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But like, for super-serious.
Reveal nothing that happens in the last 20 minutes, c’mon and thank you.
This is standard but, here, unfortunate.
Its a manifesto play, but I cant get behind its particular take on the revolution.
How do we end up in such dicey terrain?
Well, its always good to start by killing an animal.
You cant kill it!
That would make us, like, psychopaths!
Squeeze (Malika Samuel), the flirty, ambivalent one, just wants to stop sneezing.
Im literally gonna die if you dont kill it!
Personally, Im with Zoom.
ButOur Dear Dead Drug Lordskates right on by the grisly sacrifice and into more fizzy, mile-a-minute millennial banter.
And theOMGShut UPIm LITERALLY dyingOlivia Benson is my spirit animaldiction doesnt lie on top of enough full-bodied character development.
Youre 15, Pipe comforts Zoom.
You dont need to find your purpose in life until you apply for college.
Or, later: Potential is so suffocating.
Or, after tumbling into a kiss with the charismatic Kit: I didnt even realize Imnot I mean …
I dont know wasI sending signals?
I … think Im attracted to power.
As the girls get closer and closer to summoning Pablos spirit (why?
And it makes one into a chasm of muddled morality and avoided consequences.
(Some semi-spoilers ahead now.)
Its a shift with a nasty undertow.
But it cant be the last.
Defiance must be preceded by thoughtfulness, self-assertion balanced by self-criticism.
Its a revolution with little use for kindness, ambivalence, or reflection.
It is not my revolution.
