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Undercover High School was a mess.
As the high school’s Chairwoman became more and more unhinged, the plot paralleled her arc and became more and more bonkers. I had suspected that there would be a lot of logical problems throughout the drama because the writer began with a head scratching setup: An NIS agent pretends to be a high school student in order to find an illegal stash of gold based on clues derived from the school’s urban legends. ????? The secret agent Hae Song approached each legend in numerical order (why) and in the most unnecessarily complicated manner. In the meantime, he did a lot of drinking in public for someone trying to pass himself off as a high school student as well as showing his face everywhere for someone on a super secret mission. (Because all of the people from his past life could not possibly recognize him after he adopted a fake name and put on a school uniform.) His fellow NIS agents were exaggerated slapstick figures, while the students/teacher side plot descended into sentimentality. And that is not all. Every episode exceeded my Korean drama implausibility allowance. I grade it A for Audacity.
But the actor Seo Kang Jun was charming and funny so I kept watching to the end. I have low standards and a Fast Forward button.
As the high school’s Chairwoman became more and more unhinged, the plot paralleled her arc and became more and more bonkers. I had suspected that there would be a lot of logical problems throughout the drama because the writer began with a head scratching setup: An NIS agent pretends to be a high school student in order to find an illegal stash of gold based on clues derived from the school’s urban legends. ????? The secret agent Hae Song approached each legend in numerical order (why) and in the most unnecessarily complicated manner. In the meantime, he did a lot of drinking in public for someone trying to pass himself off as a high school student as well as showing his face everywhere for someone on a super secret mission. (Because all of the people from his past life could not possibly recognize him after he adopted a fake name and put on a school uniform.) His fellow NIS agents were exaggerated slapstick figures, while the students/teacher side plot descended into sentimentality. And that is not all. Every episode exceeded my Korean drama implausibility allowance. I grade it A for Audacity.
But the actor Seo Kang Jun was charming and funny so I kept watching to the end. I have low standards and a Fast Forward button.
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