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🎥     This week I watched the first two episodes of Bling Empire. It is a reality tv show in which a group of wealthy Asian Americans' lives are filmed. This group of the one percent population lives in Los Angeles and they live glamorously without missing out on the crazy drama that most people love to watch and hear about. In order to make us (the general public) feel like a part of that fantastical world, the reality tv show had a focus on a guy who was not born into wealth like the rest of the people in that society. We are meant to relate to him the most and see him as the guy who stands out for being different.


🤩    In these first episodes, I got to get a glimpse into an unbelievable life which is the reality for only a lucky few. Our eyes get to devour a view of a Chinese New Year's festival-like event. We get to see many activities which attract our gaze. Along with that, we get to see all the important guests that attend the celebration. We get to see some drama form between two women who are 'silently' competing for the ultimate diva crown. We also get to hear about the different relationships in the circle, most of which make us feel bad for the women in the pairs. 


👍   Even though I only saw the first two episodes of this series, I think this show did a good job in showcasing the upper-class life that most of us probably haven't seen in person. It also did a good job in making the figures' lives appear very relatable by including the tough parts that they had to go through.


👀    I would recommend this show if you enjoy reality tv shows. If you want to see a kind of Crazy Rich Asians realer version, this is the show for you!

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  1. Smay NicasioFebruary 28, 2021 at 8:04 PM

    I found it really funny how most people I know that have watched the show have just flat-out rejected Kevin as the show's guiding relatable figure. I'm guilty of this too, so it seems like we're willing to accept the oddities and ridiculous nature of the wealthier cast members more than Kevin's mistakes. He's meant to be this logical voice of reason to their wild behavior, but if anything, he was the one enabling a lot of dodgy behavior.

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    1. AmyMarch 21, 2021 at 9:36 PM

      This is so true! I felt more in common with the crazier people than with Kevin.

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  2. AmyMarch 21, 2021 at 9:41 PM

    I think what is revolutionary about this show is its adherence to genre codes of the reality tv formula despite it being an all Asian American cast. There is no attempt to change the reality formula despite this fact and, as the reading tell us, this is really unusual for mainstream television that cant usually fit Asian Americans into existing genre formulas.

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