I could not have enjoyed Skye's (Haneul in Korean, but no one calls her that other than her mom) story more. I can overlook her total perfection (K-Pop double threat: singing and dancing) because she's just so damn likable. Skye's mom wouldn't call her daughter perfect, though. She thinks Skye is fat. That she should drop out of the competition--dance at least--because her appearance is shameful. Somehow Skye has come to have a healthy attitude about herself, but that doesn't mean it doesn't hurt when your mom has no faith in you or people make liberal use of the pig emoji in your Instagram comments.

Pretty much all of Skye's friends are queer (she's bi), and they're all of color. Given the K-Pop context, maybe all the kids being BIPOC isn't a big surprise, but Lee takes care to include brown kids, as well. One girl in the competition, despite being a lesbian, has this wisdom about men

...guys are awfully bad at talking about things. You can't just expect them to tell you what's wrong. You have to ask them first.