Netflix K-drama Resident Playbook review: romance to the fore in so-so medical drama
2.5/5 stars
Lead cast: Go Youn-jung, Jung Joon-won, Shin Si-ah, Kang You-seok, Han Ye-ji
Latest Nielsen rating: 8.14 per cent
From a narrative standpoint, if Resident Playbook was about anything, it's how one young woman picked herself up by her bootstraps, went back to work, and made it through the first year of her medical residency.
However, her struggles were not the point of the story.
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