Lewis deSoto

OK, I'm almost finished with "LIFE" the Netflix hospital drama directed by Hong Jong-chan. More opera than soap, it is a slow burn with characters that are both good and bad in understandable ways. Cho Seung-woo plays the cold (?) new corporate Hospital Director, a minion of the corporate-evil that is often characterized in Korean drama. He was the emotionless prosecutor in "Stranger." Lee Dong-wook is a young emergency room doctor (who is described as a hunk by others, don't see it.). A cavalcade of characters that is about corporate malfeasance, sacrosanct duty as doctors, some love-interest that never seems to play out and very little operating room scenes. Lee Kyu-hyung who was also in "Stranger," plays the young doctors paraplegic brother, something I haven't seen before in a Korean drama. It's a slow fascinating burn where the staring is toned down a little bit. Lots of swelling music. Lots of bureaucracy as usual, something about Confucianism, maybe? But I really like it. 16 episodes that are long, don't know if it will be renewed. I give it a thumbs up.