"Tiny Pretty Things" season 1 and the power to fly

All of us are, more or less, dreamers. We dream about have more influence or earn more money, for instance. Basically, be better. But for being better, we need to be risk takers. Will all of us be risk takers? Well, this series is, precisely, about them.

“Tiny Pretty Things” comes alive in the Archer School of Ballet. It is an elite ballet academy almost only frequented by rich parents’ teenagers. Until one day that everything changes, after the attempted murder of her best world-class dancer, Cassie Shore (Anna Maiche).

To mantain the school facade, the director and ex ballet dancer, Monique DuBois (Lauren Holly), tries to focus media attention on a new student, Neveah Stroyer (Kylie Jefferson). Besides she is from a poorer family, Neveah has the same dream of the other students: being on the stages frontline as a principal dancer.

Neveah is a strong and predestined character. She will be the disruptor of the system and she will fight for hers and everybody’s rights. She is not there to accept being blackmailed like every single character. Actually, there’s a lot going on in this school. Relationships are based in interest games. Little by little, right on the time, they are all being revealed. But of one thing we can be sure, ballet is not an easy art performance, not even an easy business. Sometimes, there is a thin line between business and pleasure, which is really well told in the series.

In an elite academy like this, there is a lot of pressure to be the best dancer. All day, someone else constrols what they eat, what they wear, how they move and who they touch. They are strapped into a roller coaster with their fiercest competitors. And, even like this, they are what they call by corps, the company’s lowest. Only there is power in that hunger. It drives corps to take crazy risks in order to stand out from the crowd.

As a consequence, in this series, there’s a several betrayals stories and lies that characters have to pass through in order to fit in the challenging world of ballet. All these characters share a rare talent and passion for dance. And when it comes to their dreams, there is no plan B. So, we are left with one question to answer until the serie’s end: how far can they go ir order to make a dream come true?

The Archer School of Ballet is bigger than any student. Here, anyone is safe and, in a place like this, the best dancer will be always motive to envy. It will be always someone who is right on their back waiting to get their place. However, there’s a lesson to learn from it, “if they risk too much and fly too high”, they can end up like Cassie, in an hospital bed, clinging to life. But, would be Cassie who we tought she would be?

Like in Agatha Christie’s stories, in “Tiny Pretty Things”, there is too a lot of characters who could have committed the crime for plenty of reasons. So far, we only know that the attempted murder happened in a night secret party with every tier-three student.

Right on the serie’s end, we understand that this misterious and intriguing story will continue. Nearly after the attempted murder of Cassie being solved, the season ends with a new murder, this time, a real one.



Portuguese verion here.

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