Home School

Plot is good. But story direction? Bad. Confusing and scattered

Home School" starts off pretty cool, with this mysterious boarding school vibe and a bunch of interesting characters. You get hooked trying to figure out what's up with Maki searching for her lost brother. The whole thing with the masters adds a good dose of suspense too.

But, gotta be real, the ending kind of drops the ball. It's like the writers lost their way or something. Leaves you feeling a bit unsatisfied, like they could've done better.

Still, it's not all bad. The characters keep things interesting, and you're always curious about what's gonna happen next. It's a bit of an emotional rollercoaster – some parts are good, some are meh. Overall, it's okay, but you might wish they wrapped it up better.

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I thoroughly enjoy the series; however, I had hoped for more focus on the camaraderie among the entire gen6 student group. While there were a few noticeable plot holes, I am optimistic that a potential second season could address these issues with the new generation of students. I must applaud the actor who portrayed Master Prasath – his performance was truly remarkable. He deserves recognition and an award for his outstanding portrayal. Despite the divisive nature of his character, he executed it flawlessly, evoking strong reactions from the audience.

The inclusion of the twin brother's role was a stroke of brilliance as they provided a much-needed balance between humor and the show's underlying tragedies. A special mention goes to Indy, who performed exceptionally well despite being a rookie. The series' commendable exploration of societal issues such as misogyny, corruption, and the struggles of the working class is praiseworthy.

I extend my sincere appreciation to the dedicated individuals behind the scenes who tirelessly brought this series to life. A special shoutout to the director, Fon – your consistently exceptional work never fails to impress. I am hopeful that this show garners the attention it deserves, as it is truly a worthwhile watch.

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Great dark academia Story but I have no idea where it went wrong

Jumped into the story because it starred all the actors I knew and the prospect of watching them play as fellow high school mates felt exciting to me.

Had a great start. I loved how they tried to build up a slow-burn suspense. The drama kept me questioning and had me on edge because I was too curious to know what was happening behind the facade of Home School.

But somewhere along the story went all wrong. The ending screwed up. so the poor review score is mostly because of the poor execution of a good story.
I hyped myself up because of all the actors I loved and now I'm highly disappointed in the drama.

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Interesting idea that could not stick the landing

A wonderful cast and characters with so much potential, but the overall story was fumbled. The motivations and ideologies of the headmasters were widely unclear and seemed to change randomly and their redemption arcs, if they can even be called that, were unearned and made no sense. And the message they were trying to send of “fighting violence with violence will turn you into a monster” just falls on its face when the person your fighting against is a crazy man with no conscious who is going to kill you and you’re trapped in the middle of the woods. In my opinion, that is a perfectly good time to kill someone

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School Menace is Crazy! Haha. Started VERY WELL but left with a BAD IMPRESSION in the END!

Initially, it is VERY INTERESTING n Gripping.
(waited every week to watch it, when I was hospitalized, uff those days! )

FUN TO WATCH the ENSEMBLE CAST.

Every Character is Lovable.
EVERY ACTOR ACTED WELL .
Chimon as autistic, acted well.

This school has a crazy violent way of teaching its students :o

And the students:
Some of them are ready to fight all the time , YOUNG REBELS! Haha.
Simple n Soft teenagers too, turned into young rebels bcz of the school's eccentric methods of teaching n struggling to survive the school menace and violence throughout the school life :) :(
YOUNG REBELS everywhere !😂

The school's / teachers' way of teaching its students is CRAZY - Training them by Bringing out the dark bad angle in a student / young person , so that the person can survive in any sort of good or worse condition in future n in Life!
This concept is So Strange n it's completely a Crazy way of teaching a young person to survive in life! :o

***
Anyways, as the episodes progress, most of them are just CONTENT FILLERS , kept dragging n got boring.
STRUGGLED TO FINISH this series! :/

And so my final impression is "Started VERY WELL but left with a BAD IMPRESSION in the END!'

***
Could have wrapped this in 10-12 eps, instead of 18.
If so, my rating would be 8.5/10 but now it's just 6.5 .

Wanted to give 8+ for all my fav ensemble cast in this and their performances :)
But since there is a lot of Repetitive content in these 18 eps, Just bcz of it, rated low n not for the actors' performances n sad to give a bad rating to my fav actors' show.

