Ah, Singapore Social. Where does one even begin? When Netflix dropped the trailer for a reality show revolving around the country’s D-tier celebrities socialites (or socialite-adjacent), the backlash it garnered crushed all hope that it would be any good.
And I completely see why it got as much disapproval as it did — Netflix marketed it as a look into the challenges that “young Singaporeans” face. Which technically ain’t wrong, but when the “young Singaporeans” in subject are well-off, well-connected and are sitting comfortably in the higher rungs of the social ladder, it’s probably hard to feel anything close to sympathy for their apparently-not-scripted predicaments. I don’t know, maybe it’s because my parents can’t afford to fly me over to New York just to shop around for schools to study in.
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Then Singapore Social actually went live on our Netflix home pages on Friday (Nov 22), and it wasn’t too difficult to miss thanks to that hideous font they used for the title logo — a design choice that should really be constituted as a war crime. But it did a great job in portending the quality of the content itself, which to no one’s surprise, was an absolute cringe-fest.
If you were expecting a diatribe on why Singapore Social could possibly be one of the worst ways to spend your weekend TV binge hours, I ain’t giving one. Because through all the vapid conversations, the petty plights, the out-of-touch individuals, the lack of genuine chemistry between them, the phenomenal levels of pretence and pretentiousness, it’s… entertaining? Enjoyable in the sense that it’s fun to yell at the screen, ridicule the awkwardness of it all, and generally feel absolutely mortified that these Singaporeans exist.
Hate-watching in its purest form.
Critical acclaim be damned; Netflix probably burst through their KPIs when it came to online buzz about Singapore Social. Over the weekend, Twitter and Facebook lit up with sweet, sweet, rants about just how bad the show is, creating a communal experience in how we all survived (or gave up) getting through all eight painful episodes. Take a gander below.
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