Cast is fine, so this is totally skippable? The good payoff? No fun to be had?
Skippable, the kind of fun beginning fizzles rapidly. The rest of it is loads of the usual sort of stuff done in a shallow and hasty fashion. The truth thing is wasted.
Had a dip into the first couple of episodes but struggled more than I thought. The characters are all a bit smug and well fed, which makes them come over as a bit up their own arses. The whole academy / school thing isn't gripping me either, I suppose the 'education as a business opportunity concept' is a bit too alien for me to get the buzz. Oh well it's a team that usually manages to pull something watchable out of the bag so I'll suspend judgement for now. FYI for anyone checking the chat before watching some people are posting episode reviews in the chat without spoiler tags - I had a quick scan before starting and ran into an essay or two on the later episodes.
Had a dip into the first couple of episodes but struggled more than I thought. The characters are all a bit smug and well fed, which makes them come over as a bit up their own arses. The whole academy / school thing isn't gripping me either, I suppose the 'education as a business opportunity concept' is a bit too alien for me to get the buzz. Oh well it's a team that usually manages to pull something watchable out of the bag so I'll suspend judgement for now. FYI for anyone checking the chat before watching some people are posting episode reviews in the chat without spoiler tags - I had a quick scan before starting and ran into an essay or two on the later episodes.
Hong Gyung-doo is uneducated and poor" and unintelligent, boorish, violent, impulsive, aggressive... though he…
Really? you know I really can't remember what she was like now 3 years on so you may be right I can remember finding him really quite intolerable but I stuck with it for quite a while so it can't have been all bad
Stealing (as we know he eventually does) his Brother's fiancé is just not a good look and I really didn't get…
I see, not how I grew up I'm afraid - wives, fiancés and girlfriends you treat them as unavailable and keep your emotions in hand. He tried right from the start.
Thanks for the review - I struggle with finding good cDramas especially the costume dramas partly because most of the reviews seem to be all gushy "it's FANTASTIC!" on all of them.
I don't get your score - if you have a rating between 1 and 10 then, if there is an even distribution of results, the average score is 5.5. Judging by your review you believe it is a below average drama - your scores average to 5 - but not bad enough to drop so why 7.5? Genuinely interested.
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The whole academy / school thing isn't gripping me either, I suppose the 'education as a business opportunity concept' is a bit too alien for me to get the buzz.
Oh well it's a team that usually manages to pull something watchable out of the bag so I'll suspend judgement for now.
FYI for anyone checking the chat before watching some people are posting episode reviews in the chat without spoiler tags - I had a quick scan before starting and ran into an essay or two on the later episodes.
The whole academy / school thing isn't gripping me either, I suppose the 'education as a business opportunity concept' is a bit too alien for me to get the buzz.
Oh well it's a team that usually manages to pull something watchable out of the bag so I'll suspend judgement for now.
FYI for anyone checking the chat before watching some people are posting episode reviews in the chat without spoiler tags - I had a quick scan before starting and ran into an essay or two on the later episodes.