In the end, High Society is let down by its refusal to try anything new and moving. The bold angle it goes for is one that leaves me confused weeks after finishing the series—being poor and ambitious is wrong, especially if you use rich people to get your way. I acknowledge that the rich people in this series frankly deserve a lot of what comes their way, but I hardly think acting like the desperation of the poor is on the same level of the purposelessness of the rich is anything brave or controversial, or something worth putting into a medium like this to convince your audience of that "truth".

I can sympathize with Uee, though she loses points when she starts blatantly using her chaebol status to get what she wants even though that goes against... her entire... mission statement... and the second leads are adorable, if only because they aren't allowed to do a lot outside of occupy typical rich boy - poor girl drama. The music is fine, the chaebol drama was fucking boring, and the details of the male main lead's home life are the only thing I care about. His parents are adorable, that is all.