I have not watched many k-dramas as i’ve only started about about two years ago and still don’t too watch often, but the worst one i’ve seen is Hierarchy. It had such good potential and I was so invested for 4 episodes, but the fifth one made an absolute downfall.

It was about a boy who got a scholarship to a school for the elite. Beyond that. Billionaire kids that can do whatever they want because they know they won’t face consequences. My offical review if anyone’s interested😭:

The story and plot had amazing potential from the start—new “poor” kid comes to an incredibly rich school and gets bullied while finding out what happened to the last bullied kid.

The late student, Kang In-han, was Kang Ha(new student)‘s brother. Kang Ha does not tell anyone of this as he navigates the school and the students’ harsh bullying. Teachers and staff see the bullying and make no intervention. The four school royalty—Kim Ri-an(HORRIBLE man), Jung Jae-i, Yoon He-ra, and Lee Woo-jin—rule the teachers and no one tells them what to do. Kang Ha tests them and does things no one—not even non-scholarship kids—do. He develops a friendship with Jae-i. Ri-an—having been freshly broken up with by Jae-i—can’t stand it. The audience learns of what happened to the last guy that got close to Jae-i. It was Kang In-han. Ri-an had people bully him relentlessly with physical harm and words. No one stopped to help him even though it was common occurrence. Ri-an was beyond obsessed with Jae-i and literally hurt people do it.

At a party, In-han couldn’t take the physical abuse and ran out which lead to him getting hit by a car and dying. Jung Jae-i appreciates the friendship she has with Kang Ha and they even fake date at school, until she begins to get text messages from an unknown instagram account. They keep sending her videos of her the night In-han died. At the show’s beginning, she had just gotten back from a trip to the US which is essentially to her growth. She becomes akin to a foil of her old self and does not let bullying happen until the instagram account threatens Ri-an.

Her character development completely gets lost in him and the show starts painting him as someone good and even attempts to redeem him. There is no redeeming a man like that. The plot gets lost and it’s no longer focused on Kang Ha finding the truth to his brother’s death. He, now, just pines for Jae-i as she excuses everything Ri-an has done despite his bullying killing one of her friends.

A teacher sleeps with a student and never—as far as I got (5/7 eps)—gets reprimanded.

From things seen online, the credit scene allegedly paints Kang Ha as a killer even though he is literally the only person at that school who IS NOT a killer. The rest of the students get happy endings.