Racket Boys

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Overview:

A city kid is brought to the countryside by his father's new coaching gig: reviving a ragtag middle school badminton team on the brink of extinction.

Created by:

Jo Young-kwang & Jung Bo-hoon

Status:

Ended

Language:

Korean

First air date:

5/31/2021

Last air date:

8/9/2021

Key words:

sports
boarding house
working mom
badminton
rural life
slight romance
sports drama

Seasons

Season 1

16 Episodes

Cast

Tang Joon-sang

~ as ~

Yoon Hae-kang

Son Sang-yeon

~ as ~

Bang Yoon-dam

Kim Kang-hoon

~ as ~

Lee Yong-tae

Choi Hyun-wook

~ as ~

Na Woo-chan

Lee Jae-in

~ as ~

Han Se-yoon

Lee Ji-won

~ as ~

Lee Han-sol

Kim Sang-kyung

~ as ~

Yoon Hyeon-jong

Oh Na-ra

~ as ~

Ra Young-ja

Ahn Se-bin

~ as ~

Yoon Hae-in

Cha Mi-kyeong

~ as ~

Grandmother Ome

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Reviews (1)

ParkMin
Written 2 year(s) ago
3
It's an oversaturated manufactured cheap emotional bait that lacked the genuine human connection and necessary depth but rather opted out for easily digestible cliches. Most of the cast, especially the younger ones, were desperately overacting in an attempt to translate the youth energy to screen but it came off as fake most of the time. The actual sports scenes were average at best, it's themed around the sport but not the sport itself. Most scenes with a sweaty face, the sweat looked as fake as it can be. It's so damn laughable that some scenes the neck was sweaty but the face was perfectly dry! The cast didn't do a good job in showing the physical exhaustion of performing the sport whether it was while training or competing. Again, making the sports scenes even more fake. What's up with the drama trying so hard to pair every boy with a girl? Really unnecessary. This drama would have fared infinitely better as a standalone one-off movie. The drama really highlighted the "bad" in badminton. Going into this I had the slightest tiniest bits of hope to get something that can be remotely and ever so slightly similar to "Ping Pong the Animation" but I quickly realized within a few minutes it wouldn't be the case.