Law School: Escuela de leyes (2021)

My new favorite kdrama!!

The first day it came out, I had decided to watch it and I am so glad I made that choice. I was hooked from the start and waited for episodes to come out each week. I was really surprised i enjoyed it bc this genre was something new for me. Not only was the plot amazing but the drama was well made. Also, the plot wasn't dragged on at all and the plot twists always had me shocked. I never knew what was going to happen next. the music always came on at the right moments and the acting was very natural. I love the cast and solhwi's relationship made me so happy!! I rlly hope they give us a second season for some solhwi content and to see how the other characters are doing. It was wrapped up very nicely and im definitely going to miss watching this every Wednesday and Thursday. PLS GIVE THIS DRAMA A CHANCE AND WATCH IT!

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Law genre at its best!

When I finished the first episode, I immediately thought of the similarity between this drama and the variety show ‘Busted’. This drama is basically the drama version and the longer version of Busted in my opinion. So if anyone of you loves that variety show, you definitely need to check this out!

There are a few things that surprised me while watching this drama (Fyi, I didn’t open MDL or even other links about this drama. All I know is that this drama has great ratings and many people loved it. I knew nothing about the storyline and only knew some of the casts that was going to be in it. And thankfully, I didn’t encounter that much spoilers on social media about this drama. So in conclusion, I had a little to no information about this drama before watching it.):

1. The one that surprises me most: The casts
Please don’t open MDL before watching this, because it’ll ruin the surprise (and a plot twist in some later episodes). I’m telling you this here to warn you all about the brilliant plot twist that left me speechless when I watched the episode.

2. The storyline
I’ve never expected this drama to be fully about murder mystery. Don’t get me wrong, I’m basically in love with anything about murder mysteries, but this drama just brought it to a whole new level. This drama doesn’t show you the perfect protagonist that could solve all the hidden mysteries flawlessly, or that one protagonist who always works alone and doesn’t need any help from others, but instead it shows you how the the main protagonist (Professor Yang Jong Hoon) really needs the help from his fellow professor (Professor Kim Eun Suk), his silly lawyer (Park Geun Tae), the funny photocopy guy (Sung Dong Il) and most importantly all his students (Kang Sol A, Kang Sol B, Han Jun Hwi, Seo Ji Ho, Jeon Ye Seul, Min Bok Gi and Cho Ye Bum). What’s better is how the drama shows you a super dedicated teacher who’s willing to do anything just to help all his students know better about the law. He’s discipline and unpredictable—he doesn’t care about anything else besides stating his point of teaching law to his students.

3. The genre
I expected this drama to be dark and serious, since most law dramas tend to be long and philosophical, and full of theories that doesn’t really stick to my head that long, but this drama managed to bring some good comedies in between the scenes—it was short, but it was rewarding. The first few episodes was pretty hard to watch actually, the dialogue were full of theories and all the actors were basically rapping all those theories out. But as you go on, this drama explained all those difficult theories by applying them to real cases where the viewers could understand the meaning of those theories easier. That’s what I love about this drama, and this is what differs them with other law dramas.

I’m a sucker for friendship dramas. This drama doesn’t really focus on the friendship, but the way all the characters team up to defend one another is just crazy great! Sol B’s character development was just executed perfectly, and she officially becomes one of my favorite characters here in this drama. This drama teaches you to be fair and just, and they teaches you (especially those who work/will work for the law) to not be affected emotionally while dealing with the law. Don’t let your emotions affect your decisions. This drama shows you the law from another perspective, and it was very exciting to watch!

The reason why I couldn’t give this drama an excellent score is because some of the scenes couldn’t really get my attention. I always loved the scenes where Sol A, Jun Hwi, Sol B, Ji Ho, Ye Seul, Bok Gi, Ye Bum is together, and all the scenes involving them coming up with a great plan, but the scenes with Ko Hyeong Su and the flashbacks with Seo Byeong Ju is rather boring for me. Nonetheless, the court scenes and the friendship scenes were super duper great! Great casting, great story and the cinematography was also spot-on! Overall, a 9.5/10 for me! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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I had originally showed the teaser of this drama to my parents to get them to watch it, but they were completely uninterested. It was only after a series of failed attempts at other dramas did they finally agree to give it a try. I would say that they liked aspects of it, but they were also fine missing large chunks of the drama which my sister and I sometimes just watched on our own. My personal agenda in watching this was because I really wanted to watch another Kim Bum drama, and I thought he did a great job in his role! The cast as a whole were really great, and it's also so fun to see their dynamics off-screen as well. The plot line isn't always the most exciting, as things can get a little technical with the law and all, but I did enjoy seeing them in action in the courtroom. There were at times that I thought the writing felt a little all over the place (trying to shove in sub-plots that diverged from the main plot), but everything thankfully ties together well in the end.

