OMG! A premiere that does not require any filter

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Li Dulce Cruz in Entertainment

Dulce Mandujano

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We all take pictures and go on our media accounts. We see the world with a screen. There are media users and there are super media users in which want to be liked in the world. Can an obsess Super Media super star be changed to a world she left behind so many years ago because before she was ugly and lonely? Eliza Dooley (Gillian) is a girl wanting of attention and uses abbreviations for almost every word, but after she gets embarrassed by a vomiting incident on a plane that  goes viral, she wants to change herself. She realizes that being friended is not actually having friends. She asks Henry Higenbottam (Cho) for help. He accepts the challenge knowing that maybe her free spirit might help fix him too. A half-hour show that could lift the audience towards a laugh and may come to be an upbeat show.

Would it be something worth watching? Maybe. Having a likable person play an unlikable character is something that would be interesting to watch. What good will it do if both are unlikeable? Having Cho portray the character will turn the obnoxious character to a pleasant one. This makes both stars an amazing match on this upcoming comedy. This series has the potential to become worth-watching. They will go on an adventure which brings two different people and put the struggles that they will soon face.

Karen Gillan and John Cho will star in ABC’s upcoming comedy fall series “Selfie.” Gillian, who most recently appeared in the film “Guardians of the Galaxy” and as a former companion from “Doctor Who,” takes her TV career in a different direction, playing the main role as Eliza Dooley, an annoying and unpleasant social media-obsessed young woman. Henry Higenbottam, her clammed up co-worker, is played by Cho. He will try to make her live the life offline even if she does not like it or is to hard.

“Selfie” is a more of an interpretation of the classical musical “My Fair Lady.” In which in “My Fair Lady,” the flower girl takes speech lessons by a professor who bet he could make her pass as a lady in London’s society. Since this is the 21st century, it revolves around social media. “Selfie” premieres on Sept. 30 on ABC at 8 p.m., but the pilot episode is available on Hulu and ABC.com.