Did you say they are 40+ old men. These guys are a silly bunch to boot.

I have reservations due to the writer too. 39 and Boyfriend were super mehhh for me.

But I love the cast indeed. Jo Seung-woo is one of those few thespian actors whom I think IS just literally his role, he's a complete character in each drama, from the speaking tone and delivery, his mannerisms, his walking gait, to his hairstyles etc. You don't see remnants of his personal style in each role, he just transforms into each character.

So I'm hoping the writing will not waste such great acting talent. The first 2 episodes were pretty good for me (despite the wanting characters of Seo-jin and her woefully insecure, asshole husband).

Seo-jin's way to speak was pretty weird for me, it sounded so unnatural...

Her husband was such a jerk how could he showed this video to his son? Isn't it punished criminally to make minor watching sex videos?

Sung-han looks like an interesting character. I wonder why he gave up piano and wine. Why he chose to take divorce cases only?

I am a sucker for friendship theme (and Jo Seung Woo & Kim Sung kyun 🤭), so i'm still going to watch this even though the show goes off the rails later on. The first 2 episode showed their friendships arent just for a show (their chemistry is genuine) and they are hillarious when theyre together. I have seen Jo Seung Woo in serious characters such as a CEO, an elite prosecutor and a genius; now I'm excited to see JSW in a new character.

I watch this for Jo Seung-woo and he certainly does not disappoint. He’s becoming that character in each of his drama with a whole set of mannerism and speaking tone on its own, as so rightly noted by @muggleping. I like in particular the subdued tone of melancholy, aloofness and loneliness of his character here. One can see the details they to go into constructing this character.

The drama is however uneven in the first two episodes both in terms of writing and directing. Hope it will improve. Much has been said about the writer but I haven’t seen 39 or other dramas but movies penned by her - they range from good to mediocre. We shall see.

Happy to see Han Hye-ji again on my screen. I love her Be Strong Geum Soon (with a very green Kim Nam-Gil as her short lived husband! And the ML whom I can’t rewatch again.)

Thanks @lovepark for a great weecap I am also keeping expectations low. I love friendships and found families so looking forward to seeing how these develop. Even if other things don’t work out well. I like the complexities of the cases so far.

The mama bear definitely came out when the in law dared to beat her child. I am rooting for her in the divorce as her husband is a lost cause as he is too under his mum’s control to be the husband and dad the family need. I hope the respect your elders at all costs is not going to lead to her not getting justice.

This is just mediocre at best. What great is the writer is great at making things look so unnatural. Hah. Wonder the writer backing to cast many A list actors for such script.
Love Jo Seung-woo and Han Hye-jin is soo pretty.

With 7%+ ratings ( the current record holder of the drama with the highest rating for its' first episode JTBC), I can see Koreans DIG it, especially since Cho Seung Woo is making a comeback through this drama.

CSW can easily get into character that you would never thought he played a quiet prosecutor that rarely smiles.

Still unsure about the show but we shall see bcs I like the cast so far.

Loving CSW here!! And I would watch an entire show of him singing and listening to music. And drinking Soju from a wine glass!!

I quite liked the first two episodes. My expectations were quite low. But I do like the friends and their interactions. The three of them singing was hilarious and great acting by the three.

And the cases seems a bit heavy and dealt with some seriousness. Initially I thought the entire drama would be just her case but looks like she while we have other cases.

Will be continuing. Still keeping expectations very low.

If it weren't for the cast, I would not come back. The mannerism is a little too much and I am getting tired of divorce cases. Can/would a lawyer really approach a minor in a divorce case just like that?

I will give it another go next week to find out what trauma we are dealing here with, but I have not much confidence in the writer.

I enjoyed it. Here is hoping it stays enjoyable.

I'm feeling tentatively optimistic. I was invested in the cases so far, I really enjoy Sung-han's understated demeanor in the mediations and in court (still reeling from the unprofessional steamroller that was Oh Ha-ra), and the friendship might be great. Honestly I had no idea what to expect from this show and while I'm not swept away, I'm definitely interested. Expectations are always the enemy of enjoyment anyway.

