Grease is the word, it’s the word that you heard, but apparently, Paramount+ heard enough of the woke, failing series. “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies: has been canceled from the flailing streaming service after one lowly rated, disastrous season. Once again, audiences are showing that they are done with wokeness.
The series, which was intended to be a prequel to the beloved 1978 movie starring John Travolta and the late Olivia Newton-John, never gained traction, or an audience for that matter. What should have been an easy slam dunk turned into an unmitigated disaster, all for the woke agenda.
It should be recalled that the original “Grease” was set in the 1950s at a small town high school named Rydell High. The movie was a musical, and it feature characters that somewhat accurately portrayed the time period. Something that, on the surface, should be an easy call if you are making a period piece.
Unfortunately, in their zeal to force diversity and make a political statement where none was either needed or wanted, the show’s creative team, if you can call them that, decided it would be better if it were chock-full of queer characters, lesbian kisses, and diversity that simply wasn’t present in small-town high school America in the 50s.
The results speak for themself. The show was so lowly rated and poorly received that not only is Paramount+ canceling it, they are wiping it from the service completely. After its removal, it will be as if it never existed. Perhaps that should have been the original plan.
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The show’s woke creator, Annabel Oakes, took to social media to plead her case to likely fewer viewers than the show actually had: “In a particularly brutal move, it is also being removed from @paramountplus next week and unless it finds a new home you will no longer be able to watch it anywhere. The cast, my creative partners, and I are all devastated at the complete erasure of our show.”
Devastated, yes. Surprised, how could they be? Hollywood is releasing woke bomb after woke bomb. From the Scooby-Doo debacle by Mindy Kaling to the ultra-woke “Willow” series that was also given the disappearing act treatment by Disney+, it should be obvious by now that viewers want to be entertained, not indoctrinated.
As was previously reported, the Pink Ladies was described and promoted as: “diverse storytelling around race and sexuality. The show’s primary characters are mainly women of color and queer women, and the series explores what it meant to be marginalized in the 1950s.”
Sounds like a blast. The original “Grease” was a celebration of young love, the struggle with masculinity in an era where men weren’t supposed to show feelings and just plain fun. The “Pink Ladies” had exactly none of those elements.
Instead, you had four girls that looked like they were hand-picked because of what they looked like and simply dropped into a period piece. Audiences weren’t buying it or watching it, and now it never existed. Maybe Hollywood will wake up and revert to actual entertainment. Until then, just watch “Grease” if you want to see the Pink Ladies.
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