[Upcoming Drama 2021] Hospital Playlist/Wise Doctor Life, 슬기로운 의사생활 - Season 2 second half 2021

[Kathy345 266]

32 minutes ago, Deltay said:

Btw i read over twitter that next season will start from december 2... is it really confirmed???

 

@Deltay I read from twitter too, seems like there is scheduled TVN serie with 5 actors name on it during 12 weeks on Thursday so it should air during Dec - Feb, however that could be changed too I suspect...

 

Some twitter comment said that SS2 will start filming Q3-Q4 or Nov this year (the script is under writing process for now) but SS1 start filming the at least half season (6 EP) before the actual air time and span over 7 months so I doubt if SS2 start quite late then the chance of SS2 airing in 2021 maybe more realistic.

 

I hope there is no much cliffhanger so we can wait patiently for another year! at least IkSong and WinterGarden please PD nim!!

[Snow0 344]

Hospital Playlist is obviously not just a show about lovelines. But it is a show that focus a lot on relationships... romance being one of them so we can’t really ignore that. 

 

Though the show is not primarily about who the 5 should date or end up with, romantic relations are being explored in the story and they do have an impact on the storyline. Like in real life, emotions can play a part in our decision-making and their decisions affect how the story goes...hence the attention to all their various lovelines. 

 

We’ve already seen huge impacts on the storyline based on love related issues. 

Songhwa is moving away to Sokcho, partly because of the mess between her, Capt Ahn & Ikjun. 

Junwan is in distress because the love of his life is going to be away from him for the next 3 years. 

 

It may irk others that JW’s love life seem to be all that some are talking about this week but one can’t really help it as his storyline is the only one that is built on the fundamentals of whether he’ll be here next year based on what he chooses ...being a priest or to stay as a doctor? He’s had the same friends for the past 20 years. His family had always been there for him. His love for God has never wavered either. So......Why now? Why this point in his life?

It didn’t help that the director/writer decided to bait us & withhold his decision until the final episode. His story could very likely be the highlight of the last episode. 

 

It’s great that they’ll all written as capable individuals, excellent in their work & having a wonderful friendship with one another but it’s also very human to fall in/out of love. I love these characters more for how real they seem...once we’ve gotten a glimpse into their friendship, their work life, their family & of cos, their love life. So if love is going to make them happier & more fulfilled, then why not? It’s precisely because of how well written these characters are that I’m here laughing & crying along with them. So I’ll root for them & for the love they all so rightfully deserve. (Is it weird that I’m so in love with fictional characters?!? Haha.)

 

Appreciating everyone’s effort in sharing HP related stuff. Thank you.. pls keep them coming. One more episode to go for this season! 

[kiefshi1056 5,039]

 

[nhquan94 538]

IK Sun, in another world 

She is not going to UK Junwan ahh, don't worry, she still in Seoul 

 

[kiefshi1056 5,039]

i hope in season 2 this winter garden scene will have more airtime , or writernim can you write another drama and cast this WINTER GARDEN Couple as your lead actors or can you make them transfer to Hospital suburb branch start their life story there with another drama but related as WINTERGARDEN

[Wook's Fan 382]

4 hours ago, Deltay said:

The speed of this forum tells us how much anxious we all are.... xan't wait for next episode, final one... don't want it to end and when it will we will all be nostalgic and empty awaiting its return.

 

Btw i read over twitter that next season will start from december 2... is it really confirmed???

Haven't heard of any such rumors? What I know is that there were speculations of season 2 coming by mid 2021.

But I really want what you said to be true.

In the mean time what are we gonna do? I hope something so nice and refreshing comes soon to help us with HP withdrawal....

[Helena 7,992]

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Retro trend continues with TV drama soundtracks

SEOUL, May 26 (Yonhap) -- As the recent decade has seen a revival of the 1980s and 1990s in many sectors, such as fashion and food, retro music has been making its mark on South Korean pop culture, especially in TV dramas.

