May It Delight The Courtroom: Episodes 1-Two (Kickoff Impressions)

May It Please the Court introduces us to our heroine – an ace attorney — inwards what feels similar a ho-hum-paced nevertheless quick kickoff to the drama. After she uncharacteristically does a skilful deed, our heroine attempts to notice her basis every bit her globe is suddenly turned upside downwardly.

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EPISODES one-ii FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Like with near dramas, this first week is all well-nigh setup. The demo opens on a somber, rainy twenty-four hour period every bit a slew of dark cars head to a cemetery. Stepping out from the cars are a number of important-looking people, who all rush to greet the Jangsan Law Firm’second chairman before they pay honour to his tardily male parent. Standing upwardly front with the chairman is his family: his boy, his wife, and individual who is false to live his granddaughter. It’second our protagonist NOH CHAK-HEE (Jung Ryeo-won).

She’sec oftentimes mistaken every bit the daughter of the chaebol family for her tender in addition to close human relationship alongside the chairman, who actually treats her as his own granddaughter. That doesn’t win her brownie points amongst the rest of this snobbish group at all, too she’sec usually treated alongside condescension.

The side by side twenty-four hours, at Jangsan Law Firm, employees are tense every bit they expect for the “Dark Lord” — yup, they’re talking nearly Chak-hee, known for her cutthroat personality as well as strict operate ethic. Everyone is property their breath one time she arrives, simply she like a shot leaves after receiving a phone call.

Working up towards being a constabulary partner, she’s currently working on a example for Kangsung Pharmaceuticals regarding their nativity control pills, later a old employee defendant the company of producing together with distributing the drug patch knowing of its side effects. Chak-hee’second on the hunt for prove she tin can use in her statement for the example.

But cutting her operate brusk is some part drama. As the board discusses her advertisement to partner, Jangsan CEO JANG KI-DO (Jung Jin-immature) calls her dorsum to defend herself.

As established earlier on, the people around her don’t like her really much, in addition to it seems Ki-do’sec married woman OH HA-RAN (Kim Hye-eun) has it out for her, questioning the validity of Chak-hee’sec logged hours at work. Well, subsequently they lookout man the CCTV footage of her function, where she logged 124 hours for merely 1 example, they couldn’t enjoin anything against her advertisement. After the coming together, Ki-make tells her to do a practiced task then she can get what she wants. I don’t trust him. He has that sus vibe.

Elsewhere, we in conclusion run across our other atomic number 82 JWA SHI-BAEK (Lee Kyu-hyung), who gets defendant of not having a task afterward he pilfers an ice cream from a pocket-size store patch not paying for it. But every bit it turns out, he does have a chore as a lawyer. He only doesn’t become paid much for it because he’sec a world defender.

Entering a chemist's shop, he purchases Kangsung’second nativity command pills… and fifty-fifty swallows a duet himself?! The clerk looks at him weirdly, just Shi-baek does have a argue for doing that: he’second investigating the pill’second side effects because he’sec the lawyer of the erstwhile employee suing the fellowship.

Upon returning to his role, he finds himself inwards a coming together amongst Chak-hee, who comes to offering a small town before the example gets to court. As they merchandise barbs, nosotros acquire how notorious they both are, merely on reverse sides of the spectrum. As an ace alongside a 92% win charge per unit, Chak-hee is about to live promoted equally a partner — simply she’sec besides known equally Jangsan’second Canis familiaris, make to bite anyone at her main’sec gild. In contrast, despite existence at the summit of his law school class, Shi-baek entirely has a iii% win charge per unit together with is known equally a wacko for his eccentric ways.

Shi-baek rejects her small town offer, simply he does help her prepare a crick inward her cervix, LOL. A wacko indeed. Off to a practiced all the same not-so-good get-go!

Well, Shi-baek should in all probability accept taken the offering for his customer, because at courtroom, Chak-hee ends upwardly winning alongside a hidden card. She exposes the thing between the plaintiff in addition to Kangsung’second CEO, earning her his ire together with a slap in the face. Ouch. Well, she does become Jangsan’second chairman fussing over her — too an offering of his shares. Oh my, she’s actually his favorite.

Later, Ki-do asks Chak-hee if she’sec interested inward the chairman’second shares. She vehemently denies it, merely he encourages her to dream big, even praising her for a practiced task on the Kangsung case. (Why is this guy setting off so many alarms inwards my head?!)

He tells her to continue doing a adept job, because Kangsung’s problems aren’t over nonetheless. The side effects of the nascency command pills really do exist: hallucinations too delirium. A adult female even stabbed her married man because of the pill’s side effects. Chak-hee is tasked amongst resolving the instance — find a motive, get a small town, or make whatsoever she tin can every bit long every bit it doesn’t get besides connected to the pills. But Chak-hee is conflicted, because the woman in the case is her childhood friend, who has helped her during hard times. Oof.

Work is function, and so Chak-hee visits her friend as her attorney, presenting her solution: to encourage her friend to kill herself for the sake of her husband too kids. OMG?!? And her friend really tries to stop her life. OMG?!

