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Definitely still a BL but definitely coulda made it gayer ahah
I think the other reviews are a little harsh but I definitely do understand the disappointment. It is objectively still definitely a BL because the show is about two guys liking each other. and it was such a sweet story. but so slowly paced it’s like they we’re avoiding putting anything actually gay into the show. A bit off putting and slightly dull for that. The ending in particular was so sweet and fulfilling, I was happy seeing the ending we got eventually. But I understand and am with everyone’s disappointment at how the show was laid out, I get it. Still an overall lovely show and BRILLIANT casting. I think ahn ji ho is a cracker of an actor having seen him in other shows like move to heaven. I hope he had a wildly successful career to match his acting talents.Was this review helpful to you?
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not great but it has its merits
I should say right off that I haven't read the manhwa, and it sounds like the series veered pretty far from it. As a series, it's light and funny, and I really enjoyed Ahn Ji-ho as Hee-su. There is the usual misunderstandings, missed moments of communication, and silliness mixed with heartache. As others have mentioned, the main couple (Hee-su and Seung-won) do not get the screen time they deserved. Instead of one interesting side couple, it felt like there were too many couples and too many side stories ... Hee-su was constantly leaving and arriving at his house and not a lot happened for him in between. Ahn Ji-ho is both funny and heartbreaking, and the voice over has some gems in it. It's a great scene when the main couple *finally* clears things up and get together. But then ... it ends. I loved the sisters, who were hilarious and showed a lot of love as a family, but their stories needed trimming, too. I needed a light show and this one fit the bill at the time, though I won't watch it again.Was this review helpful to you?
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Did the Most Anticipated BL adaptation live upto the Expectations??
Love is a vast universe of moments — some that shatter us, some that heal us, all of them helping us grow.Heesu in Class 2 captures this tender truth with breathtaking grace.
Adapted from the beloved webtoon Heesu in Class 2 by Lily Zuzu, this Korean BL drama is a heartfelt exploration of first love, growing up, and finding the courage to be yourself. Streaming now on Viki, the series stars Ahn Ji Ho as Lee Hee Su, a self-proclaimed dating expert who’s ironically never been in a relationship. Nursing a long-time crush on his best friend Joo Chan Young (played by Cho Jun Young), Hee Su’s world is shaken when he begins to realize that love, like life, doesn’t always unfold the way we expect.
The early episodes introduce a web of connections: Chan Young, who struggles with his own feelings; Kim Seung Won (Lee Sang Jun), the quiet class president who secretly loves Hee Su; and Choi Ji Yu (Kim Do Yeon), whose growing bond with Chan Young adds another layer of complexity. The ensemble cast brings raw, nuanced performances, portraying the messy, tangled emotions of youth with refreshing honesty.
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Good drama but WAYYYY TO LONG
I got really hooked on the characters from the start, in fact I was more for Heesu x Chan young, but as the episodes went on, I was really captivated by Seung Won and his beguin for Heesu. Unfortunately the series is too long for the content, so a season 2 is inevitable. Even the side story about heesu's sisters, I didn't follow anything, same for chanyoung's tennis maths which have nothing to do with the confession scenes in ep 9, I was just passing them by. In short, I'm so hooked on the characters that I couldn't resist just one season, this kdrama/bl is worth a 7/10.Was this review helpful to you?
Disappointing Straight Washing series
As someone who read the novel I felt this show was really underwhelming.I know that they had to dilute the story so it could appease Korean public, but it made Heesu look pretty much like a support character in his own series.
So let's dive into it without spoilers.
The series has a promising start with the I fell in love with X by mistake or unintentionally, it is a common trope and it if explored correctly it would be amazing.
The case is, it wasn't, they switched the order of some reveals including confessing to X, they didn't leave the ending ambiguous as if X was in fact in love with Heesu from the beginning and they had a unnecessary couple that took too much screentime.
They also changed several plot points which hurt the actual script and made little to no sense. In the end they are left with a stark bland adaptation that could have been one of the best series in a while, but got lost in interpretation.
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adaptation that didn't adapt much
I have been a long time fan of the manhwa, so i had high expectations to be honest. I don't consider it bad but i think the story drifted away waaaaay too much from the original plot (which was perfect, the manhwa is very well written and has a good pace i love it). To be fair, it was entertaining and the acting was very good!! i feel like the essence of heesu at least was very well captured but i just can't put aside the fact that so many crucial scenes were cutoff from the plot to the point where the main relationships at times felt like a side one........Was this review helpful to you?