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A Must Watch LAW Drama

Law school is the perfect mix of thrill, suspense, humor and portrays many cases surrounding laws. It shows how the law isn't perfect but if you make the right use of it, then the law is perfect and you can punish all the evil doings by law.

Plot: I would say, definitely it's well written, from the start till the end, it'll never keep you bored. The writer has well-researched and shown us different shades of law and how well can it be used. Once in a blue moon, we see such courtroom scenes with full interest and powerful dialogues. Not to mention it also has humor, friendship, and family elements in it. It was a total fun ride for me !!

Acting and characters: The actors are just wow, their whole chemistry and teamwork, their dialogues in sync - everything is just perfect. Especially Kim Myung Min as Yang Jong Hoon was just mesmerizing and his on-point dialogue delivery, hilarious reactions always caught you off-guard. There are many characters but the highlight everyone is given high importance, and we get to see them evolving over various struggles and difficulties. All of them stood out, and they'll remain forever in your heart. The whole is cast is just amazing and well-casted.

Others: The drama is fast-paced, it slows down but only when it's required. There are many jaw-dropping scenes, Understand this is not a thriller but more of law based drama, so you get to see a totally different genre of drama. The ost 'we all' is till on my mind right now, the bgm was really good.

Cons: Maybe the ending felt a little bit rushed, not too much but yeah all questions were answered and all loose ends tied together. The major one you may find it confusing but don't drop, it'll get cleared at the end, the more you go, the more you'll get familiarized with the drama style and characters.

Overall, I really enjoyed it from the beginning till the end, it's perfect for binge-watch cause it'll give you anxiety too lol. So it's totally worth a try, do watch this !!

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The Perfect Law Drama!

Out of the many dramas i've watched, this definitely beats the rest and is one of my fav ones. Almost everything about the drama was perfect. The thrill, the suspense, this drama made me feel a whole lot of emotions and im here for it!

The actors have done a tremendous job in playing their roles. I could feel the chemistry between all of them. My favourite pair would have to be Kang Sol A and Yangcrates. With the past that they had, it's amazing how he's always guiding her but he makes it seem as though he isn't. I love Professor Yang's role so so much and his brain god i wonder what does one have to do to have a brain like his. Everyone in this drama played an important role even if they weren't the main character and thats also one of the reasons why I love this drama. Every little thing that happens, is for a reason, it's connected.

The student-professor dynamics! Loved it! I felt as if Professor Kim was more of a mother figure to her students rather than a professor. On the other hand, Yangcrates was as professor as a professor could be. He's strict, professional and doesn't hesitate to go harsh on his students because in the end he's doing it for their benefit. He's also very protective of his students and that's always a plus! It just shows how much he cares for them. Well, in his own very way.

As for the production, it was amazing but i have to admit all the flashbacks did kinda get me confused but then again it did help me understand the whole story better and added to the thrill and suspense so i guess its fine. The story plot is amazing! although i'm not a law student, i could still understand what was going on.

The OST! god don't even get me started with this one. This drama's ost will easily be on my mind and i'll for sure remember it for years to come. It's something about the lyrics and the time the ost was played. The lyrics was a direct reflection of what i was feeling. "Pulling me underrrrr, driving me crazyyyyy" Yes, Law School definitely drove me crazy. A good kinda crazy :)

This drama is a perfect thrill, suspense with a dash of comedy kinda drama. Kang Sol A is a role everyone would be able to relate to and to see her journey from a young delinquent to an established lawyer was just amazing. This drama covers family, friendship and most importantly portrays the right image of law and justice. Trust me, Law school won't disappoint! Definitely waiting for a season 2!

