Like an unpowered space station adrift in deep space, Girls Planet 999 continues its solemn journey through the dark unknown. Episodes 3 and 4 finally get to the nutritional value of the show, giving us the first real glimpse of the trainees' skills and personalities. Those already familiar with the Produce series know how the beats go: picking parts -> bad practice -> good practice -> performance. These episodes do away with the overlong explanations and rule making that have dominated so far, making the show much more watchable in the process.
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If Girls Planet 999 is the story of Mnet uncomfortably trying to jam a “fair play” peg into a “scandal-infested” hole, then Street Woman Fighter is them thriving in their natural, tawdry habitat.
Read More »‘Girls Planet 999’ Episode 2: High Tea, Low Ratings, Mid Feelings, Boy (Group) Problems
head-scratching; while popular contestants like Su Ruiqi, Huening Bahiyyih and Choi Yunji are featured, other popular contestants like Roada Xu and Cherry Bullet’s May are snubbed, with viewers told in a montage to watch the clips online. If we're cutting trainee screen time, we must be using those minutes for other, really important matters, right? ... Right?
Read More »‘Girls Planet 999’ debut episode teaser already has people pissed off, Mnet is undefeated
Mnet‘s shameless reboot of Produce 101 new survival show Girls Planet 999 has already released the introductory videos of the contestants, which were covered so gloriously at Asian Junkie recently. …
Read More »‘Girls Planet 999’: Mnet drops individual PR vids for all 99 trainees & theme song performance vids
When MNet announced their “new” trainee survival project Girls Planet 999, most fans first thought was, “How is this going to be different from Produce 101?” The answer thus far? Not much at all. Good work CJ ENM.
Read More »CLC’s Yujin reportedly a contestant on Mnet’s next clusterfuck, ‘Girls Planet 999’
In case you haven’t heard, Mnet is back on their bullshit, and are soon to debut another survival show called Girls Planet 999. There have been some notable contestants rumored …
Read More »‘PD101’ manipulation case results in 2 producers sentenced to jail, fines for 6 others involved
The vote manipulation scandal that effectively brought down Mnet’s survival show empire has been going on for a while, but those most prominently involved have been now been handed sentences. …
Read More »Han Sung Soo (Pledis founder) credited wife as writer on 8 IZ*ONE songs, reportedly for royalties
It didn’t take long for Pledis Entertainment founder Han Sung Soo to get into hot water after Big Hit Entertainment’s acquisition of Pledis was announced. Dispatch has reported that he …
Read More »The cast of Mnet’s ‘Good Girl’ has glorious mess potential, which makes me consider watching
With Unpretty Rapstar becoming uninteresting by season three, I swore to myself that I wouldn’t get involved with Mnet‘s new hip-hop show, Good Girl. However, now that the lineup has …
Read More »Mnet confirms ‘Road To Kingdom’ lineup of Pentagon, ONF, Golden Child, The Boyz, VERIVERY, ONEUS, TOO
The lineup for Mnet‘s follow-up to ‘Queendom‘, ‘Road To Kingdom‘, has been speculated on for a couple weeks now, and now they’ve finally confirmed the seven groups involved: Pentagon, ONF, …
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