Night Shift For Cuties is a new Netflix comedy from Indonesia where two convenience store clerks bond over their love of a K-pop group, but the opportunity to meet the group in Seoul might make them rivals.<\/p>\n
Opening Shot: A neon-lit convenience store at night. A female clerk hides behind a shelf when four women come in with guns. Turns out those guns just light up, and she\u2019s in the middle of a video for the K-pop group Purple Tea.<\/p>\n
The Gist:\u00a0Muti (Shenina Cinnamon) is the one imagining being in that video as she sees a report about the group on the TV behind the counter at that store. She\u2019s applying for a job, and the clerk there, Jenar (Nadya Syarifa), is surprised she didn\u2019t email her application in like everyone else.<\/p>\n
Muti gets the job when she tells the store\u2019s owner that she appreciated how clean, efficient, and innovative the store, part of a South Korean-based chain, is. When he asks if she speaks Korean, she recites lyrics from Purple Tea\u2019s song \u201cB-B-Believe It.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s good that she got the job, because since her father\u2019s sudden death, she is pretty much the only income earner in her family. The roof on their house keeps springing leaks during stormy days and her brother tries to \u201cfix\u201d it with tape.<\/p>\n
Jenar also loves Purple Tea; in fact she looks almost exactly like BOKI (Gabrielle Novangeline), who is the only member of the band who is from Indonesia, where Jenar and Muti live. She loves how confident BOKI is with herself, and hates the fact that her mother thinks she won\u2019t be able to be married off because of her weight. As it is, she does seem to find the water delivery guy at the store attractive, accidentally falling into his arms when she trips. He seems enamored with her, too, but hasn\u2019t said anything yet.<\/p>\n
On Muti\u2019s first day working, she and Jenar bond over their love of Purple Tea, and they even do a dance video to \u201cB-B-Believe It\u201d after the owner leaves for the night. Jenar encourages Muti to join the \u201cCuties,\u201d which is the group\u2019s fan club, but Muti isn\u2019t sure she can afford it. But she ends up joining, and sees that there\u2019s a raffle to get a ticket and meet-and-greet with the group at their big concert in Seoul. Jenar tells her she needs to buy the album to be in the raffle. They start to hatch a plan, especially because the airfare to Seoul is going to be expensive.<\/p>\n
Photo: Courtesy of Netflix<\/p>\n