True Heiress vs. Fake Queen Bee

This is so bad... yet I couldn't stop watching. It's like Temu decided to make its own version of Mean Girls.

I saw a random clip on TikTok and, instead of scrolling past it, I got hooked on the awful writing and decided to track down the full thing. Well, "full" is a stretch - I only managed to watch random bits, like a badly stitched patchwork quilt, but enough to follow the saga of a rich heiress whose identity is stolen by a classmate. And here's the most ridiculous part: she spends 90% of the time doing nothing, just getting humiliated and harassed, when she could easily smack the impostor and reveal she's the actual millionaire. But no - this film, miniseries, or whatever it is, prefers to drag out her suffering, almost like a psychological torture porn rated PG. Think Martyrs or Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, but without the graphic violence - just a girl being put through every kind of psychological abuse possible, adapted for a teen audience.

The rating I'm giving it might seem low, but honestly, it's the highest I can go for something this questionable. Still, it's the best "piece of crap" I've ever seen. I hated how they dragged the story out to oblivion... yet I was absolutely hooked. This should genuinely be studied by science to understand how something so mediocre can be so addictive.

Oh, where do I start. So I have checked out Reelshort in the past, and wasn't very impressed, but the previous commercial peaked my interest. I gave it ago, and I just binged it... It's both hilariously bad that it's a comedy while also being good in other ways.

The entire thing is formulaic, which is understandable, has a really tight budget, and while it tells, it still is respectable for being produced just on people buying coins, a subscription, or just watching ads.

Now the acting. There's something to say that you get the young actors, who are still perfecting their trade, and getting acting credit, to get into larger roles. Maya Jenson who played Hailey, Kendall Leonesio, and Liana Chao all did a pretty amazing job with what they had, and it's honestly impressive. Maya Jenson portrayed a pretty convincing character, and Liana I swear was tapping into her ego to play Candice. The guy who played Luke, just seemed natural at his role. Now the adults... they all are horrible actors! Minus the gym teacher, he seemed to have embraced what it is to be a gym teacher. You might as well have just dropped my sophmore gym teachers personality in him.

Overall if you have time to kill and just want a good laugh, and cringe all the time, this flick is for you.

Just one thing, the story is hilariously disjointed. I swear they took a 12 year old girl from wattpad and had her write the story.

It's hard to find movies that are so bad they're good, and usually it takes a little effort in the creative side of a work to make it so. This is an exception though, because it has the most clearly made by chatgpt script ever made and laughed histerically every thirty seconds of it. The only reason I don't give this a good score is because those are reserved for things made by actual human beings in their entirety. The two main girls were acting their asses off for this slop and the girl who played Candice channelled the most Camila Mendes energy she could and she was really good at it. It's a shame the CW is gone because these actresses would've killed in other so-bad-it's-good shows like Riverdale. The whole composition of it is so funny, a total of like five actors who seem to know what acting is struggling with a script pooped out of chatgpt with the most insane lines and scenes no human person would ever say or find themselves in, editing that also seems made by AI complete with totally unrelated stock video shots and scene cuts out of nowhere that made me screech while watching, and the fact that Candice's plot was held together by sticks and glue but she still stood strong for almost the entire runtime because she seems to be the smartest person in the universe of this show with how stupid literally every single other character is (minus that one math teacher, who is also one of the few good actors on this). I came on IMDB because I needed to see who made this and if they had more because I haven't laughed this hard at a bad movie/show since Riverdale did the Queen of the Bees scene.

I have to say, i saw quite a few clips of it and from the start I knew I had to watch it. Yes it has tiktok production and tacky overcoats that I usually wouldnt like but I have to say I loved every minute of it. It wasnt produced as a big blockbuster movie, its a fun and exciting comedy, if you look past the somewhat cringe feel and previously stated tiktokness you can appreciate it for what it actually is. It was fun, it was funny and it was actually entertaining, which is more than I can say for 90% of the new releases. Everything being released nowadays is either a prequel, a sequel, or a live action remake, its nice to have something wacky every once in a while.

If you were watching this expecting it to be the next big hit then you were soreley mistaken, its a portrait production for petes sake, but if you have a sense of humour then you can appreciate it. The casting was great, the acting was great and the production was as great as it could be. I think if people lightened up and stopped taking everything so seriously then they could enjoy it also.

10/10.

Where can I watch it other than ReelShort? I don't want to pay. I saw it on tiktok and it was quite interesting. It told me to download this app called ReelShort so i did. First it let me watch some episodes. Then it said smth like episode locked or something. There is this coin thing on the app that you can get completing several tasks or watching adds so, I also did that. Then, I think after the 40-50th episodes, the rest of the episodes were vip, which cannot be used for free at all. I am REALLY curious what is going to happen in the end. I mean, it's probably going to be Candice being exposed but I still wanna watch it! Help me out here🙏🙏