Watched Mar 19, 2024
This definitely kept my attention, but mostly because I was lost in the framing. While it doesn’t excuse the behavioral patterns identified in the research behind the series, it does feel like a PR campaign for Drake Bell. It’s also difficult to look away from the fact that so many Black actors are speaking up about witnessed behaviors that are less extreme than the ones the series is trying to draw the most attention to. It’s difficult to believe that a body of, theoretically, more vulnerable children didn’t experience those horrors. In that, it feels like the framing is eliding over certain truths that it shouldn’t. But maybe that’s just my personal speculation.