Get Even Series Olivia & Amber Couple Review

『A Forbidden Bond Blossoming at the Boundary Between Appearance and Truth』

🎥 Series Overview

🎬 Title: Get Even (2020)
🌍 Country: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
🎞️ Genre: Teen Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Queer Subtext
🗓️ Production & Broadcast: BBC iPlayer, Season 1, total of 10 episodes
📢 Adaptation & Production: Holly Phillips
📖 Original Work: Gretchen McNeil 『Don't Get Mad』
📺 Platform: BBC iPlayer
📌 Sequel: Rebel Cheer Squad: A Get Even Series

👩‍💼 Cast: Jessica Alexander – Olivia Hayes
Razan Nassar – Amber

🧩 Story Deep Dive (Spoilers)

👗 Superficial Popularity and Dependency

In the early episodes, Olivia and Amber appear as the most popular and influential girls at Bannerman, a private school. Their relationship has the following characteristics:

• Hierarchical friendship: Amber is part of the highest social tier, and Olivia maintains her social standing under Amber’s influence. Even while Olivia lives a double life as a member of ‘DGM (Don’t Get Mad)’ fighting against injustice, Amber remains her official best friend and the center of the popular group.

• Olivia’s mask: It is revealed that Olivia is actually hiding her poor background while wearing the mask of a ‘rich, shallow’ popular girl. This unstable and precarious condition also affects her relationship with Amber. To belong to Amber’s world, Olivia must continue hiding her truth.

💡 Amber’s Hidden Feelings

In the early part of the season, Amber shows herself as the dominant and at times cruel “Queen Bee.” However, viewers can sense from her attitude toward Olivia that obsession or deeper feelings beyond friendship may be hidden. Amber is wary whenever Olivia gets closer to other friends (the DGM members) or shows signs of breaking free from her control.

🔥 Truth Revealed Through Conflict

The relationship between Amber and Olivia is shaken and transformed under the external threat of DGM activities and a murder case.

• External conflict and inner truth: As Olivia discovers her true self through her involvement in DGM and gradually distances herself from the popular group, her bond with Amber reaches a breaking point. This conflict symbolizes the struggle between social expectations and personal, authentic desires.

• An unexpected confession and kiss: Later in the series, Amber apologizes to Olivia, asking her for forgiveness while confessing her romantic feelings. It is revealed that Amber’s cruelty and need for control actually stemmed from her repressed romantic emotions toward Olivia. Their kiss confirms that their feelings cross the boundary of simple friendship, marking the beginning of both characters’ exploration of sexual identity.

💬 Amber’s confession shows that she is not merely a villain or a jealous friend, but a complex character who had been overwhelmed by her own emotions and expressed them in destructive ways. Olivia, too, through her relationship with Amber, experiences both confusion and realization about what she wants and who she loves.

🕯️ Queer Narrative and ‘Hidden Desire’

The story of Olivia and Amber demonstrates that in teen dramas, queer characters can be more than peripheral figures and instead serve as a driving force of the central conflict.

• Not just ‘queerbaiting’: Some fans may criticize the romance for appearing too late in the series, but the creators carefully developed Amber’s power, control, and hidden affection over time. This was not just a viewer-teasing element, but a narrative device that revealed the queer identity hidden beneath the mask of popularity.

• Liberation of identity: Olivia’s journey of breaking away from her fabricated background, finding true friends, and realizing who she really is, also becomes a pathway for her to explore her sexual orientation through her relationship with Amber.

🔍 An Unfinished Romance

The series ends not with the two becoming an official couple, but with them acknowledging intense emotions and leaving open the possibility for the future. This reflects the fluid and complex identity exploration of adolescence in a realistic way, while also leaving viewers with anticipation about their future.

🎥 The relationship between Olivia and Amber holds significance because it intertwines the major themes of teen drama—popularity, social class, and identity—with queer romance, creating an unexpectedly layered and meaningful drama.

🎯 Personal Rating (Based on Preference)

💕 Love Scene Intensity: ♥
⭐ Rating: ★★★★