Produce 101 China (2018)

Have you ever watched a show that's so bad, its good? Well, this is the show for you! This show has miraculously captured a whole nation, including a large group of Chinese Otakus glued to their computers voting for their biases (stop watching the show, yall creepy). You get to watch half of the cast, likely younger than you, "dancing" and "singing" (debatable). The first two episodes are an absolute gem, Yang Chaoyue, in particular, is an untapped treasure.

Story
Oscar-winning story! It is about the tale of 1 Former-Exo Tao and 101 girls competing. You can watch Tao "amazing" hosting skills, which include half-assed praises, confusing monologues, and untimely comments.
As the story progresses, you start to see alliances: the foreign group, the 25 & older group, the girls that stayed on for no reasons, the popular girls who have slightly above-average capabilities...

Acting/Cast
I do not know you would call them actors, but they were entertaining! Each contestant is hand carved for their role. When you watch this show you have to keep in mind these people were chosen for their talents.

Music
The music inspired me! I now truly believe even me, who get 10% on the tone-deaf test, can become a singer. My bar for music has altered, I now praise any singer who knows when to start singing a song.
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Conclusion
For reference, I actually heavily enjoyed the show, watching it every week and voting almost every single day (as a female college student). The show had a handful of good singers and like 3 good songs.
In addition to the show itself, I highly recommend watching the ?? ??101 showcase, which truly displays the top 22 talents! In the end, my ultimate bias became the sound crew! Pick the sound crew!
This show lets you believe you can do anything if you set your mind to, as long as your face is above-average.

- Love, someone who was heavily addicted to the show for no reason!

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I would just like to start off with that this show is really fair. For people who are not familiar with the chinese market, they think its unfair because Mei Qi and Xuan Yi already debuted, but everyone in the show has debuted somehow. It's dumb for people to just assume stuff without researching, Mei Qi and Xuan Yi is more well known to Americans, because they debuted in Korea, and Americans simply know more about Korean Idols than they do Chinese Idols. Most of the competitors are idols, ex-idols, or idols on hiatus cause their member are more popular so they have more schedules. Some idols, (shown in behind the scene, I can't find any eng sub) have debuted 8 years ago during the show. Other competitors are famous for their commercials and some are models or dancers. There's this one competitor who got really famous because her cover got viral online in China. And there are some trainees, but they're going to debut either way, the company is just using this show to boost their popularity before they debut.

SO I want to say this show is filled with famous people, just because you don't know someone, doesn't mean they're not famous in China. A lot of girls in the show are actually more famous than Mei Qi and Xuan Yi, they just aren't well known in America because their information isn't in english online.

Personally this is my favorite idol competition show, because the first place winner actually won with pure talent, in my opinion. She's one of the contestant no one thought would be 1st because she isn't very well known but she's very talented hence why she ended in 1st place. I saw other shows like this where I feel like the 1st place winner are purely 1st place because of their company, their looks, or they were the most popular before the show even begin.

I highly recommend people to watch and ignore people who said this show isn't fair, cause they don't do their research and just want to spread their ignorance ***. -_-

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