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Heathers (2018)
It's not a remake, okay?
I went into this show prepared to hate it, I'm a huge fan of the film and the musical and from the first trailer the glaring differences were clear. So, as a bit of a joke, I watched it. And it was good?
It has flaws- the dialogue can be odd, some characters actions come out of left field and some of the filming choices are questionable but- it's funny.
A huge gripe I and many people had were that the Heathers (popular generic mean girls) had become minorities, it was unrealistic, cruel and had a very boomer-vibe ("the bullies these days are all snowflakes desperate for likes") but these Heathers aren't a clique of popular girls who run the school, they're just trying to survive whilst projecting their image- people don't respect them and they don't respect themselves or each other. It's a school full of kids with more money than identity trying to figure out how to fit in, no one is popular for more than about 3 scenes.
It doesn't follow the original in any way but spirit. It, like the film and musical, is a comment on society: both the fast paced cancel culture of the young and the apathetic pretenses of all the adults in the show. It losely hits the plot points of the movie and has mostly the same names but besides that it's a different story with very different characters (Veronica in particular so don't expect her to be an audience stand in, she's very much doing her own thing)
My advice: if you're a fan of the original/musical skip the pilot (you're not missing much that you don't already know and it suffers the most from the boomer-ness) and enjoy a dark twisty Heathers-ish AU that has an ending more satisfying than either of its predecessors.
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
I enjoyed it... I think?
I watched this movie expecting something a little different than what I got. It started off as a nice and interesting film with three characters who definitely needed some kind of emotional development. That is what I assumed the story would be: the characters developing together on a journey to discover their true selves (or whatever) with time travel as a fairly minor sub plot. What I got was vastly different: a story about a girl who goes too deep undercover and falls in love with a man who thinks he can time travel, whilst two men (fairly unconnected to the actual plot) almost fall in love or possibly loose their virginity. The subplots don't really tie in, the plot holes don't get resolved and the ending seems kind of an only-thing-that-really-works-as-an-ending-sort-of situation. I think this film is a fantastic concept and the style of it really appeals to me but I think the plot and story got lost in favour of typecasting (from what I know the role was written for Plaza which rarely makes for a good character) and trying too hard to force some kind of message into us. However, the bits that did make sense (the majority of the beginning and some of the middle) were enjoyable, it just depends on how good you are with unresolved issues.