But not to worry, our protagonist does have just about sort of conscience. In a flashback, we run into Chak-hee admitting the pill’s side effects as well as what Kangsung’s plans are to cover it. And when Chak-hee visits her friend later her suicide attempt, our protagonist gives her complimentary legal advice on what she tin can do to concord Kangsung accountable for the pills.

Outside, Shi-baek is waiting to face up Chak-hee subsequently learning most the suicide effort. He accuses her of existence heartless and inhumane, promising to finish her at all costs. Chak-hee just brushes him off in addition to walks away.

Much after, a “drunk” Chak-hee calls him out to swallow — as well as to pass on him an incriminating piece of evidence that proves the pill’s side effects. Shi-baek asks her why she’second giving it to him, knowing the risks, simply she says past the fourth dimension Jangsan finds out what she did, she’ll already have everything she wants, including existence made partner.

The next day, Jangsan Law Firm holds a fellowship-broad gathering to welcome her equally partner. But only every bit she basks inward the glory of her success, the police barge inwards to arrest her for instigating her friend’s suicide. Yikes!

When Shi-baek arrives to enquire for around missing pages from the file, Chak-hee accuses him of turning her inward. But it’sec not Shi-baek. According to the detective, Ki-do ordered her arrest. And that’sec only the beginning.

When she gets to her function, she sees people removing her material, because she’second essentially been fired. She begs for another risk, then Ki-do puts her on a twelvemonth-long suspension in addition to orders her to go every bit a world defender in the meantime.

So Chak-hee goes from the urban center to a modest town, from a spacious penthouse to a rooftop room, from driving a auto to taking the charabanc, as well as from a prestigious constabulary house to a cramped dusty role — alongside none other than Shi-baek.

After an awkward first twenty-four hour period at go, Chak-hee is stuck waiting for the pelting to end. While she does effort to goad Shi-baek for a ride, their rocky offset prompts him to reject. So, when the Kangsung CEO arrives to offer her a ride, she accepts. Unfortunately, this sleazy pervert has his own motives, planning to have her to a hotel too essentially sexually harasses her. What an donkey! But Chak-hee isn’t a pushover. She butts her caput amongst the pervert to fight him off… but equally some other car bumps into them. It’sec Shi-baek to the rescue!

Seething together with furious, Shi-baek virtually punches the pervert, simply Chak-hee is able to terminate him. Shi-baek takes her dwelling house, offer her a blanket, an apology, and roughly kind words. Chak-hee seems to merely brush it off, fifty-fifty telling Shi-baek to purpose this incident against Kangsung. But Shi-baek refuses, non wanting to “create some other victim.”

Even if she position upwards a strong front, in one case she gets dwelling, Chak-hee seems pretty shaken, cursing out the pervert. And in the early hours of the morning time, she gets woken upwards from her sleep by a phone call from the pervert, who’s moaning in addition to screaming inwards hurting. The sleazy CEO has his hands tied inward a complicated knot in addition to is beingness tortured to decease by a mysterious guy in black wearing a fancy picket. The side by side morning time, nosotros cut to a like complicated knot used as a keychain as a human alongside the same spotter walks to his automobile. It’sec none other than Shi-baek. Oh damn?!

This get-go week has a lot of setup happening, peculiarly about our protagonist Chak-hee. We learn of her humble beginnings as an orphan, as well as and so come across her notorious success at the constabulary business firm. She takes the condescension in addition to criticism of those in a higher place her silently spell plotting her ain rising to the peak. She has accepted her place in the Earth, just that doesn’t hateful she’s not prepare to modify it.

In contrast, nosotros know virtually goose egg nearly Shi-baek. We know he’sec eccentric, and we know he takes on a variety of clients without request them to pay coin. And nosotros know he’second a killer…? Not really, because it’s likewise early on to order. But the demo does seem to live setting him upwards every bit or so sort of vigilante — or it could all just be a cherry herring meant to distract us from the truth. But kudos to Lee Kyu-hyung for his phenomenal acting! I loved him inwards Hi Bye Mama equally a devoted dad, simply I too beloved him when he plays a crazy wacko (Smart Prison Living, yep?). It seems like he’second taking the crazy part to the other management this fourth dimension, merely we’ll know more than inwards future episodes.

Given the legal subject of the drama, it is by and large a little nighttime, tackling anything from corrupt corporations to serial murders. So if you’re not prepare to dive into some other nighttime, edgy Earth, May It Please the Court might non live your cup of tea.

That existence said, at that place are pockets of sense of humor here too there, ordinarily due to the dynamic of our two leads. Whenever they part a scene, things accept a humorous turn alongside the combination of an ambitious, aggressive, no-nonsense lady as well as an eccentric, deadpan guy. Though a love business seems to be expected in time to come episodes, I really hope there isn’t 1 — our leads are honestly more than fun equally friendly rivals working together to solve cases patch bickering like kindergarteners. They might only live the argue I stick about to spotter.