For some reason I binge things multiple times before I write a review.

This one I have seen twice and am on round three.

Why?

Because it's like one of those classic old timey thrillers that slowly unravels the plot and gets more and more intense and twisted until the Final Buildup when you scream "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?"

And I did scream that.

Several times.

I knocked off one star for just a few little things:

There are fourteen leads in this show.

FOURTEEN.

And all of them kill their roles but I can see why managing a plot with fourteen main characters can make the plot drag just a little bit.

And it did drag just a little bit--there were at least two episodes where it just felt like a Plot Placeholder. Maybe cutting it down from 18 episodes to 14 would have helped, but even the Filler Episodes had some great little moments, and we did kind of need to know that background of all fourteen of these kids in order to understand their actions and attitudes, so there you go.

Also, while I didn't do shots every time I heard the words "Home School" in a single episode, I did start counting during one episode and ran out of fingers and toes in about fifteen minutes(that's just one segment of a 45 minutes show).

HOWEVER

I love me an old fashioned type thriller and this was it!

There was plenty of mystery and unanswered questions that were tied up nicely(for the most part) and there were plenty of comedic(thank you JJ and AJ) and a couple of swoon worthy moments too(like, can Kay and Jamie be a couple in another series? Because EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE)

Every character was human.

There was a lot of gray in every one of the students and I felt for all of them once I knew why they behaved the way they did. Jingjai and Hugo's backstory was more heartbreaking than I expected and I wanted to hug them as much as shake them for the rest of the series.

Even the villain (which was actually pretty easy to spot) was someone who thought he had a good reason for his actions(even if it was twisted, it made sense to him and that's what makes villains like this creepy.

Some people don't like Nani or his acting, but I think this genre is PERFECT for him.

True, Nani doesn't overreact or over-emote; he plays everything very subtly and very close to the chest and this type of character he was playing fit him to a tea. GMM should give him more characters like this because Nani is one of those actors who can make characters like Tibet(who seem to push down their emotions to avoid being hurt) really interesting. And Tibet's final confrontation with Prasath was FABULOUS!!!

Dew and Jane were fantastic as Nai and White(the side romantic couple). Watching them dance around their feelings for each other was super fun.

Nani and Film as Tibet and Maki where the nice kind of main romantic couple that didn't have the drama to deal with an felt natural in the friends to lovers trope, which can sometimes fall on it's ass, but this time it didn't.

Chimon STOLE THE SHOW for me.

Pennueng was so adorable I wanted to give him a hug and Chimon's performance was spot on--so much so that my brother walked in while I was watching and thought Chimon was actually on the Spectrum, and I had to get my brother to Google Chimon to prove that he wasn't.

The climax was almost perfect. I'm a little bit sick of the girl always getting hurt and needing to be saved by the guy, and kinda wished Tibet or Nai or White or even Run got shot instead of Maki, so that Maki could confront one of the baddies the same way that Run(with Champ) and Tibet(with Prasath) did, but hey, sometimes the soapy trope works better and I suppose this could be one of those times.

Plus, I did love that Run was able to hypnotize Champ with the click of a pen and force Champ to punch himself into a bloody pulp, so that made up a little bit for the girl gets hurt and guy takes revenge trope.

"Home School" was fun and would make a great low-key Halloween rewatch, which I'm totally going to do now.

Ignore the flaws and give this show a shot--it's worth it.