 

The weekend romance series "When My Love Blooms" on tvN is a story about a middle-aged man and woman, who were in love in their 20s. Twenty years later, the two come across one another again and look back at their lives as college students.

 

As the drama changes back and forth from the present to the past, its soundtracks of 1980-90s songs play a major role in representing the past and conjuring the memories of first love.

 

Retro ballads, including "Hug You in My Arms" by Yoo Jae-ha and "Blessing" by Deulgukhwa, and popular dance music, such as "Turn Around and Look At Me" by Deux, show the atmosphere and the youth culture of the 1990s. 

 

A teaser image of "Hospital Playlist" by tvN (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

 

The popular tvN medical drama "Hospital Playlist," revolving around five doctors reunited 20 years after graduating from college, uses old school music in a more prominent way.

 

The characters of the series enjoy music from their younger days as members of a college band.

 

Each episode has its own theme song, which is a remake of once-popular music, including "Lonely Night" (1997) by rock band Boohwal for the first episode and "In Front of City Hall at the Subway Station" (1990) by Zoo for the sixth episode.

 

In particular, "Aloha," a remake of pop group Cool's 2001 song covered by lead actor Jo Jung-suk, topped local music charts upon its release after the third episode.

 

"Old Korean pop songs have good words with a lyrical story. I wanted to arrange pieces in a way that keeps retro emotions in the songs and adds some modern style," said Ma Joo-hee, music producer of "Hospital Playlist." "I hope people want to listen to our soundtracks after watching the show, and the music recalls the drama as well." 

 

 

brk@yna.co.kr 
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[Wook's Fan 382]

2 hours ago, nhquan94 said:

IK Sun, in another world 

She is not going to UK Junwan ahh, don't worry, she still in Seoul 

Is it a still from HP or any pic from her previous works?

If it is from HP, then who's the lady besides her? Jun wan's mom

But her hairs are long here (looking beautiful anyway....)

Well if we notice, in HP except JGW no female lead or side-lead has got long hairs..... whyeo??

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[nhquan94 538]

Just now, Wook's Fan said:

Is it a still from HP or any pic from her previous works?

If it is from HP, then who's the lady besides her? Jun wan's mom

But her hairs are long here (looking beautiful anyway....)

Well if we notice, in HP except JGW no female lead or side-lead has got long hairs..... whyeo??

 

From the most recent work I think, just cameo role, Mystic Pop-up Bar, good choice to kill time waiting for Thursday

[Dramageek 1,191]

Just random thought. This is my appreciation post for Jung Moon Sung as Jae Hak. Damn I almost did not recognized him at all. Jae Hak is so different from his role in Prison Playbook as Yoo Daewi (Jung Hae In) older brother. His role is small in Prison Playbook, I am glad he got bigger and meatier role here like Kim Jung Han (Chi Hong). Hoping after this show, there will be more opportunity for him as an actor, like his "brother" Jung Hae In.

 

Just a few poster here talk about him, coz he was not in any ship. Oh wait he does has ship, with Jun Wan, LOL. For him I don't mind to eat my word, hoping for reply 1988 paralel, let Jae Hak win big at the lottery in season 2 like Kim Jung Bong did in reply 1988. Poor guy need a big break financially. I also hope that his wife will appear in season 2. Hoping for Lim Hwa Young as cameo (Jee Hee of Prison Playbook), coz having Jun Wan last "girlfriend" as Jae Hak wife is kinda fun.

[kiefshi1056 5,039]

 

 

Is this a flashblack scene? Is It posible that Jwon visited Gyeol when she got sick and fainted?

 

Aren't they perfect to be together for REEL and REAL

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[Deltay 304]

43 minutes ago, kiefshi1056 said:

 

Aren't they perfect to be together for REEL and REAL

 WOW!!! What a visual attack this pair gives us

 

Specially in these 2 pics they look sooo compatible 

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[dubuqueen 1,792]

 

Since it's a long wait until Thursday, I wanted to once again share my thoughts on the Winter Garden couple.