I loved every frame CSW was in. Like someone wrote online elsewhere, this is Hwang Shi-mok with emotions. But I did not think much of these episodes. The only parts I really liked was when the singing happened - solo and joint karaoke. I'll happily watch bits like these again, but the show is a most definite drop. The story has very little going for it, and in my opinion, this opening week was all over the place. The (rest of the) cast is meh. I'm standing by my call to nope out early. But if the hangout continues, I might still swing by to sigh over the singing (so good to hear!).

to be honest, a bit tired of legal drama and especially the ones about divorce lol but this cast is so good that I will just stay and see what the drama gives us for the next weeks. I'm intrigued to know what happened in the past and see more of these 3 guys drunk sing trot songs.

As with everybody else, I really like Jo Seung woo, and though I’m never a big fan of divorce, the two cases were relatively interesting. So I’ll keep watching it, even though I’m not confident that the writer has much “competence”( to use a word that appeared in the show) in either law or the concert piano business. (As an example, a minor point: as someone who plays (badly) on a piano that needs tuning and repair, I know that there is no way an old piano sitting outdoors would have been able to play the piece that he supposedly played on it. By the way, was that piece the Wanderer Fantasie by Schubert? I vaguely recognized it, but I wasn’t sure of the actual piece and it could have been something completely different.)

The weird thing, though, is that while his character is supposed to be some bizarre story-- a concert pianist who becomes a divorce attorney—the character is to my mind actually rather cliched. A somewhat reserved and rational attorney who at night gets drunk and sings lachrymose trot music loudly in attempt to deal with his trauma is supposed to pull at your heart strings. The character doesn’t for me. But then, I don’t like trot music, even though I know well every culture has that kind of maudlin, over-dramatic ballad style of popular music. (Every time I hear it, I can’t help thinking of the U.S. Las Vegas singer Wayne Newton.) I like it best in kdramas when younger people sing it as a joke at noreabang—not when its sung unironically to showcase deep feeling.

One other thing that struck me as slighly false about this show, and this is going to put me at odds with everyone else-- I thought the bromance that supposedly is at the heart of this story was completely artificial. Just like the character, who is theatrically scripted, so the male friends interaction is written in a way that is supposed to get the viewer to say “I just love the bromance—they are so funny and great together.”

Maybe its because I have “bros” but no “mance” but I found their time together really tedious. It seems like the writer had this stereotyped view of the way middle aged men act as friends--drinking heavily, blustering, immaturely imitating old commercials, being excessively sentimental. Maybe this is the way that most Korean men who are former concert pianists who have become divorce lawyers are with their friends, but I doubt it. If we have too many trot sing along sessions among drunk bros I’m going to have to drop this one.

As a premier week I ve found it very weak and considering the writer's previous works (Encounter and 39 ) i dont think it would get better ! A pianist turn to a divorce attorney :) How come he could be able to talk to the child without any supervision ?? I have no law degree but I don't think it is possible in a messy divorce like this! If the husband was that dominant and she had to send her picture every half an hour how come she managed to have an affair!!! I really did not like his office door :) was not funny !

Not bad at all. I liked Jo Seung woo. Hopefully this drama doesn’t make me want to tear my hair out like crash course did

I had to keep shaking my head to not think of Attorney Shin as Si-mok (Stranger 1 and 2) which happens with some characters more than others, because they’re just stuck in my head that way.

Although I really like the actors, I could not warm to this show. The story felt like I have seen it a thousand times before.

I loved the ML in Stranger but I’m not quite sold on this new character. Something just doesn’t work here for me.

I also wish I hadn’t found out that the writer here is the same as for 39…that was awful.

Not really sure what I expected, but I managed to blaze through the first two episodes in one sitting and intend to keep watching (for now).

It's possible something is just getting lost in (cultural) translation, but I find the scenes where the three friends are together somewhat tedious. I'm sure there will be a payoff for those scenes at some point, but for now, I wish they were shorter.

I like that we're getting hints of a major backstory for our male lead. Hope more of it gets revealed soon.

I knew the cases would be divorce-related, but it surprised me how sad I felt witnessing (albeit fictional) marriages implode.

Does anyone know the name of the song that's played on the piano at the end of episode 2?

Honestly...

The only one that I felt bad for is the son. He has a cheating mom and a narcissistic fucking asshole for a father.