HMRivers

this series is perfect.

i'm not a fan of any romance mushy-mushy korean/chinese/taiwan drama but this one blow my mind. i only pick this one because it reminds me of my past experience. (thank God there were little to none hi quality camera cellphones in early 2000's)

i'm a male in my 30's now. i can relate to this series it reminds me of my highschool days.

what it differs from other series? the micro-gestures acting. every actor and actress in this show is top notch.
you can tell the female teacher IS a female teacher of 30's from her micro-gestures. her fashion choice. her housing choice. etc.

i love watching shows that make me want to rewatch again to pick up the breadcrumbs the show intentionally left behind.. like a detective.

let talk about the plot first and my first reaction is.. "come on, aren't there already gazilions of this drama? teacher with student? get outta here"

but i give it another shot because the teacher reminds me of my beautiful and 'appealing' undergraduate intern teacher when i was in high school, the different is just she wears eyeglasses, this one doesn't. both are mixed blood but she is more caucasian and this one more asian.

yeah we did it, so what? wanna fight?

this series can be more understandable if you are in mid 30's, this is why im not surprised why no kdrama stans talking or buzzing about this in the social media of my circle.

so many micro-gestures acting that teenagers and tweenies audience would go over their head.

the micro-gestures acting are top notch. a chef kiss if you may.

i can tell the teacher character is an INFJ-A person.

in the first episode you will see the pretty teacher bullied by her student. she played it cool and then she goes to the rooftop to vent off her anger. after i watch the whole series i understand of why she was stomping off the floor like that.

at first you think she is just playing tough girl but deep inside she is a weak melancholic woman so she vent out her anger at the rooftop floor, typical asian drama trope.. but no..its not.. SPOILER ALERT.

it's because,

she was bullied by the son of a woman who destroy her family and indirectly killed both her parents. She has every rights to go and murder the woman.
imagine your family destroyed, your dad died in a car crash and your mom kill herself because of a homewrecker.
and the homewrecker is the chairwoman of the private high-school she was about to teach.

you are bullied by her your entire life because of what she did.

and now, the son of the homewrecker bullied you.

this is not a typical drama.. she is not "tough girl but deep inside she is a weak melancholic woman" trope.

she is not weak. she is so strong she only stomping that floor. and you will watch this until the end of the series.

she never lose her temper in the whole series except in that first episode. she only shed her tears and never bawled, or so i remember.

she had to tough up. she had to in order to destroy the family of the homewrecker.

the first time she set foot in the school, she is bringing the war. The moment she caught her eyes on the boy's name, she found the card she would play.

she is plotting to destroy the homewrecker's family by instigating a war of mother and son. She is provoking the chairman's son to 'rebel' against his mother.
implicitly calling him a 'mama's boy' and making him rebellious to his mom instead of making trouble for the school.

she sees him nothing but his mom's splitting image, a bully and a homewrecker.

that's why she is challenging the boy, calling him that he never had any girlfriend before when he cornered her and teased her. she is pretty so she must've been dealing with that type of boys back in her school and college days and this boy is not that different.

what i thankful for is this series doesn't include the 'handsome CEO conglomerate of multinational company ex-boyfriend who want to reconnect with the female teacher introduced in mid series' trope.

this series also avert the expectation of the homewrecker as just a vile one dimensional evil mama.. it was just her fling with the father of the female teacher during the chairwoman's college days.
did she left him because she found out he already married? watch again.. the professor is wearing his wedding ring during 'waku-waku' scene with the boy's mom in her college days.
which means she knew that he is a married person and she did it anyway.

and from the boy's father testimony.. his wife is a woman of go-getter, 'she'll go for what she want' type of a woman. and that's why he married her.

you know that the vile mom is not a bad woman because the show doesn't go the trope of 'she also have a boyfriend on her side behind her husband'.. which i also thank the showrunner doesn't pick this up.

and the boy's dad is not a deadbeat dad trope. the show also avert us from such trope. in some of the first episodes it shows the boy's dad isn't aware/care of the boy's problem making issues in his school.
he was a cool dad. a man of the house. he didn't overreact.
he gave her the divorce paper to sign because she is bullying the teacher, not because her past. that is a man of the house.

and the dream sequence.. top notch chef kiss porn.. without porn involved. barely porn you may say. im expecting it will cut in the first ten seconds but no.. the show shows it until the dreamy music stops. thank you, kudos for the showrunner.. you guys are a man of culture.

when she kiss his hand in the dream scene.. that's a woman who love you. that's a gesture of a woman who loves you when you have sex with her. marry her ASAP if she does that. this is an advice from a mid 30's man.

i want more of these micro-gestures acting display. i NEED more..