Kate

the dedication to create a whole new account just to write this review 🤣

Chu calling me stupid, you saying I lack comprehensive skills, yet I come across as a jerk 🤣
You can come back saying I am a jerk when you stop using personal insults as your arguments.

I mean... I have not seen the eps, but let people complain and point out things they deem as important.

One could say you got triggered about people getting triggered 🙂

When no one is in fact triggered. Everyone just complains about things that annoy them or they disagree with. They about representation about Africa, you about their comments.

I love how people who use feeds have a different reaction to the comment compared to people who don't 🤣

If majority of the audience is confused and majority of the questions presented in the show were not answered by the last episode, it's just bad writing. Not lack of neurons in the viewers brain.

The production team is obviously not sure if there will be 2nd season. If they were, they would announce it right away. So setting up this kind of ending when you are not sure you can deliver 2nd season to explain anything about the plot is just bullshit for me.

it does not need that much screen time tho.
I also heard Kang Jin Ah is not even in the animated version so it's obviously not that needed to make the story whole and complete and give the viewers all the necessary info ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"A "shitty" drama that entertains me is going to get a higher rating from me than a "good" drama that bores me." < not always the case with me, but damn I rate to that sentence with a few titles I rated high, even tho logically speaking I knew they ain't it 🤣

Great review :) Honestly speaking, IF they from the start said it will have more than once season, I might have rated higher, but since they presented it as a solo project with not even hints of possible 2nd season during the promotion, I judge it as such 🙃

I hate when companies make a show with the idea of it having 2nd season, so they don't give a proper ending, BUT they don't announce the 2nd season, because it will only happen if the show gets enough attention.

If you want to play it safe, you gotta make sure if you can't deliver that 2nd season, the ending of season 1 is still at least a little bit satisfying,...

If from the start they said it will have more seasons, I would be fine-ish with what I got. I still believe one season should give some answers, and introduce new question, but here we only got more and more questions.

Since there was no info about 2nd season, I take it as a stand-alone production, and damn it sucks. It had non-existing ending. I cannot help it, I feel disappointed and robbed of my time 🤣

She tried to 'free" him from the pain he was feeling. She had issues too.

Hwang Kyung Min is the killer. We know it from episode 1 tbh.
As for the wife, for now they said she tried to killer herself and him, and that's canon unless they give a plot twists in last 2 episodes.

It's just the way you framed with words him killing his best friend as "making bad decision" while calling bullied too evil to be real did not quite sit right with me. I might have read too much into your comment, it just felt like you were excusing his bad actions, while condemning harshly the actions of bullies, when with proper framing they were all both victims and perpetrators and results of the toxic environment they grew up in.
The true evil was the teacher tho.

by that logic the bullies in his class were also victims of abuse since they were bullied and beaten up by the upper classmates. If we excuse him killing Cheolie coz he was bullied badly, we should excuse technically less severe actions (aka bullying others) as a result of them trying to survive in the toxic environment after being bullied themselves.

Pretty sure majority of the current abusers were victims of abuse themselves. One can be victim and perpetrator at the same time. While he needs help dealing with his past trauma, he needs to pay for his past actions too - be it even symbolic by admitting to what he did at least to the victim's family and getting suspended from work for messing up the investigation and getting involved in the investigation even after all his severe lacks of judgements based on his past traumas.

The issue it, the useless investigation and everything around Jin Ah takes 1/3 of the show, making it good at best. If I have to skip 1/3 of the show, is the show really good? Any show is a masterpiece if I skip all the parts I don't like or are poorly written 🤣🤣

I have to say, half of the show is amazing, half of the show is awful.
Everything about the post bullying and now the revenge is awesome.
All the investigation is extremely poorly written it makes me laugh.
Everyone involved in the investigation is either annoying, dumb or insignificant .

I like though, how it shows whenever you are a victim or the perpetrator depends on the perspective, and with episode 10 it kind of shows most of these teens were both (yes, it includes all the bullies from their class).

The only person who was evil and not a victim even 0.000001% was the homeroom teacher/principal or whatever he was at the school.

Let people drop it 4 seconds in episode 1 if they want to. It's not like it affects anyone.
If they dislike one character after 2 episodes and want to drop? Valid. It's not like we have to wait another few months for a new drama to come out. Each country is dropping new content all the time, why watch something that makes them frustrated, when they can watch something they will enjoy from the start?

It's not that deep. I dropped dramas 8 minutes in episode 1 in the past ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Relax, it's not that deep. I dropped dramas 8 minutes in episode 1 coz they "did not feel right" 🤣 With the number of dramas coming out from all the countries, people don't have to "watch more to see if they will like it later" if they can pick another drama they will love from the start.

There is literally no reason to call people names just coz they dropped drama early on based on one aspect they disliked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"I suppose in BL it takes a man who has lived 3 lifetimes to actually understand that conversation is what’s required to make a relationship work. " < omg this is so true 🤣

I agree that the romance was underdeveloped. They were not a couple and the next scene they were, and the next scene they broke up and I felt like nothing led to any of this things to even happen.

You are right about the ending. There was no satisfying conclusion as we never saw them actually talk it out etc. They were just crying and then they were back together 🙃

There were so many ways they could have gone with this plot, and they went nowhere. I feel like this would work way better as a short movie, woth many things left for the interpretation of the viewer. Coz this type of plot you either have to keep vague so people can add their own meaning to it, or go into detail and depth, which they could not do with such a short format...

Anyway, wasted potential it was.