Holy Sh*t! EXTRACURRICULAR (2020 - Korea - Action/Crime/Drama/Romance) activities can be dangerous, lethal even, but also amazing!

 Oh Ji-soo is a high school student living alone, unbeknownst to his classmates, and the adult faculty members around him, ever since being abandonned by his parents two years prior. A caring (and hilarious) guidance counselor forces him to join the Social Researches Club, an after-school student program with only one other member, Bae Gyu-ri, the rambunctious and smart girl the quiet and introverted Oh Ji-soo happens to have a crush on.

Maybe Oh Ji-soo tends to keep himself removed from people at large because, as "Uncle" he also runs, anonymously by remote, a well oiled prostitution ring. That's right. A well oiled prostitution ring, heh. With the help of "Old Man", a driver/protector of the girls, and the hard work of the girls themselves, business is good. But there's a pesky freak of a client who keeps needing to be handled, after trying hurt one of the ladies.

EXTRACURRICULAR is dense, twisty, and layered, but never bogged down by the weight and detail of it all. Slick and particularly brutal at times, with really, really good performances from the young cast, and incredibly strong writing. After just now watching the premier episode, I can tell it's going to be a long night, because I am absolutely hooked, and need at least one or two more. If the show maintains this level of "bad-ass", I will be so amazingly stoked.

- 10/10 excitement level for more episodes.

This post is updateable (is that even a word?) as I watch more episodes.

UPDATE - Just watched episode two.

Holy. Shit.

Bae Gyu-ri quickly proves to be a potential villainess, at least in context to the not-so-fucking-heroic-himself-teen-pimp,  Oh Ji-soo. Being EXTRACURRICULAR's defacto protagonist, it's worth pointing out and remembering, no matter how many times he cries about things  ("No one has ever said that to me" when a social nicety is directed towards him by Gyu-ri...he weeps like the night a 50 year old loses their virginity) Ji-soo is still a little shithead. Even worse, he's an absolute fucker who runs a business putting women at serious risk.

See? This is the beauty of episodic diary entries. I'm on an obvious tangent. Do I expect it to will out exactly as I think it wold from this exact perspective of this exact moment? Nope. But now I will be able to look back and see more clearly, how the plotting alluded and played me. I love that shit. It makes it seem like time well invested. :)

Anyway, damn, and Ji-soo's loser dad. who is not dead apparently, shows up. While Ji-soo's phone is missing and some mysterious asshole is texting him from it, threatening to expose him.

Little does he know it is Gyu-ri. Deeply troubled herself, and obviously attracted to Ji-soo, this whole situation and relationship are going to be fascinating to watch pan out.

By the end of the episode the cat is out of the bag. Ji-soo's desperate father has accidentally found, then very purposefully the money Ji-soo had stuck away for his own college exams and expenses. Gyu-ri has been exposed to Ji-soo as the one behind the masked calls.

This weepy teen pimp is starting to get a wee bit pissed the fuck off.

I. Am. LOVING THIS SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- 10/10 excitement level for more episodes AGAIN.