Most of the other actors can also be summed up in one sentence, from Ezekiel Goodman’s Dylan, the quiet boy with the weird mom who loves Allison, to Sebastian Amoruso’s Johnny, the football player who says it’s totally OK to date his high school football coach because he was 18 at the time. (“My stunning queer king” takes the cake.) Brianne Tju is stuck with most of these lines as Margot, Lennon’s Insta famous bestie who is also her casual sex partner. The script is littered with lines that no one would say, let alone teenagers. Drugs and sex aside, every one of these characters feels like a 40-year-old adult trapped in an 18-year-old’s body. Then again, the rest of these characters don’t feel like real teens but what movies and television believe teens are like when they really aren’t. Even though the series wants us to believe Allison is Carrie White-level weird, she looks exactly like Lennon with nothing to differentiate her outside of wearing her dead mom’s necklace. I mean, if the series’ nostalgia trap includes going back to 1990s conventions of gender dynamics I guess they succeeded? Iseman works hard as both Lennon and Allison, though it’s not much of a stretch. This is contrasted with the full-frontal male nudity that’s specifically there for comic effect. The sheer amount of sex in this series is heavy-handed, especially as the camera lingers on female bodies. As she says, “My mom’s dead and I like to fuck,” and god bless Madison Iseman for trying to give that stupid line any semblance of meaning. She’s a chronically smiley, master manipulator who has as much remorse for sleeping with her sister’s true love as she does for filming her sexcapades for the internet. Lennon, as her rock-star inspiration connotes, is the living embodiment of every 18-year-old girl a grown man hopes to find on Instagram. Hell, even their names are a dead giveaway to their entire identities. There’s a reason one is labeled as going “full Villanelle” after all. Unfortunately neither young woman feels like an individual, more like the outdated “Good Twin/Evil Twin” writ large. You should have a pretty good clue of what the show’s immediate twist is the minute you see identical twins. The first episode sets the tone for numerous callbacks to a neon-and-glitter graduation party where the teens are openly doing cocaine and engaging in three-ways while their parents just mingle in another room. But while “Panic” had its teens dabbling in death-defying acts and a little casual sex, “I Know What You Did Last Summer” is practically the Electric Daisy Carnival. Like that series, “I Know What You Did Last Summer” exists in a world where kids are doing horrible things to the utter obliviousness of their parents. It’s hard to decide where to begin with this series, in part because we already got a high-concept YA adaptation earlier this year with the far superior “Panic,” which the streamer already canceled. Oscars 2023: Best Animated Feature Predictions 'Blockbuster' Doesn't Know What It's Doing - on Netflix, or in General 'The Crown' Weighs Too Heavily in a Dismal, Drawn Out Season 5 ![]() ![]() But, of course, someone doesn’t want them to forget and vengeance starts being served. On the night of graduation, an accident happens that leaves Lennon and her friends to take the secret to their graves. Lennon, on the other hand, is sexually provocative and unfeeling. Allison is quiet (defined here as weird) and grieving her mother’s suicide. In lieu of a return to urban legend frights, audiences get the streaming equivalent of “Euphoria,” where our murder-mystery comes with a healthy, vaguely pornographic, dose of teenage sex and drugs.Īllison and her twin sister Lennon (both played by Madison Iseman) couldn’t be more different. In the case of Amazon Prime Video’s “ I Know What You Did Last Summer,” the new serialized version retains little save for the name of the 1997 feature (itself based on Lois Duncan’s novel of the same name) and the generalized plot point that a death takes place. ![]() With the upcoming release of another “Scream” movie and nostalgic IP becoming the de facto lay of the land, there are two schools of thought when it comes to reviving a franchise: Keep the original intent and make fun, or go completely out of left field and do something different.
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