It's improvisational rakugo?

hum - Saturday's episode in the NHK drama wasn't quite what I expected. Oh, they touched a little bit on some of the threads they had hinted at on Monday, but mostly, it was a tie-up for the week - and left most of those threads hanging!
( Some details . . . )

So we've got the mother hanging around the school, the teacher sick, and Kiyomi trying to figure out how to do improvisational rakugo - plus the other little conflicts that were hinted at last week still hanging fire.

I'm hooked!