no stress quiet fluff with a serious topic
This is no stress quiet fluff with a serious topic.The age regression stuff was quite worrying when seen in the trailer, but they managed to pull it off really well. I usually don’t like kids in shows but the three girls actually cracked me up all the time!
The show deals with deep and serious topics in a light and colourful atmosphere, which can sometimes be confusing, but is also calming.
It’s interesting to see mental issues being addressed, directly (with Sun) and also as a side topic (with Jee’s OCD). It also deals with the importance of asking for help and the hardship of taking care of loved ones,... So every aspect of mental health issue system is addressed EXCEPT, the professional circle, which is quickly addressed at the beginning but more as a gag than really real help. And that is imo something the show missed, although I do understand that choice in terms of storyline.
Unfortunately, the show still manage to fall into the infinite pit of too easily forgiven moms. And that’s an objective statement. For Plobmek’s, but especially for Sun’s mom, its disappointing to me that a show supposedly dealing seriously with mental health conditions falls back down into overused shortcuts.
Santa is doing great at portraying a 7yo without being cringe (which is a refreshing change from P10L, ngl). He is really outdoing himself performing the switches and Perth is really looking extra good despite the weird outfits they’ve been given. Which by the way really throws me off every time.
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This is no Season 2
I was so excited for this show, OF being one of my fav show and AouBoom my fav ship. First ep got me crazy, but then it kept going down and down until I had to survive through the hell of last ep.S1 was a bunch of lost kids acting on impulse and ending up hurting themselves. This show on the other hand, presents a bunch of lost kids overthinking, scheming against each other and ending up hurting everyone. It has nothing of the refreshing spontaneous messiness of s1. Only Rome did follow that vibe but it didn’t save the show.
The writing is clearly lacking. Having three couples in parallel usually creates a good show dynamic. But in this, the storylines often mirror each other (for example, fighting and getting back on good terms happen almost at the same time in the three storylines) which completely misses the point of having 3couples and just makes the whole thing repetitive, and thus boring.
The whole show includes very weak/cliché plot ideas (video leaking used twice (and being a reused of the leaked recording of S1), useless filling idea, the RomeRaffy interview in the last ep,...). I kept asking myself “WHY?” . I'm not saying everything should have a purpose, but when it's half of the episod, there's a problem.
But most importantly imo, is that this show is an apology to redflag behaviours. Yeah, I know, Season 1 is full of red flag behaviours and that’s why we love it. BUT they are being called out for it and hit by karma. Here, they are all forgiven or even rewarded: For example, asking someone out using social pressure, Tua being the worst “friend” ever but still got Dean (who’d done nothing wrong) to apologise to him, Pete stealing half of the play budget and still being around and well afterward, like nothing happened,.... Anyway, you’ve got my point. I’m not necessarily watching shows for the morality but those kind of sneaky redflag apology is really not to my liking. I want karma to hit the bitches.
Final beef with the writing is... I don’t have anything against no cross-pair kissing. That’s a choice (a bad one imo, but still a choice). But then DON’T SET IT UP LIKE IT’S GONNA HAPPEN. Every time, the whole plot would have made more sense if the kiss had happen. Do it so that your script makes sense or change your script. Don’t just go halfway.
Now a quick word on each couple:
JackDean : The trope is not what I usually like but EarthMix chemistry and Mix’s INSANE acting skills makes it totally worth the watch. Also they are the only couple going through actual character growth (although sadly not really well pictured), so that’s also good point for them. But IMO there are too many underused potential in their storyline.
RomeRaffy : They gave one of my fav tropes to my fav ship and still managed to get me bored at some point. I guess that can count as a skill. But how was impressed at how Boom has improved his acting so fucking much. I love him to death. I could spend hours praising that guy so better I stop here.
Arnold/Tua : I can’t say much cause I didn’t watch enough. JG’s acting skills are weak and cringe the hell out of me. But from what I saw, half of their scenes are useless fillers and Tua is the worst character of the whole serie. This guy shouldn’t even have a happy ending before serious character growth.
Boston : who ? Cause that was no Boston. Not even a more mature version of Boston. It feels like they needed someone to have some talk with Tua and they wanted to bring back all the characters from S1, just for the show, so they picked Boston.
Overall, EarthMix and AouBoom did their ultimate best considering the lousy writing their were given.
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