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Pop Star Academy: KATSEYE

Pop Star Academy: KATSEYE

6.0

The road to joining an “iconic global girl group” is through an untrustworthy surprise survival-competition show

TV Show

South Korea, United States of America
English
Documentary
2024

TLDR

Surely, the dream was never to take part in this BS?

What it's about

Aspiring pop stars undergo a K-pop style training program, among other challenges, to become part of global girl group KATSEYE.

The take

Paraphrasing their words, the show is about taking the K-pop method of creating stars and trying to replicate it outside of Korea to create a “sensational, iconic, global girl group.” And there are good things about it in the early going. For one, the evaluators sound levelheaded, which might seem like the bare minimum, but you know how these things really go. The documentary-esque aspects are nice enough when the show is grounded in its audition/training purpose and in getting to know our contestants. But I could do without a survival competition style reality show again, especially ones that seem to just use the format for the sake of using it, a.k.a., "entertainment."

What stands out

This reality show is far too boring to be this ambitious.

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