Little Women

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Little Women

작은 아씨들 (Jageun Assideul) · 2022 · South Korea

WriterJung Seo-kyung

DirectorKim Hee-won

Episodes12 eps · ~75 min each

⏱️ Binge Time15h 0m

AiredSep 3 – Oct 9, 2022

GenreThriller · Mystery · Drama

Content RatingTV-MA · 15+

Netflix
TVING

Sisterhood
Revenge
Class Warfare
Conspiracy
Female-Led

One box. Everything you need to decide.

Twelve performances that make this conspiracy feel personal — from three sisters with everything to lose to the people who built a world to crush them.

Kim Go-eun

Oh In Joo

Lead

Nam Ji-hyun

Oh In Kyung

Lead

Park Ji-hu

Oh In Hye

Lead

Wi Ha-jun

Choi Do Il

Supporting

Uhm Ji-won

Won Sang Ah

Antagonist

Uhm Ki-joon

Park Jae Sang

Villain

Kim Mi-sook

Oh Hye Seok

Supporting

Kang Hoon

Ha Jong Ho

Supporting

Jeon Chae-eun

Park Hyo Rin

Supporting

Gong Min-jeung

Choi Ma Ri

Supporting

Cho Seung-yeon

Jo Wan Gyu

Supporting

Park Bo-kyung

Go Su Im

Supporting

Spoiler-light recaps — enough to remember where you left off, nothing that ruins the ride.

EP 01

The Orchid and the Debt

September 3, 2022 · tvN

In Joo’s ordinary, debt-drenched life collides with something far larger than she can understand when her only real friend at work dies under suspicious circumstances. The episode sets up the sisters’ world with deceptive efficiency — three women who have only ever had each other, suddenly standing at the edge of something they cannot yet name. The contrast between their cramped, cluttered apartment and the cold marble wealth of the Jeongran Society is established in a single cut.

EP 02

Seventy Billion

September 3, 2022 · tvN

In Joo discovers the full scope of what Jin Hwa Young left behind — 70 billion won, hidden, and not entirely accidental. The question the episode poses is devastatingly simple: what would you do? Kim Go-eun plays every beat of In Joo’s internal collapse with precision, and the Jeongran Society begins to take shape as something older and colder than a simple murder motive.

EP 03

Blue Orchid

September 10, 2022 · tvN

The blue orchid begins to reveal its meaning — a thread that runs through decades of the Jeongran Society’s darkness. In Kyung disrupts the high-society party celebrating Hyo Rin’s art prize and draws dangerous attention to herself. In Joo’s first visit to the mental hospital peels back the first layer of what the Won family is actually protecting. The episode introduces Won Sang Ah properly — and Uhm Ji-won makes it immediately clear that this character is not going to be a simple villain.

EP 04

The Secret Garden

September 10, 2022 · tvN

In Hye is commissioned to paint Won Sang Ah’s portrait in a private garden, and the pull of that world — its beauty, its calm, its total lack of financial desperation — is made palpable. Meanwhile, In Joo and In Kyung argue about whether the money is a windfall or a trap. Choi Do Il emerges here as something harder to place than ally or enemy, and Wi Ha-jun plays the ambiguity with a stillness that makes every line feel like a calculation.

EP 05

Inside the Machine

September 17, 2022 · tvN

Both older sisters take new positions that put them closer to the people they’re investigating — In Joo under Won Sang Ah at the art museum, In Kyung at a new media outlet. The episode moves deliberately, building out the conspiracy’s architecture while Won Sang Ah’s sudden overseas departure sends a ripple through everyone orbiting her. The sense that the sisters are being positioned, not just positioned themselves, is the episode’s quiet and unsettling accomplishment.

EP 06

The Evidence

September 17, 2022 · tvN

In Joo and In Hye uncover something that changes the nature of what they’re holding, and the weight of that discovery fractures the sisters’ certainty about what to do next. In Kyung’s reporting triggers a media backlash that puts her job and her safety in jeopardy. The Jeongran Society stops watching and starts moving — and the episode ends with the unmistakable sensation that the grace period is over.

EP 07

Digging Backward

September 24, 2022 · tvN

The sisters shift strategy — understanding the past is the only way to survive the present. In Kyung breaks open a secret at the core of the old case she’s been chasing, and the revelation reframes everything the audience thought it understood about who is protecting whom. In Joo, now fully aware of how exposed they are, starts forming a counter-plan. The episode has the taut, interior energy of a thriller that knows exactly where it’s going.

