Premiere Watch: Filing for Love
by stroopwafel
Time slot: Saturday & Sunday
Broadcaster: tvN
Genre: Melo, rom-com, workplace
Episode count: 12
Global streamer: Viki
Reasons to watch: tvN is taking a new approach to workplace romances in dramaland in the newest addition to the weekend slate, Filing for Love. Shin Hye-sun and Gong Myung costar with Kim Jae-wook and Hong Hwa-yeon as second leads.
The quartet all work at the same firm but occupy different runs on the corporate ladder, with Shin Hye-sun near the top as an executive. She runs the company’s audit department, and she’s notorious for being someone who never lets an adversary escape unscathed by her wrath. Gong Myung was once a top performer, but at the beginning of the drama he’s on thin ice at the office, so the powers that be give him a demotion—and put him under Shin Hye-sun’s direct supervision as punishment. Adding insult to injury, he’s assigned to what is considered the worst audit beat: finding interoffice hanky-panky.
It’s tough work, but someone has to do it, and Shin Hye-sun joins Gong in the trenches to go undercover and catch people violating HR policy. There’s an irony here then, that as the two work together, they develop feelings for each other and start to flirt with the idea of an office romance of their own.
Filing for Love is offering up forbidden love with a wildly charismatic leading lady and a solid leading man (who does both silly and lovelorn well), so it’s the perfect watch for anyone looking for a new rom-com. And while part of me still has trouble believing that Kim Jae-wook is the second lead rather than main, I’ll take any chance I can get to watch him in another drama. No matter the size of the role, I’m sure he’ll have great chemistry with everyone, including the person I suspect he’ll have a loveline with, Hong Hwa-yeon.
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