Extraordinary Attorney Woo: Will There Be a Season 2?

Good information, “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” followers! The hit K-drama was formally renewed for season two forward of its penultimate episode of season one on Aug. 17. The buzzworthy present follows the titular Woo Young Woo (Park Eun Bin), a lawyer on the autism spectrum who has an exceptionally excessive IQ and a distinctive method to regulation that makes her a useful asset at her new regulation farm. While the whale-loving protagonist soars excessive in her profession, social interactions can nonetheless be tough for Young Woo as she navigates her profession and newfound romance.

The slice-of-life drama, obtainable on each the Korean broadcast channel ENA and Netflix, has taken the world by storm as it continues to set viewership records for its fledgling network, ENA, with each new episode. Additionally, “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” has remained regular on the high spot of Netflix’s world most-watched listing for non-English sequence for 5 weeks out of the six weeks there’s information for. In truth, the present is now the streaming big’s eighth most-watched non-English sequence of all time, raking in a whopping 288M hours in viewership in its first 28 days, as per Netflix’s data on Aug. 17, 2022.

Lee Sang-Baek, the CEO of AStory, the manufacturing firm behind the present, confirmed a second season is now within the works with E-Daily on Aug. 17. “Thanks to the help of many individuals, we shall be producing season two of ‘Extraordinary Attorney Woo,'” he advised the outlet (via Koreaboo), including, “Our hopeful golden time shall be in 2024. Our purpose is to have season two broadcast on the time.”

Lee additional famous that a lot of the unique artistic crew, together with the solid, author, director, and manufacturing crew, will return for the second installment. “It isn’t straightforward to coordinate the schedules of the solid and manufacturing crew, so we should undergo a lot of discussions. Our purpose is to maintain no less than 90 p.c of our solid and manufacturing workers. This will take a appreciable period of time to coordinate, however the plan to supply season two won’t change,” he concluded.

It’s value noting Kang Tae-Oh, who portrays Young Woo’s love curiosity, Lee Jun-Ho, will quickly be enlisting for obligatory army service, as all able-bodied Korean males are required to do by the age of 28. As Lee expressed above, most of the core characters shall be reprising their roles, and thus the 2024 launch timeframe for season two may need been selected to accommodate the beloved actor’s enlistment. And in all honesty, we might wait a couple extra years if it means we’ll be reuniting with Jun-Ho’s green-flag, all-around healthful persona.

In the meantime, the creators shall be treating followers with loads of new “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” content material, together with a webtoon, a musical, and merchandise, in accordance with Soompi.