DefyingDestiny:
I'm just very uncomfortable with gruesome bullying storylines...my heart can't take it. I stay away from Kdrama bully stories. I don't think I'm ever going to watch The Glory, even though it's highly recommended
I'm watching Unchained Love and I might drop it. Its nice and I'm enjoying it but I feel like I don't like the main characters. They don't have the moral high ground and they come off as self-righteous and selfish and Dylan Wang's face card can carry me only so far!!
All the shows I feel like I would be able to watch haven't aired yet?...
I just went to rewatch the first episode (The Glory Part 1). Here is how to skip the brutal bullying part--Watch the beginning to the 7 minute mark. This is a good beginning so you can't skip it--you see her (Present Day) driving into town with calm, soothing music on :). Then SKIP TO THE 27th minute because that missing half hour is a flashback to the bully days. The 27th minute on is still flashback but the violence is gone. The first thing you see is the FL (young) accepting the fact that her mother had abandoned her and that her dreams of being an architect was gone. The you see her bullies still at school with a new victim. Then you see the FL's last confrontation with her bullies and then...it begins :).
Just imagine the missing part as how the FL was targeted because she was poor and without protection from parent and teacher. No one helped her while she was being bullied and when she was forced to withdraw from school because of the pain and suffering, she found out that her mother had been bribed to sign the reason of her withdrawal away so the school would not investigate the rich kids.