![]() ![]() ![]() The teenagers of We Are Who We Are-third culture kids raised on military bases, mostly in Italy-throw all the tantrums and fits you might expect, but their transgressions are more normative and rebellious than self-abusive and medicinal. Set on a fictional Army base in the seaside town of Chioggia in Italy, the series follows two American teenagers, Caitlin and Fraser, as they. They probably make your grandma nostalgic or nauseous and nothing in between.īut Guadagnino’s series (which the Italian-born director both wrote and directed) feels like a much more mature version of the adapted Call Me by Your Name-and it exchanges the somewhat awkward and fantastical romancing of that film for a world that feels more real, more lived in, and more relevant.Īs for the Euphoria angle-sure, there's lots of drinking and smoking and hooking up, but it’s not shown here in Euphoria’s more destructive form. HBO’s newest miniseries We Are Who We Are has concluded its limited run and it’s safe to say that the show’s finale subverted all expectations. All three works feature mid-teen protagonists (many of whom are non-binary) fraught with mid teen stress-peers, puberty, and, for one, peaches. The critical urge to compare Luca Guadagnino’s latest project We Are Who We Are (an eight-episode series on HBO) to one of his recent films, Call Me by Your Name, and to HBO’s previous Gen-Z coming of age, Euphoria, will be unconquerable. ![]()
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