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That owl is so tired of the crap it has to deal with.

Impressions:

and then sent everyone but the artists and animators home without… Wait, I said this already. The unique thing this brings to the formula is “has an owl.” Rest assured, I have nearly as much disdain for this as I do Locodol. It was slightly more since it began with 30 seconds of panning over utterly random crap and the main character wouldn’t stop narrating at me, but then it showed a surprising sense of humor and awareness of how ridiculous a lot of the boy band/idol crap is. And by surprising, I mean any at all. I don’t mean the standard “Go out on stage in front of people!? But I’m shhhhyyyy!” nonsense, but people being genuinely creeped out by them posing and emitting sparkles. Not enough to accidentally mistake this for comedy or be funny in any way, but at least I can point to something differentiating the two. I mean, besides all the penises.

No surprises here. Just another idol show, only for boy bands. It’s as cheap as the promos made it out to be and as uneventful as they all are. The only thing stopping them is “I wanna be an idol!” with the only thing standing in their way being the Great Will of the Author in the sky. No conflict, no narrative, no nothing. I don’t watch Glee, but I get the appeal. It’s a soap opera repackaged with horny teenagers singing classic rock. The key there is that it’s a soap opera, and operas are nothing if not ridiculously dramatic. And this, like so many before, brought nothing at all to the table. I guess the boy band is slightly more into it and enthusiastic than usual, but again, that’s nowhere even near enough to give this the hook that it very badly lacks.