Divorce Attorney Shin Episode 1 Reactions are in praise of the pilot episode and are especially excited to see actor Cho Seung-woo in a new drama, along with seasoned actors like Kim Sung-kyun & Jung Moon-sung. The chemistry between the trio is especially looked forward to. The drama is co-directed by Lee Jae-hoon and Lim Jun-hyuk. The screenplay is written by Yoo Young-ah and it has been adapted from the webtoon of the same name by Kang Tae-kyung.
The cast of the series includes Cho Seung-woo as Shin Sung-han, Han Hye-jin as Lee Seo-jin, Kim Sung-kyun as Jang Hyeong-geun, Jung Moon-sung as Jo Jeong-sik, Kang Mal-geum as Kim So-yeon, Jeon Bae-soo as Park Yu-seok, Han Eun-seong as Choi Jun, Cha Hwa-yeon as Ma Geum-hee, and Noh Susanna as Jin Young-joo among others.
Netflix’s synopsis of the show reads:
DRIVEN BY A PERSONAL TRAGEDY, A PIANIST-TURNED-LAWYER NAVIGATES THE COMPLEX WORLD OF DIVORCE — FIGHTING FOR HIS CLIENTS TO WIN BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
Divorce Attorney Shin Episode 1 introduces us to the main character of the show – Shin Sung-han. He is approached by Lee Seo-jin to be her representative lawyer in her divorce case. However, the case takes a turn & he later meets with a central figure in the case.
Shin Sung-han takes up the case of radio host Lee Seo-jin who is embroiled in a leaked sex tape case & has been served divorce papers by her husband. She had an extra-marital affair, which stemmed as an escape from her controlling husband and the guy leaked their intimate moment by secretly filming it. She only wants custody of her son, Hyeon-u but the controlling husband is out with all the guns to stop her from getting anything.
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We also get to see that Sung-han is very peculiar in how he does his things, along with the mystery of why he left his career in music to become a divorce lawyer, specifically. He works with his friend Jang Hyeong-geun and his other friends also rent the space for his real estate office. They are shown as close knit group & being the seasoned actors they are, the viewers are excited to see what hilarious moments might ensue from their impeccable chemistry.
One of the scenes from the episode, where Sung-han & Hyeong-geun are seen dividing the fermented kimchi equally, is making the viewers laugh at the reliability & how they are fighting so pettily over it. Many are looking forward to the next episode to know what exactly happens to the case & what made him take it to court.
While others are predicting what could have happened with Hyeon-u and his dad, which might her the mother in winning the case. They suspect that something very wrong must have been done by the husband.
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Divorce Attorney Shin is currently streaming on Netflix.
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I couldn’t really take the non-sequitur in the lawyer’s arguments seriously. I don’t really buy the dichotomy he was trying to create: his client’s husband was abusive divorcing him and taking the kid are signs of basic sanity. On the other hand, in terms of treating his client’s affair as a “consequence” or “to be expected”, I do have issues with the framing, and her “never meaning for anything to scandalous to occur” with her lover is simply hogwash.
In reverse order, on the two points: 1) she is a grown woman with agency, fully responsible for her actions: the affair was something she chose to do and continue over time, factually speaking, it’s just hypocritical and nonsensical to claim otherwise, and 2) the affair was clearly not a *necessary* “consequence” of her husband’s abusive behavior, there were clearly many other options, such as getting a divorce and taking the kid -importantly, the affair in no way, shape or form helped with or in any way addressed any of the problems the abusive relationship with her husband caused her and her son, and if fact it ended up hurting his son, both in terms of the school episode, and thanks to it being exposed (which was always a risk even without the scummy husband and lover, and her being a public figure would have made things even worse). Certainly as her son, he shouldn’t have “expected” this, i.e. her to miss the parent teacher conference and not even know he needed to be brought to the hospital because she was busy sleeping with her lover.
So, factually speaking, the affair was in no way necessary, she did have other options, it would have been a potential cause of pain for her child in even without the abusive context, and trying to pretend this was not a choice is not taking responsibility for her actions in any way, shape or form. This is simply a separate issue from the abusive relationship and her untrustworthy scumbag lover. Now, the abusive relationship is very important context in that it clearly makes the point that her husband didn’t deserve loyalty, something underscored by his physically abusive behavior in this episode.
I very much would have preferred an approach where she honestly owned up to her actions and made the case that her abusive husband didn’t deserve any loyalty and consideration. Which is very different from pretending that the affair was something that she didn’t intend to happen, when it was clearly something she chose to do. And, again, is also different from the fact that her actions risked hurting her child, as they ended up doing, and it would have been nice to see some awareness of the fact that this was a risk that existed separately from her husband and lover’s atrocious behavior: again, beyond the school episode, this coming to light was always a risk, a risk whose consequences are exacerbated by her being a public figure.
I very much would have preferred a more honest and no bs approach of acknowledging that yes, this was a choice, and no, it was not the only option, nor did it in any way address the issue of her husband for her and her son, and yes, it ended up hurting her son, both in term of the school episode and in terms of the scandal breaking out, and this was always a possibility and a risk she had chosen to take, even if her husband and lover had not done what they did.
In short, I wouldn’t say “to be expected” at all, she had other options, this in no way helps her son (quite the contrary), and generally it was not the only option.
I don’t really like the framing of presenting the affair as something she didn’t intend to do or as a necessary consequence of her husband’s behavior, because this is something that she decided to do and was not in any way obligatory (she always had the option to divorce).
I would have very much preferred her owning up to her actions and simply saying that she was disloyal to someone that was unworthy of any loyalty and whose suffering and humiliation are not merely inconsequential, but positively a good thing.
I mean, if the argument is that doing this to her husband was a good thing because he was scum, then let’s go with that, saying that the only wrinkle is hurting the kid, specifically with the school episode, but that otherwise the attitude should be “he was unworthy her loyalty, so he wasn’t given any”.
Quite frankly, had her husband not been abusive, and we set that aside, focusing on her action, then I would say that her missing the parent/teacher conference and the issue with the son and the hospital definitely makes me question her priorities: despite protestations to the contrary, she did prioritise sleeping with her lover over her son, it’s just that her husband is so horrible that she still ends up on top by comparison. But it’s one thing to basically throw the message out there that he deserved to be hurt and humiliated in such a manner because he was an abusive scum -basically, he was unworthy of any loyalty and he didn’t get any-. It’s quite another to pretend that her affair was a consequence of his behaviour, given that she had the option to divorce him -it’s not his behaviour that made her forget about the parent teacher conference and caused the school incident while she was busy sleeping with her lover-. One thing is the husband, who the show makes into a completely unsympathetic monster so that he “deserves” her betrayal, one other thing entirely is the kid who certainly deserved better.
Very surprised there was no more focus on the lover illegally filming and distributing the video of the affair (the very same video that was apparently shown her son) -not sure whether he ended up in jail for that-.
Ultimately, she had a responsibility toward her son, to protect him, and his happiness was endangered by her actions, not only by the affair but by the fact that she didn’t divorce and take the kid in the first place given that her husband was dangerously deranged. Again, this is not only about her and her feelings, it’s also about the kid: she has a responsibility to protect him, and in this case he was hurt both by the affair (the school episode, plus the fact that him discovering it was always a risk, irrespective of her lover and husband’s actions, and it was a risk she decided to take) and from his abusive father (which she should have divorced years ago, taking the kid -having the affair but staying with him really didn’t help her situation, nor the kid’s-).