'School Police' review: Serves up teaching moments marred by unnecessary roughness


'Yeah, we're close. We even have the same hairstylist. Oh, you didn't know?' Photos: Handout

As high school dramas go, Japanese serial School Police has moments that rank up there with the best of them. One in particular, about a teenager abandoned by his flighty mother, may leave your guts in knots as the hapless youth finds himself slowly sinking into the morass of desperation.

As cop dramas go, School Police serves up an interesting mystery that, on its own merits, is more than tangled enough to command our attention.

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6.5 10

Summary:

'School Police' is an easy binge but its hero seems to suffer from arrested development.

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