Queendom (Uncut Ver.) (2025)

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THE GOOD

This show is so cute!

The actors have great chemistry.

Many of the little moments feel very organic, as though the actors were allowed to experiment and try things.

The costume styling is all super fun.

Some nicely impactful and emotional moments and personal growth. Especially for the leading characters. Also some more complicated topics about love and life and flaws are engaged, if only briefly.

Each episode is engaging and has its own stuff going on. Nothing drags and nothing feels like filler.

Having a secondary couple at an older age range is nice for those of us getting too old for the new-adult age range of the main leads.

The music is really well utilized, pairing with emotional moments and then calling back to the familiar melodies. This soundtrack is going to stick with me for a long time.

THE BAD

To be honest, some of the writing and directing is not very polished. Sometimes character motivations just don't seem very thought out. If all the cuteness and vibes weren't as great as they were, then I probably would have been more bothered by this.

Not a lot of depth to many plot points. In general, many of the plot points, and character arcs are somewhat lacking. Again, this seems to work as long as you are enjoying the show as "light and fun", but a more serious viewing would probably find things to be a bit superficial and breezed over.

There are some moments where it feels like they should have done another take, which contributes to the overall feeling that this production was a bit amateurish. I gave this aspect a pass because it seems to be a tradeoff for the more organic moments that we got -- they seemed to favor letting the actors feel out the scenes and just find things that work, rather than mapping out and performing specific expressions and gestures.

Typical for this genre, people who do bad get the lowest possible consequences for their actions. Nearly no accountability.

THE NOT FOR ME

This show focuses heavily on the new-adult aged leads, who are arguably portrayed as being even younger and more childish than their characters ages, which are already very young. They are like barely 20 and styling themselves as tween influencers.

This is oddly combined with the 18+ rating which is ...heavily utilized. There is a lot of focus on ...spicy scenes. Which is fine for the audience that is looking for that, but is odd when this is broadly a very "cutesy" show (Watch the title sequence and tell me if you expect graphic sex scenes). Other shows in this genre usually make a clearer choice when focusing on very young couples to limit the love scene portrayal to some degree, or to focus those scenes on the older couples instead, but this show doesn't bother doing that at all.

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