Lee the main character is framed for a major school prank and punished with a year of detention, the entire show centers around him breaking out of detention to figure out who framed him. This leads to one of my biggest problems with the show it sacrifices everything for this mysterious plot. The bulk of each episode all take place in detention from the second episode onward, this means their is no real world building, character growth or story telling. The writers seemed hell bent on the entire show taking place during detention, to cement these writing limitations Lee is grounded and on a strict schedule as punishment from his mom. So we literally see NOTHING but the halls, cafeteria, and detention.
On top of all that the vast majority of the characters are stereotypically bland, boring, one dimensional cliché high school students with the exception of literally two smaller supporting characters. Lee doesn't fall completely into the first category but he is insanely one dimensional. This literally describes his entire existence "framed for a prank, now he's popular and he wants to find out who framed him that's it". Nothing else is really define with his character or any of the others, there's potential romance but it's all handled so poorly. The character don't even feel like people just vehicles to progressed the plot.
This show sacrifices so much for a HIGHLY subjective mystery that there really isn't anything left without it, there are so many massive plot holes. For example why aren't the skaters popular if they helped set up the prank Lee was framed for? How is a year of detention with a constantly sleeping teacher punishment? Why wouldn't Barrage supervise detention himself at the very first suspicion of Lee sneaking out? Why are Lee and Biffy the only people in the ENTIRE school that have detention? The list goes on and on the only thing the writers put any thought into is the mystery literally everything else is severely lacking.
On top of all that the vast majority of the characters are stereotypically bland, boring, one dimensional cliché high school students with the exception of literally two smaller supporting characters. Lee doesn't fall completely into the first category but he is insanely one dimensional. This literally describes his entire existence "framed for a prank, now he's popular and he wants to find out who framed him that's it". Nothing else is really define with his character or any of the others, there's potential romance but it's all handled so poorly. The character don't even feel like people just vehicles to progressed the plot.
This show sacrifices so much for a HIGHLY subjective mystery that there really isn't anything left without it, there are so many massive plot holes. For example why aren't the skaters popular if they helped set up the prank Lee was framed for? How is a year of detention with a constantly sleeping teacher punishment? Why wouldn't Barrage supervise detention himself at the very first suspicion of Lee sneaking out? Why are Lee and Biffy the only people in the ENTIRE school that have detention? The list goes on and on the only thing the writers put any thought into is the mystery literally everything else is severely lacking.