down payment 房子首付
Although the main character is intelligent and independent, she is endlessly pressed to pay her brother's loans, gambling debts, and even down payments for housing.
雖然女主角聰明獨立，但她總是被無休止的壓力所迫，要替哥哥償還貸款、賭債，甚至付買房首付。

weak scripts 爛劇本
What makes a bad TV show truly awful? Normally, it's a combination of things: poor production quality, questionable directing, sub-standard acting, and weak scripts.
是什么讓一部糟糕的電視劇變得真正糟糕?通常情況下，這是由以下因素共同導致的:低劣的制作質量、值得質疑的導演技術、不合格的表演和蹩腳的劇本。

stereotypical adj.老一套的
If we look at the development of Chinese TV dramas over the past few decades, screenwriters actually have slowly moved away from depicting interesting, complex characters and toward the stereotypical one.
如果我們回顧一下過去幾十年中國電視劇的發展，我們會發現，編劇們其實是在慢慢地摒棄那些有趣、復雜的角色，轉向那些老套的角色。

trope n.套路
cliche n.陳詞濫調
A film or TV trope is the consistent or expected use of certain characters, settings, and time periods across a specific genre.
電影或電視中的套路是指，在特定類型的劇中使用同樣的角色、場景和時間背景。
You know the cliche: imitation is the highest form of flattery.
你知道這句老話:模仿是奉承的最高形式。

campy adj.做作的，狗血的
The word "campy" refers to intentionally exaggerated thematic elements, especially in television.
“Campy”一詞指故意夸大主題元素，尤指在電視節目中。
These movies are so campy.
這些電影太狗血了。

star-studded adj.巨星匯集的
What the producers care more about is grabbing a bigger share of the TV market with a star-studded cast.
制作方更關心的是如何通過眾星云集的陣容來搶占更大的電視市場份額。