Kate

as sony_t said, accounts can be deleted. Also someone's comments might be deleted by admins. Sometimes people get "warning" aka they are banned for 24h.

Yeah, I enjoyed first few episodes. It was still a silly over the top story, but it was a lot more chill than previous version. But then they started to get more and more dramatic and ridiculous and I lost hope hahaha

The younger cast deserves a shoutout because holy moly they can act < I KNOW RIGHT! Kids acting in shows with such a heavy topics can make or break a drama, coz if I don't believe the delivery on their end, I don't feel anything in the present times is justified. But here they just aced their roles

After reading your review I thought about one think the drama was missing - the parents.
" South Korea and one of the main reason for that is because of the inefficiency of schools to come up with a system to eradicate such problem." < this part made me think of it. Realistically speaking teachers cannot do that much against bullying, especially when parents come to the rescue for their "angel kids who can do no wrong". While the school takes a lot of blame, I think the biggest fault lies on the parents, and that perspective was missing here. But then, the show was focusing on the victims' perspective, and looking at it like that, they would not have the inside of that homes of bullies. + adding the parents might be a bit too much for the show like that, too many elements make it impossible to well present any.

Kim Cheol, the character, is something that all of us unaskingly fell in love with, no? < 10000% yes. By the end of the show he was my favorite character. The complexity behind him was just amazing.

I actually liked the arc of Jong Suk. I think it brings an interesting aspect to the discussion and it showcases the flaw in Kyung Min's thinking. He thought he is ringing justice, when in fact he created more victims (like the family of the first dead bully). If his actions that hurt innocent people were justified for him coz of his goal, Jong Suk's action as a teen should also be justified (not in real life, but by Kyung Min's logic). Also without him it's a bit too back and white. Yes, Kyung Min is just a serial killer by the end of the day, but as viewers many of us still rooted for him, coz we saw him as a victim. At the same time, Jong Suk was as much of the victim, yet by the end many of us saw him more as a perpetrator. So I think it was just interesting to see all the different takes and views on it from different viewers - I think his character made the discussion more complex.

As for the investigation 100% yes. I feel like overall Jin Ah was more or less useless character add to make sure the drama is not 100% male cast. She lacked the same level of raw presentation and complexity as other main characters, and seemed like a scene filler more often than not. Easy way out to dump some important info on the viewers here and there.

Anyway, as always, great review :)

Jin Ah feels like a last minute afterthought tbh 🙃 As you said it seems like they did not want to have all male drama, so they just added her without much thought put into making her actually important part of the plot and as detailed and well written character are the rest...

Great and detailed review :)

Personally, the reason why I can't see the female detective part of the plot as minor thing is the fact she was not in the original work the show is based on, which shows the story could have been told without her. so the sloppy writing of her character and her investigation bothers me more, coz they could just... not include her.

I totally agree on how amazingly well the flashbacks were incorporated. It's truly not an easy job with not make the timeline confusing, and the past scene not seem random, but the drama managed to tell extremely cohesive story both for the past and present timeline, and it all truly felt connected.

the switches and transitions between the past and the present were very smooth and easy to understand < this! Most dramas really don't know how to present flashbacks in a proper way, they just cut into them and then back to present timeline and it just does now flow well, but here they aced the transitions!

"If someone actually, preferably a psychologist, had explained to the policeman and the viewers about the far-reaching effects of being subjected to violence, about trauma, about PTSD, etc" > I get that. Personally I dislike this type if narration, that things are explained to viewers by dialogue and exposition, coz it makes me think the writers treat me like an idiot who cannot put things together myself and read between the lines, BUT I get that for a lot of viewers, with drama dealing with such a heavy subject, scene like that could be useful/helpful.

I expect FL who wants to be a detective to use her brain and not jump to conclusions. Like, I don't even think she can't legally arrest him so the heck was that scene? She took evidence from the freaking crime scene, pretty sure they can't even use that in the court anymore, coz any layer would question the validity of it.

I don't want weak and fragile, I want someone with a brain.

Jong suk was literally fine with almost killing an innocent girl in coma to get info he needed to kill Kyung min 🤣 He truly grew into a monster and there was no coming back for him - he had to die. The female detective would try to expose him, then he would go after her etc.

Great review!
"The uniqueness of the story is that it doesn’t refer to these events passively, as something that happened in the past, but as something that started in the past and is still progressing. " < So true. I think they did an amazing job connecting the flashbacks and the present time scenes in a way that made them a continuation and not separate plot lines with a big time gap between.

no, but no one who just comes across mdl by an accident knows right away how to write a review etc. It's a typical case of a side account - they made it today, have no info on the profile, no show on the list and just one 1/10 review.

the dedication to create a whole new account just to write this review 🤣

Chu calling me stupid, you saying I lack comprehensive skills, yet I come across as a jerk 🤣
You can come back saying I am a jerk when you stop using personal insults as your arguments.

I mean... I have not seen the eps, but let people complain and point out things they deem as important.

One could say you got triggered about people getting triggered 🙂

When no one is in fact triggered. Everyone just complains about things that annoy them or they disagree with. They about representation about Africa, you about their comments.

I love how people who use feeds have a different reaction to the comment compared to people who don't 🤣

If majority of the audience is confused and majority of the questions presented in the show were not answered by the last episode, it's just bad writing. Not lack of neurons in the viewers brain.

The production team is obviously not sure if there will be 2nd season. If they were, they would announce it right away. So setting up this kind of ending when you are not sure you can deliver 2nd season to explain anything about the plot is just bullshit for me.

it does not need that much screen time tho.
I also heard Kang Jin Ah is not even in the animated version so it's obviously not that needed to make the story whole and complete and give the viewers all the necessary info ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"A "shitty" drama that entertains me is going to get a higher rating from me than a "good" drama that bores me." < not always the case with me, but damn I rate to that sentence with a few titles I rated high, even tho logically speaking I knew they ain't it 🤣

Great review :) Honestly speaking, IF they from the start said it will have more than once season, I might have rated higher, but since they presented it as a solo project with not even hints of possible 2nd season during the promotion, I judge it as such 🙃