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They haven't confirmed anything about a third season (Lee Eun-saem literally said this too). Everything was pretty much resolved one way or the other. And, besides, what the heck are they gonna do in a third season? They've basically taken down all the corrupt people involved with the school, and they can't actually leave that school behind, because the Korean title is literally Cheongdam International High School.

They didn't forgive him, and everybody knew he was guilty. Hye-in literally said so to Do-eon. They just didn't have any proof to take him down with, so they used him to take down Yul-hee instead. The ending literally implied that Do-eon is going after Woo-jin, so I wouldn't really say he's getting away, he merely thinks he did.

Here's something that always bothered me with this drama: for a drama that feels like it should be centered around the dynamic of Hye-in and Je-na, it rarely feels like that's actually the case. It already bothered me in S1, but it's worse here because this season is way less focused than S1 was. Like, why the heck does Je-na have more scenes with a guy that's not even connected to the main story than she does with the actual co-protagonist of the damn drama? It's like there was some kinda mandate that said they can't have more than 5 minutes of screentime together in an episode (and even 5 minutes would be a lot).

He was a boring waste of space that added nothing except take away screentime from the people that actually mattered. He's just there to look hot and mysterious 95% of the time, as if they desperately wanted people on social media to make edits about him. Quite frankly, he's a walking cliché with none of the fun or trashiness to make it work. He's so detached from everything that's going on too that the drama has to actively look for ways on how to involve him, and none of those ways really amount to anything. He technically has a story involving his family, but that literally never develops into anything substantial, and it remains seperated from everything else until the very end. Yeah, I guess he's Black Dog, but how was that in any way important or relevant? I guess he used it to take down villains nobody cared about, so congrats I guess?

And he drags down Je-na with him too. Her strongest moment are whenever she's not around him. Their romance feels forced, as if it has to be thrown in our faces constantly instead of actually developing something in a subtle or organic way.

I'm not saying this is Kim Min-kyu's fault, and I'm not even saying that him and Je-na don't have chemistry. The problem is the writing and the directing, which were at it's worst whenever he was around.

Probably just something Hye-in wouldn't be able to refuse, not sure that really matters honestly. Je-na wants Hye-in to work with her, and she ain't taking no for an answer, which I kinda love.

Well, at least we got an ending. I don't see that last scene as a cliffhanger honestly. I just interpret it as Je-na wanting to coax Hye-in into working with her, one way or the other. I don't think this warrants a third season, nor do I think it is necessary given most stuff was wrapped up here.

But, honestly, this season was a mixed bag. Too much focus on Jin-wook, who never really amounted to anything. Yeah, I guess he kinda took down the adults, but did anybody care about them to begin with? It's like the drama desperately wanted him to be important, yet they never actually found out how to make him important.

Je-na's best moments were always when she wasn't around Jin-wook (which, sadly, was most of the time). It's like her own personal stories (her rivalry with Yul-hee, her stepmom, ...) took a backseat in favor of forcing a romance between her and Jin-wook. The best thing about this story is that the drama was smart enough to ship him overseas so Je-na could be single and stand on her own.

I could complain about Sa-rang being usesless, but he was just as useless as So-mang, so I guess it runs in the family.

I really liked the stuff that carried over from S1, but the drama got too distracted by new stuff and new characters, that the whole thing just became all over the place. It's a shame really, but at least I'm mostly satisfied with the ending we got?

That episode 9 ending is such a "oh, f*ck off" type of cliffhanger. Though at least now I'm pretty sure Hye-in is not gonna frame Je-na. Regardless, can we actually center the finale around them, please? Like, enough of all these evil parents and other random characters, just focus on the characters the drama started out with at this point.

Quite frankly, I don't know what's more messed up: selling babies for a million, or Se-hui wanting her 14-year old daughter to carry a baby as a surrogate.

Also, Hae-in was far from perfect, but she did not deserve this. Like, what the heck even? I get they needed something to serve as a big catalyst for Hye-in, but surely there must've been another way? Those last few minutes were so hard to watch.

I'm really hoping that Hye-in & Je-na end up standing together at the end of all this. Like, we get all these small moments of support, and them caring for each other, and I really need that to pay off somehow. Because otherwise what's the point? Like, I'm getting kinda tired of them giving the guys these moments where they "save" the girls (mostly so the drama can then pretend they're relevant), when I just want to see Hye-in and Je-na really stick up for each other. We've had two seasons of build-up at this point, time to pay it off!

Honestly, I always felt like this was more of ensemble drama where the traditional "first lead or second lead" rules don't necessarily apply. That's how it should continue imo.

Kinda funny how it feels like the entire point of the Je-na drug storyline was to cut her off from her momey so she could have a sleepover with Hye-in. They literally wrapped that plot up immediately after.

Same. I kept expecting something or someone to interrupt them. And then you see him walking out of the room closing his pants. That's the moment I realized I underestimated how dark this drama would get.

I mean, shooting somebody in cold blood isn't exactly something most people want to do. He's a killer, she's not.

I'm assuming he jumped/ crawled out of the car, considering we never actually saw a body either before or after the car exploded. I'm choosing to stick to the classic "no body, no death" rule.

Random thought, but I'm so used to hearing shoddy English in kdramas that I'm genuinely shocked to hear some actually decent English here.

Why am I shipping Sang-gi and his boss? And that scene from the preview certainly isn't helping.

And he still can't. At this point it's only a matter of time before somebody else falls off a roof lol.

I'm hoping we're not heading for a "well, actually, the parents are the real evil" type of ending, because I really don't care about them.

I think that's mostly a problem this season has, while S1 was mostly able to get away with it. Sa-rang is literally just So-mang's replacement, Do-eon just doesn't have much to do this season sadly, and Jin-wook's entire reason for existing is so people would make tiktok's about him (he's by far the worst offender in this regard). The women are clearly running the show though, but that's also why the forced romance this season bothers me so much: it's like the writer and director suddenly aren't confident enough that these women can carry the show on their own so they have to give people a romance to swoon over.