Doctor Slump (2024)

A Reflective Dive into Mental Health with Humor and Heart

Doctor Slump is a drama that truly stands out for its thoughtful exploration of mental health and the various ways people cope with depression. It delves into the complexities of what happens when life takes unexpected turns, presenting these themes with sensitivity and depth. The inclusion of comedic moments throughout the series is masterfully done, offering a balance that lightens the heavier subject matter without diminishing its importance. Park Hyunsik delivers an outstanding performance, bringing his character to life with depth and realism that adds significantly to the drama's impact.

The pacing of Doctor Slump is on the slower side, which may not cater to everyone's tastes. However, this deliberate pacing allows for a more in-depth examination of the characters and their journeys, making the narrative more impactful for those who appreciate a show that takes its time to develop. Personally, I found this approach to be one of the drama's strengths, as it gave me the opportunity to fully immerse myself in the story and connect with the characters on a deeper level. This drama is a beautifully crafted drama that resonates long after the final episode, especially for viewers who are looking for a meaningful and insightful look at mental health, buoyed by strong performances and well-placed humor.

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Highly anticipated drama starring Park Hyun-Sik and Park Shin Hye, rightly so ♡o｡.(✿ฺ｡ ✿ฺ)

PLOT: The FL anesthetist resigns following burnout. ML, a popular cosmetic surgeon, faces trial for a medical accident in his clinic. He loses everything and comes to live above the FL. They meet again when they were sworn enemies and rivals in high school. They will support each other to overcome scandal, depression and PTSD together.

PROS:
+ A magical duo of actors. OK, I'm a fan of the 2 leads, but they are talented, beautiful, subtle,...
+ Realistic, intelligent story, with a good description of depression: wanting nothing, staying in bed, loss of self-esteem, unstable mood, need for a therapist, medication, ... and no miraculous healing process.
+ Secondary characters (played by talented actors) are human, endearing, well developed. I really like the slow development of CL2's romance, too.
+ The production is dynamic, efficient, and also knows. maintain the right balance of seriousness / emotion / humor. Some commentators consider Jeong Woo's character in love childish, it's true, but this aspect also aims to lighten the drama's atmosphere.
+ Excellent OSTs (some performed by Hyun-Sik, I think, I'll check).

CONS:
- This series should not be labeled "medical" because the medical aspect is not the priority of this drama. Apart from the adorable romance, it deals more with psychological disorders and mental health than with medical cases.

=> A very comforting little gem ♡o｡(๑๏‿ฺ๏๑)｡o♡.
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Drama très attendu avec Park Hyun-Sik et Park Shin Hye, à juste titre ♡o｡.(✿ฺ｡ ✿ฺ)

PLOT : La FL anesthésiste, démissionne suite à un burn-out. Le ML, chirurgien esthétique en vogue, fait face à un procès pour un accident médical dans sa clinique. Il perd tout et vient habiter au-dessus d e la FL. Ils se retrouvent alors qu'ils étaient ennemis jurés et rivaux au lycée. Ils vont s'épauler pour surmonter ensemble scandale, dépression et PTSD.

PROS:
+ Un duo d'acteurs magique. OK, je suis fan des 2 leads, mais ils sont talentueux, beaux, subtiles,...
+ Story réaliste, intelligente,avec une bonne description de la dépression : envie de rien, de rester au lit, perte d'estime de soi, humeur instable, nécessité d'un thérapeute, médicaments, ... et pas de processus de guérison miraculeux.
+ Des personnage secondaires (interprétés par des acteurs tous talentueux) sont humains, attachants, bien développés. J'aime beaucoup le lent développement de la romance du CL2, également.
+ La réalisation est dynamique, efficace, et sait également. maintenir le juste équilibre sérieux / émotion / humour. Certains commentateurs estiment le personnage amoureux de Jeong Woo, puéril, c'est vrai, mais cet aspect vise aussi à alléger l'atmosphère du drama.
+ D'excellentes OST (dont certaines interprétées par Par Hyun-Sik, je pense, je vérifierai).

CONS:
- Cette série ne doit pas être étiquetée "medical" car l'aspect médical n'est pas la priorité de ce drama. Hormis la romance, adorable, il traite plus des troubles psychiques et de la santé mentale, que de cas médicaux.

=> Un petit bijou ♡o｡(๑๏‿ฺ๏๑)｡o♡ très réconfortant.

