Addicting, Entertaining, and Heartbreaking
This is maybe the 3rd talent competition show I've watched since....Fantasia was on American Idol in 2004. Typically, I don't enjoy them. Over the summer I watched JYP's YT shows because I love me some JYP. When I stumbled upon UL, I thought I'd try it out. Glad I did.
Firstly, they assembled a great batch of talented "kids'. If not mistaken, I'm old enough to be all of their mom so they're kids to me. (Gah! I sound like my mom!) They all could sing & dance, sure some better than others, but they never gave up, showed anger or much frustration. It was a global 'ok this happened now let's move on.' That's why it was so sad to watch those that were sent packing, especially at the end when they released everything they'd been holding in.
Story score
Since this isn't a scripted show, the story to me is the overall flow of the show. How it was put together and presented. UL was highly entertaining. The "kids" were broken down into 14 teams of 3 mentored by idols/directors. I rooted for so many contestants across teams, but I did have a clear favorite.
The only thing I didn't like was the voting system. I'm not a fan of everything being decided by fan votes. Firstly, it opens up the cheat flood gates. Secondly, only those that are most popular come out on top. It wouldn't have been an issue if a few of the guys didn't already have fan bases for whatever reasons. That's not fair to the guys just starting out. You're only hope as a newbie is to ride their coattails. The directors should have been judges. Or they could have had a panel of judges each week that remained unknown until the end. Something to take the decision out of the hands of the general public. Truly, it's my only real complaint about the show. The voting is crazy skewed, and crazy suspicious, especially in the last few episodes.
Acting
I scored acting simply on talent. As I said the guys are extremely talented. I would have liked to have seen more interaction with the directors and/or the directors being more hands on.
Some were shown to be more attentive than others. They deserve 10s. And can we talk about the sexy El Cap..however you want to spell it? He made me want to sing Prince songs to him. (If you know, you know.)
Music
Goes without saying doesn't it? They did a great job singing famous idols songs, but when it came to the originals songs, they all came alive on stage. I wish we would have been given more details on song releases and/or seen the guys recording.
Rewatch
I intend to rewatch my favorite performances, but not the entire episodes. I don't need the pain. j/p
Overall, UL is worth watching for music fans of all types or just idol fans. I'm not a lover of idols, I honestly had never heard of any of the directors before, but I enjoyed UL nonetheless.
OH 1 other complaint: The group name is dumb AF! Are idol groups named by some kind of random word program? You plug in a topic and it'll spit out words associated with the topic. skh
Firstly, they assembled a great batch of talented "kids'. If not mistaken, I'm old enough to be all of their mom so they're kids to me. (Gah! I sound like my mom!) They all could sing & dance, sure some better than others, but they never gave up, showed anger or much frustration. It was a global 'ok this happened now let's move on.' That's why it was so sad to watch those that were sent packing, especially at the end when they released everything they'd been holding in.
Story score
Since this isn't a scripted show, the story to me is the overall flow of the show. How it was put together and presented. UL was highly entertaining. The "kids" were broken down into 14 teams of 3 mentored by idols/directors. I rooted for so many contestants across teams, but I did have a clear favorite.
The only thing I didn't like was the voting system. I'm not a fan of everything being decided by fan votes. Firstly, it opens up the cheat flood gates. Secondly, only those that are most popular come out on top. It wouldn't have been an issue if a few of the guys didn't already have fan bases for whatever reasons. That's not fair to the guys just starting out. You're only hope as a newbie is to ride their coattails. The directors should have been judges. Or they could have had a panel of judges each week that remained unknown until the end. Something to take the decision out of the hands of the general public. Truly, it's my only real complaint about the show. The voting is crazy skewed, and crazy suspicious, especially in the last few episodes.
Acting
I scored acting simply on talent. As I said the guys are extremely talented. I would have liked to have seen more interaction with the directors and/or the directors being more hands on.
Some were shown to be more attentive than others. They deserve 10s. And can we talk about the sexy El Cap..however you want to spell it? He made me want to sing Prince songs to him. (If you know, you know.)
Music
Goes without saying doesn't it? They did a great job singing famous idols songs, but when it came to the originals songs, they all came alive on stage. I wish we would have been given more details on song releases and/or seen the guys recording.
Rewatch
I intend to rewatch my favorite performances, but not the entire episodes. I don't need the pain. j/p
Overall, UL is worth watching for music fans of all types or just idol fans. I'm not a lover of idols, I honestly had never heard of any of the directors before, but I enjoyed UL nonetheless.
OH 1 other complaint: The group name is dumb AF! Are idol groups named by some kind of random word program? You plug in a topic and it'll spit out words associated with the topic. skh
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