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Little Women Season 1

Little Women Season 1 is a WORTH-IT, BollyMeter 7.5/10. 12 episodes on tvN from 3 September 2022.

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BollyMeter7.5/10100 percent Rotten Tomatoes from 6 critics at 8.5/10 average; 7.7 IMDb from a wider audience base; APAN Drama of the Year 2023; critics praised the thriller architecture and Kim Go-eun's lead performance while audiences tracked a meaningful dip mid-series.

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What BollyAI Thinks

Directed by Kim Hee-won and written by Jeong Seo-kyung, the team behind The World of the Married, this 12-episode tvN series aired Saturdays and Sundays from September 3 to October 9, 2022. It ranked first in its timeslot every week, with a 11.1 percent finale rating. The Rotten Tomatoes score highlights the strength of the ensemble, especially Kim Go-eun's eldest-sister lead and Uhm Ji-won's antagonist, along with the structural confidence of a thriller built around class and female agency. Entertainment Weekly included it among the top 21 Korean shows on Netflix in 2025. On IMDb, a 7.7 score aligns with a mid-series stretch where the conspiracy mechanics feel unwieldy, with episodes 7 to 9 posting the lowest individual ratings, even as the opening two episodes and the finale stand out as some of the strongest hours.

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Standout Episodes

The hours worth arguing about - premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.

  1. E1Episode 18.2

    The premiere earns its 8.2 IMDb rating by grounding the fantasy-scale stakes in granular class detail: the sisters’ poverty is specific and unglamorous, and the discovery that changes their lives arrives not through luck but through a combination of coincidence and action. The episode’s economy keeps the story moving, delivering a lot of world-building without it feeling like exposition.

    The moment: Oh In-joo discovering the money - the exact instant the thriller mechanics engage and the tone shifts from domestic drama.

    Full review of E1 →
  2. E12Episode 128.0

    The finale, the series' highest-rated broadcast episode at 11.1 percent nationwide, attempts to pay off a conspiracy that had grown more complex than the run time could fully accommodate. The resolution leaves some questions about whether it feels earned, but the ensemble's final performances and the class-politics throughline consistently land.

    The moment: The confrontation that recontextualises whose story this actually was - a structural reversal the screenplay had planted across all twelve episodes.

    Full review of E12 →