I Am Not Okay With This: What the Must Watch reviewers think
Every week, the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows alongside 5 Live presenter Nihal Arthanayake.
This week, Hayley Campbell and Scott Bryan share their thoughts on I Am Not Okay With This. It's a high school comedy drama about a teenager struggling with her sexuality and super powers.
It's available now on Netflix.
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Scott says: "It's well acted and intriguing"
"It’s got the same director as The End of the F***ing World and it can feel at times like it is a copy and paste job.
"I see this show as more of a film than a conventional TV show, because essentially what you've got instead of episodes is chapters, each of them only 20 minutes long. You can watch this in little bits, but the real joy is watching it in one big go.
"It's well acted, it is intriguing, it also dabbles in this supernatural, but not too heavily either. I prefer The End of the F***ing World because that show went to darker places (and I know that you shouldn't compare these two shows side by side, but you inevitably will).
"It’s absolutely a Must Watch from me.”
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Hayley says: "I liked it and I didn't think I would"
"What I liked is that it's kind of a John Hughes movie in that all the teenagers are weird in a kind of specific away. Lots of things pitch themselves as being a John Hughes movie, but this feels more like it is – it deserves that badge more.
"Given that this comes from the same people who made Stranger Things which is a show I don't like, I was expecting not to like this. You've got a big ball of eighties stuff that you already like so if you're one of those people who likes Stranger Things and just wants more of that, then this is it.
"I thought that this one managed to carve out its own space and tell a story about grief and PTSD in a way that we haven't really seen before. I liked it. I didn't think I would.”
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I Am Not Okay With This is available now on Netflix.
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In this week's episode the team also review Get Even on BBC iPlayer and The Twilight Zone on SyFy. Plus, they speak to Sky's Managing Director of Content, Zai Bennett.
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