School 2017 (2017)

Ep 1 When I saw these mean-looking guys walking around with thick wooden sticks I thought at first I'd pressed the wrong button and this was a prison drama, but no, it was School 2017. So anyone still in hi-school should probably give K. a miss. Eun Ho character especially good, Kim Se Jung has vitality and looks and so far the best storyline. From ep.3 whew this is drawing me in, not just the usual hi school tropes. Tae Woon becoming much more interesting as a character beneath that boorish exterior, but the sensitive Dae Hwi driven to crisis of values is an important character in a different way. The principal with the gorgon glare who looks like a cross between a pit bull and a vampire but with brain of Daffy Duck is hilarious, while the idealistic young teacher (Han Joo Wan) is attractive. This is really cutting to the heart of some important themes as outlined in the reviews. It stretches believability that such corruption really operates in schools, but it does in business organisations, so are school administrations any different? TBH I find some of the romance verging on soppiness but I suppose that's what the audience likes. The other weak spot in the story, which a lot of the plot centres around to keep the story going, is Eun Ho's relentless self-sacrificing mindset which in the real world would appear nothing short of masochism to the point of being abnormal. For this reason I liked her at the start but my interested faded. The boys, on the other hand, grew in my estimation. Others have commented on the totally unrealistic nature of the story. But if you come to a fictional drama, you have to suspend disbelief, don't you? Whether you are willing to invest time in doing so for any given drama is a matter of your particular taste. I don't think it's in any sense a spoiler (because this is so predictable) to say that as usual with even good dramas the ending is what in my universe I term a "flop" - a neatly-wrapped sentimental package. Can't go into detail unfortunately. Music jolly, typical school drama, nothing special. Will re-watch to catch some of the strands possibly missed in the opening episodes (which seemed a struggle) but for me the interest ends at the penultimate episode.

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Completely Dreadful

As you can tell from the heading and overall score, you can probably tell that this is going to be a negative and critical review. Please bear with me~

Regarding the story, I felt like it was just a basic high school story of "the rich bad boy falls in love with the poor hard working girl" trope. The only thing that made me raise the score a teeny bit was the side romances, the soundtrack, the fact that it actually had a real plot (the X student) going on.

The thing that made this drama really bad was the cast and characters. Let's talk about character first. I've never seen so many characters with such bad development. Literally every person in this show is a jerk. Starting with Eun Ho--she is literally the worst friend I have ever seen. I am a strong believer that one should pick best friends over boyfriends, and she did the exact opposite. In the first few episodes, she was always seen talking with her best friend, but once she got a boyfriend, there was 0 seconds of screen time showing their interaction anymore. It's like she forgot she even had a best friend. She never even tried to understand her friend a tiny bit. Second, Hyun Tae Woon was the worst of them all. He was obsessive, abusive, selfish and the biggest jerk with a hero syndrome. Everyone else was either too funny or not funny at all, but they are not as bad as the main leads so I won't mention them. Moving on to the cast, I came for Sejeong but stayed for Han Sun Hwa and Seorina. The acting wasn't bad on anyone's part, but it wasn't enjoyable either. Whoever casted them did a really bad job with the leads but okay with the side characters. Casting Kim Jung Hyun was a big mistake because he looks 20 years older than the average 18-year old student. Lee Jong Won (Taewoon's dad) also looks too young and too indifferent; he doesn't quite get the "bad" character concept past. Sejeong was alright - as in this wasn't her best work as she was just a rookie at this time. I also don't get the point of adding Rowoon; I feel like they just did that to attract more attention to the drama because his character had absolutely no value to the story. The rest of the cast was either acceptable or great (Sun Hwa and Seorina).

Overall, I would NOT recommend this drama.

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Kim Se Jeong has facial expressions so much like Gu Hye Seon

Kim Se Jeong has facial expressions so much like Gu Hye Seon that I thought there was a chance Kim could be her daughter. At least that's what I observed in the first few episodes. This my first time in the School series. While others are disappointed, I thought it okay, so far. I get the feeling I might be disappointed about the previous School series, because of expectations from my perspective after watching this. Who knows if one series can influence an opinion about others? Even my opinions are subjective depending on my mood. Speaking of series, there was Star Wars memorabilia in the room of the lead actor. The new 2 new Star Wars series on Disney has not disappointed , until you get to the end, where you want more.

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I watched the previous parts in one breath, and in this episode I was drawn a step away from abandoning. After the first few good episodes, somewhere from the middle, the story began to limp. I started to watch because of the promised thread of mystery, but he was weak too, scriptwriters as the main theme gave us mischief of a bored kid who wanted to punish a corrupt system in his school. Apparently, the ingenious execution could not attract my attention for longer. The only thing that forced me to get to the end of the drama is the desire to watch how the road to the main union ends.

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Awesome

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It seems I'm the only one who's not into this drama seeing how many stars this series is getting. I made it up to episode 2 - ish. Well ish because I gave up half way. Maybe I'm just getting pickier now that I'm older.

The thing that got me is the heroine personality (not hating on the actress because surprisingly she's good). Its her character I have a problem with, I kinda wish she was the type that don't need someone to "rescue" her. I can almost predict what's going to happen before it did like in the first episode when the heroine fell from her bike and oh so romantically the hero was there to help and in second episode where I was hoping she would stand up when the wannabe mean girls clique confronted her. But instead yes you guess it the second guy was there to help. I was rolling my eyes so hard I could almost see part of my brain that actually care.

I do however like the main leads interactions. I even laugh few time.

*sigh* Maybe because I wasn't in the mood to watch these kind of plot after reading too many books with strong characters.

Will I be watching this again? I don't know. Maybe.. when and if I finally found my mood.

Couldn't appreciate the music since I only made it to episode 1 and a half.
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**this is my opinion and rambling to remind me in case I forgot why I watch this or in this case - gave up.

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I cant stand it

I started watching this drama when it was airing, I'm a big fan of the saga "School", so I was so exited about this drama, but at that time I couldn't finish it because it was so frustrate for me since episode 1. Of course when I decided to drop it I didn't know Sejeong was there (either Roowon) so, yesterday I decided to give it another chance and idk if it's 'cause I'm 25 years old, maybe I'm too old for this kind of dramas, (wich it can't be, cause when I watched it for the first time I was 18, their age and i didn't like it either) but I can't stand it anymore.

Sejeong's character got me on my nerves, I think she is WAY SO dumb and the fact she was always on the way it's ridiculous. I mean anything bad situation that was happening she was there and was acused unfairly. Also I hated professors, they were so corrupt that got me on my nerves too (maybe more that sejeong's character)

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