Review of Geek Girl

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Anyways, in the fall of 2024, I was sitting around and waiting for an opportunity that would never come. Sometimes life is funny and throws you a massive curveball, and that opportunity I was waiting for didn’t work out. I ended up being unemployed at the time, and this was a brief period I dubbed funemployment because I decided to enjoy it.

I was in a financial situation where I could just take off for six months and travel, doing things that I would never see myself doing otherwise, so I took the opportunity while I had it. I’m reading a lot, watching movies, and having a blast planning a Europe trip and making my way around the USA.

Geek Girl is one of the shows I watched before I found out that fateful decision. This blog post is going to come out in the spring of 2025 due to the sheer amount of backlog I have to get through when it comes to this blog, but I’m writing it not long after watching the show.

Let’s get into the review! I don’t want to bore you with the mundane details too soon.

An awkward high schooler finds herself flung into the world of British fashion as a model.

Our main character in this television show is Harriet, who is the standard awkward teenager, except her classmates love the opportunity to bully her whenever they get the chance. She stands out a little bit like a sore thumb, and because she’s not very confident, she tends to carry herself with a more submissive demeanor.

Her best friend Nat is obsessed with the fashion world and dreams of being a model. When their entire class wins the chance to go to London Fashion Week, Harriet catches the attention of two casting agents named Wilbur and Betty.

And because she’s not very confident or interested, Harriet turns down their offer to coming to a cast call. She doesn’t do it until they agree to let Nat be shown, but Harriet’s stepmother and father are against her going. She goes anyways without them being aware of that fact, but then Harriet gets cast and Nat isn’t.

She keeps this a secret from Nat, but turns out it’s with the help of supermodel Nick that she got the part. When Nick’s aunt, a famous designer named Yuji, decides to give Harriet a chance and put her at the front of her upcoming fashion show, it’s going to change her life so much.

Nat still doesn’t know, but that secret can only be kept for so long, and when Harriet starts blowing up, everyone at school is going to change their mind about her. At the same time, Nick, who has a fake girlfriend named Poppy, starts growing closer to Harriet and sparks fly.

This also puts Harriet in Poppy’s warpath. Her stepmother is also apparently unaware of the fact she is modeling and going away for these shoots, but her father is completely on board with taking her all the way across the Atlantic for a big fashion show. What a cool dad!

More drama is to come, but this isn’t a comprehensive review of what unfolded. I think that the true highlight of the show is seeing this teenage girl, who wasn’t confident in her skin and could barely walk in a straight line, find herself and discover that she can be seen.

Overall Thoughts

I liked this series a lot! At the time of typing this, season 2 has not been confirmed yet, but I would genuinely watch another season of the show. I don’t see how they could stretch it beyond two seasons if we’re going to be honest, so hopefully if they do launch another season, they do it right.

That said, I liked the messages in the show. I worked in the fashion industry and went to a fashion school in New York City for my undergraduate degree, so I found that these positive messages are great to see. It’s highly unrealistic a British high schooler would be cast like this, but it can happen.

If you haven’t watched the show already and are interested, go ahead and do so! You might find yourself surprised.

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