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One: High School Heroes korean drama review
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One: High School Heroes
2 people found this review helpful
by Daisuke
Jul 8, 2025
8 of 8 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 10
Story 10.0
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 8.0
This review may contain spoilers

Not for faint hearted

for me this drama has two main strengths: first it is an excellent portrayal of a dysfunctional family with one parent obsessed with achieving reflected glory for himself through his sons and the other too helplessly neurotic to function in the family at all、and Lee Jung Ha gives a truly great and sensitive performance showing the impact of this on him as the victim of his parents bullying and fighting back for victims of school bullying。secondly it has very good fight sequences although clearly often losing touch with reality and the constant violence does become too much at times。 the storyline and above all the end is reasonable。lots of interesting metaphorical touches and ironies at the end like the broken cassette getting repaired and the so called sane being shown as the really insane and vice versa、 it's the "sane" insane parent producing the broken child now labelled "delinquent"、 and I assume what is the juvenile detention prison not rehabilitating but reinforcing violence as power with the teacher leading the way: all well considered touches 、and at 8 episodes the show gets its message over without stringing it out with aimless repetition like many K dramas。 enjoyable in its way though、as often when I planned to watch a good drama again, so here when I get to the end there seems nothing more to see or say 。excellent job〜良く出来ましたね〜
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