 

First of all, let's discuss Jeong-Won's usual behaviour around GW:
-during his colder days, he refused to acknowledge her presence until she greeted him first. His body language was mostly stiff
-he uses mostly formal language but there are two scenes where he spoke to her in banmal: episode 8 when she asked him out on a date and he refused and the famous anyeong in episode 10
-Gyeo-Wool does mean winter in Korean but also sounds similiar to the Korean word for mirror. During the elevator scene (I forgot which episode) I have the feeling that he peeked at her reflection on the elevator glass

 

What do those points mean?

1) I think the reason why he was so cold to her in the beginning was because she stirred up emotions inside him that he couldn't exactly pinpoint or had any words for. She is cold yet also stoic, a textbook resident yet unpredictable. When he first said "She doesn't exactly match with me" I thought that was an irony employed by the screenwriter because as I said in my previous post they actually complement eachother
2) When he uses banmal, it's an indicator that he is flustered or nervous. When GW asked him out I think he was questioning whether it's a date or simple dinner get-together she wanted to have with him. It took her to emphasize the "not scrubs, not with everyone else" part for him to finally understand what she truly wanted.
One more thing: when he greeted her with anyeong I thought it was interesting how he said that after the scene where her brother left her with the same words. Maybe he was thinking about this word over and over again until he subconsciously blurted it out in front of her.
3) Gyeo-Wool in my opinion will be the reason why he will give up on priesthood but not in the way you think. As a "mirror" she will force him to a confrontation as to why he always needed the priesthood as an escape plan and where his heart truly lies. She should not be used as a wild card as Rosa wants (hit or miss) and shouldn't rely too much on gambling (as advised by Ik-Joon) but follow the natural order of things. I honestly don't want her to give in to Rosa's request because it could jeopardize their relationship.
Also I noticed that with GW there are many scenes involving reflections and glasses. Some of those scenes might be included from JW's POV in the upcoming (and last 1!!!111 :/) episode.

 

Now let's discuss her name a bit further
-In Literature, you might have come across the phenomena "telling name". I thought Winter suited her name especially because we might associate the Winter times with coldness, the end of life (figuratively speaking) and so on but it's also the season where Christmas comes along and we feel an emotional warmth. 
Also you expect Garden to be a bit of an antonym (not exactly one) to Winter. There are flowers blooming and trees growing in a garden. It's a very lively place and you feel connected to nature when you are in one whereas during winter time everything is at a standstill. But some of the most beautiful flowers I know grow during the winter time, which you wouldn't expect. Winter time can also be a season of new beginnings if you think of it that way. 

 

The chocopie scene (this might overlap with what some of you said before):
-One poster here said that eating scenes are a display of affection and a test for future partner's compatibility with eachother. For some reason I felt like JW was secretly adoring the way she gulped down the choco pieces and held in the urge to give her the two pieces until he found the perfect moment to give them to her. Because he was so very conscious of what he did and her reaction to it (and also happy that he could finally do it) he had the slip of tongue in front of SH.

And one last thing:
-In the scenes where JW and GW meet eachother dressed in their everyday clothes, I always felt like they would feel a bit awkward or shy. For me those scenes also seemed like foreplay to their future dates. 
The moment they exit those hospital doors, they become regular people. They leave a familiar setting, their roles as doctors and therefore have a harder time assessing the situation and reacting to eachother when they are outside. 
In the second scene when she sprints out of her brother's car and hindered him from walking outside for a short moment, until he had to stop for a while and sheepishly smiled beside her, that to me seemed like a foreshadowing to his decision on whether he should be a priest or remain as a doctor.

But as always, I might read too much into certain things. Hopefully we'll find out by episode 12 (fingers crossed)

 

 

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36 hours to the last episode of Season 1

 

30% of excitement (Getting closer to meet my dramaland squad!)

30% of anxiety (my ships will sail, my ships will sail, my ships ... will sail right?!)

 

40% of sadness (what should I do with my life until next year?!)

