Privileged: All About What You Really, Really Want
By fred | September 24, 2008
(S01E03) Privileged isn’t about rick kids, not directly. Of course, twins Rose & Sage are two girls from a very rich family, and the show is about them and how they’ll manage to get through this school year and improve their grades, because they need improvement – even though Sage apparently always gets A’s everywhere, so really it should only be about Rose, but who cares.
The reality of the show is different, however, because it’s all about their tutor, Megan. The show isn’t about the girls but Megan, and how she will managed to become a writer, deal with her love life and, of course, get the girls to study some more. And that’s about the only reason this show might be worth watching and actually pleasant, JoAnna Garcia.
Without her performance making both Megan such a charming character and the show actually enjoyable, I don’t think no one would still be tuning in at this point. And what I felt this week, was that I don’t really care about rich kids. We’ve already seen them so many times, they’re on Gossip Girl and 90210, and it’s just not that exciting in the end.
While this world was also present in the Gilmore Girls universe, the show wasn’t about it, nor did the main characters belong there. The heart and soul was in a little town called Stars Hollow, with “regular” people – for whatever that may mean. And this is when Privileged works too, when it’s about real characters, like Megan and Charlie for instance. I’m also liking more & more Marco, who works well with Megan and there’s usually humor that actually works in their scenes.
But seeing Sage & Rose going by their daily (school) life, ditching school to go shopping and whatnot, is really not that interesting, at all. I was happy to see that the confrontation between Sage & Megan was less present, but it doesn’t change the fact that the girls aren’t really strong part of the show.
As mentioned before, Sage is out partying every night, and needs a tutor even though she apparently gets A’s about everywhere – go figure. Rose on the other hand really needs help, and might finally be willing to put her needs and aspirations before what her sisters. It’s nice, but it won’t last otherwise that whole part of the show is dead already pretty much.
As for Megan, she finally got to actually do her job, even though it took her the whole episode to get there. Because when Rose was to repeat her freshman year, and Megan came up with a possible solution, she then just walk away to go talk to the head master and take care of things. How about actually talking with Rose, working out on something, making sure she’s ready and willing to commit to the job ? Don’t tell me she honestly thought Rose would go go for it like that, and not follow her sister to every party on their schedule ? Come on…
On the side, she met and even went out on a date to 30 something head-master Mr. Cassidy, because apparently he is filling in for his father – who suffered a mild heart attack – and when that happens it’s always to the family that people turn to, that’s how it works. Thank God his father wasn’t a surgeon, or there would be trouble. Anyways, Megan is going out with him right after explaining to Will why they couldn’t date, because she wouldn’t date, not at the moment. See what’s coming?
Now the real question is, why was Will at a party for a bunch of teenagers ? And how did Megan got on board if even the twins needed special VIP passes to be let in ?
Overall the problem with this show is that while a few characters are actually fun, Megan being the very first one of all, it doesn’t really work as a whole. Megan is really fun and charming, I like Marco and their exchange are usually fun, Charlie looks like a nice guy when we actually get to see him, but there’s no cohesion, something’s missing there, and so far except for Megan, every character fills a very one-dimensional purpose, nothing more.
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Shows: Privileged
