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This review may contain spoilers
An attempt to find new talent, not to make a good series.
Let's be realistic: This series (so far) has a very poor script, lackluster acting, uninspired protagonists, and supporting characters who make no difference to the story. They're only there to exist and steal screen time that could be used to deepen the story and add realism.
Everything happens without the slightest attempt at explanation or even minimal realism. Two women join forces to start a company, and out of nowhere, several women appear begging to join? If a company is newly opened, the number of employees is very small, often limited to the founders and partners, as there aren't many clients and salaries are practically nonexistent; almost everything a company earns in the beginning goes back into its own investment. Not here, though. The company opens with only ONE CLIENT and almost 10 employees! I really want to know what the agreed-upon salary was, because the series simply doesn't show it; they just go to work, and that's it.
Furthermore, the sheer number of characters is clearly an attempt to find new talent, and I understand that, but couldn't they do that with a good story? Or with several good stories? It seems like they simply gathered several women who wanted to be actresses, created a nonsensical story, and put them in the cast.
The supporting characters have no purpose in this series; they were given some personality traits (at least that's good), but they weren't given an interesting, in-depth storyline. They just threw them into the series and that's it, so we can't get attached to them.
Besides what's already been said, there are many outdated stereotypes in the series that it doesn't help to break down. Instead, it reinforces them. An example of this is the classic "ugly girl transformed into a pretty girl." I know beauty is subjective, but if we're talking about beauty according to what society dictates, that girl was completely within the beauty standards! Let's see: They took a girl and told us she was ugly and that she was bullied because of it, so I thought, "They're going to talk to the girl to make her feel confident the way she is, right? Because half of someone's beauty comes from their confidence, not from aesthetics themselves," but no! They were wrong twice! First, why, instead of trying to make her ugly (according to society's standards of what is ugly or not), could they have given her crooked and rotten teeth, warts on her face, giant eyebrows, horrible hair, skin blemishes, etc.? But no, they simply put normal glasses on her with thick black frames and braided her hair in two braids without combing it first. That's it! Seriously, I expected much more. During the transformation, I thought, "Well, since she's not ugly, maybe they'll put colored contact lenses in her eyes, dye and cut her hair, maybe even curl it to make a big difference..." No. They just combed her hair and took off her glasses. I hope the service was cheap.
NOTE: Englot is a very famous duo, but it's a fact that they make very bad series together; this is already their 4th GL and only Petricor manages to avoid being a complete failure.
Everything happens without the slightest attempt at explanation or even minimal realism. Two women join forces to start a company, and out of nowhere, several women appear begging to join? If a company is newly opened, the number of employees is very small, often limited to the founders and partners, as there aren't many clients and salaries are practically nonexistent; almost everything a company earns in the beginning goes back into its own investment. Not here, though. The company opens with only ONE CLIENT and almost 10 employees! I really want to know what the agreed-upon salary was, because the series simply doesn't show it; they just go to work, and that's it.
Furthermore, the sheer number of characters is clearly an attempt to find new talent, and I understand that, but couldn't they do that with a good story? Or with several good stories? It seems like they simply gathered several women who wanted to be actresses, created a nonsensical story, and put them in the cast.
The supporting characters have no purpose in this series; they were given some personality traits (at least that's good), but they weren't given an interesting, in-depth storyline. They just threw them into the series and that's it, so we can't get attached to them.
Besides what's already been said, there are many outdated stereotypes in the series that it doesn't help to break down. Instead, it reinforces them. An example of this is the classic "ugly girl transformed into a pretty girl." I know beauty is subjective, but if we're talking about beauty according to what society dictates, that girl was completely within the beauty standards! Let's see: They took a girl and told us she was ugly and that she was bullied because of it, so I thought, "They're going to talk to the girl to make her feel confident the way she is, right? Because half of someone's beauty comes from their confidence, not from aesthetics themselves," but no! They were wrong twice! First, why, instead of trying to make her ugly (according to society's standards of what is ugly or not), could they have given her crooked and rotten teeth, warts on her face, giant eyebrows, horrible hair, skin blemishes, etc.? But no, they simply put normal glasses on her with thick black frames and braided her hair in two braids without combing it first. That's it! Seriously, I expected much more. During the transformation, I thought, "Well, since she's not ugly, maybe they'll put colored contact lenses in her eyes, dye and cut her hair, maybe even curl it to make a big difference..." No. They just combed her hair and took off her glasses. I hope the service was cheap.
NOTE: Englot is a very famous duo, but it's a fact that they make very bad series together; this is already their 4th GL and only Petricor manages to avoid being a complete failure.
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