American Vandal
I admit to having non-mainstream tastes in television and TV. I also admit to being an adolescent at heart, despite my rather advanced age. With those caveats in mind, I have to say that I really enjoyed American Vandal, streaming on Netflix (TV-MA, for good reason). I must have liked it - it came out today, and I've already watched all eight 30-minute episodes.
American Vandal is, on the surface, a parody of "true crime" documentary television, and it does a good job at the parody. It takes a ridiculous event at a fictional San Diego area high school and treats it with the gravity and detail of a true crime show. In the end, though, we see that American Vandal has a message, a message close to my high-school fuck-up heart. Along the way, there's a lot of humor and some insight into high school life and the destructive ways in which we tend to pigeonhole our complex high-school students who are growing up in a world far more complicated than the one in which I was brought up (especially the implications and consequences of our current intrusive technology).
Who spray painted the dicks on the cars in the faculty parking lot and why? You'll have to find out for yourself.
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