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❝What if I stay... and ruin your first four wishes in the list.❞
On a superficial level one can watch Girl Rules for its lesbian ensemble with three different couples executing the tropes of the ex that came back, friends with benefits and the classic, straight as a circle, respectively. That in itself is enjoyable. But to truly get the most out of this series you have to let Bambi get under your skin, Prim on your nerves, MinPraew set your lacrimals sobbing, ShashaGorya into your very soul and understanding into your heart.
They will foreplay you and set you up for emotional upheavals that will mess up your week till you get your fix which only comes with playing the next episode, which is why I turned in every week and that's a lot from me because I have the attention span of not one but two goldfishes!
The three different couples are on their own journeys and at any point of time you will have three different dynamics on screen: the familiarity of Prim Bambi on their second chance romance navigating–and hopefully fixing–things that went wrong last time; you will have the avoidant player Shasha as she falls in love with the only selfless goodness in her life and lastly you'll find the exploratory happiness of Min as she is led by Praew out of a violent relationship.
By the time the show enters it's last quarter, the viewer might sit up, like me, and proclaim, "when does this sadness end?" You might wonder EXACTLY WHEN did this series with it's retro punk cover and suggestive theumbnails, bypass the boundaries of NC scenes, sexy fluff and promised toxicity into something real and throbbing in your chest. You will find the seemingly bitchy lesbian breaking down in bipolar swings and survivor's guilt. Instead of a straightforward love story, you might find gay circles of codependency and regret. The portrayal of dysfunctional families, intimate partner violence, suicidal ideation and the general struggles in the life of a woman might hit too close to home.
But this is a spring of hope and redemption too. It is the story of girls who lived horrors, fought them and the girls who helped them out of it. I love that although P'Jojo has directed the gay versions of these shows before, the creators have worked in the authentic women's experience into the series and instead of dwelling on the issues they focussed on how they came out of it. I thank him for his portrayal of the sapphic experience.
In the first three episodes I was the strongest critique of Girl Rules, i brought up it's editing issues the problems in sets and the likes but the by gods did it improve and it came back with a vengeance, the chokehold the rest of the show had on me was delightful. So i beg future viewers to give this show a chance beyond the first three episodes. The well paced presentation of story with respect to each and every storyline was the maintained throughout the show and it helped flesh out all the characters as and when needed.
On a superficial level one can watch Girl Rules for its lesbian ensemble with three different couples executing the tropes of the ex that came back, friends with benefits and the classic, straight as a circle, respectively. That in itself is enjoyable. But to truly get the most out of this series you have to let Bambi get under your skin, Prim on your nerves, MinPraew set your lacrimals sobbing, ShashaGorya into your very soul and understanding into your heart.
They will foreplay you and set you up for emotional upheavals that will mess up your week till you get your fix which only comes with playing the next episode, which is why I turned in every week and that's a lot from me because I have the attention span of not one but two goldfishes!
The three different couples are on their own journeys and at any point of time you will have three different dynamics on screen: the familiarity of Prim Bambi on their second chance romance navigating–and hopefully fixing–things that went wrong last time; you will have the avoidant player Shasha as she falls in love with the only selfless goodness in her life and lastly you'll find the exploratory happiness of Min as she is led by Praew out of a violent relationship.
By the time the show enters it's last quarter, the viewer might sit up, like me, and proclaim, "when does this sadness end?" You might wonder EXACTLY WHEN did this series with it's retro punk cover and suggestive theumbnails, bypass the boundaries of NC scenes, sexy fluff and promised toxicity into something real and throbbing in your chest. You will find the seemingly bitchy lesbian breaking down in bipolar swings and survivor's guilt. Instead of a straightforward love story, you might find gay circles of codependency and regret. The portrayal of dysfunctional families, intimate partner violence, suicidal ideation and the general struggles in the life of a woman might hit too close to home.
But this is a spring of hope and redemption too. It is the story of girls who lived horrors, fought them and the girls who helped them out of it. I love that although P'Jojo has directed the gay versions of these shows before, the creators have worked in the authentic women's experience into the series and instead of dwelling on the issues they focussed on how they came out of it. I thank him for his portrayal of the sapphic experience.
In the first three episodes I was the strongest critique of Girl Rules, i brought up it's editing issues the problems in sets and the likes but the by gods did it improve and it came back with a vengeance, the chokehold the rest of the show had on me was delightful. So i beg future viewers to give this show a chance beyond the first three episodes. The well paced presentation of story with respect to each and every storyline was the maintained throughout the show and it helped flesh out all the characters as and when needed.
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