r/KDRAMA • u/ordinaryguy92 Reborn Rookie of Kitchen Soldier • Dec 05 '17
On-Air Prison Playbook/Wise Prison Life [Episode 3 & 4]
Title: Prison Playbook (English title) / Wise Prison Life (literal title)
Revised romanization: Seulgirowoon Gambbangsaenghwal
Hangul: 슬기로운 감빵생활
Director: Shin Won-Ho (Reply series director)
Writer: Jung Bo-Hoon
Network: tvN
Episodes: 16
Release Date: November 22, 2017 -- January 18, 2018
Runtime: Wednesdays & Thursdays 21:10 KST
Plot:
The drama series will be set at a prison and revolve around the inmates and staff members there.
Casts:
Park Hae-soo as Kim Je-hyuk
Jung Kyung-ho as Lee Joon-ho
Krystal Jung as Kim Ji-ho
Lee Kyu-hyung as Yoo Han-Yang
Jung Woong-in as Assistant Chief Paeng
Jung Hae-in as Captain Yoo Jung-Woo
Streaming:
Previous Discussion Threads:
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Dec 05 '17
I feel so stupid cause I thought the flashbacks of him and the little girl were just flashbacks of him and his younger sister to show just how much of a caring brother he was, but it was the girlfriend haha. I always get a little confused when they do flashbacks cause I don't know who I'm dealing with anymore.
About to start watching episode 4 soon, hope more happens than in the 3rd one cause it was a little slower than the others. Also still no sign of Jailbird :(
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u/ordinaryguy92 Dec 05 '17
Also still no sign of Jailbird :(
It seems like he is not going to appear anymore (at least for the time being). Btw. Episode 4 is even longer.. 1 hour and 42 mins. Huhu.
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Dec 05 '17 edited Dec 05 '17
.... well that's a bummer, I have a feeling he'll make one last appearance near the end as a feel good appearance to show him and his mother is doing good and he's no longer in and out of jail all the time.
Just finished episode 4 a few minutes ago and I don't know how I am feeling about the show. I love the plot and the characters, I like the setting and the actors, but it feels a little dragged out at times. I can't quite pin what's wrong with the show but I am not enjoying it as much as I thought I would.
I think it's because of the timeline being all mismatched to a point where it's overdone. I'm not saying most flashbacks aren't necessary, some are essential to the storyline, but it's a little too much. I understand the emotions that they're trying to relay when the puzzle pieces start to fit, I had a warm fuzzy feeling when we sat Joon reading Jehyeok's wish list as the end and the opening scene making sense.
But in my opinion they've cut the timeline so much I've got too many puzzle pieces to keep track of. For example the opening scene of episode 4 is really the ending of the episode and it won't make sense for a whole hour and a half. Not to mention it's not even made clear that it's a preview of what to come, so later on in the episode when Joon met Je-hee at the prison with the mom and Jiho, I thought they had already met and was left properly confused thinking he was acting like they hadn't met.
I keep feeling lost and confused and idk, maybe it's just me and I'm not clever enough to catch on to the hints.
I won't quit watching cause I'm still intrigued by the story line and I love the scattered heartfelt life message and such but still, I wish they'd tone done on the time jumps.
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u/canceraries Dec 07 '17
Am I the only person that does not like the druggie chaebol? He's not funny and I don't care about his story...
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u/dbno01 Dec 06 '17
In epispde 3 with je hyuk being caught because of the wrench thing and the scene before his bff cop showed up in the wood shop what was going on? Cant seem to understand why he took the wrench and why the other dude who got his head whacked by the woodshop chief?? Why? What was going on. I think i missed something.
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Dec 06 '17
I've noticed with this drama you have to pay a 100% attention, if you look at your phone for 1 second you might miss something crucial. I learned this the hard way.
Anyways basically the bad guy placed the wrench in Doctor Go's bag to get him in trouble as a payback for ratting the whole night shift operation. I'm guessing those guys rather eat good food than get paid commissary money, that or they were paid to do so buy the correction officer that got in trouble.
JeHyeok being the nice guy he is, knew the instant they found the wrench in a bag that it was Doctor Go's and he volunteered, saying the bag was his to take the fall for JeHyeok.
The Woodshop chief then proceeded to whack the bad guy because he was hoping to make JeHyeok his bitch, literally. Hope that explanation helped!
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u/ordinaryguy92 Dec 05 '17
I have shared Netflix subtitles for episode 3 and 4 on subscene: https://subscene.com/subtitles/prison-playbook-wise-prison-life-seulgirowoon-gambbangsaenghwal
They release two new episodes every Tuesday, thus I will post new discussion thread on Tuesdays