Kate

I hate when companies make a show with the idea of it having 2nd season, so they don't give a proper ending, BUT they don't announce the 2nd season, because it will only happen if the show gets enough attention.

If you want to play it safe, you gotta make sure if you can't deliver that 2nd season, the ending of season 1 is still at least a little bit satisfying,...

If from the start they said it will have more seasons, I would be fine-ish with what I got. I still believe one season should give some answers, and introduce new question, but here we only got more and more questions.

Since there was no info about 2nd season, I take it as a stand-alone production, and damn it sucks. It had non-existing ending. I cannot help it, I feel disappointed and robbed of my time 🤣

She tried to 'free" him from the pain he was feeling. She had issues too.

Hwang Kyung Min is the killer. We know it from episode 1 tbh.
As for the wife, for now they said she tried to killer herself and him, and that's canon unless they give a plot twists in last 2 episodes.

It's just the way you framed with words him killing his best friend as "making bad decision" while calling bullied too evil to be real did not quite sit right with me. I might have read too much into your comment, it just felt like you were excusing his bad actions, while condemning harshly the actions of bullies, when with proper framing they were all both victims and perpetrators and results of the toxic environment they grew up in.
The true evil was the teacher tho.

by that logic the bullies in his class were also victims of abuse since they were bullied and beaten up by the upper classmates. If we excuse him killing Cheolie coz he was bullied badly, we should excuse technically less severe actions (aka bullying others) as a result of them trying to survive in the toxic environment after being bullied themselves.

Pretty sure majority of the current abusers were victims of abuse themselves. One can be victim and perpetrator at the same time. While he needs help dealing with his past trauma, he needs to pay for his past actions too - be it even symbolic by admitting to what he did at least to the victim's family and getting suspended from work for messing up the investigation and getting involved in the investigation even after all his severe lacks of judgements based on his past traumas.

The issue it, the useless investigation and everything around Jin Ah takes 1/3 of the show, making it good at best. If I have to skip 1/3 of the show, is the show really good? Any show is a masterpiece if I skip all the parts I don't like or are poorly written 🤣🤣

I have to say, half of the show is amazing, half of the show is awful.
Everything about the post bullying and now the revenge is awesome.
All the investigation is extremely poorly written it makes me laugh.
Everyone involved in the investigation is either annoying, dumb or insignificant .

I like though, how it shows whenever you are a victim or the perpetrator depends on the perspective, and with episode 10 it kind of shows most of these teens were both (yes, it includes all the bullies from their class).

The only person who was evil and not a victim even 0.000001% was the homeroom teacher/principal or whatever he was at the school.

Let people drop it 4 seconds in episode 1 if they want to. It's not like it affects anyone.
If they dislike one character after 2 episodes and want to drop? Valid. It's not like we have to wait another few months for a new drama to come out. Each country is dropping new content all the time, why watch something that makes them frustrated, when they can watch something they will enjoy from the start?

It's not that deep. I dropped dramas 8 minutes in episode 1 in the past ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Relax, it's not that deep. I dropped dramas 8 minutes in episode 1 coz they "did not feel right" 🤣 With the number of dramas coming out from all the countries, people don't have to "watch more to see if they will like it later" if they can pick another drama they will love from the start.

There is literally no reason to call people names just coz they dropped drama early on based on one aspect they disliked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"I suppose in BL it takes a man who has lived 3 lifetimes to actually understand that conversation is what’s required to make a relationship work. " < omg this is so true 🤣

I agree that the romance was underdeveloped. They were not a couple and the next scene they were, and the next scene they broke up and I felt like nothing led to any of this things to even happen.

You are right about the ending. There was no satisfying conclusion as we never saw them actually talk it out etc. They were just crying and then they were back together 🙃

There were so many ways they could have gone with this plot, and they went nowhere. I feel like this would work way better as a short movie, woth many things left for the interpretation of the viewer. Coz this type of plot you either have to keep vague so people can add their own meaning to it, or go into detail and depth, which they could not do with such a short format...

Anyway, wasted potential it was.

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Well, I like to think I pointed out valid criticisms in my review. Either you read all and you are able to point out how my criticisms are not valid and I'm just a "little child who complain about this and that", or you are talking from your ass when you did not in fact read it all, yet you still put everyone in the same box¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Reviews are reviews, comments are comments. It's important to use proper words to describe what you mean, I don't read your mind, neither do other users on mdl. Unless you are clear, no one will know what you truly mean.

"Also if you are someone who doesn't like this and is going to reply with a mundane thing that should make me hate this drama then please don't waste your time." < I did not comment about the drama at all. I commented about how you generalize all people who dislike it as just haters ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Maybe you should re-read what you wrote first. I did not try to "make you hate this show" I just pointed out some people have valid reasons to complain.

Everything is subjective. Things you see as small issues might be game changers for others. Both valid. Yet, you are the ones putting people who disliked it into a box of haters as if their opinions are less valid than the ones who enjoyed the show. You loving the show has as much merit as an opinion of person who dislike it. Why? Coz it's all subjective based on personal taste anyway.

and I ended up binge watching the show in just two days. < oof. Damn. That's both impressive and scary 🤣

I agree completely! The last few episodes after Chu Ying were truly amazing and beautiful and made the drama complete. They could not just move on and make it less of a tragic and important moment of Shi Guang's life, when he depended on Chu Ying for so long, and he was such an integral part of his life. I think they dealt with the loss perfectly.

While the close interaction didn’t happen till the last episode you can feel their connection from their very first meeting. < this was one of the things I was most impressed with. The characters had amazing chemistry and we could see how they influence each other even tho they barely shared the screen together.

It's because I couldn't imagine being interested in a series about a game I know nothing about. < I relate to this so much. For you it was thanks to AvenueX, for me it were all the positive posts about the series on mdl feeds 🤣

"Also special mention to Fang Xu, I had initially pegged him as a stock standard character ready for revenge and superficial acclaim, but he surprised me with character complexity and dilemmas that lifted his character to a higher dimension." < this! Honestly, when the character was introduced, I was afraid we would get the "typical villain" and he would end up being jealous of Yu Liang's skill at the young age etc. I was truly amazingly happy his character turned out to be a complete opposite to what I expected.