If the same story would have concluded in 12 eps like the usual Thai dramas' duration, definitely it would be 8+ :)

Since it is star-studded (most of the gmmtv actors are in this :) ), Gave a try.
Leaving the repetitive content, U can GIVE a TRY, just for your fav actors! :)
(Most of these actors have individual fandoms)
Except the repetitive content, remaining, U'll love it (like Me) :)

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Home School Feels More Like A 'Home' Than A 'School'

Wow! As a person who loves shows like The Gifted, this was just another masterpiece from GMMTV. I was intrigued when I first saw the trailer. In Home School, we have an ensemble cast with a solid storyline. Each actor/actress did their role with absolute perfection. But, we need to give shoutout to some people -

Well, Gun can't be forgotten. He is iconic as always. At this point, he needs to be given an Oscar. He proves his acting range every time with his roles. And he definitely suits these dark roles.

The actors playing Master Amin and Master Prasath deserve recognition. Especially, Prasath nailed his role with such ease and efficiently made me hate him.

Chimon as the autistic character Pennhung was just perfect. And I really liked the character development and redemption arc of Love as Pheng. I appreciate the AJ/JJ twins as well since in this show they got their well-deserved screen time. And Khaotung rocked those 2 minutes.

If you are looking for romance, then there's not much here. But, Jamie and Kay had great romantic scenes.

This series gave many life lessons, what differentiates a home and a school and mostly, what is the potential of love and friendship. People who love philosophy will find meanings in this show.

The background score was absolute perfection but sadly I don't see any official release of the music online.

Overall: 8.5/10. Worth one re-watch, if not more.

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Homeschool Review

Personally I enjoyed this drama, I thought the story was good and the cast was fun.


Praiseworthy:

Cast/Characters: I thought the cast was great, all of the characters are interesting on some level. I liked the squad (Maki, White, Nai, and Tibet). I like how they acted as the mediators between all the other students. I also like how every character gets a background so that you can understand what they’re going through.

Fuji: I feel like she’s underrated, I really like her character and her background was interesting. I also like her attitude and the emotion that View puts into saying her lines. She really give: off the sassy vibe, but has a kind heart.

Mek and Mork: I thought they were a funny duo. I also like their background.
Kinda underused though.

JingJai and Hugo: I thought their relationship was cute and that their actors had cute chemistry.

Biw: Nothing much to say about Biw. Good character development and her friendship with Phleng is cute.

Acting: The acting was on point. I mean yeah some actors fell short, but to be honest when I was watching I didn’t notice anything unusual or anything that felt off. Jane,Gun, and Chimon spot on as per usual.

Romance: I thought the romance was fine and couples seem to have good chemistry with each other.


Critiques:

The Story: I thought the story was fine. I wish they’d dived deeper into the mystery and eerie aspect of Home School. Other than that I thought the story was fine.

Biw and Jean: Personally I thought their chemistry was hit or miss. They didn’t really interact with each other that much other than that one time where they sat together. I would have preferred if Fuji and Jean got to together because I’m a sucker for “From Enemies to Lovers”.

Jean: I think Jean’s character was underused. He was kinda just there in the background, but I did like him and Fuji’s dynamic. Especially during the Snake game when Fuji and Jean got into an argument.

Phleng and Pennhung: I thought their dynamic was cute however I would have preferred if they weren’t a couple, but rather just platonic friends.

Tibet: I thought Tibet’s character was good, but sometimes he’s just too monotone and quiet. Kind of felt like a npc (no hate towards the actor).

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A nice watch

This had been on my list for a while, as someone who loved The Gifted. For the most part, this was enjoyable and well-written, and all the side characters were fleshed out.

Its biggest drawback, I’d say, is the pacing. While it may be consistent and steady, it’s SLOW. Especially in the first few episodes, it feels like it takes the characters a very long time to figure things out, and it also gets a little repetitive with all the characters acting similarly in how they question the Masters. Even Maki wasn’t doing much with her backstory.

