Overcompensating
Did you love Pen15 and want to watch more shows where adults pretend to be teens? Except this time it's worse because it's not clearly played for laughs. Overcompensating truly asked a lot of me when they expected me to accept actors who were clearly in their 30s as university-aged. I watched 1 0 Things I Hate About You last night, and it still holds up. Kat is still a badass. The dialogue may be ridiculous, but I can still quote many lines. The actors are also fully grown adults. But for some reason, I can forgive this indiscretion because it feels like a relic of the past. With Overcompensating , I found it distracting. I couldn't understand how I was supposed to sympathise with these mature people and their juvenile problems. It just felt like watching a bunch of millennials play-acting as Gen Z. We live in a post- Skins world, and young people are often played by actual young people. I know this isn't always the case, but there's something so special abo...
