I know I'm already too late with my suggestions to the crew ;) but I just watched the show and I still want to write as if they will read and appreciate my input :) ...Since they will not I can only wish them luck, hoping they surprise us with betterments in the Season 2.
The fetishistic opening sequence tells us it's all about the style, and it IS all about her all the time walking fiercely in that men suit that someone thought was so sexy - and it might have been if the hairstyle was made to fit her face. But combined with her uptightness she often looks as some wooden caricature. When they are about to kiss (no need to mention the cliché of postponing and people entering the room in the beginning) she is awkwardly coming into the face of her beloved each time in the same unimaginative way ('patronizing'). Sometimes it was worse than 'male gaze', sterile and very annoying to watch - the lesbian romance magic is mostly missing from those kisses - but there's a lot of lesbian drama for compensation, that's for sure! :)
I totally agree with the person who wrote - what's with her looking at the camera and talking to audience?? It simply makes the show (already predictable and unconvincing) even more annoying. 'Breaking the 4th wall' here only makes things worse. Her occasional winks & hints to us are NOT funny nor charming if that was maybe the purpose.
Predictable dialogues aimed to please the modern queer audience with very modern tropes to identify with. A queer hero gets a deserved piece of cake within the capitalist system because of playing the game well and we are invited to admire her power (together with her overall exquisite nature). Maybe I'm asking too much, this is a simple entertainment show, but it wasn't performed so well, that's all I'm saying.
Overall - I find the very intention of creating powerful independent female characters praiseworthy!
The fetishistic opening sequence tells us it's all about the style, and it IS all about her all the time walking fiercely in that men suit that someone thought was so sexy - and it might have been if the hairstyle was made to fit her face. But combined with her uptightness she often looks as some wooden caricature. When they are about to kiss (no need to mention the cliché of postponing and people entering the room in the beginning) she is awkwardly coming into the face of her beloved each time in the same unimaginative way ('patronizing'). Sometimes it was worse than 'male gaze', sterile and very annoying to watch - the lesbian romance magic is mostly missing from those kisses - but there's a lot of lesbian drama for compensation, that's for sure! :)
I totally agree with the person who wrote - what's with her looking at the camera and talking to audience?? It simply makes the show (already predictable and unconvincing) even more annoying. 'Breaking the 4th wall' here only makes things worse. Her occasional winks & hints to us are NOT funny nor charming if that was maybe the purpose.
Predictable dialogues aimed to please the modern queer audience with very modern tropes to identify with. A queer hero gets a deserved piece of cake within the capitalist system because of playing the game well and we are invited to admire her power (together with her overall exquisite nature). Maybe I'm asking too much, this is a simple entertainment show, but it wasn't performed so well, that's all I'm saying.
Overall - I find the very intention of creating powerful independent female characters praiseworthy!