confusing at worst. But you're right, people would've tune in regardless.
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Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
January 28, 2024 at 6:25 AM
P.S. ML coquettishly wondering why the close-up video of him at work went viral had me chuckling. Are you REALLY sure you don't know, babe?)))
And that shot is the best possible camera angle they could take of PHS haha!
I find him like that in real life too. He is somewhat always bamboozled as to how everyone finds him so good looking (it tickles me when it's the men who compliment him because I find that so very rare. He gets this adorable, shy I-don't-know-what-you-are-saying-but-I-will-say-thank-you-anyway look which makes him even more adorable).
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 28, 2024 at 8:04 AM
I saw that happen in In the Soop: Friendcation. Isn't it @attiton
Seon-ha
January 28, 2024 at 8:14 AM
Yup, by the fire pit. To be fair, the other guys were laying it on really thick 😆
Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
January 28, 2024 at 9:23 AM
Actually the one I was refering to was from Suits, where his ZEA team dresses him up for some show right after shoot and everyone was like, Wow. It was a really really cute bts.
Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
January 28, 2024 at 9:24 AM
@attiton Choi Woo Shik went - we didn't want to speak with him because he was so handsome.
That cracked me up LOL!
🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 28, 2024 at 9:46 AM
That Woo-shik comment was really fun!
Gikata
January 28, 2024 at 7:12 PM
I was also thinking how ironic it is for ML to be a plastic surgeon of all things with his natural great looks - wouldn't his patients feel weird about it?)))
🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 28, 2024 at 7:54 PM
@Gikata Or just great advertisement ... to get to look like him. 😂
Gikata
January 28, 2024 at 9:00 PM
@seeker it wouldn't quite work as an ad because his face is not made with a scalpel, let alone his own scalpel. But maybe I'm just not understanding some nuances about what makes people want to get PS
because I'm also naturally good looking and only had to fix my teeth as a teen... It's surely a complex topic.Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
January 28, 2024 at 9:09 PM
@gikata You would be surprised. In another life I used to be an esthetician. And while I took care of myself, I never had the time to do anything more than apply an occasional pack. I am blessed with naturally good skin and hair. And I won the genetic lottery. I had my clients tell me in real that they came to me because they wanted to 'look as good as I do'. And this was only skin care. Imagine if could use a scapel. So I totally get it.
Gikata
January 28, 2024 at 9:33 PM
@minniegupta1 I see, even tho it's not the very same thing - good skin/hair can be achieved even when you aren't born with them, and in my mind PS is a far more drastic measure... But those lines are very blurred nowadays. Like beauty injections are technically a medical procedure but today everyone does it with the same ease as I trim my nails.
Never been to a cosmetician *shrugs* Would've love to finally meet a good hair stylist tho, but it's probably a futile dream at this point
my relatives who own beauty salons wouldn't like to hear that lol...Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
January 28, 2024 at 9:55 PM
@gikata What I meant was I totally see it that people would be flocking to him and go under the scapel in hopes of looking as good as him. Social media is such a powerful tool, and he is the quintessential influencer.
And I am thinking a big part of the story could be how he can achieve it all back. He is the worst case of an influencer fall from grace. No matter what the verdict of the case, internet would always be divided on someone like him. Many won't even follow up on the verdict, just remember that he effed up.
Gikata
January 28, 2024 at 10:18 PM
@minniegupta1 heh, it only works if you're intuitively more trusting towards pretty people. I am not - irl at least))) But it makes sense for SK culturally.
You're right, it's quite possible that he'll never achieve that level of success again. Which is not necessarily bad thing, since his former picture perfect life turned out to be nothing more than a bubble...
Nessa (Bebe) 🌹
January 28, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Yea, and one can sense that his flabbergasted response, confusion, and shock to ppl constantly saying this about him is genuine and not some fake-y “Oh shucks, stop it!!” response.
My C-drama 183.6CM (so also 6-ft.) bias beanpole sprout (actor-singer, Sean Xiao Zhan) also gets the same things said and told to him all the time—ever since his debut days— and he has the same reaction as PHS…. He (Xiao Zhan) humbly rates himself a 6/10 🤨🤨🤨😒😒😒😒
🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 29, 2024 at 6:51 AM
@Gikata I too agree with @minniegupta1 a doctor's "looks" are very important. I once dragged my mother along to the ENT because of his classical Lord Byron looks complete with a killer jawline and salt and pepper hair.
KAddicted
January 28, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Dr Slump sounds like someone who can't sit up straight.
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 28, 2024 at 7:07 PM
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
Perfect description!!
16 KAddicted
January 28, 2024 at 1:18 PM
"I remember, as I walked out of the hospital..." and out she comes in her white coat, stethoscope and ID slung around her neck, on the verge of collapse, and carries on walking. Straight away it irritated me.
She's a doctor, she's already in a hospital, so why, when she feels so awful and can't keep upright, would she walk away into the street? Not only into the street but into the traffic, and almost cause an accident that would have hurt other people (even if we don't care about her) and right now I don't, because I think she's an idiot.
