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This, but fully developed
I love sports dramas. Absolutely love them and the setting for this one was much like every sports drama I love but so unlike them as well. A football team is purchased by an entertainment company and actors, idols and models from that company are soon on the player's roster of the football team.
The team's just been relegated, their teamwork is non - existant, and the new players have been brought in to improve the image of the team and help them get back into the spotlight but the thing is, the new players are not exactly pro - footballers.
Each of the leads have their own baggage, they're immediately at odds for some reason or the other and they have very interesting connections to each other.. the plot is writing itself.
But this is also the plot for a full length series, maybe an hour each episode. Eight 25 minute episodes are enough to make a complete story, but again, not with this many storylines.
I loved most of it, honestly, I binged the episodes in a day. The major plot was solid, a football team in dissaray, recently bought and gone through a major upheaval, teammates who don't get along well, players who can't play football and the necessity to get the team together before the next season.
And unlike other sports dramas, the entire focus here was on the players finding their own way, there wasn't a manager or a coach who was the lead rallying the team together.
And because of that, there was a huge ensemble cast, like I mentioned above, characters with their own aspirations, baggage and connections to other characters. They were extremely interesting characters as well, a ton of different personalities in one dressing room, and the best of them all were the leads.
I loved the leads. First, because they are a prime example of one of my recent favourite tropes: losers in love. Where they've been simping after each other for years, and have essentially fallen in love with each other minutes after they meet officially. Their enemies to lovers storyline mixed with the losers in love energy, paired with the insane chemistry the actors had made for a great love story. The characters were written in a way that they complemented each other when they were together and supported each other as individuals and I just really loved them together.
The other two (almost) couples were also very sweet to watch, and I really would've loved to see more of them together, because they were developed, but not fully.
Developed, but not fully, that was the only problem with the series. The huge ensemble cast didn't really get the character development I wanted them to, and neither did the major plot. In a bid to tie up all the loose ends within the plot, they ensured that every conflict and character who could be a potential loose end, only to tie everything up within minutes of them being introduced.
That was my only complaint if I'm being honest, that tags along on the back of a bigger complaint, asking that plots and plotlines be more developed, especially when they have this kind of potential. I still very much enjoyed the series and would gladly recommend for a light and short watch.
The team's just been relegated, their teamwork is non - existant, and the new players have been brought in to improve the image of the team and help them get back into the spotlight but the thing is, the new players are not exactly pro - footballers.
Each of the leads have their own baggage, they're immediately at odds for some reason or the other and they have very interesting connections to each other.. the plot is writing itself.
But this is also the plot for a full length series, maybe an hour each episode. Eight 25 minute episodes are enough to make a complete story, but again, not with this many storylines.
I loved most of it, honestly, I binged the episodes in a day. The major plot was solid, a football team in dissaray, recently bought and gone through a major upheaval, teammates who don't get along well, players who can't play football and the necessity to get the team together before the next season.
And unlike other sports dramas, the entire focus here was on the players finding their own way, there wasn't a manager or a coach who was the lead rallying the team together.
And because of that, there was a huge ensemble cast, like I mentioned above, characters with their own aspirations, baggage and connections to other characters. They were extremely interesting characters as well, a ton of different personalities in one dressing room, and the best of them all were the leads.
I loved the leads. First, because they are a prime example of one of my recent favourite tropes: losers in love. Where they've been simping after each other for years, and have essentially fallen in love with each other minutes after they meet officially. Their enemies to lovers storyline mixed with the losers in love energy, paired with the insane chemistry the actors had made for a great love story. The characters were written in a way that they complemented each other when they were together and supported each other as individuals and I just really loved them together.
The other two (almost) couples were also very sweet to watch, and I really would've loved to see more of them together, because they were developed, but not fully.
Developed, but not fully, that was the only problem with the series. The huge ensemble cast didn't really get the character development I wanted them to, and neither did the major plot. In a bid to tie up all the loose ends within the plot, they ensured that every conflict and character who could be a potential loose end, only to tie everything up within minutes of them being introduced.
That was my only complaint if I'm being honest, that tags along on the back of a bigger complaint, asking that plots and plotlines be more developed, especially when they have this kind of potential. I still very much enjoyed the series and would gladly recommend for a light and short watch.
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