As well as reviewing the parent series and season two web series, Sidelines, I decided to review the season one web series, The Goss Boss (or TGB). According to the parent series’ Wikipedia page, The Goss (GTB) is a “fictional gossip show that covers the feuds and fashions featured in Playing for Keeps.” Liz Baldwin, General Manager of Digital at
Read moreAs well as reviewing the parent series, I decided to review the new web series of Playing For Keeps, Playing For Keeps: Sidelines. The Ten Play website states that “a woman’s car is her own personal haven. We make phone calls, we sing along (albeit often off key) to the radio, we check in with ourselves, and most importantly, there’s
Read moreThe job of a season finale is to wrap up the season’s story arcs and set up new ones for the next season, if there is one. I felt that this finale only partially did its job. Kath, Maddy, Kendall and Liam—The main focus of about two-thirds of the finale was about dealing with Liam. I was happy to see
Read moreWe’ve reached the penultimate episode of the second season and one thing this episode didn’t lack was drama as everything is reaching a head. Connor, Tahlia, Kath, Brian and Liam—I thought I would start with them as the episode revolved around them. The episode kicks off with Connor, Tahlia and Kath having a meeting at Tahlia’s house to discuss what
Read moreThis episode had a lot of secrets and feelings come out in the open. Paige & Dan—Her subplot focused on her conflicting feelings for Dan and the fallout of her sleeping with him in the previous episode. The episode kicks off with Dan calling Paige as she is starting to confess to Brody. She eventually confesses, which upsets both of
Read moreThis episode had a lot of twists, turns and revelations. Tahlia—The episode kicks off with Tahlia and Paige at yoga, where Tahlia’s mother, Narelle (Rachel Gordon) shows up unexpectedly. It’s made clear pretty quickly that Tahlia has issues with her mother and that they haven’t seen or spoken to each other in quite some time, and Tahlia thinks Narelle wants
Read moreTahlia–I felt it was best to start my character-by-character review of this episode by focusing on the star character. This episode revolves around the nude photo scandal, which happened due to Connor losing his phone and not deleting the photos remotely quickly enough. The scandal is first bought to life when Rusty and Liam notice the boys fighting over a
Read moreThis episode had a lot of twists and turns and is starting to foreshadow trouble that will clearly happen down the road. Kath—Kath is starting to feel the pressures of being President with the first game of the season. John, who is still on the Board, is clearly sexist and dismissive of her ideas, but actually has nothing to contribute
Read moreI’ve decided to keep my character by character reviews going with this season. Liam and Kendall—Despite the events at the end of the previous episode, Liam and Kendall weren’t really focused on in this one. Liam comes out of the incident with six stitches, no glass in his skull and no sign of concussion, while Kendall tearfully admits she hit
Read moreThe job of a season premiere is to establish new story arcs for the season, as well as address the loose ends left in the previous season’s finale. I felt that this premiere did its job. Because it’s been about a year since the season 1 finale aired, I had to re-read the review I wrote on the finale to
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