USA TODAY
If you liked Crazy Rich Asians, get ready for Bling Empire, among the first Asian-led reality TV shows.
The Netflix series (now streaming) follows a group of wildly wealthy Asian American socialites in Los Angeles, who introduce us to their luxurious lifestyles filled with Botox parties and private jets.
The
provides us the mindless entertainment we all need
, including the petty rivalry between wealthy heiress Anna Shay and international fashionista Christine Chiu, as well as the brewing love triangle between self-made entrepreneur Kelly Mi Li, model Kevin Kreider and her ex-boyfriend, Power Rangers actor Andrew Gray.
And, of course, what s reality TV without the trashiness? Watch a friendship end over a penis pump and see how an extravagant trip to France leads to tears and counseling. There s plenty of drink-throwing, crying and sabotaging throughout the series, and if you re not sure what a leather party is, you re about to find out.
As second rounds of comedies go, “Pitch Perfect 2” definitely is not perfect. Its script is more than a smidge pitchy. And there are at least two reasons to protest its treatment of Anna Kendrick’s Beca, the once outsider freshman who took the all-girl Barden Bellas to new competitive a capella heights in the sharp, sassy and sweetly humble original film that sprouted into an eminently re-watchable sleeper success mostly via DVD and cable in 2012.
First, not only is the diminutive dynamo subjected to bouts of abuse about her lack of height in the form of two towering Teutonic twits from a rival group known as Das Sound Machine, now that the Bellas are competing on an international level. (Although her weird girl-crush on the intimidating Valkyrie-like female half of this bullying pair at least gives Kendrick something amusing to chew on).