Good Associate: Episodes 14-15
by quirkycase
We get a lighter week full of latest beginnings for all our legal professionals who’re making modifications in work and life. As some develop ever extra assured of their selections, our lovable junior lawyer finds himself questioning his path. In the meantime, a case filled with miscommunication and assumptions brings our lawyer pair again collectively, albeit this time they sit on opposing sides.
EPISODES 14-15
My want was granted and we get a breather this week after final week’s glorious but darkish episodes. Everyone seems to be renegotiating their priorities, none greater than Eun-kyung who makes good on her phrase and offers discover. Everybody on the agency is unhappy to see her go, however she feels lighter as she readies for a brand new starting. Yuri is especially upset to half and begs to go together with her, however Eun-kyung encourages her to be taught every thing she will be able to to allow them to meet sooner or later as companions reasonably than boss and worker.
Whereas Eun-kyung will get her personal agency up and operating – guaranteeing it’s inside strolling distance of their home so she could be extra current for Jae-hee – Woo-jin ushers in Daejeong’s new period. A part of that’s reevaluating groups, and he surprises Yuri with the choice to maneuver to her first alternative of company legislation or perhaps a new social (human rights) crew he’s creating. However Yuri surprises herself by realizing that she’s already discovered her area of interest in divorce legislation, serving to folks discover happiness.
For somebody used to a case load within the dozens, Eun-kyung struggles to determine find out how to fill her time in a brand new agency with out established shoppers. Even so, she sends her first consumer Yuri’s method: the girl Yuri so desperately hoped would divorce her drunken, abusive husband however who wasn’t prepared to depart.
However by no means concern as a result of Yuri is searching for Eun-kyung too and sends her potential consumer Eun-kyung’s method. I really like that not solely do they need to help one another’s careers, however they perceive one another’s strengths so properly. Yuri knew the consumer wanted Eun-kyung’s eager negotiation abilities, and Eun-kyung knew their repeat consumer wanted Yuri’s caring, dogged method to assist her lastly divorce her abusive husband.
Along with her personal agency, Eun-kyung is noticeably extra carefree and cozy, seeming to search out pleasure in her job once more and consequently taking a hotter and extra relaxed method to her shoppers. When she’s not forcing herself to be chilly, she’s far more just like Yuri than they seem at first look, one thing Woo-jin has been saying because the starting. Her extra trustworthy, clear self shouldn’t be misplaced on Jae-hee who’s a fan of this extra approachable model of her mother.
The ladies might now not work collectively, however you’d barely realize it given how usually Yuri pops by to see Eun-kyung. However now she buys Eun-kyung dinner as the upper earner within the relationship. Working individually has already put them extra on equal footing, and it’s good to see them rising nearer as buddies with out a skilled barrier between them.
Yuri treating Eun-kyung to meals isn’t the one new dynamic of their relationship – they discover themselves on reverse sides of a case once they every unknowingly tackle a partner in a divorce go well with. This time, it’s a mismatch of libido between a pair inflicting their woes. The spouse argues her husband by no means needs to do it whereas he swears she has an dependancy. Each declare the opposite wants remedy and have saved voice information supporting their claims.
As traditional, although, there’s extra beneath the floor. They’ve been struggling to have a child because of the spouse’s PCOS, and the stress has impacted them each. She thinks her husband blames her for his or her incapability to have youngsters, by no means realizing that he’s apprehensive in regards to the bills of getting a child and has been avoiding her.
Eun-kyung and Yuri’s closeness proves an asset on this case as they each catch onto the couple’s underlying concern and work collectively to discover a affordable resolution. They’ve the couple speak it out to resolve their misunderstandings. The couple goes by way of with the divorce because of differing wishes on having youngsters, however they attain an amicable settlement.
Whereas Yuri has hit her profession stride, Eun-ho struggles to search out his place. He’s all the time needed to be a divorce lawyer, so he pursued his place single-mindedly and now appears like he’s missed out on exploring his choices. He makes the surprising resolution to stop the agency and much more shockingly, he goes to work for Eun-kyung!
I didn’t count on him to be the one she scouts, however she wants his advertising and gross sales abilities to drum up shoppers. Positive sufficient, he brings within the enterprise instantly and proves he’s well-suited for the startup ambiance of a brand new agency. It’s type of enjoyable that Yuri and Eun-ho have carried out a mentor swap and get to be taught beneath one other nice lawyer and enhance additional.
Leaving Daejeong doesn’t imply Eun-ho’s emotions for Yuri (and vice versa) have lessened. Eun-kyung and Woo-jin are so annoyed by their mentees’ incapability to work out their very apparent emotions for one another that they will’t assist however get entangled. They create a hilariously apparent dinner setup to make them speak. Lastly, Yuri is trustworthy about her emotions and tells Eun-ho she needs thus far. Thank goodness their mentors received concerned as a result of I feel these two can be circling one another eternally.
We finish with one ultimate shock for the week. Woo-jin’s father marches into Eun-kyung’s agency, asking her to characterize him. Whereas I’d hoped we wouldn’t must see far more of him now that he’s stepped down as CEO, this might be fascinating.
I actually like the place everybody has ended up proper now, heading into our ultimate episode. We’ve gotten numerous development for all our characters, and their choices really feel consistent with their characters. I really like that the Woo-jin storyline didn’t play out within the dramatic method it normally would; a quieter transition and method is far more becoming for his character. I’m glad he’s nonetheless each bit the pleasant, hands-on mentor he’s all the time been regardless of now being CEO. Nobody acts any in a different way with him as a result of he treats all of them as he all the time has – with respect and belief. Not the same old drama CEO mannequin, that’s for positive.
All the things is ready up properly for the ultimate episode subsequent week. We’ve already resolved a lot of the larger points – Eun-kyung’s divorce, Yuri’s profession path, Eun-ho and Yuri’s relationship, and Woo-jin’s position – so I’m guessing we’ll commit more often than not to Woo-jin’s father’s divorce. With the vary of instances this drama has given us, I’m trying ahead to seeing our legal professionals remedy no matter distinctive concern arises from this ultimate case.
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