Just read an interview with the creator of the show, and I think she would approve of my description.The Sybian wrote: ↑Tue Jan 15, 2019 4:27 pm It's a quirky show, part high school comedy movie, part British comedy series, but I feel like the characters have deeper layers to them, and are more compelling. Kind of the standard HS comedy tropes and characters, but done with a twist, and done better.
I usually suck at critically writing about books, movies, etc... In school, I never picked up on symbolism or deeper shit, so this made me good.Laurie Nunn, show creator wrote:We all absolutely love the teen genre, particularly the John Hughes films of the 1980s so we really wanted to make the show have the feeling that it's an homage or that it has this nostalgic backdrop, but that we are talking about very contemporary, modern themes and storylines for the characters. So in a way we were also trying to take this tried and tested tropes of the genre and sort of flip them on their head and show a different perspective on it. I think those two things together and then with the Britishness just make it feel like it's its own thing.
Finished the series, and I really hope they make a second season.