Make It Pop

Introducing Kpop to a wider audience on Nick is a great idea. Showing the similarities if people from different cultures is the first step in understanding. My daughter is Autistic and has mixed ethnic heritage. She has no problems with this and I am happy she shows interest.

I have no idea if there will or will not be Korean males in future episodes. To judge this from ONE episode is a bit of an over reaction and will only cause a situation where LESS understanding of people of different ethnic backgrounds will occur.

The first episode shaped up well. Given that a cast can take 5 or more episodes to develop characters and create the synergy between characters this was fairly good from the first episode.It has strong potential for developing an audience that will appreciate it going forward.I hope this is just the beginning of more multi-cultural shows from Nick in the future. So far I am pleased and My Daughter is looking forward to the next episode.

I completely disagree with "Leah Mckenzie" 's review. For a person not into Kpop, "she" sure writes a lot on a completely unknown and unpopular Kpop show, ranting about how racism doesn't exist and how anyone who dare to talk about it is the racist.

Pretty much the worse show I have ever seen. In THE ONE place, a show about Kpop, where they could have Asian males in it without being completely sexless, they manage to do away with it. I am actually very IMPRESSED how they managed to pull this off, without anyone pointing out how ridiculous this is.

Why is white Hollywood so averse to having any Asian males on screen, except in extremely clichéd and stereotyped roles? I have no idea. Why is having a normal sexually functioning Asian male on screen so damn hard for American media?

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Notice how the two reviews saying "there is no racism" or "racism is overblown" or "anyone who complain about racism is racist themselves" are all registered within a week and never have a single review in the past.

While the only guy talking about how this IS an example of racism (the main guy behind this show, Thomas Lynch, literally said in no unclear terms "he will never have an Asian guy on his show") has a 10 year account and tons of past reviews.

I kept on seeing commercials for this show on Comcast On Demand, heard the line "girls form band over their love of K-Pop", and thought why not.

FIRST OFF: This is not a K-Pop show, nor does it feature K-Pop specifically. One of the main characters may be Korean and dress in typical cutesy Otaku clothing but that is the end of it. There is also no mention of K-Pop at all in the show or by the characters. Advertisement's should stop mentioning K-Pop with this show immediately, that is false advertisement.

Now that you've dropped the hope of seeing anything K-pop related, this isn't that bad of a show. Keep in mind this is a show catered to young kids - tweens who enjoy musical performances. Think of a mash-up of Zoey 101 & iCarly like characters and situations with sprinkles of Victorious- like stage performances.

First episode was . . . interesting. Compared to other new Nick shows, the pilot wasn't terrible but it didn't wow me. Sun Hi and Caleb seemed like caricatures more than actual people. There was a lot more diversity than I expected coming from a Nick show but as others noted, there is no Asian male characters (of the episodes I've seen so far). It was way more colorful than I expected. It is also a pre-dominantly female cast with one male main character.

After the pilot, we got to see more relatable personalities from the main characters; Corki is straight-laced student who is pressured by her father to perform well in everything academic but finds an outlet with the girls. Sun Hi is an eccentric girl proving to herself and her parents that she isn't a disappointment just because she'd rather pursue the arts than academics. Jodi is a loyal and talented fashionista and dancer that seems to mellow out Sun Hi's loud personality.

Overall, the show isn't that bad compared to other Nick/Disney shows, the music is decent as well. Just don't expect to hear anything other than Pop. The set itself and the characters' clothing might be too colorful for a lot of people but you'll get used to it. The characters outfits are a lot more louder than their actual personalities (excluding Sun Hi), so don't be discouraged at first sight. The situations the girls get into are definitely on the exaggerated, slightly ridiculous side but not as outrageous as other kids shows (Dog with a Blog, etc.) Also, the episodes seem to always end on a cliffhanger (if you can call it that) and end abruptly.

So if you want a realistic show with life-lessons aimed towards kids, this isn't the show for you. Watch Girl Meets World for that! If your kid is bored, likes Pop, and wants to be slightly entertained, this is your show.

50% of ALL K-pop artists are MALE. Why is it that there are no Asian males at all on this show? Let us stop the stereotyping of Asian culture right now. This is another typical Hollywood white-washing of Asian culture- Bad music- bad story- and White Males are the only available love interests for the Asian Females. This needs to stop now.

Look at this http://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/2y6qk6/tv_producer_asian _guys_in_my_show_not_gonna_happen/

The producer of this show said that there will never be a Korean male in this show about Korean music. Just imagine that for any other type of genre of music. This would be equivalent of making a show celebrating Cinco de mayo without any Hispanic actors, like a bollywood movie with no Indian actors, like a British TV series without any Brits. This is wrong and this type of racism needs to stop NOW.

For one, this is not even close to what was expected. I just watched to see what the fuss was about from social media. I can see that it is related to K-pop at the weakest level.

The director/producers want to maintain the White Man Asian Woman dominance. 'the producer said "Nope! Never! Asian guys in my show, not gonna happen!", while everyone else–albeit uncomfortably–laughed it off. Come on now, it's a show about Korean pop. Half the artists from the K-pop industry are Asian men.'

As mentioned by other reviewers, it seems like the producers are perpetuating the White Man Asian Woman fetish/fantasy.

The acting and everything else seems appropriate for the target demographic. This is the only good part of this series. Its age appropriate and that it hits the target demographic.