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Extracurricular · Season 1 · Netflix

Extracurricular Season 1

Extracurricular Season 1 is a WORTH-IT, BollyMeter 7.4/10. 10 episodes on Netflix from 29 April 2020.

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BollyMeter7.4/10An 87 percent Rotten Tomatoes score from 3 critics reflects the show's sharp first half - a queasy premise executed with genuine tension - though reviewers noted the back half loses momentum in cycles of escalating violence.

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What BollyAI Thinks

Directed by Kim Jin-min and written by Jin Han-sae, Extracurricular landed on Netflix in April 2020 and earned quick word-of-mouth as one of the darker Korean originals on the platform. Critics at Rotten Tomatoes gave it 87 percent across 3 reviews, clustering praise on the cold moral architecture of its premise - a straight-A student running a criminal operation without ever playing the anti-hero card. The first five episodes deliver taut, almost blackly comic escalation. The back half, as a second reviewer noted, pivots into repetitive violent set-pieces that dilute the satire. Kim Dong-hee and Park Ju-hyun carry the material with controlled intensity; the show trusts that watching two teenagers make irreversible choices is scarier than any genre stylisation.

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The Room

87%critics positive · n=37.6/10IMDb audience
  • “Extracurricular is good, funny stuff... not likely to stop you from binging the crap out of this show.”
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Standout Episodes

The hours worth arguing about - premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.

  1. E1Episode 17.8

    The premiere establishes the show's cold logic in one elegant setup - a student whose illegal side-business is run with more discipline than most adults manage, until a classmate stumbles into his world.

    The moment: The moment Gyu-ri realises exactly what Ji-soo is running, and does not flinch.

  2. E10Episode 107.2

    The finale lands the consequences the show has been building, though the resolution feels earned only in emotional terms - the plot mechanics have frayed by this point.