Hear me out: this show is not bad but it's not exactly groundbreaking.
The premise sounded great; yes I want to see a show about the behind the scenes of the influencer life and how one of them seemingly came back from the dead (or did she) to expose all the dirty secrets of that shallow world. But in classic K-drama fashion, the show only uses that premise to offer a long and drawn out season full of useless subplots (cue in the dragged out romance ), stereotyped characters (why is the main girl villain always yelling? Just please stop, my eardrums have burst) and questionable casting choices (that woman who doesn't do social media and can barely move her face does not make sense casting-wise).
I'm halfway through the season and I'm tempted to fast forward through all the boring love story bits and weird hidden crime nonsense to just get to the parts about the influencer world and the backstabbing moves to get ahead of the other Insta-Celebs (because that's what I want from this show).
So far the main character's development arc is all over the place. Most of her actions seem to come out of left field (especially at the beginning when she can barely articulate 2 words in a scene and then blurts out a very intricate passive aggressive monologue in the next). The villains are way too clichés, especially the main one (Cha Yee ?), who's just unreasonably loud and entitled and there's no way this woman would not have destroyed her online career within 2 hours of being on Instagram.
I probably will finish this, only to know who BBBfamous is (my money is on the woman whose name eludes me but is the character that doesn't have an Instagram account and she used to date the guy who's now interested in our protagonist... I did say there were a lot of unnecessary side plots ).
Production value is top notch though.
The premise sounded great; yes I want to see a show about the behind the scenes of the influencer life and how one of them seemingly came back from the dead (or did she) to expose all the dirty secrets of that shallow world. But in classic K-drama fashion, the show only uses that premise to offer a long and drawn out season full of useless subplots (cue in the dragged out romance ), stereotyped characters (why is the main girl villain always yelling? Just please stop, my eardrums have burst) and questionable casting choices (that woman who doesn't do social media and can barely move her face does not make sense casting-wise).
I'm halfway through the season and I'm tempted to fast forward through all the boring love story bits and weird hidden crime nonsense to just get to the parts about the influencer world and the backstabbing moves to get ahead of the other Insta-Celebs (because that's what I want from this show).
So far the main character's development arc is all over the place. Most of her actions seem to come out of left field (especially at the beginning when she can barely articulate 2 words in a scene and then blurts out a very intricate passive aggressive monologue in the next). The villains are way too clichés, especially the main one (Cha Yee ?), who's just unreasonably loud and entitled and there's no way this woman would not have destroyed her online career within 2 hours of being on Instagram.
I probably will finish this, only to know who BBBfamous is (my money is on the woman whose name eludes me but is the character that doesn't have an Instagram account and she used to date the guy who's now interested in our protagonist... I did say there were a lot of unnecessary side plots ).
Production value is top notch though.