SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “I Am Not Okay With This,” streaming now on Netflix. A teenage girl, seemingly in shock, walks down a dark, desolate street wearin…
A teenage girl, seemingly in shock, walks down a dark, desolate street wearing a dress covered in blood, with police sirens wailing in the background. “Dear Diary,” her voice over comes in, a few seconds into the walk, “Go f— yourself.”,” based on Charles Forsman’s 2017 graphic novel of the same name.
The show centers on Sydney’s struggles with a lot of heavy emotions on top of such regular day-to-day adolescent issues as schoolwork. Her father recently, supposedly, killed himself after struggling with demons of his own that Sydney would later learn were telekinetic powers not unlike the ones she has been developing. This leaves Sydney to at times step in as a parental figure for her younger brother and butt heads with her now single mother .
Hall admits that centering such a story on a female protagonist is exciting because it has been historically less common to see young women in this way. But while Sydney is often embarrassed by what she is feeling, it is her male friend Stanley who is “a little further evolved in that process of knowing who he is and he’s unapologetic about being that person,” she notes. Through those two characters, the show endeavored to portray the “duality” and evolution of complicated adolescent feelings.
“As a female artist, creative, writer it excited me that there was room in the space to really get inside Sydney’s head more. We wanted to start with her and her very myopic idea the world and her very isolated idea of herself,” Hall says.
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