DVD Review: Super Rookie
Leonard Norwitz, DVDBeaver.com

Let me say from the outset that I liked this series.  I found the characters engaging and the basic story line about corporate office politics, amusing, often very much so.  But I do intend to be critical, for the show lends itself to analysis that I feel is instructive about both drama and comedy and especially the attempt to meld both in the same entity.

Like many Korean dramas and comedies as well, it often takes a couple-three episodes to catch the drift and the rhythms.  Just as for American TV shows, the first couple of episodes might not be representative of the rest of the season because the producers also have the objective of bringing in an audience.  Frequently, the net is widely cast as various aspects of the humor or the dramatic bits are intensified in comparison to the rest of the story.  This is very much what happens in Super Rookie.

Offhand, I can't think of many successful examples of low humor and pathos in the same entity where the humor is present for reasons other than to relieve the tension.  We think immediately of Shakespeare, but modern examples abound in any number of movies and television shows.  We don't see much of the reverse, however: low comedies with dollops of heavy drama to make the goulash more interesting. The comedy of such American sitcoms as All in the Family was never nearly as broad as Super Rookie.  Soap (1977-1981) occasionally came close to convincing the audience of its serious moments while abusing them with its zany humor. Super Rookie begins in lingering, tearful pathos that migrates quickly into a suicide attempt.  Broad physical comedy breaks the tension, followed by satire – and for the first three episodes, it's not entirely clear in which camp, if any, the series will eventually settle.

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