At first I was attracted by the very dramatic trailer, thinking it would be a melodrama about high school politics, so I watched it.
After watching the first episode, I am quite satisfied. River's sensitivity and sincerity and Payton's extreme utilitarianism are a clear contrast. It magnifies a common conflict in the hearts of modern people: I don't want to do this, doing this makes me It was painful, but again I felt compelled to do it for success/benefit. Although River's suicide was a bit shocking to me, I didn't expect a character who looked like the second male lead to be ready in the first episode, but I actually really liked this arrangement, the most popular and perfect looking one in high school People commit suicide, how will this group of high school students who are infected by secular elitism react? Will they be sad? Will they be afraid? Will they think River is a coward? How would they rationalize this? Such a tragedy happened at the beginning of the student president election. Which direction will the election go next?
If any of these are picked out and analyzed in detail, I believe they can make a good story, but I didn't expect everyone to move on easily in the next episode, the election continued, and campus life was as usual, except for Payton There is hardly any description of the reaction of the students (or teachers) other than a song to River, arguably the most famous captain of the hockey team in the school committed suicide, the students shed a few tears, and continued their bland every day.
That's when I realized, oh, it turns out that the writers didn't want a story like this, they wanted and just wanted to keep focusing on the election. I'm disappointed that River's death was deliberately downplayed, but I think it might be an artistic way of doing it too. In the next few episodes, I kept using this reason to comfort myself: maybe the writers and directors have ulterior motives, maybe they want to express the absurdity and nothingness of life through this exaggerated comedy... But the rhythm of the story in the middle is still slow, Infinity and her grandma The plot especially tempered people's patience, I interrupted several times to continue watching. It's still the same feeling that if each line in this script is picked out and done carefully, it can be made into a meaningful drama, but the director just doesn't want to go into it.
Infinity's grandmother is morbidly attached to her, grandparents and grandchildren rely on attracting attention and defrauding sympathy to maintain their lives, grandma's subconscious motive for poisoning her mother... Going deeper is a big drama about family relations, social welfare, and vulnerable groups;
Astrid's bright exterior and empty heart, she and River relied on fake sex life, her twisted and powerful, utilitarian and ruthless father, and her decadent, weak, drug-addicted mother, and Payton's two mentally retarded brothers, The mother who is constantly cheating in order to seek spiritual satisfaction, and the father who is sitting on the wealth of thousands of dollars but has no ambitions, goes deep into a family ethics drama of the upper class in the United States;
The seemingly friendly but exploitative relationship between Payton and his three election mates, Alice's morbid obsession with Payton, Alice and James' infatuation, Payton's threesomes with River and Astrid, McAfee and Skyler's romance, Going down is a research report on the relationship between elite high schools in the United States.
Not to mention the aforementioned suicide of River, and the politics of high school students that seem to be the center of the show. Choose one or two of so many themes, and there will be no shortage of material for the whole drama.
However, the director is not! willing! meaning! Here are three exclamation points to emphasize my disappointment and dissatisfaction. The main characters in the play live from beginning to end in a sea of vain gold, living their lives in a way that is exaggerated to the point of falsehood. A problem arises, they make a noise, cry a bit, yell, smash a few high-end artworks, and then ok, this is over, next. What baffles me the most is that no one in the show seems to actually worry about money. Even Infinity and her grandmother, who apparently depended on social assistance to live a middle-class life, were doing well after the breakup. Although Infinity was forced to live in a motel after running away from home, she was also forced to live in a motel because of various reasons. The karma has never worried about livelihood. Not to mention the other main characters, everyone seems to have a throne to inherit in their family, which made me think that the high school they attended was a private aristocratic school, but then there were students from ordinary families (the little boy in the voting episode). Brother), it's really baffling, is this also part of the absurd reality?
After watching the last episode, I checked the Internet. It turned out that the screenwriter planned to do a series from the beginning, and this season is just a foreshadowing. But "Breaking Bad" has a total of five seasons and sixty-two episodes, and it is called a "long movie". I haven't seen them do so scattered in the first season? A movie that wants everything, ends up being nothing. I hope the second season can salvage it a bit.
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