Honestly? You were DISappointed? This would mean you had high expectations.
This is a Dreamworks project. They have as much depth and real understanding of youth as the GOP.
Everything about this show is designed to sell junk to kids. Ten minutes into the first episode is all anyone should need to size-up this garbage.
In addition to the cruel joke of inverted sexism mentioned, there is also an obvious attempt to sex-up the show with proto-porn models with no acting talent cast in the lead roles. This multi-ethnic Barbie clone club is an insult to girls who don't fit the factory specs for Bratz Doll glamor.
The characters are supposedly of above-average intellect yet they are otherwise as superficial and materialistic as Bradley Cooper's muddled character in "Limitless". They are mean girls who've learned just enough to avoid direct put-downs. Their mindset is that of very average gadget-obsessed dullards for whom social media fixation is mandatory inorder to not be label as "sketch".
It's disgusting irony that this show is simultaneously FORMULAIC as it touts formulas scrawled across the set.
The writers' attempt to introduce acronyms and catch phrases is quite arrogant and will not work. They are clearly Buffy fans, co-opting the name "Xander" and trying to co-opt many of the aspects of BTVS that made it cool without actually BEING cool. I'd say "nice try", but no, it wasn't.
I like the Winnie Cooper cameo. Though I'm glad she's got work, it was sad to see her reading her lines off cue cards in such an obvious way. Was it too hard for her to memorize those shallow lines?
What they ought to do, to avoid further insulting their audience with a third season as the show is now, is to have the characters get sucked into an inter-dimensional vortex which lands them in a world slightly less like the recycled Disney superficiality stew they are in now and modifies their minds to more reflect a more mature, authentic mindset, rather than the saccharine, bubbly dolled-up plastic figurines-come-to-life they are now.
In short, this is a candy-coated candy bar of eye candy with no nutritional value, but loaded with misanthropy (for INTENTIONALLY not including any male characters of substance and passing that off as "girl empowerment"), body-shaming (by not including anyone full-sized or plus-sized or anyone other than a plastic, skinny, proto-porn star), and very VERY poor writing (the plot, the dialog, the slight HINT at science that makes it more akin to novel tricks than solutions to real-world problems). If the creators' intent was to promote knowledge, science, and an egalitarian worldview, this show, along with the product line, utterly FAILS because it doesn't take itself or its audience seriously enough.
As I was finishing this critique, episode two got underway. I can see their attempt to delve into intrigue and conspiracy is focused on diverting their young intended audience members from understanding the link between corporate power and government power, which they are heavily preaching doesn't exist.
The big baddy is a power-hungry corporatist, bent on permanently thwarting government oversight as they conspire to gain more wealth and power. This flies in the face of reality, in which the baddies are corporatists who USE government as their main tool to gain more wealth and power, all while they cry about regulations hampering their "honest business".
So, you can add the element of corporatist propaganda to this meshugaas.
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