As many people before me have already said, this is not your typical high school drama. This is not the typical love triangle or rich-poor story, (the only other high school dramas I’ve seen are ‘Extraordinary You’ which had the whole comic world concept which made it exciting and maybe ‘Cinderella and the Four Knights’ can be considered high school too. I wanted to watch the ‘School’ series but then it seemed kinda boring and repetitive and I was scared to drop it, which I hate doing). This drama shows the darker and more dangerous side of the high school experience which includes themes such as smoking, and bullying which are relatable to almost everyone who went to high school and some that are less relatable such as sex trafficking and gangs. A good, exciting and educational break from the cute but at times unrealistic and annoying love lines that happen in a Kim So Hyun drama, for example (I don’t hate her, she’s the one that I can think of at the moment if I think of romance-high school drama). All being said, I don’t hate high school dramas or love triangles in general, I’m just expressing my preferences as someone who usually avoids high school dramas.

Going back to Extracurricular, I started watching it as soon as it came out because it was showing on my Netflix. I knew it was coming but as the main leads were high school students I thought that maybe I was not going to like it but then the illegal activity after school mentioned in the synopsis made me curious. I stopped it for a couple of days in between and went to finish Sky Castle with my sister and then Kim Dong-hee made me wanna finish it. He is a high school student in both these dramas but the difference in the two characters is astronomical. Like Ji-soo, woah, what in the world are you doing!? And Park Joo-hyun was so good too, I loved her. We’ve seen many female characters in dramas that are unhappy with their parents and hate their life but she took action and did something about it, even though what she did was illegal. She portrayed her character so strongly, showing all the emotions and making Gyu-ri a real person not just a character in a story. All the actors did such a good job. I was feeling all the emotions while watching it.

As for the ending, wow again. I’m not going to say much as I don’t want to spoil but I wanted a season 2 at first, as I always do, I don’t want to let them go if you get what I mean, I just want the story to keep on going (only if the drama is really good though). But now I think that season two is not needed. What are they even going to show? Even though how they left the ending is just too much to decide on our own as viewers, I feel like maybe another season is not necessary. But if they decide to make it, I wouldn’t mind.

One of the most exciting high school dramas ever ⭐️