I’ve reviewed a lot of shows for this Fall Season and I am finally about to see an end on the horizon. Today I’m talking about MTV‘s Happyland and ABC‘s Manhattan Love Story! After that I’m only planning on reviewing Jane the Virgin and (the show I am most looking forward to) The Flash. If you still want my opinion on anything else, let me know in the comments below!
Happyland
Have you ever read Dream Factory by Brad Barkley and Heather Hepler? Because this show reminds me so much of the book! It’s basically also about teens that work in an amusement park or theme park that is very similar to Disney’s and about falling in love, the illusion of fairy tales and happy endings. The show definitely diverges on some other topics, because parents are barely involved in the story in the book, but are really important to what’s happening in the series.
I have to admit, that I’ve seen stronger pilots this season. Happyland, while interesting on some level, didn’t grab my attention like other shows managed to do. The actors are alright (and include: Camille Guaty, Shane Harper, Katherine McNamara, Cameron Moulène, Ryan Rottman, Bianca A. Santos, Chris Sheffield, …), but the premise is nothing I haven’t seen before in multiple soap operas. It’s difficult to relate to the fact that your crush seems to be your brother and other than that they are just building on a lot of more love triangle-related drama. I can’t really tell where the show intends to go, but I think I won’t follow it for too long.
Manhattan Love Story
Analeigh Tipton seems to be everywhere these days and I certainly don’t mind it. There really isn’t much to say about Manhattan Love Story; it is a fun sitcom that takes on the difficulties of dating and relationships in New York City. If you’ve watched the Trailer above, you’ve pretty much seen the entire first episode. The main cast isn’t that huge and consists of the aforementioned Analeigh Tipton as well as Jake McDorman, Jade Catta-Preta, Nicholas Wright, Kurt Fuller and Chloe Wepper.
So, this isn’t the smartest of shows or something like that, but people like Romantic Comedies and this one is a pretty standard example of one. Besides the extensive thought voice-overs (which are just too much for me), I really don’t find a flaw in it. The show is sweet and fun and that might just be enough.
What are your thoughts? Talk to me in the comments!
I’ll give Manhattan Love Story a shot, but I’m just so scared because of the voice overs… it annoys me to no end!
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Understandable! And it’s really overused in this one, like I get that they are thinking completely opposite things of what they are saying, but do you have to comment on everything!?
It’s kind of cute otherwise.
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I’ll see it, maybe they’ll realize it was too much in the pilot and tone them down for the rest of the season
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Hopefully! I’ll try a couple of episodes, but after the first round of pilots it’s pretty clear to me which shows I will continue to watch and which shows will probably start to fade away from my schedule.
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have you seen selfie?
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Yep, I did a review on it a while back! I think my review was coupled with the one for Forever.(https://theimpossiblegirlblog.wordpress.com/2014/09/02/new-abc-shows-selfie-forever/)
I’d watch anything with Karen Gillan in it haha but I’ll have to see more of it to decided whether I like it or not.
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Yeah, I found it like 30 seconds ago 😉
I saw it a couple of weeks ago… I liked but it’s one of those shows that I don’t know… Will she be wearing a wig the whole season?
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Yes! Because of Guardians of the Galaxy where she completely shaved her head haha it’s so funny that Marvel made a wig of her own hair.
Maybe they’ll style it different, but I doubt that they’ll show her with the short hair she has now.
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that’s what I thought, though I have to be honest, I don’t think she needed to shave her head for GotG, a bald cap would have worked… but still… I guess her short hair it’s too much of a change… pity, I think she looks better with it short
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Yeah, after watching the movie I also thought that it wasn’t really necessary to shave it all. I know that they wanted it to look realistic, but she looked so bionic, I doubt it would have mattered.
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yeah
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So, already saw Manhattan Love story, it was surprisingly better than I expected 🙂
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[…] his dad and later to solve a murder case. I think Jake McDorman, who was very unlucky with his show Manhattan Love Story last year, fits this role alright, but doesn’t exactly stand out. I like his dynamic with […]
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