![]() ![]() (*) As a card-carrying member of Generation X who gets fiercely territorial over history’s attempts to erase us (or, worse, merge us with the Baby Boomers), I have nothing but love for the music of Rick Springfield and Bryan Ferry and the comic misadventures of Ferris Bueller and Farmer Ted, among many others. (“Diary, I feel like I’m racking up a body count here,” Syd confesses at one point, phrasing the sentiment only slightly more delicately than Winona Ryder did to her own diary in Heathers.) The aesthetic is another throwback, full of Eighties tunes and John Hughes homages - including the recreation of an iconic Sixteen Candles shot in the middle of an episode that’s otherwise modeled on The Breakfast Club(*) - and allusions to other high-school stories from the era. That show’s original lead director, Jonathan Entwistle, serves here as co-creator (with Christy Hall), and there’s a lot of understandable overlap in style and theme. The series was adapted from a comic by Charles Forsman, whose work previously inspired a less fantastical story of adolescent anger in The End of the F***ing World. Over the course of the seven-episode first season, Syd discovers that she has abilities more like a character out of a comic book (or a Stephen King novel), and that they tend to manifest themselves most often - and most dangerously - when she gets angry.Īnd that’s only one of several aspects of Syd’s life to which the show’s title applies. ![]() You see, I Am Not Okay With This isn’t just a story of teen angst, but of superpowered teen angst. Because when Syd loses her temper, people can die - literally. But the very act of unleashing that rage can also make that world less stable and fair, as the rage, rather than its object, becomes all anyone cares about.įor Syd (played by It‘s Sophia Lillis), the repercussions of her rage are even greater. It is often the only sane response to the insane and unfair world around them. Rage is a threat to - and from - many a 17-year-old girl, special or not. “I’m a boring 17-year-old white girl,” Syd tells us early in Netflix’s new I Am Not Okay With This, before adding, “I’m not special, is what I’m trying to say.”īut a few episodes later, she warns us, and herself: “If I rage, bad things happen.” ![]()
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