Did John Hughes write this? I mused, over eighties synth music, denim, pot and teens at high school. It has a curiously dated design (and soundtrack), but I don't mind.
Asa Butterfield's typically confused expression works well here; as sex therapist Gillian Anderson's son, he's going to put the kids right, with the help of Emma Mackey, a free-spirited rebel (who we know has some dark side). With Ncuti Gatwa as his gay friend and Connor Swindells (Vigil, Emma.) as the bully with the big dick.
We're beginning to love Mackey's character and performance, she's half-French (co-starred in Eiffel with Roman Duris) and a virtual newbie, as is Nunn, whose only previous credits are three shorts; Gatwa funny and most watchable - a bright future ahead we think.
Kedar Williams-Sterling is the shapely swimmer, Alistair Petrie the head teacher, Mimi Keene the bitch, Aimee Lou Wood, Chaneil Kular, Patricia Allison (becomes Otis' girlfriend at just the wrong moment), Mikael Persbrandt (plumber).
Auditions must have been amusing - 'Can we see your orgasm face?'
Produced by Eleven for Netflix. China Crisis 'Christian' stuck in my head.
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