Extra-curricular: Initially intriguing teen drama set in South Korean high school that moves beyond the normal expectations of the genre.

https://youtu.be/aV_DBz2rKsI

Not so; stopped after halfway through. The narrative drive it had at the start petered out and died about halfway through and there was not the direct focus that characterised the opening episodes. Instead it slowed in pace and got rather rambling and uninvolving.

A pity as it had interesting potential - not least in the picture of a very different world it portrayed. I may return to it though…

Pretty Little Things: Lurid but gripping teen drama set in 'elite' ballet school (aren't they all) but with clunkily cliched dialogue

Secret City . Series 1. & 2. Riveting, elaborately plotted political thriller with expert melding of personal with public issues and