Really now,
when did we start considering watching a 14-year old-looking girl in a pinafore dress and fishnet stockings who rides her bike to a cheap motel and gets raped by a dad of another teenager entertainment?
But no, she is really a he taking hormone shots so therefore we must embrace as HBO version of PRIDE right?
Then there’s the nerdy glasses wearing teen “body conscious” aka large girl (another paper mache’ cliche) discussing her bravery for oral sex while two eager even younger (grade school?) boys wearing braces watch on eagerly.
Later she leaves the room happy and hugging her friend, “I’ve lost my virginity.” smiley face!
All this at one party?
When the crazed jock (complete cliche character) watches his horny girlfriend have sex in front of the entire “party” to make him jealous, he verbally attacks the child-dressed trans character.
You know, the same one who just got raped at the motel (who rides bike to the party right after like nothing happened).
The trans character then slices herself with a knife in front of everyone at the “party” for attention.
Drunken jock stumbles home and camera pans in on his family portrait. Jock’s dad is the guy that met Trans at motel that night.
Ehhh!
No, we don’t need this “entertainment.”
HBO is just exploiting vulnerable teen situations such as body image, drug dependence, sexual confusion and perverting it by glossing it as entertainment and giving the characters no guidance, hope or love.
Degrading to real teens who are smarter and more multi-layered than these cardboard made for tv characters.
This is not a documentary.
Again, these actors may be over 18 but their characters are presented to be nude minors having sex.
So enjoy your Sunday night hour of creepiness!