Hakgyo 2017

I liked it a lot because it brought out a very important aspect of our present time and very well. Now there is corruption in many schools that middle class families have to fall prey to. The family has to struggle a lot to educate the children of these families in a good educational institution, but even then the educational institutions only give all kinds of facilities to the elite students and threaten to kick the rest out of the school so that they accept all the wrongdoings of the school committee without any protest. I think this series has highlighted these issues through a very beautiful story. Also, many good aspects of friendship are also revealed here.

Out of interest for the stars you may be interested to check out their early performances. They display charisma enough to make them stand out. Kim Jung Hyun from Crash Landing looks a little too grown up for a high schooler here. Jang Dong Yoon of Search is a good actor. Kim Se Jeong is pretty here and her look is better than in Uncanny Counter. The story is weak and doesn't say anything new. Bad people in charge of schools is familiar and boring. Rich vs poor has also been done before. The Pranskter X isn't a story that should stretch out so long. The love story didn't evolve in a natural clever way. And the violence storyline also felt tacked on. When they ran out of one plot line they moved on to another bun didn't develop them together in a clever integrated way. Skip this one. School 2015 was better and that isn't saying much.

School 2017 has a lighthearted story. Good writing. But not the best. Raising the issues of schoolchildren is an interesting point when the romance aspect is less memorable for me.

I watched the first episode and didn't think much of it as i left school quite a bit ago and felt a bit past this. Two months later i watched episode 2, and i'm so glad i did! Admittedly Korean schools are different to Australian schools, but fundamentally the friendships and the crazy parents/staff are exactly the same, and the kids fight the system just as hard. It took me back to high school and i loved the friendships, the fights, the plotting, the storyline and really ended up enjoying the series. Watch it, don't give up like i nearly did! The eye candy, horrible, rebellious and the kids that 'aren't quite there' make it great too because that is in every school too, wherever in the world you are.

As the heading suggests it is childish and the acting is not great. The actors might have been capable of doing better acting but i cant say anything for sure since the script and plot was trash. It was not a very well planned out drama and was super rushed. I cringed a few timed but it wasn't thAt cringy overall.