Women ... here we go again, we are either irrational and impulsive or cruel and calculating. In the very next scene we have her country aunts acting like temperamental out of control babies having a fight with food. Show, please pull back from this brink. Is there a shortage of normal women in Korea? One would think so, considering the amount of abandoned children in dramas that suffer a returning selfish mother on the make at inconvenient moments.
Now we've got the preliminary set-up out of the way, let's hope decisions and behaviour improves.
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Elinor, Team Glasses team co-captain
January 29, 2024 at 11:38 AM
100% to every single word of this. I was yelling at the screen at those moments. It did get better, but that was a very poor start.
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17 Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
January 28, 2024 at 3:52 PM
I can't wait for the recap - but boy, an episode that makes me laugh and cry at the same time? Yeah!
Park Shin Hye is killing it. Much as I love PHS, this one my had my eyes glued to her. Absolutely loved her chutzpah.
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 28, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Despite this nearly 100 comments thread seems we will have a lot more to chat about in the recaps. So will that go to 200 comments? 🤔
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Gikata
January 28, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Oh noes, it seems like leads' competitive spirit ended up being infectious...
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 28, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Yay yay!! Let's gooooo!!!
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Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
January 28, 2024 at 7:52 PM
No kidding LOL!!
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Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
January 28, 2024 at 7:51 PM
I have tons and tons and tons to write. I don't know how they pulled it off, but this damn thing is crazy good. And so on spot with the depression thing. And it's ANYTHING but depressing.
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
January 28, 2024 at 8:01 PM
I was thinking about that too ... it's beautifully nuanced under that aegyo/ pseudo aggression of the ML. Wrist grabs are not something that I am fond of but this was perfect. I'm blown away by the sheer range of emotions.
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Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
January 28, 2024 at 9:10 PM
He goes aggressive and cute by turns. He is killing me with this act haha!
18 Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
January 28, 2024 at 7:55 PM
I don't know how it's doing in S Korea, but it hit Netflix Top 10 US today. I am not surprised.
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Gikata
January 28, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Ep2 jumped from 4-something % to 5-something, so at least it's a rise.
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Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
January 28, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Def a better turn than OBY had I think? Netflix ep 2 jumped from zero to number 8 which is amazing for a non English rom com series.
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Gikata
January 28, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Better for sure. I still think tvN failed him big time TWICE. Here at least there are more aspects in his favor than not - channel, genre, costar, timeslot...
Netflix always favored k-romcoms with pretty cast, that's nothing surprising.
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mmsik16
January 28, 2024 at 11:45 PM
It’s now top 5 worldwide and within top 10 in >45 countries, highest kdrama on the list.
Would’ve probably been higher if Netflix took “global” seriously. It’s not shown or rather delayed showing in some regions (Brazil and maybe others in LATAM don’t get it until at least end of Feb)
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Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
January 29, 2024 at 6:15 AM
Agreed. I called Netflix mid Jan because it wasn't showing up in US coming soon list, and they told me it's not slated for release in US right now, and asked me to put in requests for its release. I have no idea if it was a miscommunication, or the license team actually woke up, but it started showing up the next day in coming soon list. It's frustrating with these streaming websites. So many good serieses not available to watch in any legal website and then they crib about illegal streaming.
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19 Koalatown
January 29, 2024 at 9:37 AM
Just finished episode 2 and am hooked. I am starting to wonder how much of my enjoyment is related to my PHS bias versus true quality of the show. Maybe I just don't care and will continue to live in ignorant bliss.
The writer and PD so far like to give you information in the beginning that is explained more in depth in flashbacks later so I am assuming there will be more backstory to YJW's immediate aftermath from the patient bleeding out and the motivation for the framing. It takes quite a bit of malicious foresight to steal a fingerprint and plant it on a heparin vial. Also if the detectives had found it originally at the scene, it should have been in the evidence list prior to trial so it's a bit suspicious if it's actually a corrupt police plant instead which then brings in the larger mobster story rather than just a anesthesiologist out for revenge for some past presumed wrong or something.
I personally am not worried about the 16 episode count. We haven't seen much of the 2ML or 2FL and we know they both each have a kid already which is pretty hard considering they would have had them when they were in medical school/residency at least. I wonder if YJW helped his sunbae out somehow back then.
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20 KAddicted
January 30, 2024 at 1:06 PM
I was critical of episode 1 but episode 2 won me over. The drunk scenes were priceless simply because they both threw themselves into it wholeheartedly without caring how they looked. PHS's facial expressions had me laughing out loud.
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21 Monalisa Quismundo
January 30, 2024 at 11:30 PM
PHSikki acting is sooooo good. I can't imagine the shifting of thier acting, from melancholy to comedy, however they NAILED it... The STORY, the cinematography, the blocking, everything seems perfect for me, well imperfections made it more interesting though... I sense a jealousy or revenge. Somebody wants to drag him to hell. He is famous, young and successful, he was frame d for sure, the anesthesiologist is sus for me. Well he can be replaced with a brilliant psh soon. Just guessing
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