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holly-mckenzie · 3 years ago

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My Thoughts on Bump S2 (in no particular order and in bullet points)

The Pacing + Year Of

Okay, so firstly the show felt tonally off to me because... it focused SO much on the parent in comparison to the previous season, it felt like we were getting more of the parents than even Oly and Santi or the other students at the school.

On the subject of the other students/teachers at the school. I know that we got so much of them (and so little of them) because they are creating a spin-off show about the students and teachers.

Honestly, the “soft pilot” approach felt really strange. Especially when we randomly learnt so much about Madison. Without knowledge of the spin-off, I would have been confused af.

On the subject of the spin-off, I really hope that we get more of Mr Hanover. He’s by far my favourite character in the show. I also am really excited to see into his personal dating life. ☺️

Is the show/spin-off ever going to explain Lachie’s disappearance? I know he’s Oly ex, and they didn’t end up on good terms. But he was fair to be angry at her. He also deserves a better insight into his life and relationships because frankly, the way they dealt with his character in S1 was 😬😬😬

Also, I hope in the spin-off they actually hire writers that will reflect the diversity of the cast. Because as I said, some of the choices were… not good.

Season 2

Okay back to the actual season. I honestly don’t understand some of the changes they made. It truly felt like it changed certain events in S1

For example introducing the fact that Santi draws v4g1n4s, even though they verbally stated that he draws d1cks in S1.

I’ve thought this before but Oly is a hard character to like. On one hand, she‘s at times ungrateful (which makes sense she’s a teen), but she also, at times, comes off as a bit self-centred and a bit white feminist. Also, the choice to name her child of a politician is cringe.

Matias is kinda an asshole and Rosa deserves better. Like he may have been terrible in S1, but in S2 he is UNBEARABLE. Honestly, Rosa needs to leave him.

On the subject of Rosa. I adore her. Her story arc this season was amazing. I hope that she leaves Matias and starts her own life. Screw the Hernandez family, you deserve better Queen.

I really adore the Rosa/Dom relationship. So happy that it's not romantic, thought their friendship was very cute!

I have a hate/love relationship with Bowie. But he was a fun character and I enjoyed him + his relationship with his family

I just realised that I’ve said nothing about Santi and Oly. I don’t really have much to say about them. They were cute. They are clearly wanting different things in life. So it’s going to be really interesting seeing how the show continues. Especially since they moved in together.

Can we talk about that? They are literally going to drive each other crazy! I see no good outcome of them moving in together. Like if Santi really wants to work as a tradie, they are going to need family support more than ever. But you know what. It’s cool.

The ✨Important ✨ Things

Reema

We got Reema last name bitches! But also her last name being Malick and her being Pakistani is a choice… which is to say it’s lame.

But, on one hand, I really love what we’ve seen of Reema’s home life. I love that her parents are divorced (very frowned open in the brown community) that her parents are Hindu and Muslim, and that she is on good terms with her mum.

HOWEVER, I really don’t trust the writers to be able to deal with any of these choices well. Not that that matters because Reema’s entire story arc resolves around ✨ LOVE ✨.

To be fair, I really love Vince and Reema, but I wish they had given Reema a plot outside of her relationship. Her entire story arc is about Vince… but even Vince has a story arc that has nothing to do with her (him being used by the people around him).

This is highly hypocritical of me because I love Vince and Reema. But when will non-Muslims stop writing narratives that involve Muslim characters falling in love with non-Muslims. It’s very tiring. Like we get it, it’s the ✨ Islamaphobia ✨… but STOP!

Also not to be THAT person, but why did they cast a whole Sri Lankan actress to play an Indian character. Come on people. Not all brown people are the same! Don’t get me wrong, I love Nadie Kammallaweera in the role of Ishani. but it makes no sense because she’s clearly Tamil or Sinhalese and… Safi Arian is clearly not?

Vince (aka bestest boy! 😊)

Vince is honestly the bestest friend and character

I loved that we got to see insight into his story and into his family life

I also loved that Vince loves Babies... 😊

I also love that Vince stood up for himself.

Also, every moment that he had with Vince was amazing

I really hope that we get to see more of Vince in terms of his home life and what not

I really hope we get to see some of his mum and his siblings.

Vince x Reema

All of the Vince and Reema scenes were perfect!

Him fasting in solidarity with Reema was adorable and I loved it and also awkward

EPISODE 5! EPISODE 5! EPISODE 5! EPISODE 5!

The entire episode was perfect! They were so cute and I loved him caring for her!

Also, Reema defending Vince and yelling at their friends was truly perfect!

I can’t say this enough! I love them!

On to my controversial thoughts

I know that Vince and Reema have a back and forth bantering thing, but I feel like it is weird?

For example, in S1, when Vince and Reema first interact, Vince makes joke/innuendo about Reema’s French O*al exam, and Reema responds by calling him a “Fat f*ck* and insulting his intelligence.

Now I don’t know much about Samoan culture, but I am almost 95% sure both are negative stereotypes of the Samoan people group.

Also, Vince flirting with Reema in that way was really strange... especially when you think about the fact that he was so upset at Santi for making jokes about him misting her plants of whatever.

But beside that moment, Vince is actually super sweet to Reema (if you exclude the part where he is pining for her and she clearly has no interest in him, but he continues flirting).

So its kinda strange that in S2E5, Reema says that she doesn’t hate him and that he was a dick.

Moral of the story, I think they really needed to develop Reema and Vince’s relationship better.

Like they could literally have the enemies to lovers/can’t be together/mutual pining shit... but they developed the relationship so strange.

Throughout S1 (up onto Ep8), Reema hates Vince and then suddenly in Ep 8 she decides that she likes him?

HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?

Also, they were on good terms at the end of S1, then suddenly in S2 she has friend zoned him?

Too much of their development happens off screen and I hate it.

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