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Being a hard to please person- but this is solid 10

So I will start with the fact that I normally hate writing long reviews and usually do if the drama was extremely annoying or extremely good to waste my time writing reviews :D This was one of those rare gems that will resonate the best with you if you go through hardships or feel depressed. Definitely understand what some commentators mentioned that this is slow, nothing much happens and there is a lot of filler- I'm afraid I have to disagree. This was the perfect length and after all, it was not meant to be an action or a thriller. It is about healing and relationship all mixed with a bit of comedy. Gives you the perfect recipe to feel better even if you don't manage to see the sunrise and all your morning by the ocean are cloudy. I was glad to see a normal, warm family with flows and yet great family. I was sick and tired of the ambitious cold mums and family overall from the previous kdramas I have seen. This is a drama that you can watch over again, just to feel good and to make you optimistic. Loved the ending, loved the closure of the characters, loved the healing, and the messages that were scattered in every episode. Great work, great TV show.

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Great potential but failed

not what i expected. The characters and plot has a lot of potential, but they bleached with cringy-sweet annoying scenes. I would prefer have a more mature drama than a "forced" rom-com like that. The first episodes was a great introduction, the mental-health, the struggles with job, career and all the accusations/investigation plot was really good, but after that is a free fall to the floor.
Totally unwatchable, maybe the last episodes are better, but i don't gona lost my time with that cringe escenes and stupid dialogues.
You have the best actors doing their best... what are the writer/director were thinking with that script?

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drama fake repeat very very repeat scenes doctors 2016

drama fake repeat very very repeat scenes doctors 2016
please not watching
As a drama about trauma and healing there are far too little conversations with psychotherapist and far too much accidental overhearing, eavesdropping, retelling and etc. (there must be some ethical boundaries, that were crossed multiple times?). Please tell the writers that there are other ways to move the plot forward!!!

As for the Depression - it is very ugly, and yes it varies from person to person, but I (personally) just feel from the writing and FL a "a bit depressed" vibes and "it will pass" thinking. Bish, no it won't! Not until you'll take it seriously.
I would have loved if the writers would have digged deeper and looked into darker corners of this illnes

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NOT IMPRESSED BY

Park Hyung-Sik
Does he lose weight? I can see his cheek bone, when he smile there's obvious deep wrinkles around his eyes. His baggy cloths, some part he acted childish. He's probably just acting cute, but he's a surgeon, did he forget his actual character that none of surgeon ever act cute? He's mischaracteristic his part. While Park Shin-Hye didn't make a better impression either (why did she flip her hair so much?).

Holding hand scene
Sigh....seriously though. They're not in High School anymore. 2 adults who acted like kindergarten first love, especially when they're both medical doctors who know so much about human anatomy and biology, why should they acted squeamish, petrified than simply shy. Although they both adults (not young anymore) first time in love, their acting was barely.

SYSTEM IN KOREA
I don't understand the system in Korea. Is that true that doctor can get pay cuts easily? A Professor can bully and scream on top of his lung humiliating intern just like that? 2nd ML got no patients because of....(he wasn't in tik-tok?), administer drugs to patient in operating room without knowledge from the anesthesiologist? Is it really hard to find job as a doctor in Korea?

It's a bad directive, not good acting, too much fillers, this drama can be finished by 10 ep top.

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Cringe fest

Clearly, the show didn't know whether it was a comedy or a drama. The plot had very serious elements relating to mental health, trauma, and PTSD. And, then we had Jeong Woo rolling in bed and throwing temper tantrums in every episode. If that was supposed to be comedy, it was cringey as hell.

The romance didn't feel very organic. "Strong Woman Do Bong Soon" set the standard too high, so everything else with Park Hyung Sik will inevitably be compared to it. The chemistry was just too good. In this drama, it was kind of meh. I wasn't sure why because they did have some cute moments. Maybe because it took them half the show to finally kiss. Maybe because the funny scenes looked stupid and extremely overacted, mostly by Park Hyung Sik. Maybe because their trauma was undermined by immature behavior that was completely unnecessary. If a man acted like Jeong Woo in real life, no amount of good looks would make him attractive to women.

The villain who caused the medical incident was also badly written. His motivations were just so very shallow. He decided to punish Jeong Woo because his mom didn't let the villain see his dad and dad died. So, Jeong Woo, who happened to be his best friend and who did nothing wrong, had to be put through hell and back for the villain to feel vindicated. Crappy reasons, motivation, and extremely lazy writing.

I like Park Hyung Sik and I was looking forward to this drama, but it left me extremely disappointed. I am going to take a break from him and watch something else for a while.

