I Am Not Okay With This - Review/ Media Project
Puberty is hard for anyone; ance, changing bodies, mood swings, and - superpowers? The end of February of this year, the show “I’m Not Okay With This” came out on Netflix as a Netflix Original. Shortly after its release my mom and I decided to binge-watch it together. Reading this assignment; I thought this show was perfect to dissect since it’s only seven 23 minute episodes. So I proceeded to re-binge-watch it, if you will. With all this spare quarantine time; Why not? Courtesy of Netflix This show at first glance is reminiscent of Carrie in the trailer by replicating the famous covered in blood in a dress scene. But instead this show is a comedy-drama that follows the story of Sydney Novak (Sophia Lillis). To attempt to quickly summarize Sydney's, or Syd's, complicated life I’ll start with her description of herself, “just another boring 17-year-old white girl.” Residing in Brownsville Pennsylvania, she lives with her little brother Liam, who's a middle scho