Like Freaks and Geeks, The Goldbergs, Stranger Things, and a host of others before it, Everything Sucks!, the new Netflix series co-created by Ben York Jones and Michael Mohan, is a portrait of adolescence that revels in throwbacks. This time, the era of choice is the mid-1990s — 1996, specifically — and Everything Sucks! makes sure that we never forget it.
The kids in Everything Sucks! brood to music by Tori Amos and Oasis. They play with slap bracelets and use VCRs plugged into non-flat-screen televisions. They dress like No Doubt–era Gwen Stefani and paste magazine pictures of Scott Wolf from Party of Five into collages. When they’re trying to seem really “cool,” they show up to drama club gatherings with a six-pack of Zima. There are times when the show plays like a moving-picture version of one of those BuzzFeed listicles about 25 Things That Only ’90s Kids Understand.
But as tempting as it is to dismiss Everything Sucks! as nothing more than a thinly veiled excuse to revisit a time when Beavis and Butt-Head jokes were of the moment, this series slowly proves itself to be something more than that. The ten episodes of Everything Sucks!, all dropping Friday, have more than their share of bugs: dialogue that sounds more scripted than anything actual teenagers would say, then or now; barely developed supporting characters; and a tendency to incorporate music choices that are so on the nose, they are more painful than an infected piercing. (The last episode actually uses “The Freshmen” by the Verve Pipe to illustrate a personal epiphany experienced by — how did you know? — a high-school freshman.).
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