Netflix's I Am Not Okay With This: Season 1 Review

The latest game news from IGN - one of my fave channels ever - check it out This is a spoiler-free review for Season 1 of Netflix's I Am Not Okay With This, which debuts Wednesday, February 26.  [poilib element="accentDivider"] A seemingly perfect YA storm, the moody and mischievous I Am Not Okay With This -- about a teen girl who, in a sort of Marvel mutant awakening, discovers she has destructive telekinetic powers -- is a graphic novel adaptation that comes to us from the producers of Stranger Things and the director of The End of the F***ing World. It's pretty much the "coming-of-age drama with a hook" that Netflix has perfected - from those great aforementioned shows to others like Sex Education, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Big Mouth, American Vandal, and more. I Am Not Okay With This comes off as the least special of the lot, in a way, since it's the series that feels the most like a hodgepodge of the rest - and also features a notable number of '80s elements sprinkled in, which is almost an overused decade of influence at this point (like the over-homaged films of John Hughes). It's still good, and easily digestible (with only seven chapters clocking in at 20 to 30 minutes each), but it's also unsubtly stitched together from many other teen dramedies. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=i-am-not-okay-with-this-season-1-gallery&captions=true"] Getting this monster squad factoid out of the way, the series stars It Chapter One and Two's Sophia Lillis and Wyatt Oleff, who didn't have many important interactions character-wise in those movies but do work extraordinarily well together here. So much so that you kind of wish Lillis' Beverly and Oleff's Stanley actually did have more scenes together in It: Chapter One. Oh, and Oleff's character is named Stanley in this story too. That's apropos of nothing, really, other than it just being interesting to note. Lillis plays a young woman at the center of her own superhero origin story - the disheveled, new-in-town Sydney. After her father's mysterious suicide, Syd becomes even more of a pariah while her grief and anger (and budding feelings for her best friend Dina, played by Sofia Bryant) start to trigger unexplained events. Finding a new friend-slash-boyfriend in her clever, weed-dealing neighbor Stanley (Oleff), Syd attempts to balance her family life, spiraling emotions, and possible supernatural abilities. As stated, Gillis and Oleff are very good here, creating two nicely layered, unique teens who find a way to use each others' company to escape their glum lives in a nowhere town. Stanley develops feelings for Syd while Syd silently pines for Dina and while that's usually enough hormonal drama to carry a young adult tale, I Am Not Okay With This has the added sheen of superpowers. Not in a distracting or square peg way though - the series always makes sure center everything on Syd and her struggles. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/02/24/altered-carbon-season-2-who-is-anthony-mackies-takeshi-kovacs-ign-premiere"] The story ticks off some of the usual tropes, including the actual referencing of comic books as being based on real science and/or folklore (so you can add Unbreakable to the list of influences), but I Am Not Okay With This never gets too big for its britches. It never takes unearned swings. Naturally, it saves its biggest shock for the season finale, but it's a moment that's been adequately built up to. Like Syd herself, the series is kind of unassuming and humble. Overall, it focuses more on the characters than its inclusion of mind powers (as you can tell from all the marketing that makes it look like a high school rom-dram) and in doing so the "super" elements are able to play as a bit more grounded. Because of this, the show is able to hammer home the themes of trauma, loss, inherited depression, and a spectrum of other potent emotional challenges. The cast, like the story, is small and effective. As is the runtime. I Am Not Okay With This may, at times, seem as sullen as Syd, but it comes to us with no fat to trim, which is very unusual for a streaming series.

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