Don't read the webtoon before
Usually I don't write reviews but I'm so disappointed in this series that I needed to say something. I read the webtoon before watching it and probably it was a mistake because I ended up watching something entirely different from the original BL. First of all the characters, Heesu is quite irritanting, so much that I get annoyed when he is in the story, he seems a bully who only cares for his best friend and wants to get Seungwon a girlfriend so desperately that he even comes out as forceful and rude, Ji Yu was nothing like this in the original story and some relationships don't even exist. No character in the webtoon is so irritating, snob or annoying like in this series. I recommed you to read the bl which is very funny and cute but I don't recommed watching this series at allWas this review helpful to you?
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Two Bros Sittin' In A Bench 5 Feet Apart 'Cause They're Gay (?)
I went into Heesu in Class 2 without knowing the webtoon, no expectations, and only a handful of other Korean series to compare it with. None of those were exactly the same genre, but they shared that familiar mix: a lad figuring out his sexuality, messy confessions, dumb misunderstandings, and a soft landing at the end. The show definitely delivers that kind of comfortable, frustrating, fluffy emotional ride.What surprised me most was how much attention the secondary couples and plots received. That’s not inherently a bad choice, since plenty of shows juggle multiple relationships well, but here it felt like it came at the expense of the main story. The series is named after Lee Heesu, yet more often than not, it felt like Ju Chan-yeong and Choi Ji-yu were the real central couple. Heesu’s journey sometimes slipped into the background, which is a bit ironic considering how much of his story is about being unseen.
Acting-wise, though, everyone was great. The cast sold every feeling, and the actor playing Heesu in particular really carried the emotional weight he was given. You can also feel the higher production value compared to many similar Korean LGBTQ+ shows, which still often have to do a lot with limited resources when queer stories are involved.
I picked this series up mainly for two reasons: the gay romance tag and the longer format. Ten episodes with decent runtime isn’t that common. And I did enjoy it overall, just… not really for those reasons.
As a coming-of-age high school drama, it works really well. As a gay romance, it feels like it pulls its punches. I wasn’t looking for explicit scenes or anything over the top, especially with high school characters, but the ending still felt rushed and emotionally thin. After nine and a half episodes of longing and miscommunication, we basically land on a quiet bench scene and call it a happy ending. Honestly, the happiest, most convincingly developed couple might have been Shin Ho-sik and his girlfriend, whose name I don’t even remember.
So yeah: for me it’s a 7.5/10. Sweet, soft, and sometimes very touching, but also underwhelming in the areas where it seemed like it was supposed to shine. Some viewers might love the gentleness and ensemble focus, others will feel like Heesu deserved more of the spotlight, and I’m somewhere in the middle, slightly wistful about what it could’ve been.
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Cute but Underwhelming: A Slow Story That Missed Its Potential
The series was cute, but honestly more annoying than enjoyable at times. Most of the side-couple scenes felt unnecessary, and I often found myself skipping through them. I really wish the story had focused on Heesu, because there was barely any depth or real backstory for a character who seemed central. The plot stayed very surface-level, which made it hard to feel emotionally invested.It was painfully slow. With 10 episodes, most of the interesting moments only came in the last 10 minutes of the series. It felt like the story was trying to go somewhere meaningful and could have become a really good show, but they missed the mark badly. So much had to be explained instead of naturally shown, and we didn’t get the deep dive into emotions and experiences that the story could have delivered.
Overall, it’s the kind of show you put on just to watch casually. It felt underwhelming, especially compared to the expectations it set. I was hoping for that high-school crush excitement, but that emotional payoff just wasn’t there. The romance came and went too quickly, without enough buildup to make it satisfying.
It also felt like BL was used mainly as a selling point, while the story’s focus leaned more toward the straight couple. That made it a bit misleading in terms of what it promised versus what it delivered.
There were some cute moments, and the actors did okay, but it lacked depth and emotional impact. I’d give it a 5.5/10 fine for casual viewing, but don’t expect to be wowed.
