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 My Generation

(June 21^st, 2010.  -  Editor)              Michael Stahl David, Kelli Garner, Jaime King, Keir O’Donnell, Sebastian Sozzi, Mechad Brooks, Anne Son, Daniella Alonso and Julian Morris star in the offbeat drama My Generation.

What a difference ten years can make. In 2000, a documentary crew follows a disparate group of high school students from Greenbelt High School in Austin, TX, as they prepare for graduation in the year 2000 and revisits these former classmates ten years later as they return home to rediscover that just because they’re not where they planned doesn’t mean they’re not right where they need to be.

Each of these students couldn't wait to graduate and head out into the real world. But the world they were entering got very real, very fast. As these classmates return home to revisit their old hopes for their future, they'll discover that even if you don't get exactly what you thought you wanted out of life, it’s not too late to get what you need.

Don’t be fooled by the supposed documentary. Every word, every movement and every event in this drama are the product of the writers room. Creator and writer Noah Hawley uses every trick in the book to tug at the emotions of their viewers. To draw them in and make them like these characters who must endure every stereotypical event that has ever happened to someone after they graduated high school. The characters are every group stereotype that exists in a high school and this fake documentary gives the writers a chance to presume what might have happened to a member of each group a decade later.

If there is a saving element to this effort, it is that the so called documentary is executed so poorly that there is a chance he the audience might accept this show as a drama. I said might because first we have to care about these people. And is going to be a tall order.

 

  -  Editor

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