November 29, 2023


TV Review: ‘Girlfriend Intervention’

What felt so sweet when “Strange Eye for the Straight Guy” carried gay style to straight men becomes marginal hostile in “Sweetheart Intervention,” a Lifetime series that enrolls a group of four of African-American fashionistas to make over a “essential” white lady. Uproarious, reckless and loaded up with generalizations, it’s difficult to tell what’s generally disturbing — the broad announcements about individuals of color as though they were solid, or the constrained renovating of ladies who are totally alright with their looks and style, in the wake of exposing them to a “Catwalk of Shame.” If for sure there’s motivation for disgrace here, the makers should begin with a mirror.

“Caught within each white young lady is a solid person of color prepared to break out,” clarify the four mysterious style tutors, who attack the lady’s home (a companion or relative is in on the plot), continuing to go through seven days apportioning design insight.

In the debut, there’s 24-year-old Emily, a mother of two (she began youthful, clearly) who has quite recently procured her land permit. She is put through the speeds without help from anyone else portrayed “certain hefty estimated lady” Tanisha Thomas, design expert Tiffiny Dixon, asylum master (an extravagant method of saying home remodeler) Nikki Chu, and magnificence genius Tracy Balan.

The four should destroy the subject, normally, to develop her, subsequent in the mandatory endearing uncover that incorporates new garments, cosmetics and home stylistic theme. The recipients may protest from the outset, however the bait of free stuff and high-obeyed shoes, obviously, is simply a lot for any lady to stand up to.

In any case, assembling every one of these natural makeover-show components around a racial part basically breeds a ton of musically challenged babble, including the different things that individuals of color will or will not do. (The subsequent scene, for instance, includes a 30-year-elderly person with an affection for dream and Harry Potter — a leisure activity wherein no self-regarding individual of color, it’s expressed as gospel, could never enjoy.)

On paper, this logline more likely than not looked charming — the TV rendition of “Midnight and Ivory,” and a way of rethinking “Eccentric Eye.” As executed, it simply feels stooping on various levels — to such an extent that prior to allowing Lifetime to continue with it, a genuine companion would have, all things considered, interceded.

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