This almost brilliant comedy, romance, coming of age, mental health, mystery, thriller is just that - everything but the kitchen sink. Like perhaps the Koreans themselves and their educational system - the effort to try too much results sometimes in brilliance but also weaknesses and flaws as the cracks begin to show. The writers and directors in trying to produce the bright and best television series have partially undone what they have attempted to accomplish. This series has some great delightful, entertaining moments of brilliance but the inclusion of so many genres to capture the widest television audience possible becomes too much to enjoy and comprehend. The attempt to cast the widest net possible also forces the net to almost collapse under its own weight. By jettison the murder, mystery thriller aspects of the movie and allow the remaining audience to enjoy a quality experience of comedy, romance, drama, coming of age, and autism, a more authentic and fabulous television series might result.
To expand Korean television, like this series, to an international audience the difficulty of distinguishing Korean characters who look similar to each other creates an even more confusing and confabulating effort to keep track of what is going on in the movie taking away from the ease of just watching and enjoying the series. To include so many detail required of a murder mystery just becomes too much for a number of viewers. Too taxing to just enjoy watching. Just the additional inclusion of a young man with autism into this movie, a very commendable move at inclusion, is sufficient to fill up the capacity of this television series to be appreciated.
Korea appears to be on its way in surpassing American comedy-romance, but they still have a ways to discovering a more appealing, enticing way to incorporate crime mystery thrillers the way that the American film industry, including Monk (2002) and Lucifer (2016). Perhaps Korean directors, writers along with their producers have succumbed in a similar fashion that the Korean students and their mothers have to the lure of succeeding at all costs. Episode 5 and a motorbike that just happens not to work is one example where the script outline forces the action instead of a more naturalistic and more acceptable dramatic scenes and even the term "Aspergers" instead of "Autism" in the same episode suggest that the writers are unfamiliar with the actual fact that it is no longer appropriate or used in the mental health field raising further questions as to whether the writers are just taking stereotypical dramatic license to promote the scenes in their series to the detriment of the mental disability community. In the same episode 5, the introduction of a dramatic shift towards scheming of the principal character changes the tone of the whole series to become more tension filled and dramatic to the point of becoming a different series completely and unwatchable having to watch something different than advertised, not something personally appealing.
To expand Korean television, like this series, to an international audience the difficulty of distinguishing Korean characters who look similar to each other creates an even more confusing and confabulating effort to keep track of what is going on in the movie taking away from the ease of just watching and enjoying the series. To include so many detail required of a murder mystery just becomes too much for a number of viewers. Too taxing to just enjoy watching. Just the additional inclusion of a young man with autism into this movie, a very commendable move at inclusion, is sufficient to fill up the capacity of this television series to be appreciated.
Korea appears to be on its way in surpassing American comedy-romance, but they still have a ways to discovering a more appealing, enticing way to incorporate crime mystery thrillers the way that the American film industry, including Monk (2002) and Lucifer (2016). Perhaps Korean directors, writers along with their producers have succumbed in a similar fashion that the Korean students and their mothers have to the lure of succeeding at all costs. Episode 5 and a motorbike that just happens not to work is one example where the script outline forces the action instead of a more naturalistic and more acceptable dramatic scenes and even the term "Aspergers" instead of "Autism" in the same episode suggest that the writers are unfamiliar with the actual fact that it is no longer appropriate or used in the mental health field raising further questions as to whether the writers are just taking stereotypical dramatic license to promote the scenes in their series to the detriment of the mental disability community. In the same episode 5, the introduction of a dramatic shift towards scheming of the principal character changes the tone of the whole series to become more tension filled and dramatic to the point of becoming a different series completely and unwatchable having to watch something different than advertised, not something personally appealing.