The revamped theme song is the first indication that this isn’t your Auntie’s “Saved by the Bell” (Peacock). Playing their 13-year-old selves alongside a cast of actual teenagers, Erskine and Konkle transform what could come off as a gimmick into a soulful, funny and often skin-crawlingly awkward exploration of what we call our “formative years.” And though it may be useful to future historians as a primary source about life in an American suburb in the year 2000, the subjects it so deftly grapples with - such as masturbation, body image, slut-shaming, racism and, anchored by Melora Walters’ sublime supporting performance as Anna’s mom, divorce - remain very much with us. (For many millennials, Season 1’s “AIM,” about Maya’s obsessive flirtation with another user in an AOL Instant Messenger chat room, is both a stone cold masterwork and a personal attack.) It isn’t a stretch to call the Hulu series, whose second and final season concludes Friday, an epochal comedy: No one in any medium has captured the ups and downs of life as a middle-schooler at the start of the 21st century with as much uncanny specificity as creators Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle. ![]() Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone performing Vendy Wiccany in the hopes of seeing more “PEN15" someday. This week, we discuss a disappointing season of “Selling Sunset,” draw up a guide to Jane Campion’s movies and much more. ![]() This is the Los Angeles Times newsletter about all things TV and streaming movies.
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