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How to get away with murder meets Chief of Staff

You could divide this drama into two main parts. One part that is a murder mystery in the style of How to get away with murder, and one part that is taking down a politician that is corrupted to the core, which is more of a typical K-drama. The murder mystery part kind of gets more irrelevant as the show goes on as the second part gets more relevant.
The drama also has other plots that are told, though some that are more important and fits more to the main story (Jeon Ye Seul, Seo Ji Ho) and some that feels more like fillers even though it has some relevance (Yoo Seung Jae, Kang Sol B)
So if you are interested in a murder, mystery drama then this is probably not one for you.

I did find some episodes a bit to slow and almost went down to the boring category but it picked itself up straight away and when the show goes for a satisfying moment, it succeeds really well. Not to mention the last scene of the show is so smooth. Great camerawork and everything.

The acting was fine, it does not have bad acting or anything like that in it, but I did have some trouble with Professor Yang in the first episodes, once again the acting is not bad, but there was something about the character I didn't like but that disappeared after a few episodes. I did like that a lot of the support cast (the students) got a lot of screen time and not just there for filling the spots up so to speak but actually got as much shine as the main cast. And THANK GOD for no romance. I'll admit the scenes between Kang Sol A and Han Joon Hwi was pretty cute and I did like their chemistry but I'm happy it didn't got blown into a full romance cause knowing from other K-dramas I've seen, that plot point would've taken over their (at least the female lead) screen time and not the main plot.

Now the music was simply great. I know I'm not the only one that went nuts every time the 'It's pulling me undeeeer, It's driving me craaaaazy' part came on. The whole soundtrack was great and had a lot of choir/church vibes but still fit really well.

So did I like it? Yes, it wasn't great as in one of the best things I've watched, but I've seen a lot worse. Like I said some plot point where better than others but it is an satisfying watch and worth checking out.

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DEFINITELY ONE OF THE BEST LEGAL KDRAMAS OUT THERE!!

STORY: This whole drama is the absolute definition of what they say in other english movies of "the one that'll leave you on edge". It really leaves you in the dark trying to think of who the guilty one really is. It really makes you think hard and all over the place. It leaves you thinking who really is telling the truth. With all the evidence going against Prof. Yang, and then him proving those wrong. AISHHH very addicting legal drama FOR SURE.

OST: OMG this has to be one of the best osts out there because, IT'S DRIVING ME CRAZY!!

You can't tell me you've watched legal dramas before without telling me you've watched Law school first. Definitely watch it. 100/10 masterpiece.

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Not Perfect but Better than Most

Professor Yang's ending narration of the law is an imperfect justice. Still, it must be perfect for those who teach and learn it alike, for there's nothing more violent than an unjust law is the ideal ending to an imperfect drama that was better than most. I am sad to see it come to an end. I enjoyed it. I was more than grateful to have Kim Myung Min grace my small screen; he is one of those actors I genuinely appreciate, from his voice to his facial expression and mannerisms. I will miss him and the unique way he approached the role of Professor Yang, who gave his all to his students while demanding the best, wanting his students to know they have it in them to be the best. As Maya Angelou said, if you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be. And how fitting that in the end, he had Han Joon Hwi and Kang Sol A by his side.

I liked all the actors, each for their very individual approach to their roles, from Lee Jung Eun as Professor Kim to Lee Soo Kyung as Kang Sol [B], and Lee David as Seo Ji Ho. Go Yoon Jung as Jeon Ye Seul, Hyun Woo as Yoo Seung Jae, and the rest of the wonderfully talented cast who clearly articulated that as much as the choices they each made changed them. It didn't define them except for Sol B, but she is a work in progress. I will, of course, be remiss in not giving a special mention to the fabulous Kim Bum in how he portrayed Han Joon Hwi, who never once let the circumstances around him sway him away from his principles. And much-gained respect to Ryu Hye Young in the role of Kang Sol [A], who, despite all odds, perceivers if not shines in an environment that wasn't set up to help someone with her background succeed.

In its unique way, the drama touched and addressed some aspects of the many dilemmas it brought up very nicely, especially the issues it presented in date rape, sexual assault, physical abuse, corruption, political manipulation, and crime and murder. But at the same time, it was vague in addressing the consequences of the more prevalent issues that plague everyday life, such as bribery, hacking and cheating, plagiarism, eroding principles, and the fragile lines between good and bad -- evil done in the name of good, or evil done in the name of evil, which is worse, isn't it the same in the end. I am not entirely sure the show lived up to its motto of truth and justice only by the law. As someone once said, law and justice are not always the same; justice is an ideal, and law is the tool. I enjoyed it highly recommend it.