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love this drama♥

I really liked the drama, let's start with the perfect casting of the cast, it seems that Park Hyung sik just played his real life (you can see in fan meetings and interviews that this is his mindset) seriousness and maturity alongside childishness (they say that in every mature person, there is also a little child). The drama deals with healing and recovery, competition for achievements and success alongside failure and disappointment. friendship, and support. Insights that you get after crises (financial and mental), satisfaction in the face of fulfillment... a race for achievements in life where along the way you forget to enjoy the small things (sunset, going for a walk, enjoying nature from the blossoms and even eating ice cream) and the mental price that you pay because of the race for life. It is true that there are some childish scenes (not compatible with the model of a doctor) but they fit so well against the very sensitive subject of mental exhaustion and depression. I totally recommend watching the drama and examining it in depth and not superficially

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Doctor Slumpe é uma comédia romântica com muito momentos fofos e situação ridículas para o expectador dar risada, como é de praxe no gênero. Também tem aquele mistério (que parece obrigatório no roteiro dos dramas coreanos de romance nos últimos tempos), mas o que se destacou para mim foi forma como o tema da depressão foi abordado. Ouso dizer que foi de forma realista. Inclusive a cena da Ha Neul com a mãe dela. Infelizmente muitas pessoas consideram a depressão "frescura" e que a pessoa não tem motivos para estar se sentindo assim. Do ponto de vista da mãe, que sempre teve a filha como forte, com certeza não foi fácil vê-la vulnerável, mas ao mesmo tempo foi bonito acompanhar a mudança de atitude da mãe. Gostei como ela foi entendendo a necessidade da filha de procurar tratamento e a apoiando à sua maneira. Depressão é assunto sério e precisa de tratamento e apoio familiar. É ótimo ver cada vez o tema da saúde mental ser abordado nos dramas coreanos sem preconceito e a terapia sendo apontada como um caminho possível.

No drama esses dois estudantes brilhantes alcançaram a profissão dos sonhos, mas por circunstâncias adversas na idade adulta chegam ao fundo do poço. O fundo do poço na história não é apenas a perda de uma posição profissional de sucesso há muito almejada ou sua reputação jogada na lama por uma acusação falsa. É a tristeza profunda e o luto pela perda de um ideal há muito idealizado pelas personagens. Nam Ha Neul anulava todas as outras partes da sua vida e vivia apenas para o trabalho, enquanto o Yeo Jeong Woo com sua personalidade divertida e otimista sempre buscou na amizade das pessoas ao seu redor o afeto que não recebia dos pais e quando mais precisava desses amigos eles somem. Essas situações os levam à depressão.

No final é bonito ver Ha Neul aprendendo a equilibrar os vários aspectos de sua vida e falando o que realmente pensa e não deixando as pessoas passarem por cima dela. E Yeo Jeong Woo, escolhendo uma clínica mais modesta e sabendo que também tem amigos verdadeiros que pode contar também nos momentos de crise.

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Truly gives 따뜻한 feeling - don't miss this show

When I started watching this show, my expectations were meager. It had already finished airing and it had some mixed reviews. But since my expectations were low I could enjoy the show even better, because it took me by surprise.
* The writers conveyed a vital life lesson and in today's struggles, it instilled a very beautiful message.
* The character development was wonderfully done and I could feel that I also grew with the characters.
* The second leads did an incredible job and it was really interesting to watch them on screen.
* The best part of the show was the comedy. It truly lightened the show in the right way, without decreasing the intensity and the value of the message they were trying to put forth.
* Excellent character writing for the supporting cast. They were not some unnecessary prop in the show.

Thoroughly enjoyed watching the show and the ride they took us, had all the right emotions mixed in. Commendable effort by the whole team.

For the people who are reading this before starting the show, do keep an open mind and you will have a wonderful time!

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Loooved it <3

uah....i really can't understand how this drama wasn't ''likeble'' or that it was JUST ''likeble'' for so many...like hoow?? I found it one of the best. Loved every second of it and i wouldn't change anything. I can't get over Park Hyung Sik...how can he act soo cute? <3 Loved that the drama had good story and seriousness and love and a good family and some action and a looot of funny moments. OMG...i laught so much ( uah.....when he put that crown on her head...pfff the tears started to come out from the laugh)...that's why i love so much Park Hyung Sik in Do Bong Soon drama to which is in my tops <3 I think he was like the soul of the drama. Anyways.....it was worth the loong wait and sure thing that i will watching it again and again <3

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