History Anime / GreatPretender

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Despite Laurent and Edamame speaking accented English, their grammar and pronunciations are correct, and they speak clear enough for the average English speaker to comprehend what they are saying. In the Japanese version, they have the English-speaking (but French) Stepfano Paganini do Laurent's most fluent lines.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Despite Laurent and Edamame speaking accented English, their grammar and pronunciations are correct, and they speak clear enough for the average English speaker to comprehend what they are saying. In the Japanese version, they have an English-speaking (but French) uncredited voice actor do Laurent's most fluent lines.

* AerithAndBob: Abigail, Sam and Clark are all Middle Eastern but have western sounding names. While this would be completely unremarkable if they were Middle Eastern ''Christians'', Jewish or Druze (there is even a Lebanese singer [[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Clark named Sami Clark]]), Sam and Clark's last name of Ibrahim and status as ex-princes coupled with the fact there are no Christian, Jewish or Druze monarchies in the Middle East mean they would more than likely have Islamic first names. Abigail herself is an Iraqi with the last name of ''Jones'', and heavily implied to be of Muslim origin, making it unlikely she'd have either name.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Despite Laurent and Edamame speaking accented English, their grammar and pronunciations are correct, and they speak clear enough for the average English speaker to comprehend what they are saying. In the Japanese version, they have another voice actor take care of the English scenes.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Despite Laurent and Edamame speaking accented English, their grammar and pronunciations are correct, and they speak clear enough for the average English speaker to comprehend what they are saying.

The show was picked by Creator/{{Netflix}} for international distribution, and they released the first 14 episodes worldwide on August 20, 2020.

* AerithAndBob: Abigail, Sam and Clark are all Middle Eastern but have western sounding names. While this would be completely unremarkable if they were Middle Eastern ''Christians'', Jewish or Druze (there is even a Lebanese singer [[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Clark named Sami Clark]], Sam and Clark's last name of Ibrahim and status as ex-princes coupled with the fact there are no Christian, Jewish or Druze monarchies in the Middle East mean they would more than likely have Islamic first names. Abigail herself is an Iraqi with the last name of ''Jones'', and heavily implied to be of Muslim origin, making it unlikely she'd have either name.

* TokenBlackFriend: An anime example. While the show features East Asian and Middle Eastern characters, the only black character seen is Cynthia's friend Chris in the Snow of London flashbacks who also appears briefly at the beginning of the Singapore Sky arc. In the former, her role is mainly to react to the ups and downs of Cynthia's relationship with Thomas and she gets very few lines.

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* TitledAfterTheSong: "The Great Pretender" (most specifically the cover by none other than [[Music/{{Queen}} Freddy Mercury]], plays in the end credits. The credits are even (mostly) a copy of Mercury's music video starting Mercury's cats).

* TokenBlackFriend: An anime example. While the show features East Asian and Middle Eastern characters, the only black character seen is Cynthia's friend Chris in the Snow of London flashbacks who also appears briefly at the beginning of the Singapore Sky arc.

* TokenBlackFriend: An anime example. While the show features East Asian and Middle Eastern characters, the only black character seen is Cynthia's unnamed friend in the Snow of London flashbacks, who exists to express shock at her relationship with Thomas.

* TheCaper: Each story arc includes a new con scheme targeting a new mark carrying [[KarmicThief more money than karma should allow.]]