Review of Partner Track

I don’t know why this has been the case, but I’ve been in such a television mood lately. I used to never really watch television shows, as I found the American ones to be such a commitment if you wanted to watch across multiple different seasons.

That said, I’ve been enjoying the recent trend where everything is a limited series or in chunks. It really sucks when certain shows I enjoy are canceled prematurely though, especially ones like Partner Track. Like come on, this series literally ends on a cliffhanger and you cancelled it.

I’d never heard of Partner Track before, but I had honestly been watching a ton of Korean dramas that were about lawyers, and I’m a sucker for a good television series that is set in New York City. I love these kinds of books as well, which is probably why I had no reservations pressing play.

Anyways, here’s my review!

Ingrid Yun is just trying to make partner at her New York City law firm.

Our protagonist in this series is Ingrid Yun, who not only has to deal with being an Asian American in a high end luxury law firm in the city, but she’s a woman too. That’s something that sets a lot of us up for being discriminated against, as we see in one of the show’s plot lines.

Ingrid is on a roll throughout the beginning of the series. She’s very competent at her job, and she’s willing to play at the hands of the people in charge if it means that she would be named partner.

With the help of her friends, and maybe a cocktail at the end of the day, she can get through this.

But things are not going to be so easy. There are several plot lines throughout the course of this show, and one of them is Ingrid’s love life.

While she finds a steady relationship, and they even plane for a potential marriage, allowing her access into the high society of the city, she finds herself attracted to another lawyer at her firm.

They have to work together on a big case, as the firm works with significant clients across many industries. We see this with her friends’ storylines, especially as they, too, grapple with the thought of getting promoted to partner within the firm and decide to chase after their own dreams.

There are also some major tactics Ingrid is going to have to bust out in order to get this case off the ground and in their favor, but with racist events happening at the job, this storm is going to be hard to weather. Especially when she has to deal with her baby sister and family, explaining some of her biggest decisions throughout the show.

Overall Thoughts

This is a show that’s just fine to me. Like I could see how someone might really like this show, but it does its job as mindless television as I consider what to write next on my master’s thesis.

That said, I was disappointed there isn’t going to be a second season. There isn’t too much of this that I find myself getting sick of watching it, but there wasn’t enough that made me feel like there’s a good conclusion.

Like that cliffhanger is a sucky way to end the show, if you ask me. Guess we’ll never get answers now.

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