Yeah, I was very enthusiastic about POPULAR back there in the beginning, but the series has quickly disintegrated into a collection of irksome characters, or rather, caricatures. Fortunately, the two female leads remain as POPULAR with me as in the beginning, and little Tamara Mello as Lily is excluded from my criticisms as well, but that other lot... They're fast becoming one big bothersome mess.
So, in the spirit of Christmas, because of a delusional dream, super-nasty Nicole now decides that Carmen gets to try out as a cheerleader? As nasty as Nicole is, she wouldn't possibly have stuck to this decision two seconds after having woken up. This is just a weak plot development after yet another schmaltzy Christmas episode, a cloying, irritating American TV habit which dictates that everything must smell of roses and peace and brotherly love come Yuletide. The theme of the show is the division caused by popularity and its outcasts. Nicole Julian is already a totally laughably over-accentuated character, and here the scriptwriters lets her get undermined so easily. After all that, (viewers would know what I'm talking about) she is suddenly so ineffectual? The one moment she is spewing that wonderful line re Melissa Joan Hart (see the quote here on the site), the best thing about the episode, and then she is suddenly reduced to being swayed by a guilty conscience because of a dream? Venomous nasty- to-the-core Nicole?
Beware those Christmas episodes. From experience with other TV shows, some of the stupidest (I'm allowed bad grammar if I've had to endure this weak link episode) viewing on television.
So, in the spirit of Christmas, because of a delusional dream, super-nasty Nicole now decides that Carmen gets to try out as a cheerleader? As nasty as Nicole is, she wouldn't possibly have stuck to this decision two seconds after having woken up. This is just a weak plot development after yet another schmaltzy Christmas episode, a cloying, irritating American TV habit which dictates that everything must smell of roses and peace and brotherly love come Yuletide. The theme of the show is the division caused by popularity and its outcasts. Nicole Julian is already a totally laughably over-accentuated character, and here the scriptwriters lets her get undermined so easily. After all that, (viewers would know what I'm talking about) she is suddenly so ineffectual? The one moment she is spewing that wonderful line re Melissa Joan Hart (see the quote here on the site), the best thing about the episode, and then she is suddenly reduced to being swayed by a guilty conscience because of a dream? Venomous nasty- to-the-core Nicole?
Beware those Christmas episodes. From experience with other TV shows, some of the stupidest (I'm allowed bad grammar if I've had to endure this weak link episode) viewing on television.