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Brilliant Ensemble And Riveting Detail

I work in a field in which legal interpretation is a key element. This drama held my rapt attention both times that I watched it. I also enjoyed the clever word plays such as "Yangcrates" for a professor enamored with the Socratic method. Each member of the cast brought things to both the story AND its evocative skills. I really like Kim Boem as the intellectual star who needed help understanding his complicated feelings towards his uncle. Having said that, he is by no means--the only star in this ensemble. "Yangcrates," "Professor Kim," "Jiho," Kang Sol B/A were Very Memorable. I hope hope hope for a sequel!

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It'like nothing else..

I loved the story. Towards the end the plot is a little bit rushed yet given that its tempo fastened after episode 8 I can understand it.
*Truth and justice only by law*
That pretty much sumps up the whole show. There is no easy character. All the back stories were carefully thought about.
Watching their conflicts kept me on edge, and I have to give it to them I couldn't really guess the murderer of Seo Byeong-Ju case. Not even one moment is boring if you could get through the first episodes. Cause...I don't know it wasn't easy to connect to ML Yang Jong-hoo. The first time I watched the drama I gave it up after episode 2. He looked like your stereotypical know-it-all professor but after wacthing the whole show I can say that he stands on no man's land. Not even on law if it is not perfect.

Fyi, if you wonder about any romance there is almost none. Almost, because there were enough hints about Han Jun-hui's crush on Kang Seol-A. What is more important than that is the friendship though. Dynamics of the study group is colored pink for the sake of the show but that's the beauty of the drama. It's dreamy to watch.

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A gem of a Legal drama

Short: A very clever legal drama, if you enjoy the legal dramas where it's all about winding your way through the "devil in the detail" clauses and exceptions, the machinations and maneuverings of the various characters as they try and achieve their goals and all on the legal stage then you will absolutely love this. I think it comes off really pretentious, but is perhaps justified through its quality. "We Are" sound track still going around and around in my head too!

Detail:
I'll start by explaining the use of the word "pretentious" above. It was the first thing I was thinking as the drama starts, wow, this one is taking itself SUPER seriously... deep voices, stern comments, powerful people, important phrases and people reflecting sternly and importantly on the statue of Lady Justice. In the first episode especially, it's almost too much, I remember thinking "oh geez just get over yourself and get on with it". It does lighten up, but this tone persists throughout.

Now that i've finished it however, I think it earns the right. There's a lot of detail and effort gone into the story and some really clever twists and turns as the characters fight to gain the upper hand through the use of the law. It definitely feels like you're watching a chess game played by experts.

Characters are great, they have flaws and strengths. Sol-A was definitely my favourite - she's the complete underdog, the under achiever, she barely belongs in the university at all and is struggling to keep her grades high enough. But what she lacks there, she over compensates with her drive and passion and when the genie is unlocked proves that she at least as good as everyone else.

I thought that Sol-B's issues were also nicely done too, there's a common thread in many dramas about how the wealthy are often driven horribly by parents who place unreasonable demands on them, and I liked how this one was handled. It was a well played character and must have been quite challenging to both write and embody, she's cold and has flat expressions and constant tone but she's not uncaring or unfeeling and she's there for her fellow students and friends.

There was one scene that I thought just felt really off, and it was another "oh here we go taking ourselves too seriously again" moment, in the court, one of the characters is in the defense and the professor is her defense council. At a key moment he announces sternly and proudly, that he we will be resigning as council, shocks and gasps from the viewing gallery... and then he says he will allow his student (the defendant) to use her write to defend herself and proceeds to turn the whole thing into a lecture, even at one point rebuking the prosecution when they object to something by saying "in MY lectures, there are no objections", completely ignoring that this is actually a court room and a real proceeding... but it's ok because the judge also forgets that too, so we carry on with the "lecture" :) I mean it's not the end of the world, it worked for the character development very well, allowing him to empower the girl to find her strength and stand up for herself in a situation where she'd otherwise been on the receiving end of everyone elses manipulations.

Overall it's a superbly written story, if you like the legal maneuverings and careful interpretations of phrases, all that super detailed stuff that's the essence of the law, then you will find that in spades here. There's some great twists, great characters, fun moments too, and a nice sound track (the song "we are" is still going around in my head and will be for some time i'm sure!).

Definitely recommended.

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