Part rom-com, part legal drama, “Partner Track” is the kind of frothy programming Netflix has been doubling down on that’s ideal viewing when your brain is fried and your feet are barking. It’s the glossy magazine equivalent of TV: Doesn’t require your undivided attention to be enjoyable, but is just engrossing enough to keep you watching.
Landing somewhere between “Suits” and “Ally McBeal,” the show is based on the 2013 novel by Helen Wan and centers on a young New York lawyer named Ingrid Yun (Arden Cho) looking to make partner. The high-end law firm where she’s employed is a sea of white men — patrician, fratty, sharklike, you name it — which means Ingrid and her two nonwhite guy besties at work are forever batting away aggressions micro and overt.
If putting up with this kind of racist, sexist hazing means they’ll eventually make partner — putting them in a position to effect real change at the firm — well, fine, these three pals grudgingly surmise. Whether this strategy actually bears fruit is one of the season’s ongoing questions.
