Extraordinary Attorney Woo

Extraordinary Attorney Woo | Official Trailer | Netflix [ENG SUB]
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We've been enjoying this show. It's current, four episodes have been released so far, and two more will be released each week through August. It's about a young Korean woman with Autism Spectrum Disorder. As the word 'spectrum' implies, people with this condition suffer from various degrees of impairment. Our girl has a fairly mild case of it, she is socially inept, a bit clumsy and has a hard time dealing with the physical world, but she is smart and she reads. Since her dad is a lawyer, she read law books when she was a kid. Now she is a lawyer who graduated at the top of her class and has been hired by one of the big law firms in Seoul.

Every episode she gets an apparently simple case that just needs a lawyer to go through the motions to see that the law is followed, but with her smarts she is able to discern the truth of the matter and bring the case to a more satisfactory conclusion. Great fun.

P.S. Woo has a thing for whales, so we have whales showing up intermittently, doing things like flying through the sky. The effect is pretty cool.