High School Return of A Gangster is based on a BL webtoon that is turned into bromance. For that, people were hating on it (they were right about hating on it because it simply shows homophobia) but I didn't hate on it from then at all. Instead, I dove in here and loved the first episode and was excited for the other remaining episodes. So, I continued watching it to only find the drama getting more and more boring. I mean, we HAVE TO agree that MOST teen dramas are a bit overrated except for Twinkling Watermelon, All of Us Are Dead, Lovely Runner and Pyramid Game among others (there are more but i can't seem to remember). I didn't include Night Has Come because it's SO underrated (one of the first underrated teen dramas). This show, HROAG, is an okayly-written drama with a boring plot. So basically, Kim Deuk Pal wanted to change Yi Heon's life by helping him overcome school bullying, making new friends, protect his mother, graduate and get into a good college BUT he also wanted to let him go to juvie by helping the bullies escape from it (especially Jae Min) so he just accepted to get into juvie because he didn't tell the bully Jae Min to get the evidence. Look, I get that he was trying to be nice to a kid whose life is miserable, but when someone makes a mistake, HE HAS TO PAY FOR IT! And HE DID, only because Se Kyung told him to. If he hadn't told him, Yi Heon would be in juvie for doing NOTHING! That's the first thing he did to the boy Yi Heon. Now the second thing is at the finale, where the real boy insisted on dying so the old man would live (It would've been shameless had he not insisted) but I was surprised at the old guy, he didn't even try to tell him to live instead of him ONE TIME! He just continued on living in his body happily ever after. Okay, if you are arguing that Deuk Pal deserved to live, the kid also did, too. This show makes suicide a happy ending for the boy. Basically, the boy thought of suicide as a happy ending for him and didn't want to live. What about the depressed people who are watching this?? This show will just make them even more suicidal!
Disappointing. But I have to give credits to Yoon Chan Young. Great Job.