To date my personal favorite has been the sense of escalation in the fourth episode. In that respect the drama certainly has its moments. "Nightmare Teacher" doesn't gloss over the general misery involved in being the victim of bullying, yet at the same time we see the victims transform from being positive, sympathetic people to the exact same kind of generally cruel person who provoked their desire to ask for Bang-goo's help in the first place.Īs storytelling goes so far "Nightmare Teacher" seems satisfied just making a note of how we ought to be careful what we wish for. First the emotional kind, then the type that's based on physical intimidation. Which is funny, because both of the initial stories deal with bullying. Eventually left in a situation where retreat is impossible, the student is left to a suitably ominous fate, trapped and twisted as their own initially well-meaning designs take on a turn for the morbid. In a pattern that appears to be a sticking point for "Nightmare Teacher", the first fifteen episode develops the characters and the problem, where as the second fifteen minute episode shows the student actually try to use Bang-goo's artifact with predictably ambiguous results.
Ye-rim and Sang-woo are just observers in an anthology story, one where Bang-goo (played by Uhm Ki-joon) engimatically offers students the means to achieve their dreams. But that's not the kind of drama "Nightmare Teacher" is. Ye-rim (played by Kim So-hyun) and Sang-woo (played by Lee Minhyuk) are a couple of high school students who get on each other's nerves in a way that obviously shows they like each other, even if they won't admit it.
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