Just finished episode 3 of Prison Playbook (2017) and I'm totally enjoying it. This show is highly praised and popular but I always thought it was a grim prison drama and I didn't feel like watching it. Now it's leaving Netflix on the 31st of January and with Dramacool shut down I cannot access it anywhere else.
So I checked out whether it would be worth watching and it turns out it's not a grim/violent prison drama at all. In fact, it gives off feel-good vibes, there are plenty of likeable characters, and it's funny. Not over-the-top slapstick humour (like in The Fiery Priest, which was genuinely funny too, by the way), but it's more of the endearing kind. I was laughing out loud with the scene in episode 3 where Park Ho-san (from My Mister and Would You Like a Cup of Coffee?) as one of the inmates is trying to find the right channel on the TV using his technical skills. When his roomie inmate, played by Kang Seung-yoon, pulls out the remote control unexpectedly, Park Ho-san looks like a kid whose cookie has been taken from him and he is quite adorable here. I love this actor.
With other supporting actors I like (among others Choi Moo-sung from Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo and Like Flowers in Sand) and a bromance between the lead actors Park Hae-soo and Jung Kyung-ho (seen him in Hospital Playlist and Life on Mars), it looks like this is going to be a fun ride (and looooong, with 16 episodes of approx. 1.5 hours each). It even has romance.
*Also currently watching: What Happens to My Family? (33/53 episodes), Where Does the Sea Begin (1/12 episodes) and When the Phone Rings (11/12 episodes).