
a review by Hawl

a review by Hawl
Ok, fuck this, I'm writing reviews now. Welcome, welcome, one and all, this place should never be such a bore.
Why do I watch this kind of shows? It's simple. Because I love almost nothing more than seeing artists express their souls and feelings.
I am no music critic, I have no idea about what themes or lyrics or motives should be put into the song. I'm just your ordinary Billy-Joe-Jimbob who loves watching cartoons. But only once I felt like music was the best representation of the moment. Can you guess what moment it was? It was the episode about main duo manager's previous girl who can't sing anymore. Dogshit basic and simple narrative actually worked here. Overall I can say there were three nice plot lines. First - aforementioned girl. Second - androgynous vampire druid who died singing (but for some goddamn reason was resurrected for last performance because fuck you, we can't have good drama here). Third - Angela's plot. Yeah, it's actually reasonable but I still don't like the girl very much.
Main duo is just garbage. I've never seen more plastic characters who has nothing, want nothing, and do nothing but the world is turning around them. Literally every single characters other than them is more interesting (except for streamer boy because fuck him). Same goes for their songs. All their songs are literally the same "Can you feel my can you feel my can you feel my tears they wont dry".
The design of everything is weird. I mean it's ok in most of the moments but then we have Carole who has been wearing the same clothes since she was seven years old and those clothes somehow grew together with her because we obviously cannot distinguish a character in the past if she isn't wearing what she wears today. Or if she get's another outfit she'll suddenly become another character and the viewer will get scared.
This show also thinks you are a moron. Let's get an example. Carole doesn't know who her parents are. After some fame there are tons of people claiming they are her parents but obviously are just after the money. Carole knows that her dad has some kind of birth mark on his hand. Then a new character appears who looks like her and just trying to kind of get along. For the moment, show didn't show us his hands. This character persists for some episodes. Then we have some actually nice written monologue about his story. And instead vaguely showing us that Carole got that she found her dad she just says it out loud. And then for some batshit reason because we are all absolute degenerates the show decides to reveal his hand. Because we cannot have any hint of romanticism here or popcorn-eating heads on the other side of the screen will melt due to mental exhaustion. That actually was the boiling point for me. Fuck that shit.
Did you know we also have a plot line about how there's music written by artificial intelligence and by people and that was the main issue story tried to tell us for... I think two episodes? And then just forgot about it.
So what do we have here? Nothing, really. It's an empty shell of a hermit crab in a suit. Everything here feels like it was made by some metrics and graphs in a meeting with investors. How should I love show about artistic expression if it was made by soulless suits?
Go watch zombie land saga and forget about this empty-eyed abomination staring at you from beyond the glass.
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