I think you know a show is bad when a supporting role has more depth than the main character… I am going to be brutally honest here… This storyline was wasted. They could’ve made this drama great, our male lead Minseok has so much room to grow in this new job and could’ve had so much character depth built up but for some odd reason, they just didn’t do that. Nearly every character is one dimensional, I understand that side characters are just there for one or two purposes but don’t create cardboard cutouts. Yoo Ah, Minseok’s fangirl and schoolmate was seen as nothing other than a fangirl which is a wrong thing to do if she’s going to appear in the show quite often. With that said, you’re probably going to be taken aback when I say this but I was actually hooked onto the first three episodes, I flew by them so quickly since I enjoyed them so much and I really wanted to know where the plot was going to go because I saw potential in it and was aching to know the mystery of Minseok’s brother and why he was gone. It all went wrong when Jung Soo Young, played by Lee Ha Na, was introduced as the female lead. There is absolutely no chemistry between Minseok and Soo Young and I found myself gradually becoming more irritated by them. I tried really hard to see the faintest connection between the two but there was nothing there and they were still trying to convince me that their love was fate. I’ll give credit to Soo Young on one thing; she was actually enjoyable to watch for the first few episodes. I liked her clumsiness in her dating skills when she was chasing after Director Yoo and how she was just an unlucky person. Although she was foolish, it was rather amusing to watch. Even though I liked her awkward character, I didn’t care enough for her as a female lead she fitted the role of a supporting character a lot better. Yoo Jin Woo has to be my favourite character of High School King of Savvy, he was the most three dimensional of all the characters and I cared about his problems and life more than the male lead’s life. I loved every moment of screen time with Director Yoo. In this case, they should’ve made Yoo Jin Woo the main character because Minseok is such an uninteresting protagonist. Even though I wanted to know more about his troubled life and past, I didn’t as there were things left unsaid that are shown to us through flashbacks and a scene where Director Yoo looks at broken glass of a tail light and is triggered by that. They didn’t bother to explain any aspect of his past after because he became irrelevant to the plot since he was only there to be a part of a love triangle which shouldn’t be the case for any storyline. I haven’t seen Seo In Guk in any other drama but I could see that he is a good actor as he was able to channel the jealous and conflicting emotions that Minseok went through really well and he played both Minseok and the character’s brother Hyung Seok and was able to make me believe that they were two completely different people which they are supposed to be so that was pretty impressive. The only problem is that he didn’t play a decent lead character that I connected with. The biggest problem with Minseok’s character is that he never changed or grew; he remains the exact same childish angsty teenager throughout the entire show. I have a big problem with this because in the end of the show, they did a Three Years Later segment and in three years, a person changes so much. I saw no character growth or change and he’s supposed to be an adult at this point, I get it that he’s supposed to be much younger than Soo Young so they had to show the difference in maturity between the two but come on, he still can’t remain the same hot headed teenager because he’s not even a teenager anymore! This drama is not worth watching, you could make use of 17 episodes or more on a better show with better characters. I found myself getting bored toward the end and was hoping the romance between Lee Minseok and Jung Soo Young would blow off. Also, the big mystery with Minseok’s brother Hyung Seok was so anticlimactic, it was disappointing. As for Lee Soo Hyuk, please play in better dramas. I am going to give High School King of Savvy a 5/10 stars for Lee Soo Hyuk as Director Yoo, for being invested in the show initially and hooked on the first couple of episodes and for Minseok’s grandpa. Minseok’s grandpa and Yoo Jin Woo made this show earn the extra star.