The enormous number of premieres means that many curious proposals go unnoticed as we do not have material time or the ability to find out that they have been released in our country, buried by the dictatorship of algorithms and series that you cannot miss. A good example is the Taiwanese comedy ‘Accidental Influencer’, which has premiered in complete secrecy on the renovated MAX platform.
The series from the Asian branch of HBO have always had a quality well above the average for the region, with Taiwan leading this trend with great examples such as ‘The World Between Us’ or ‘Las Olas del Poder’ that we already analyzed in our exotic corner of every Monday.
‘Infuencer by Accident’ delves into the field of romantic comedy with a protagonist who is a girl with quite bad luck in life but who, with the help of her friends and some stroke of fortune, manages to become an influencer overnight. tomorrow with the changes it will mean in your life.
Without being a masterpiece, ‘Influencer by Accident’ allows us to learn in a relaxed way the habits and customs of Taiwanese youth in that search for the elusive romantic love on the part of the protagonist, as we will analyze below.
File: Influencer by accident 13 ep 30 min Feb-Mar 2024- Chain: HBO Go (Taiwan) / MAX( E)
The plot :
Red Ho is a shy accountant at a medium-sized service company who dreams of starting a family with her long-term boyfriend when she is about to turn thirty. All of her plans are shattered when her boyfriend, instead of proposing to her, decides to abruptly break up with her, leaving poor Ho heartbroken and completely heartbroken, as shown in her official trailer.
Although her group of friends tries to console her, Red Ho is unable to rebuild her life with a broken heart and decides to take refuge in social networks and her three best friends as an escape valve.
Almost unintentionally, Red Ho gains notoriety on social media and ends up almost by chance becoming a lifestyle influencer, to the surprise of her friends whom she is also going to help in their love affairs.
‘Influencer by accident’ is a nice and light comedy where we see how Ho’s group faces the different situations that life presents them with enthusiasm and desire to get ahead without overloading the dramatic inks and almost always in front of large plates of food like It is customary in the Mandarin culture and as you can see in the following video of one of their meetings with food ahead.
In its first episodes ‘Influencer by Accident’ presents us with Red Ho’s initial conflict and his need to reinvent himself in every way like that ugly duckling who wants to become a swan.
In parallel we have the secondary plots of her two best friends Vivian (Aviis Zhong, left) and Ke La La (a magnificent Sun Ke Fang, right) who get into quite funny romantic escapades on certain occasions.
The absolute protagonist of the series is Guo Shu Yao, a singer, actress and model who is very popular in Taiwan since she starred in both seasons of the HBO Asia horror series ‘The Teenage Psychic’.
Guo Shu Yao is a true clown in the initial section, when everything she tries goes wrong, including scenes of physical humor to highlight her personal misfortunes, but little by little she evolves as she faces life with the weapons that her family provides her. progressive status as a social media influencer.
I was very clear from the beginning about the light and even silly tone of ‘Influencer by accident’ and the truth is that in that tone it has worked quite well for me, although I am aware that those Asian codes and that forced gestures can be choked by many people. , but I have always really liked Taiwan in all the times I have been and the truth is that the series has brought back good memories for me.
If you are curious to browse through the MAX catalog and you like Asian romantic comedies, maybe ‘Accidental Influencer’ can fix up a few evenings for you, so I’m going to leave you with the promotion of its premiere this year in Taiwan, based, as it could not be otherwise, on culinary themes.
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Lorenzo Mejino
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