[40somethingahjumma 46,463]

21 hours ago, ck1Oz said:

 

And yet 5 well written characters are reduced to who they MUST end up with. If the characters are that obssessed to be in a relationship then they would be dating. Did you notice the ONLY person dating is working all week and only dates on the weekend. Thats how much importance they place on their love lives.

 

 

I'm not without some sympathy for your position.  I used to think along those lines but I've altered my position on this particularly after Episodes 10 and 11. I'm now of the opinion that the love lines are very important but they are not of equal importance for all the characters. They're not all equally developed even if the groundwork has been done for all of them. What I'm saying is that romance is only of paramount importance for 2 of the Flawed 5... Jun-wan and Jeong-won... because it is so intricately tied to their growth arc and trajectory. Once upon a time I thought that romance was of secondary importance in the show and for the most part, it has been underdeveloped. But in the case of the Virgin and the Bachelor... (their nicknames are telling) the development has been consistent all throughout.

 

I've said this before in other posts, the writer here cleverly uses romance here as a vehicle for character development and to complicate matters for the two guys. It's never romance for romance sake. Jun-wan falls for Ik-sun... who is a relative outsider to the group although there is a family connection. Jeong-won for Gyeo-ul, another outsider via work as a colleague or subordinate. At the very least they can be said to be on the fringes of the group. Love lines in these two instances act to shake up the status quo and to disrupt. Both guys are merrily going along with life when they are interrupted by love connections. They are both forced to question what it is that they believe to be important. For good IMO. 

 

This is why I don't think Songhwa as the harem trophy can even be possible in such a setup. She's already a fixture in their lives. She represents the familiar and the known quantity. The predictable. In order for disruption to occur, an anomaly is needed. Unpredictability is really the key. In fact, who's is who's first love is largely irrelevant in the Hospital Playlist set-up. I imagine that's why the triangle that seems to be developing among Chi-hong, Song-hwa and Ik-jun is so acutely uncomfortable because the predictable is becoming unpredictable to Songhwa. She really likes the predictable. We feel her discomfiture. Well, I definitely did.  

 

For Jun-wan the dating king, he has finally found the woman he wants to spend the rest of his life with. He was always someone who wanted to be married. Although he only sees Ik-sun on weekends, he does talk to her on the phone regularly and her impact on him is palpable. Golf is not even something he cares about much these days. Now that she's about to leave, he ekes out every single spare moment to spend time with her. Like you noted in your other post, he is changing. He's maturing, becoming more responsible and taking on more. He's a lot happier on some level and he's taking cues from Jae Hak on how to improve his bedside manner. Of course he is now faced with the dilemma that the woman he loves is taking off for a career opportunity. He really wants to marry her but he also doesn't want to pressure her into staying. The struggle is real as we saw in the drunk karaoke scene. At the back of his mind he was hoping to change her mind about marriage and I think if she hadn't taken up this overseas stint, he might have. What she needed was healing from a previous relationship.

 

For Jeong-won, the man who wants to be priest, he wasn't looking to date much less marry. And against all his own expectations, he has fallen in love with a subordinate. The struggle there was also real as seen in Episode 8 at the pickup zone. For the first time in his journey towards the priesthood, he is really questioning the rightness of his current trajectory. I have a theory or two about what this priesthood thing is really about. I won't dismiss the reasons offhandedly because they are important to Jeong-won. But I also believe from what I've seen that love can be a corrective or a balm to all the angst that he feels about his calling and his mission. Especially when he meets someone who complements him in the ways that he is lacking.

 

My thesis regarding Jeong-won is that he could end up running the hospital one day. It seems like others are gradually beginning to come round to that idea. A Korean fan has done analysis of the director's office when JW and the director are talking about the state of pediatrics in SK and she reckons that a book that's part of the director's collection is a clue that speaks to JW taking the helm in future because he has already demonstrated leadership skills by inviting his friends to join him at Yulje. Her argument is that JW has the qualities of a "multiplier". Although it doesn't look like he's there yet, I think love could become the mechanism by which he gets there.

