What a Boss Wants

Here’s our honest verdict, and who’s going to love it.

Boss romances are easy to pitch and hard to make fresh, so the useful question is what this one adds. Here it is a voice: Do-hyuk finds Eun-chae through an album, not a meeting, and she performs as Soo, a stage persona that gives her a second identity he does not know how to read. Sung Hoon brings the romantic-lead experience he showed in Perfect Marriage Revenge, and Oh Se-young is a lead who can do both comedy and feeling.

The supporting cast is strong for a 12-episode run. Lee Jung-shin plays Moon Tae-kyeong, a doctor, Park Jeong-hak plays Do-hyuk’s father, and Lee Choong-joo is his friend Seo Jin-woo. If you want to see Oh Se-young in a very different mood first, The Judge Returns is already on the site.

No episode has aired, so this is anticipation, not a verdict. The setup is clear, the Wednesday-Thursday slot suits a quick binge, and the teaser shows the first meeting. We will add recaps once the episodes start.