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Wholesome and sweet high school romance
This show is so cute and in my opinion perfectly paced. It features 2 couples, one M/M and one F/M. Their stories are closely intertwined, so we see all of their backstories and perspectives. The characters are shown as flawed and well-rounded with diverse families, interests, dreams and insecurities.The direction, cinematography and acting are all high quality.
Some may feel the story or romance is slow-paced, but I think it is perfect, since Heesu must first get over Chanyoung before he can start a romance with someone else. Furthermore, they are high schoolers, so even holding hands is a big deal here.
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Heesu in Class 2 Figuring Stuff Out SLOWY
ᴍʏ ʀᴀᴛɪɴɢ ꜱʏꜱᴛᴇᴍ: 8 = [ᴇɴᴊᴏʏᴇᴅ ɪᴛ, ᴡᴏʀᴛʜ ᴀ ᴏɴᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜ. ꜱᴏᴍᴇᴛɪᴍᴇꜱ ɪ ᴍᴀʏ ᴅʀᴏᴘ ᴀɴ 8+ ʀᴀᴛᴇᴅ ꜱʜᴏᴡ ᴅᴇꜱᴘɪᴛᴇ ᴇɴᴊᴏʏɪɴɢ ɪᴛ, ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜꜱᴇ ɪᴛ ᴅʀᴀɢɢᴇᴅ ᴏɴ ᴏʀ ɪᴛ ʙᴇᴄᴀᴍᴇ ᴘʀᴇᴅɪᴄᴛᴀʙʟᴇ.]Despite all the whining surrounding this show, I liked it! If you're not oversensitive to present day social gripes, you'll enjoy iy too, for what it is. A show about a gay teenager who's struggling with who/why/what he likes and he's gotta' take it step by step according to his circumstances. Also he's kinda cutely dense.
Overall;
Eps 1 through 8 were well done, good pace, nice acting, all enjoyable.
Ep 9 fell off a bit, the writer might have been drunk or hungover when writing this episode.
Ep 10, I'd say landed well enough, about 75% good, and the other percent of it was shit, but the show was saved after all.
The SHIT bits of Ep 10:
Singing. I ALWAYS skip singing in ANY BL, as it is, waaaaaay too many BLs have some person singing something and it's NEVER entertaining, EVER. The scenes with Heesu and CY continued to be a waste of everyone's time because that friendship is shallow bs and nobody gaf. CY is one of the worst written 'friend' characters I've seen in a while because this guy's 'me me me' complex is exhausting jfc.
The 75% HIGHLIGHTS of Ep 10:
- Heesu coming out to his sister was a great scene, so well done!
- Heesu confessing to Seung Won in that classroom was well done too!
- Seung Won telling CY to (essentially) eff off and mind his own business was fantastic!
- Everything following Seung Won returning the confession to Heesu was SATISFYING AF. The line, "I wanted to show the stars." while sitting on that dark track field feeling all blushy and awkward and newly minted as mutually liking each other was Seung Won playing his sloth game at maximum level! LOL
And my 100% PERSONAL HIGHLIGHT OVERALL for this whole show:
- Lee Sang Jun, I RARELY find SK actors attractive, and he is one of those rare cases. He's 👌
Apparently he was in Connection, but it's fair I overlooked him, I saw no one but Ji Sung in Connection. He may be going on my fave Asian celebs list after some more consideration.
Right so, when I think back on eps 1-8 (which I enjoyed) and deduct 9 (which wasn't great) and then add the 75% of episode 10, weighing it up against my personal rating system, I'm giving this 8/10. Over all it's worth a one time watch. It won't make my recc list though, watching or skipping it, neither is a major loss.
A second season or special episode likely won't happen because I'm sure a majority of people are gonna rate and drag this down based on their personal sensitivities and tank any possible hope of that, but if they ever did make a follow up with Heesu and Seung Won continued, I'd watch it for sure.
So yeah, it was fun ✌️
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I know some people kinda hate this because of the straight couples. But for me it doesn’t really matter, and I hope other people feels the same too.
With this comment i want to give support, and love to this drama, so that the negativity in other people’s comment will lessen. I really really hope that the haters stopped the hate, and just give their love and support ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you “Heesu in Class 2” for giving me the joy, the laughter, the mixed feelings, and the inspirations. I hope this drama continues its journey and be remembered by everyone. Thats all i want to say, and goodbye ”Heesu in Class 2”❤️❤️❤️
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