Black Dog
February 12, 2020
Black Dog
(Source: https://mydramalist.com/34245-black-dog)
Plot:
It tells the
story of a young woman who gets a short-term teaching position and does her
best to fight for students’ dreams in school. The drama will take a deep look
into the lives of teachers and provide commentary on society through the
microcosm of a school setting. Go Ha Neul, who is newly appointed to a
short-term teaching position at a private school. She dreamed of becoming a
teacher because of her gratitude towards one of her own teachers who saved her life, and she will grow with the students as they face the various issues that exist in a cut-throat private school setting. Park Sung Soon, the head of the career counseling department at the school and a known workaholic. She is well-known as someone who will do whatever it takes for her students and is even willing to visit schools on her students' behalf to fight for them. She will be a mentor to Go Ha Neul. Do Yeon Woo, a Korean language teacher who is passionate about teaching and hearing that he’s good at his job makes his heart race. He is an idealist who believes talent will win over any office politics. Rather than getting involved in things like that, he likes to go his own way to grow as a person. (Source:
Mini Review:
↬After watching
some 3-4 episodes of the show, my liking for it increased a lot for various
reasons:
- A tvN Show
- Great cast of Ra Mi Ran and Seo Hyun Jin
- And a similarity with Kdrama favorite Misaeng
But despite the
high expectation, it failed short by a lot.
↬The School
setting had little do with Teacher-Student relation common with much School
Dramas, instead it focused on the difficulties and the politics associated with
being a teacher. As have been mentioned in the Show quite a time “The School is
also an Organization” the show highlighted this mostly. It would not have been a problem if this was
shown as one of the tracks, but after being pointed out frequently I lost interest
in the politics too.
↬The story flow
may have been good, but the nothing much was happening to be remembered. Also
all the information provided regarding the studying pattern or change in the
pattern of South Korea’s School System, were too much detailed and for an
International fan like me difficult to follow, ending up by skipping most of
these scenes.
↬It’s was not a
heartwarming story like Misaeng, neither created an impact like Sky Castle or a
nicer school environment and student-student/student-teacher relation portrayal like School 2013. At
some points it felt like watching a documentary.
↬On a positive
note, portrayal of character by almost all the actors was really good also the
casting was wonderful, no complain regarding that.
Ending Notes:
🔺If you are
looking for a School drama, this is not one of them.
🔺You can give it
a try for being a Ra Mi Ran fan.
Final Rating: 1.5/5
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