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Best Hospital Playlist Episodes, Ranked

All 24 episodes of Hospital Playlist scored and sorted — from the 9.2/10 high of S1E12 to the 8.5/10 of S1E1.

By Mira Vance · Editor & Lead Reviewer

Our rating: 8.79/10 average across 24 episode reviews (best 9.2, lowest 8.5).

Hospital Playlist is a show with almost no bad nights and a very clear shape: it starts good, settles into a warm 8.8 hum for most of its run, and saves its real spikes for goodbyes. Across 24 episodes the gap from floor to ceiling is only 0.7, so this isn’t a ranking of hits and misses — it’s a ranking of how hard each ending lands.

The peak is the series finale, S2E12 “Yulje Says Goodbye at Sunset” (9.2), which closes every thread the show had been holding open and lets the five friends just be people for once. Right behind it, tied at 9.1, are S2E11 “Song-hwa Finally Says It” — the confession the whole run was patient about — and S1E12 “Gyeo-ul Asks Jeong-won to Stay,” the other big emotional payoff. S2E10 “Gyeo-ul Finally Lets Jeong-won In” (8.9) rounds out the top tier. Notice the pattern: the high scores are all couples landing.

The dips are early and all Season 1: S1E1 “Ik-jun Gets Handed a Last-Chance Liver Case” and S1E3 “Jun-wan Learns When Truth Needs Mercy” sit at 8.5, with S1E2 and S1E4 a hair above. That’s setup tax — introductions before the friendships click. Season 2 is the stronger run overall: higher floor, all three of the top four, and a finale that delivers.

678910S1E1: 8.5/10S1E1: 8.7/10S1E2: 8.6/10S1E2: 8.8/10S1E3: 8.5/10S1E3: 8.6/10S1E4: 8.6/10S1E4: 8.8/10S1E5: 8.7/10S1E5: 8.8/10S1E6: 8.8/10S1E6: 8.8/10S1E7: 8.8/10S1E7: 8.8/10S1E8: 8.8/10S1E8: 8.8/10S1E9: 8.8/10S1E9: 8.8/10S1E10: 8.8/10S1E10: 8.9/10S1E11: 8.8/10S1E11: 9.1/10S1E12: 9.1/10S1E12: 9.2/10
Every episode scored on tension, payoff, and rewatch value. Hover a point for the episode.
RankEpEpisodeScore
1S1E12Yulje Says Goodbye at Sunset9.2
T-2S1E11Song-hwa Finally Says It9.1
T-2S1E12Gyeo-ul Asks Jeong-won to Stay9.1
4S1E10Gyeo-ul Finally Lets Jeong-won In8.9
T-5S1E2A Baby's Loss Leaves Seok-hyeong Wordless8.8
T-5S1E4Jun-wan Loses Ik-sun and Saves One Lonely Patient8.8
T-5S1E5Ik-sun Comes Home Quietly8.8
T-5S1E6Song-hwa Waits for Her Biopsy Result8.8
T-5S1E6March Reminds Every Doctor They Started Scared8.8
T-5S1E7Ik-jun Tells Ms. Sin To Live For Herself8.8
T-5S1E7Ik-jun Carries a Family Through Surgery8.8
T-5S1E8Min-ha Gets the Baby Out in Time8.8
T-5S1E8Rosa Asks to Play Again8.8
T-5S1E9Yu-min's Father Comes Back Changed8.8
T-5S1E9Jun-wan Finally Learns Why Ik-sun Left8.8
T-5S1E10Jeong-won Hands Song-hwa His Secret Charity8.8
T-5S1E11Ik-jun Finally Answers the Question8.8
T-18S1E1Song-hwa Gives Ik-jun Her Answer8.7
T-18S1E5Jun-wan Runs to the Bus Terminal8.7
T-20S1E2Song-hwa Steps Into Gong's Surgery8.6
T-20S1E3Everyone Learns How To Wait8.6
T-20S1E4Seok-hyeong shields a mother from one cry8.6
T-23S1E1Ik-jun Gets Handed a Last-Chance Liver Case8.5
T-23S1E3Jun-wan Learns When Truth Needs Mercy8.5

Scores reflect our episode reviews. Tap any episode to read the full review, or browse the whole Hospital Playlist season recap from the top.