 

In both cases, love is that unpredictable thing, the vehicle to create in the two characters an inner conflict which they might not have otherwise. This fits in with the overarching theme of life being unpredictable of which the hospital is a brilliant metaphor. But love is also IMO... transformative. It has a power over the four people in this situation to develop and to heal. Love healed Ik-sun so she could love again. Love can also heal Jeong-won from all the pain of practising pediatrics. Love changed Jun-wan from being a curt and abrupt doctor and love transformed Gyeo-ul into a doctor that's more patient-centred. 

 

I know that you and I are big fans of Chi-hong. It may be that his will turn out to be an unrequited love. But he too is a man in a lot of physical pain. He is a fighter by nature and so he healed himself by sheer force of will by starting his life again at age 29 or 30 in an entirely new profession. There's been a lot of talk about him crossing the line with Song-hwa and that may be. But I have a lot of respect for him because he had to pick himself... literally by the bootstraps to restart life. When you think too that he was on track to be a general. Fighting and fighting back is what he does as default. That's the military man in him. I hope people remember that before piling on him next time. Love could potentially be a healing agent for him also. Where he's going to find that, I can't say for certain.

 

This is a very important thing that the show is doing and we shouldn't dismiss it even if it isn't centrestage. On top of that we see week after week... other kinds of love on display. People who love somebody enough to give up their organs. Living donor transplants are a really big deal. They are huge sacrifices because it can affect quality of life. So I don't have any problem if Jeong-won does stay back in Korea because of love.

 

I also want to stress that this show repeatedly demonstrates that love is a gift freely given. It isn't just for the "deserving" or those who do the right thing (whatever that means).

 

Like Prison Playbook, the space is what matters most. Both shows are built from the same template even if the building blocks are different. People come and people go. The space being the hospital where people come and interact and even fall in love. That's why it's called Hospital Playlist. This a magical place where people come to because life is unpredictable. It is where they find healing, help... and even love.

 

 

[ChunSungIm 18,805]

 

from this 

 

to these

 

i hope she smile more in hospital playlist,she had cutest dimple

Spoiler

 

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[Andrew - 683]

I used to be on the "I don't care who ends up with who, their friendships is so precious and endearing and I just want to enjoy the drama for what it is..."

 

Then Episode 6 happened (or specifically, the biopsy results scene happened). To be honest, up till the scene when Songhwa went to get her doctor results and realised someone was there (before cutting to Ikjun), I was expecting the whole gang to be there. Like I was literally EXPECTING the whole gang to greet her. The rest of Ep 6 is self explanatory. The whole revelation about Ikjun knowing about SH's confession, and then that IJ 'chose' friendship over love, suddenly spun the drama into a new direction. Lovelines. Suddenly Chihong has a potential contender. 

 

Like what the director said, ep 7 is the start of Act 2. It is almost as if their intentions was to steer the drama direction and introduce lovelines as bigger part of the focus at the end of Act 1. With IJ being the main main character of the show, we cannot help but to focus more on that, right?

 

Of course, lovelines are not everything to the show, but they are the main factor that drive conversation and hype between drama viewers, I'm sure the team already learnt that from their Reply series. 

 

Love do come in many forms (as shown already in the drama), and lovelines just happens to have a bigger focus right now because the producers want it to, and is the main driving force for everyone to look forward to the next episode 

 

One more day to go!! o/

 

[ryanallright 5,587]

 

Spoiler

 

Song Hwa and Jae Hak in Maybe Happy Ending Musical from end June to mid Sep

 

Probably after this, they will prepare for the filming of season 2

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[kiefshi1056 5,039]

They are the couple who i love to watch in this drama and looking forward to it everyweek  its just that they don't have much airtime together hope in season 2 will be different writernim more WINTERGARDEN

 

 

i just love it when someone do MV  now they are doing PARODY of them this only means a lot of viewers want the WINTERGARDEN to get real and happen They are well loved

[Abs_ triggered 99,717]

Me realising  : It isn’t Thursday yet