Mariko, Akane, Hitomi

Acclaimed / Praised / Celebrated

Highly Acclaimed = many awards

Critically acclaimed = loved by professional critics and reviewers.

 a surge of novelistic, groundbreaking dramas 

Surge = Sudden influx / rush of something

Novelistic = like a novel

Groundbreaking / the first of its kinds / pioneering

High-Brow – classical music / ballet

Low-Brow –  manga / reality tv

Upstart = an arrogant person/thing who is quickly moving up a hierarchy

Plethora / abundance / excess = almost too many of something (non-negative)

Juggernaut = very large and powerful

Goliath

Humungous

Massive

Enormous

Huge

Reality TV

the low–brow upstart would go on to produce a plethora of ratings juggernauts,

Realty tv’s Cheap content was arrogant and very confident  therefore it continued to produce an excess of very successful tv shows

80s

90s

00s the noughties

10s

20s

0 = nought