If you ask me to ignore the ending, I will say It was a pretty great drama.School 2015 is mainly focused on bullying. It shows how teenager feels pressurized from school and how they have to deal with it.Overall, the drama had a good message.I would say the drama could have been more funnier and enjoyable,some part of the drama was a bit boring.The love-triangle made the drama worse in my opinion if you ask.I would've enjoyed the drama more if there was no love triangle.
P.S: This post might be full of spoilers! So SPOILER ALERT!!!!
Plot:7/10
Enjoyment:5/10
Cast:6/10
Overall:5/10
Plot
Go Eun-byul and Lee Eun-bi are identical twins, separated after one is adopted at the age of 5. Eun-bi lives at the Love House, an orphanage in Tongyeong, South Gyeongsang Province, where the younger residents look up to her as a mother figure. However, she hides the fact that she is bullied at school by a gang of mean girls led by Kang So-young, while teachers turn a blind eye.
Due to bullying Eun bi decided to end her life, but saved by Eun byul. Eun byul's mother mistakes eun bi as eun byul, as she looses her memory.Eun bi starts to live as eun byul. where Gong tae kwang supports her in every position.School's star swimmer Han yi an who's Eun byul childhood friend and loved eun byul for all of his life suddenly changes and starts to fall for eun bi.(Which I didn't understand why.)
Good
There were really great moments in this drama which I truly appreciate.The cracky moments between our characters,Relatable situations,School issue, all had a great impact on the audience.
This show mainly focused on Bullying,which is nothing new for a school drama.There were other dramas which included bullying but this drama despite having an old usual plot, it delivered everything smoothly(untill ep 8ish?)and nicely.If you ask me, if I am happy about the drama I would say no.But the acting was commendable.
Starting with characters,
- Twins: Eun bi is our main protagonist as we only see her throughout the drama.Eun bi is simple and nice.That's the only thing i would say about her.She's just so simple and easy to manipulate.The character of eun bi was portrayed by Kim so Hyun, she did a great job with her character,so I will appreciate that.but I loved eun byul's character more. It was bold, sassy and she speaks her mind.
- Gong Tae Kwang and Han I yan:I loved both of the boys.Both of their character were completely different which is great to watch.The boys were my favourite part of this drama. It's not like I ship one couple so,I would hate other character. In this drama this wasn't the case at all. I loved both of them more than anything. Gong tae kwang was relatable and quirky.there were some part which cracked me up!I would say Gong tae kwang was the star of this drama definitely not a 2nd lead. On the other hand,I-yan was completely opposite.He had good looks,talent and charming personality, totally a guy who I would develop a crush easily.
- So-young:OH MY GOD! i never hated any antagonist in a drama like her.Whenever I see I wanted to puke,the hatred was real! the character made me so angry that I literally wanted to go inside the screen and slap her hard. If the character made me angry,that means Cho soo hyang did an amazing job.It's actually quite impressive that a fake character can make you livid.
- The plot:The plot was attention-grabbing. When you read something about twin sister exchanging school and there are two extremely good looking guy waiting for you, and top of that your memory is lost. when I was reading the description I totally got hooked.I don't know about you but I was hella interested haha.
BAD
It's hard when you liked the series so much, and suddenly after 5 episode It completely lost it's track.I think the writing was what contributed to underdeveloped characters and a plot that lacked depth. Too many things were glossed over and left the audience desiring for more.Especially, from episode 1 When you think every character is contributing admirably, suddenly everything is up.I believe the writing of this show became total messed up at certain point, They simply didn't know what to do in my opinion.
- I hate that I couldn't like Eun bi at all! Like I said, She was too simple and hopeless to be protagonist of the show.well, I definitely didn't feel like she was the one.One thing I absolutely disliked about her was, everytime anything happens, she needed someone to protect her.Either it's Gong Tae kwang,I-yan or Eun byul.She is the type of female lead who lets everyone fight for her own battle.At some point, I was like come on at least speak up for once? We all were waiting for that magical moment when finally she will speak up,but nothing happened!
- I lost interest in love line at certain points, for instance when Eun bi just cared about Yian, to some extent, I knew she was going to choose Yian over tae kwang,as Yian was the only person she liked throughout the whole show.I hate how she never tried to even look at tae kwang in that way.For me, Gong tae kwang wasn't the second lead.He WAS the main lead.His character has developed way more than any character.We get to look at his Life story,his emotions,how he saved eun bi everytime and stood with her no matter what. One thing I didn't understand was, if he is not the main lead why the writers and directors spent numerous times with Tae kwang especially when Yian is supposed to be the ''lead''.It's unfair for Yian as well, I wish atleast Yian had more scenes and story line seeing that he is the ''main' lead. Tae kwang's character is incomparable to the other characters, in my very biased opinion. in conclusion,the supposed first lead character, Yiahn, was poorly written and not so amazingly portrayed while Taekwang’s character on the contrary had a million times more depth, was better written, better portrayed.
- Coming back to Eunbi's character.I don't blame Eun bi for her feelings towards Yian,but I can't help but wish the writers had given to us some reason to root for their relationship,It wasn't enough for me just to like their chemistry based on some scenes.As a viewer I felt more connected to gong tae kwang than Yian.I particularly like yian too, but the love triangle thing is simply didn't get me.
- I hated the fact that Eun byul's arrival to the show was just to save Eunbi and then dissappear again.Eun byul was more tolareble than eun bi, she was strong-willed and badass. why did she come back?? so she can sort everything out for eunbi and?? So Eunbi can live happily in her place with her mom, that was the most irritating part of the show overall.Eun byul SHOULD NOT have gone ''study abroad''. Eun-byul’s wrap-up was dissatisfying.she just gets written off the drama after coming back and save eunbi's 16 episode problems and give permission to date Yian. Going to study abroad let me down in large amount.esp When I wanted to see two sister's bonding time!
- I wanted to see more about Eun byul,Just EUN BYUL. at some point I completely didn't even care what was happening to Eun bi, I just waited for Eun byul. Like, would you care for a female lead who lets other people to fight for her own problems? It's a NO from me.
- I genuinely liked Yian to a great extent from the very beginning of the drama, but one thing i didn't understand was, how did he changed his mind so quick?I mean, he liked eun byul for all of his life, but suddenly just because Eun bi ''the nicer version'' of eun byul came and you changed your mind??? Last episode, When He said ''I like new eun byul better'' I utterly lost myself. When he liked Eun byul, he knew her very well, how her behaviour was, how she is in person... then why suddenly he likes a ''new eun byul''??
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| DON'T TELL ME after seeing this pic you don't ship them!!! |
I will say I liked this drama but it definitely didn't reach its potential.Whatever the plot was,it left a huge amount of viewers wanting more.As I hated some parts of the show, I still appreciate the cute TaeBi scenes and the relatable message they offered from the show.Lets pretend that the ending never happened.
For me, ''The main lead of the drama didn't get his Main girl'' (hahah, enough of me complaining)
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Love,
Cherry!
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