Hoping to be a famous and professional Olympic gymnastics player, Emily Kmetko, a young talented and beautiful girl, who suffers from having a low status that prevents her from achieving her dream, but her life begins to be in a good pass, upon receiving a scholarship in Colorado.
The show is relatively entertaining and its good enough to fit in among ABC Family's other shows... MIoBI has gymnastics. I'm thinking that'll be enough to get plenty of teens and young adults to tune in and the rest will watch for the drama.
The show is going to rise or fall, however, on its gymnastics scenes. And so far, the producers are willing to spend the money and take the time necessary to make them thrilling and pleasurable to watch.
Make It or Break It, a 10-episode drama set in the high-strung world of girls' gymnastics, makes itself compelling by the simple trick of understanding the fundamentals.
This season of Make It or Break It has been building up to some big moments, but last night's season finale delivered some big moments, including the aforementioned, and set us up for a killer season 2.
Make It or Break It seems prepared to take on not only the obvious Life Lessons but also the crucial undercurrents that move so many lives well into adulthood. And that, as much as the graceful wonder of gymnastics, will make it worth watching.
It's such an efficiently executed routine that it scores pretty well, with a serialized storyline that should pull the judges who really count... along into subsequent rotations.