I Am Not Okay With This (spoilers)

[Morrus]

I’m not usually into teen dramas, but at 20 mins an episode this was an easy dip in. We ended up binging all 8 in one evening.

I liked it. American schoolgirl discovers she has superpowers. Plus teen angst.

By the end of the season she’s clearly the villain of the piece. She murders a boy in public in a gruesome way for reading out her diary at the prom. Dunno if people realised it was her who made his head explode, but she’s a murderer now. No going back!

Great central performance. Very stock characters and tropes, and homages to Breakfast Club and Carrie (deliberately so, to make it a very light, easy watch).

Bit gruesome in places!

 

[billd91]

Oh, she is clearly not the villain of the piece. She's a scared, bullied teen who impulsively fought back with what turned out to be overwhelming force. That's not villain-of-the-piece material.

 

[Ryujin]

I’m not usually into teen dramas, but at 20 mins an episode this was an easy dip in. We ended up binging all 8 in one evening.

I liked it. American schoolgirl discovers she has superpowers. Plus teen angst.

By the end of the season she’s clearly the villain of the piece. She murders a boy in public in a gruesome way for reading out her diary at the prom. Dunno if people realised it was her who made his head explode, but she’s a murderer now. No going back!

Great central performance. Very stock characters and tropes, and homages to Breakfast Club and Carrie (deliberately so, to make it a very light, easy watch).

Bit gruesome in places!

Thanks for that. I'd been wondering about it and could use some light, easy watching.

 

[Umbran]

My wife and i have started watching this. We are only on the second episode, though, so I am not engaging in a spoileriffic discussion yet.

 

[RangerWickett]

I binged it too. The lead looks a lot like one of my gamer friends, so I'll be a bit more careful in the future.

It was a fun show, but the implications are pretty dark.

I'm not sure I'd really want to see how things would go in a second season.

 

[Mercurius]

Speaking of teen dramas, Sex Education is a lot of fun.

 

[billd91]

Speaking of teen dramas, Sex Education is a lot of fun.

It’s excellent, but probably a bit more comedy than drama - for anybody worried about teen drama overload.

 

[Janx]

Oh, she is clearly not the villain of the piece. She's a scared, bullied teen who impulsively fought back with what turned out to be overwhelming force. That's not villain-of-the-piece material.

A drunken bully teen took the microphone, pushed back an adult and then proceeded to verbally abuse somebody and violate their privacy to the entire group. No adult stepped in.

She did not have better tools to disable him, and only one person tried to stop him first. The real villainy is everybody else doing nothing.

 

[Morrus]

A drunken bully teen took the microphone, pushed back an adult and then proceeded to verbally abuse somebody and violate their privacy to the entire group. No adult stepped in.

She did not have better tools to disable him, and only one person tried to stop him first. The real villainy is everybody else doing nothing.

I’m not familiar with the American schooling system. The actor is 18, but how old is the character supposed be? They all seem to drive and stuff.

 

[Ryujin]

I’m not familiar with the American schooling system. The actor is 18, but how old is the character supposed be? They all seem to drive and stuff.

Probably meant to be around 16. American TV has a long history of using much older actors, to play high school kids. Like, in their mid-20s.