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I was bored so I watched it yeaterday despite also thinking the stills and clip looked hideous and reminding me of nothing but the grubhub commercial.
In general, it looked a lot better in motion than it does on stills. However, whenever it did exagerated transforms like in the clips that keep being posted or the OP, it made me want to retch. Thankfully it wasn't that often, no more than 10% of the movie.
The cultural context presented is not korean for the vast majority, but generic americana LA cultural elements. The way people talk, act, and think is more like big american cities with a little korea neighborhood than anything asian. It made me think the people involved are "korean-americans" who haven't realized they aren't "korea-koreans" but only retained superficial traditions and cultural artefacts.
I have the distinction of being musically anhedonist so I can't properly assess that part, but I was under the inpression it was more hiphop than kpop, I ascribe that to the americanism. I read however that they got the cream of the crop to write and compose the songs. In the end, soda pop is the best song because it is the only one that contains korean lyrics.
The story is fairly straightforward and the pace could be better. In particular the near-end segment where the girls are all hearing their demons, and the previous short scene where they all open up about their insecurities, could have taken significantly more screentime while leaving less ugly and cringe attempts at humor.
On the plus side, there were no proper shitskins anywhere, no fag shit, no troons, and no commentary on any of these topics, which was a pleasant surprise for a netflix show.
It is a solid 6/10 and totally acceptable brainless entertainment, held down by overemphasis on the wrong cultural description, bad art and animation style, miffed pacing, and poor attempts at humor.
Probably the best netflix show ever made (quite the low bar though)
