Synopsis
Find your people. Find yourself.
Teenager Miles enrolls in boarding school to try to gain a deeper perspective on life. After an unexpected tragedy, Miles and his friends try to make sense of what they have been through.
2019 Directed by Sarah Adina Smith, Rachel Lee Goldenberg …
Teenager Miles enrolls in boarding school to try to gain a deeper perspective on life. After an unexpected tragedy, Miles and his friends try to make sense of what they have been through.
Charlie Plummer Kristine Froseth Denny Love Jay Lee Sofia Vassilieva Ron Cephas Jones Timothy Simons Uriah Shelton Deneen Tyler Landry Bender Henry Zaga Jordan Connor Megan Elizabeth Wright Lucy Faust Brandon Stanley Rachel Matthews Abbie Gayle CG Lewis Jared Bankens Joe Chrest Joy Jacobson Kelly Murtagh Frieda Jane Andrea Andrade Maureen Brennan
Sarah Adina Smith Rachel Lee Goldenberg Brett Haley Ami Canaan Mann Clea DuVall Megan Griffiths Rashaad Ernesto Green Josh Schwartz
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i have always wanted to write at length about the specific insidiousness of my nemesis john green's Looking for Alaska. so i'm gonna do it here, on a letterboxd review of a 2019 hulu miniseries adaptation that thankfully no one watched because it came out a decade too late!
for context: when i was a sophomore in high school, i read Looking for Alaska in one breathless night. i finished at 5 in the morning, and, through tears, immediately texted my boyfriend at the time about how beautiful it was. i began trying to mold myself into alaska, an impossibly Cool Girl who speaks eloquently while also cursing with abandon, who has a room filled to the ceiling with books,…
i’m barely on episode two but like...the writers have literally never interacted with women
was it perfect? no. but was it worth my time? yes. i love these characters so much and it was really refreshing to see them brought to life by such a fantastic group of young actors. of course, there’s always stand out talent and kristine froseth, charlie plummer, and denny love really carry this show and made it so enjoyable for me. i’m glad this got a series and was not forced to be condensed into a movie.