Home School is home to several mysteries, which leave the audience confused for more than half the series, wondering if they'll ever explain them.

But Home School is also home to several characters, and these are surely the driving force of the series. If an episode doesn't explain to you why Run is trying to run away in the very first scene of the show, you won't notice, because you'll already be busy trying to find a favourite amongst the thirteen rebel kids sent to this absolutely weird place.

Every episode in the first act is then set to enrage the audience, I assume, because the kids are everyday fighting their way against authority, always in exchange for a reward which, pedagogically, doesn't really make it the best kind of education. (And for a school, this really lacks variety of subjects anyway.)
The second act is - as usual - very tragic: the kids realise they are alone and they need to mourn that knowledge.
The third act is a very long conclusion to it all, which is for the most part very satisfactory.

The actors are superb! Both those who played the professors and the kids did their best work, some more subtly and some more outwardly.

Overall, I really enjoyed watching this series every week, and I got fond of its characters; but I was also particularly in awe of the way it was shot and directed: it felt like a movie, in a good way. I would recommend it to the person who is looking for a character-driven story, even though it's sold as a mystery: the home in Home School is about family after all.