EP 08

Singapore

September 24, 2022 · tvN

In Joo travels to Singapore and receives a welcome that answers nothing and makes everything more dangerous. Back in Korea, In Hye and Hyo Rin try to reach Won Sang Ah, who has been effectively imprisoned by her own family. The episode is the series at its most cinematically ambitious — the overseas setting used not for spectacle but for isolation. Won Sang Ah’s ambiguity reaches its peak here: is she a prisoner, a weapon, or something the drama hasn’t named yet?

EP 09

The Cost

October 1, 2022 · tvN

In Joo faces real physical danger in Singapore after a violent encounter that makes clear how far the Jeongran Society’s reach extends. In Kyung, back in Korea, makes a deal she cannot take back in order to keep her sister alive. The episode asks what loyalty between sisters actually costs, and the answer is more than either of them planned to pay. The Jeongran Society’s power is no longer abstract — it is immediate, and it is everywhere.

EP 10

The Counter

October 1, 2022 · tvN

Park Jae Sang’s political future begins to crack under the weight of the sisters’ counter-moves. In Hye and Hyo Rin take decisive steps toward escape — not just from the Won family, but from the version of themselves that nearly got swallowed by it. In Kyung goes public with the truth in a way that cannot be undone. This episode earned Little Women its peak viewership of 9.7% — and it earns every decimal of that number.

EP 11

The Collapse

October 8, 2022 · tvN

Park Jae Sang makes a desperate and drastic move that destabilizes the entire social order the Jeongran Society built. The aftermath does not bring relief — it brings the Society’s most concentrated and furious wrath. The penultimate episode raises the stakes to their absolute ceiling, and the sense of dread it produces is remarkable for how quiet some of its key scenes are. The finale is one episode away, and the drama has earned every second of tension.

EP 12

Three Women

October 9, 2022 · tvN

The finale begins in a courtroom, where an unexpected appearance dismantles the Jeongran Society’s most carefully constructed lie. In Joo — who started this series desperate for money, willing to compromise nearly everything for it — makes the choice that defines her: she exposes the corruption rather than profit from it. In Kyung’s journalism becomes the instrument of reckoning. In Hye chooses her future on her own terms, beside Hyo Rin, free of the Won family’s grip at last. The three Oh sisters, each having found their own form of independence, are finally reunited — and it means everything.

Full spoilers ahead — everything that happens in the finale and what it all means.

The courtroom changes everything. The finale opens not with a confrontation or an action sequence, but with a legal hearing — understated, formal, and devastating. A witness appears who was never supposed to appear. Their testimony collapses the Jeongran Society’s central alibi with a simplicity the drama has been earning for twelve episodes. It is a quiet scene that lands with enormous force precisely because director Kim Hee-won refuses to let the camera look away from the faces of the people being destroyed by the truth.

In Joo’s transformation completes itself. The woman who spent twelve episodes trying to hold on to the money — who rationalized it, hid it, bargained with it, and nearly lost herself to it — makes the decision that the drama always promised she would make, but never made inevitable. She chooses exposure over security, integrity over survival-mode logic. It is not a heroic speech or a dramatic gesture. It is simply the right choice, made by someone who finally has the courage to make it. Kim Go-eun plays the moment with the emotional restraint of someone who has been building toward this exact beat since episode one.

Park Jae Sang and the Jeongran Society fall in layers, not all at once. The conspiracy does not end with an arrest or a single revelation — it dismantles piece by piece, as In Kyung’s reporting, In Joo’s evidence, and the courtroom testimony combine into something no PR operation can contain. Uhm Ki-joon’s performance across the finale is one of the show’s understated achievements: Park Jae Sang is never cartoonishly evil in defeat, just a man who genuinely believed the rules didn’t apply to him, watching that belief collapse in real time.

In Hye chooses herself. The youngest sister’s resolution is perhaps the most emotionally satisfying of the three, because it’s the one that required the least spectacle and the most courage. She walks away from the Won family’s world — its beauty, its comfort, the version of herself she almost became inside it — and she does it beside Hyo Rin, who made the same choice. The drama never oversells this moment. It lets two young women simply walk out of a door and trusts the audience to understand what that costs, and what it means.

The ending is about what the sisters built, not what they escaped. The final scene is the three Oh sisters together — not in triumph, not in relief, but in the quiet normalcy of people who have been through something and are still standing. It echoes the logic of Louisa May Alcott’s original novel without ever being precious about the reference: what endures is not money, not safety, not even justice — it is the bond between them. Little Women is a story about three women who went into a fight with the most powerful people in the country, armed only with each other, and somehow that was enough.