Niamh Wilson arrives at the Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies premiere

Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies review: Rydell's girl gang gets an uneven origin story
The Paramount+ prequel takes place four years before the events in the classic movie.

The classic 1978 movie musical Grease, it never once occurred to me to consider the formation of the Pink Ladies — Rydell High's sole girl gang — as a radical feminist act. (Perhaps the message got lost in the decidedly un-feminist ending of the movie and Broadway show: Hey girls! Here's a fool-proof trick for keeping your man: Change everything about yourself!) But in retrospect, the Pink Ladies did represent a gender-norms disruption in the 1950s, a time when the loftiest goal a teenage girl could reach was having a football star drape his letterman jacket over her shoulders.

Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, the new musical prequel from show-runner Annabel Oakes (Atypical, Minx), aims to tell the patriarchy-busting origin story of Rydell's pink-jacketed rebels. It's an intriguing entry point into the universe created by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey back in 1971, and one that is rich with thoughtful storytelling potential. When Rise of the Pink Ladies leans in to this vision of the protagonists as equal-rights innovators, it sings. Based on the first half of the 10-episode season, however, that message is too often muffled by a surplus of mostly forgettable music, overly long episodes, and lukewarm central love stories. #VivianLamolli #grease #fabtv

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