Good Accomplice: Episodes 8-9
by quirkycase
We proceed with custody instances this week, now specializing in relationships between dad and mom and youngsters. There’s anxiousness to go round for our ace legal professional and her household as they start navigating what their new household life might appear to be. Each dad and mom attempt to not put additional strain on their daughter, however all three know their future might be determined by her testimony. As if adolescence isn’t aggravating sufficient.
EPISODES 8-9
The custody battle is in full swing with each Eun-kyung and Ji-sang rising extra anxious and determined because the investigator’s interview with Jae-hee looms. The parental interview leaves Ji-sang within the stronger place – his (true) tales of being the one to purchase Jae-hee her first interval merchandise and watching her cry nightly over her mother’s absence don’t paint Eun-kyung in a great gentle. And Eun-kyung is simply too sincere to attempt to deny it.
The bias towards giving custody to moms provides Eun-kyung extra of an opportunity, particularly since there’s a perception {that a} same-sex father or mother is best for a kid in adolescence. However society additionally judges moms extra harshly than fathers, so whereas an absent father who financially helps his household is likely to be given a move, a mom who does the identical is seen as neglectful (although I’d argue it’s neglectful in each instances).
In these extra contentious instances, it’s usually right down to the kid’s testimony to determine custody. As Ji-sang and Eun-kyung wait on pins and needles for Jae-hee’s resolution, we get one other case of fogeys combating for custody of a teenage boy. His assertion that he needs to reside together with his dad about seals the deal, however then the mother throws a grenade: a DNA check exhibiting her husband isn’t the child’s organic father.
The daddy is devastated, however his love for his son stays unchanged. Sadly for him, there’s a powerful emphasis on organic parenthood, so there’s no approach he’ll get custody now. Nonetheless, he refuses to file a go well with that might require him to relinquish parental standing and begs the mom to let him proceed to be a father to their son.
Witnessing how ceaselessly start dad and mom abandon their kids, Woo-jin and Eun-ho are each crying by the tip of the arbitration. For Woo-jin particularly, seeing the loving relationship between the daddy and son is bittersweet. He’s bought some main daddy points, provided that his supposed uncle – the legislation agency’s CEO – is definitely his start father, so… that’s tousled.
You already know what else is tousled? Sara. As if she hasn’t accomplished sufficient injury, she takes issues into her personal fingers after discovering out she’s pregnant. Ji-sang makes it clear that Jae-hee nonetheless issues extra to him than Sara and their future child, so she decides to cover a photograph of her sonogram for Jae-hee to search out. Then, she meets with the kid and has the gall to ask her to be a great large sister.
She has this delusional concept that if she will be able to guarantee Jae-hee goes to her mother, she’ll have the ability to persuade Ji-sang to reside together with her – a cheerful little household. When her subterfuge comes out in Jae-hee’s custody interview, each Ji-sang and Eun-kyung are furious. Ji-sang yells at Sara to get misplaced and by no means contact him once more, his selfishness as soon as once more on show like he shares no accountability right here. (The newborn didn’t make itself.) Eun-kyung assaults Sara in full mother rage mode; she’ll be fortunate if Sara doesn’t press fees, and this time she’d have a official motive.
Not solely did the key child come up within the interview, however it seems Jae-hee has lengthy recognized concerning the affair. She witnessed it together with her personal eyes as a result of Ji-sang and Sara had no drawback being throughout one another whereas she was sleeping within the different room. Jae-hee’s belief in her dad has been slowly eroding the longer he continues to misinform her to guard himself. Though Eun-kyung has been mendacity too, Jae-hee is aware of her mother’s lies had been to guard her. That’s why she needs to guard her mother too and asks the investigator to not inform her mother concerning the child.
For a child of Jae-hee’s age, belief in a father or mother is significant. And it appears like Eun-kyung has certainly earned her daughter’s belief together with her actions of late. Ji-sang could also be higher (and have extra follow) on the day-to-day parenting stuff, however Eun-kyung’s integrity appears to have received Jae-hee over.
All of this has Eun-kyung so out of kinds it’s affecting her work, particularly after they get a shopper who performs the sufferer after having an affair with a married, soon-to-be father (who can also be enjoying sufferer). The case helps Eun-kyung break down her partitions and actually assess what she wants: a honest apology.
Yuri is determined to do her greatest for Eun-kyung and has lastly discovered to place her shopper’s wants above her personal. However she’s nonetheless new and worries that she’s not certified sufficient and can fail Eun-kyung. She proves extra succesful than she thinks, although, as a result of she does the seemingly unimaginable. Sara reveals up at Eun-kyung’s workplace and sincerely apologizes on her knees. Possibly motherhood is giving her some sense of disgrace eventually.
With all of the secrets and techniques out, Jae-hee is way lighter. Even so, she does really feel responsible towards her mother and apologizes. Jae-hee’s emotions of guilt versus Sara and Ji-sang’s (together with different dishonest {couples}’) justifications for his or her wrongdoings is used to spotlight the perception we get on the finish of the episode: youngsters blame themselves for others’ errors whereas adults blame others for their very own errors.
I respect the empathy of this drama, digging under the floor to look at the ache behind folks’s questionable actions. That stated, it doesn’t attempt to excuse or redeem everybody and acknowledges that some persons are simply egocentric. We began out with Sara being the first villain within the relationship, however Ji-sang’s true colours have slowly been revealed. With each episode, he turns into much less sympathetic. It mirrors the best way the opposite lady usually bears the brunt of the ire for dishonest and turns into a public goal, whereas the person slips below the radar. Nonetheless, he can solely disguise behind the longsuffering, good-guy masks for therefore lengthy.
Usually, authorized dramas can really feel so excessive or glamorized that it’s exhausting to take them critically, so I respect how grounded Good Accomplice has been. To not say that there’s no added aptitude for dramatic functions, however simply that the conditions and common procedures really feel extra lifelike than normal. I think about that’s largely because of the author, Choi Yuna, being a divorce lawyer.
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