The Glory Season 1 Review: f you want to make an impression on bully victims, don’t remind them that “an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind,” as Gandhi once said. This is especially true of the extreme and unrelenting bullying often depicted in media.

It’s never easy to watch a story about someone being cruelly and needlessly tortured, but we must do so we can see how common it is in our world. For someone like that, getting revenge isn’t a choice; it’s a must. For Moon Dong-eun, the main character of the new Korean drama The Glory on Netflix, it’s a way of life.

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In a story like this, it’s also hard to understand the victim’s point of view, even after years have passed. Dong-eun doesn’t go after the kids who used to pick on her by accident. She has spent her whole life planning how to ruin them and obsessively following their lives.

She talks openly about killing. No one ever thinks about forgiving. So that we can believe it, the cruel things that happened to her in school are shown in great detail and for a long time. This makes long parts of The Glory hard to watch.

These early events are shown in flashbacks, and the story regularly moves back and forth between the past and present. Dong-past eun’s isn’t all that interesting. She was picked on because she was poor and had no friends or family to help her. So did the fact that her bullies were all rich and spoiled kids whose parents could ensure that their kids never got in trouble for what they did.

Dong-eun was ignored even when she went to the police and the school staff. Even the kids knew she would be there, which gave them the freedom to act however they wanted. Dong-eun didn’t want to give up, so she focused on her education and career. However, the physical and emotional scars were a constant reminder that she would have to do things her way if she wanted to get justice.

So, we’ve got a show. Most of these eight episodes, which make up the first half of a season split in two, are framed by Dong-eun, as an adult, finally going up to Park Yeon-jin, the leader of the gang that made her life so hard, and telling her the story.

Yeon-jin was a horrible person in the past, and she is still wrong now, even though she is famous and successful and has a family. Lim Ji-yeon plays her convincingly, even if she does it in a snarky way. This gives the audience narration that fills in some of the story’s gaps and gives us a reason to jump around in time.

Song Hye-kyo as Dong-eun is a picture of calm anger and determination. She’s both likeable and a bit scary because it’s so clear that she thinks her actions are correct. The script asks her to do a lot, and she does it well, carrying the activity of Part 1 on her shoulders.

The Glory Season 1 Review

Yeah, sure. Melodrama is a way of making things seem more important than they are. As was already said, focusing on how bad people hurt kids in school can get old and is an easy and obvious way to add drama.

But, as was also said, these things and feelings do happen and show up. In that way, at least, The Glory is a cathartic way to get even, even though its morality isn’t always clear, and its drama is sometimes overdone.