As the drama went on, and Run played a bigger role, I think that was, for the most part, fixed. I enjoyed gradually getting the backstories of all the side characters and learning about the school’s origins. The pacing was still a little slow, but I didn’t mind it as much.

I, however, do wish the drama was a little braver with its themes. The “don’t sink to their level” and “be a good person” theme has been seen in a lot of Thai dramas, like The Gifted. While it’s definitely a valid worldview in the real world (and one I hope many people follow), it unfortunately makes for boring television. Our main characters are tossed around by the antagonists who are actually willing to do things that move the plot forward. And the stakes also feel lower because we know that nothing is going to end up happening to them — after all, they have to be rewarded for their goodness in the end.

Ultimately, I still enjoyed this one a lot. Though I think it could’ve been a bit more compressed and more extreme, the themes are good, the ships are subtle but cute, and the story is well-written.

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Slow Burn Thriller

For some reason I binge things multiple times before I write a review.

This one I have seen twice and am on round three.

Why?

Because it's like one of those classic old timey thrillers that slowly unravels the plot and gets more and more intense and twisted until the Final Buildup when you scream "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?"

And I did scream that.

Several times.

I knocked off one star for just a few little things:

There are fourteen leads in this show.

FOURTEEN.

And all of them kill their roles but I can see why managing a plot with fourteen main characters can make the plot drag just a little bit.

And it did drag just a little bit--there were at least two episodes where it just felt like a Plot Placeholder. Maybe cutting it down from 18 episodes to 14 would have helped, but even the Filler Episodes had some great little moments, and we did kind of need to know that background of all fourteen of these kids in order to understand their actions and attitudes, so there you go.

Also, while I didn't do shots every time I heard the words "Home School" in a single episode, I did start counting during one episode and ran out of fingers and toes in about fifteen minutes(that's just one segment of a 45 minutes show).

HOWEVER

I love me an old fashioned type thriller and this was it!

There was plenty of mystery and unanswered questions that were tied up nicely(for the most part) and there were plenty of comedic(thank you JJ and AJ) and a couple of swoon worthy moments too(like, can Kay and Jamie be a couple in another series? Because EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE)

Every character was human.

There was a lot of gray in every one of the students and I felt for all of them once I knew why they behaved the way they did. Jingjai and Hugo's backstory was more heartbreaking than I expected and I wanted to hug them as much as shake them for the rest of the series.

Even the villain (which was actually pretty easy to spot) was someone who thought he had a good reason for his actions(even if it was twisted, it made sense to him and that's what makes villains like this creepy.

Some people don't like Nani or his acting, but I think this genre is PERFECT for him.

True, Nani doesn't overreact or over-emote; he plays everything very subtly and very close to the chest and this type of character he was playing fit him to a tea. GMM should give him more characters like this because Nani is one of those actors who can make characters like Tibet(who seem to push down their emotions to avoid being hurt) really interesting. And Tibet's final confrontation with Prasath was FABULOUS!!!

Dew and Jane were fantastic as Nai and White(the side romantic couple). Watching them dance around their feelings for each other was super fun.

Nani and Film as Tibet and Maki where the nice kind of main romantic couple that didn't have the drama to deal with an felt natural in the friends to lovers trope, which can sometimes fall on it's ass, but this time it didn't.

Chimon STOLE THE SHOW for me.

Pennueng was so adorable I wanted to give him a hug and Chimon's performance was spot on--so much so that my brother walked in while I was watching and thought Chimon was actually on the Spectrum, and I had to get my brother to Google Chimon to prove that he wasn't.

The climax was almost perfect. I'm a little bit sick of the girl always getting hurt and needing to be saved by the guy, and kinda wished Tibet or Nai or White or even Run got shot instead of Maki, so that Maki could confront one of the baddies the same way that Run(with Champ) and Tibet(with Prasath) did, but hey, sometimes the soapy trope works better and I suppose this could be one of those times.

Plus, I did love that Run was able to hypnotize Champ with the click of a pen and force Champ to punch himself into a bloody pulp, so that made up a little bit for the girl gets hurt and guy takes revenge trope.

"Home School" was fun and would make a great low-key Halloween rewatch, which I'm totally going to do now.

Ignore the flaws and give this show a shot--it's worth it.

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