The BEST episodes of Melancholia season 1

Every episode of Melancholia season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Melancholia season 1!

A sexual scandal between a math teacher and a student in a prestigious high school ended in tragedy. 4 years later they meet again, now as adults, to reveal the corruptions in school and to regain one's reputation as a teacher.

Last Updated: 9/5/2024Network: tvNStatus: Ended
The Midterms
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8.80
5 votes

#1 - The Midterms

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/25/2021

Yoon-soo gets overwhelmed with mixed and complex emotions after hearing Seung-yoo profess his love for her. Kyu-young notices Seung-yoo's love for Yoon-soo and uses it to blackmail him. Meanwhile, Yoo Hye-mi takes things into her hands for the midterms Ye-rin is about to face. However, Yoon-soo finds something suspicious in Ye-rin's midterm answer sheet.

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Ji-na’s Guilt
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8.80
5 votes

#2 - Ji-na’s Guilt

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/29/2021

Yoon-soo and Seung-yoo hold hands for Si-an, supporting, relying on, and moving together. In the end, they get close to exposing that Si-an's condition was the cause of what went behind the Global Talent Class, the special textbook, and the corruption at Asung Academy. And to destroy Noh Jung-ah's Asung kingdom, Yoon-soo and Seung-yoo begin to persuade people to tell the truth.

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The Audit
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8.75
4 votes

#3 - The Audit

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/2021

For the first time, Yoon-soo reveals to Seung-yoo her pain and suffering. Seung-yoo discovers the person behind their love scandal and proposes they stand together and fight. Meanwhile, Ye-rin ends up witnessing a surprising fact and rushes to Noh Jung-ah to tell her about it.

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Asung’s New Director
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8.75
4 votes

#4 - Asung’s New Director

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/23/2021

Seung-yoo and Yoon-soo finally reveal the truth behind the scandal that happened in their past. While Noh Jung-ah puts forward a scapegoat after getting cornered, Ye-rin begins to crumble in her anxiety and despair. Meanwhile, Yoon-soo, who now can smile like Seung-yoo always wanted, chooses to be in the position to protect Seung-yoo.

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The Ten-Year-Old Genius
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8.60
5 votes

#5 - The Ten-Year-Old Genius

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/18/2021

Seung-yoo and Ye-rin prepare in earnest for the Math Olympics. Jung-ah and Min-joon teach Ye-rin the means to win, and Yoon-soo finds out about the corruption in the competition. However, Yoon-soo goes to Jeju Island with Seung-yoo to help him with the contest. On the same day, Ye-rin arrives at Jeju Island for internship activities for the competition. Who will win the battle?

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Seung-yoo Returns
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8.60
5 votes

#6 - Seung-yoo Returns

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/1/2021

After four years, Seung-yoo has now become a renowned mathematician, and he returns to look for traces of Yoon-soo who has disappeared after the incident in 2017. Meanwhile, Principal Noh Jung-ah of Asung High School of Math and Arts proposes an offer to Seung-yoo, and Seung-yoo responds with another offer.

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Face To Face At Last
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8.60
5 votes

#7 - Face To Face At Last

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/2021

Yoon-soo starts to smile little by little thanks to Seung-yoo, and the two of them have an enjoyable and memorable time together. Meanwhile, Noh Jung-ah, who is furious at Yoon-soo for targeting her, decides to get in the way of Si-an, the one student Yoon-soo cherishes. Yoon-soo notices the provocation and resolves to face her.

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A Place Of Warmth
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8.60
5 votes

#8 - A Place Of Warmth

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/22/2021

Seung-yoo understands the error in the premise and Yoon-soo deeply. He becomes frustrated because his love for Yoon-soo obstructs any means of proving Yoon-soo's innocence. To comfort him, Yoon-soo takes him to a place of warmth and healing. They escape the people's attention and prejudice as they spend time together. Meanwhile, Noh Jung-ah gets faced with a crisis from every direction.

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Noh Jung-ah’s Collapse
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8.60
5 votes

#9 - Noh Jung-ah’s Collapse

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/30/2021

Finally, Seung-yoo and Yoon-soo reveal the secrets behind Asung Academy and Noh Jung-ah to the world. How will Noh Jung-ah's defeat look? What will become of Seung-yoo and Yoon-soo's relationship? The final story will be much more beautiful than the love of mathematics the two share.

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Infinite and Finite
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8.50
6 votes

#10 - Infinite and Finite

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/17/2021

Seung-yoo participates in the math competition and is picked to represent Asung High along with Ye-rin. The result shocks everyone who thought Seung-yoo had no talent in math except for Ye-rin who knows that Seung-yoo is a math genius. Meanwhile, the parents of other students and Ms. Noh aren’t happy with how Yoon-soo runs her math class and club.

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Unlocking Yoon-soo’s Heart
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8.40
5 votes

#11 - Unlocking Yoon-soo’s Heart

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/8/2021

Seung-yoo tries to bring Yoon-soo out into the world from her rut by getting close to her heart, just the way she helped him. Meanwhile, Yoon-soo keeps her identity hidden while collecting evidence of Noh Jung-ah's corruption. However, when Yoon-soo's identity is in danger of getting exposed, Seung-yoo stands in front of her.

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Baek Min-jae
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8.33
6 votes

#12 - Baek Min-jae

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/11/2021

Yoon-soo finds out that Seung-yoo solved the question. But he tries to keep a distance from her, saying he doesn’t like math. Yoon-soo gives him another math problem, and the problem allows them to connect and communicate. Meanwhile, a math competition is held at Asung High to select the rep student to participate in the International Mathematics Olympics.

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Faulty Brakes
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8.20
5 votes

#13 - Faulty Brakes

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/24/2021

After the Math Olympics, Seung-yoo opens up and tells Yoon-soo the traumatic experience he had bottled up inside of him for a long time. Yoon-soo comforts him and sympathizes with Seung-yoo's pain. However, Sung-jae witnesses the moment and gets overwhelmed with a strange feeling. Meanwhile, suspicions that Ye-rin got preferential consideration for the competition to become an issue.

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Seung-yoo’s Project
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8.20
5 votes

#14 - Seung-yoo’s Project

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/2/2021

Now that he has reunited with Yoon-soo, Seung-yoo tries to get close to her again. Noh Jung-ah, who doesn't know that Yoon-soo has become an elite instructor at an academy, asks the academy for the guidance of her daughter, Ji-na. Meanwhile, Sung-jae appears in front of Seung-yoo and Yoon-soo, who are together.

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Flawed Premise
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8.20
5 votes

#15 - Flawed Premise

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/2021

Seung-yoo announces that he was the student involved in the teacher-student love scandal at Asung High and shocks everyone that it was all a setup. Yoon-soo doesn't want to jeopardize Seung-yoo any longer and prepares to disclose information on Noh Jung-ah. Meanwhile, Ye-rin explodes all her emotions onto Seung-yoo, who only has his eyes on Yoon-soo.

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Fermat’s Last Theorem
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7.75
8 votes

#16 - Fermat’s Last Theorem

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/10/2021

At Asung High, Yoon-soo’s new workplace, she gives a tricky question for students who want to join the math club. While no one in the class got the question right, a correct answer sheet is posted on the board outside the classroom. To find out who did it, Yoon-soo provokes them and manages to find who it is.

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