NYT had an interesting article out this morning or last night about how statistically every kid in this show is an outlier and drug use, sex and basically every behavior except perhaps porn viewership is significantly lower than the generation before it, or in the case of marijuana usage roughly on average. Only vaping has seen a significant shift in trend for the "worse", and even that's at the expense of cigarettes.

That said, the direction has been pretty significant for a TV show (putting the Inception hallway special effect into the pilot was a hell of a flex), it seems like they've picked up a lot from Noah Hawley's and Vince Gilligan's shows in terms of clever visual cues and sound editing.

I loved the first two seasons of Skins but it's highly dated now in terms of both its visual style and depiction of teenage sexuality (if these kids are horny, those kids were psychotically so) whereas this show is taking a heightened but more nuanced look at things. It's got a lot on its plate and I'm really curious how it'll hold up as the shock value fades and the characters reckon with - or don't - their actions.

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