‘Salon de Holmes’ Surges in Ratings with Fierce Female Power

By Soyoon, Ahn

Jul 04, 2025

‘Salon de Holmes’ Surges in Ratings with Fierce Female Power
Photo courtesy=ENA



'Salon de Holmes' boasts powerful female power.

The ENA Monday-Tuesday drama 'Salon de Holmes' (scripted by Kim Yeon-shin, director Min Jin-ki and Chung Hyeon-nam) is a comic-womance play in which four women who are united as our complex solvers, including a full level of reasoning, a former ace detective, an insurance king, and the queen of Alba, punish the apartment villain.

Director Min Jin-ki's first warm-hearted drama 'Salon de Holmes', which was spotlighted as a bromance master by directing the best-known work 'New Disease" in the first half of ENA series, started with a 1.3% viewer rating in the first episode and surpassed 3.4% in the sixth episode, nearly tripling the number of episodes compared to the first episode, establishing itself as a popular work of certainty ' on weekdays. In addition, the highest viewer rating recorded by the previous film 'Your Taste' is in sight, and attention is being paid to whether 'Salon de Holmes' two weeks before the end of the show will be able to break this year's highest ratings for ENA dramas. (Nilson Korea nationwide)




‘Salon de Holmes’ Surges in Ratings with Fierce Female Power
Photo courtesy=ENA
As such, 'Salon de Holmes', which boasts the power of 'Min Jin-ki's Warmans', is also attracting attention in that it continues the ENA's Warmans box office lineage. In the meantime, ENA has succeeded in various genres of dramas with female characters on the front, such as 'happiness battle', 'House with a Madang', 'Men', and 'Riding Life', and has solidified the title of 'Women's epic restaurant'. One step further from here 'Salon de Holmes' gives viewers a thrilling catharsis with 'Best Subjectivity' in which women living in ordinary apartments directly solve problems and inconveniences scattered throughout their lives. Moreover, the attractive factor is that not only do we use our heads, run on our feet, and collect information, but also engage in hand-to-hand combat is the role of our neighbors.

Viewers' enthusiastic response to the `Salon de Holmes' is an example of the solid competitiveness of female solidarity narratives in the male-dominated drama market. In addition, the appearance of the four main characters acting as 'Women Hero' shows the birth of 'Women's narrative IP' with endless continuity and scalability, raising expectations.

Running toward the climax beyond the middle, 'Salon de Holmes' has scaled up its life-friendly villain sweep story, heralding a battle with violent criminals targeting women. Attention is focusing on what kind of female power 'Salon de Holmes' will give viewers a thrilling and exhilarating catharsis.




Meanwhile, the ENA Monday-Tuesday drama `Salon de Holmes' airs every Monday and Tuesday at 10 p.m. OTT can be seen on Coupang Play.








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