Everything Sucks!

♪♪ For the life of me I cannot remember what made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise ♪♪ Sometimes I ached for the creators. Super idea, well-developed characters, soundtrack bordering on perfection – but somehow it doesn't fit together, and for every successful moment, there are two unfinished or clumsy ones. It doesn't help that the adult storylines were obviously written at the last minute (and shamelessly copied from any family comedy) and especially that the main character, Luke, is an unpleasant manipulator and an unstable choleric, alternating between fits of self-pity and anger with introspective moments of contemplation. This means you end up waiting and waiting for a perfect episode – and then Ace of Base gets stuck in the player, everything falls into place in an instant, and for the rest of the running time, Everything Sucks becomes at least a flawless generational affair that embodies all the desires of a brave generation. Therefore, I'm sad that in a time when 80s love stories receive almost boundless (and certainly well-deserved) praise and have hordes of fans (see Stranger Things, It, or Ready Player One), the 90s, in all their glory, don't come with any proper hype and are cancelled before the public even has a chance to notice them properly. Hopefully Peyton Kennedy, in the role of perhaps the most incredible teenager of all time, will have a sufficiently promising path to fame. (16.04.2018)