Sterling teenage bounty hunters12/16/2023 Business-wise, I make big cheddar (not really) as a copywriter and digital strategist working with some of the top brands in the Latin America region. ![]() And yes, I've written sports for them too! Not bad for someone from the Caribbean, eh? To top all this off, I've scribed short films and documentaries, conceptualizing stories and scripts from a human interest and social justice perspective. I also write about music in terms of punk, indie, hardcore and emo because well, they rock! If you're bored by now, then you also don't want to hear that I write for ESPN on the PR side of things. On the geek side of things, I write about comics, cartoons, video games, television, movies and basically, all things nerdy. ![]() ![]() It was boring so I decided to write about things I love. As Blair and Sterling discover, the Bible contains invaluable advice on how to live and love. So too, does the show, which posits what millions of women already know, but pop culture has been slow to realize: that modern girlhood and religious devotion aren’t mutually exclusive. Williams, too, is fantastic, conjuring in later episodes an impressive duality. Phillips accomplishes the difficult feat of making Sterling’s innocence interesting, and Fellini has fun with Blair’s awkward attempts to use her sexuality as a bounty-hunting tool. Teenage Bounty Hunters is also propelled by excellent comic performances by Phillips and Fellini, who don’t look all that similar but do share a fizzy chemistry, especially in their crackerjack-timed quips and clairvoyant communications. Even better are the deep and unexpected layers in Sterling’s relationship with her school rival April (Devon Hales), whose ostensible pillar-of-the-community father is the bounty-hunting trio’s first target. It’s quickly revealed that Sterling and Blair’s strict, Stepford-ish mother (Virginia Williams) is on one of Bowser’s wanted posters - a well-constructed mystery that skillfully unfolds over the course of the season. But his loneliness is palpable, as is the existential haplessness that’s turned his tragedies into farce.īowser and the girls go after a skip of the week, but those chases, which tend to bog down the episodes, are seldom as compelling as the girls’ lives at school and at home. An older Black man perpetually annoyed by Sterling and Blair’s jabber - particularly about the ups and downs of their romances - Bowser only takes on the underage twins as his protégés because the premise of the show demands it. A chance encounter puts them in the path of grizzled bail enforcement agent Bowser (Kadeem Hardison), whose aura color is the stained gray of a middle-aged divorcé’s stretched-out sweatpants. Teenage Bounty Hunters never pretends that the twins are anywhere near edgy, or even not annoying to outsiders. But it comes out fully baked, ready to be binged. There’s more than a dash of Legally Blonde and a full handful of Veronica Mars here, mixed with a steady drip of quippy reminders that girls’ bodies can stink, too. Set largely at a Christian private high school in Atlanta (where mean girls join not only the Young Republicans club but the “Straight-Straight Alliance”), Teenage Bounty Hunters follows a pair of ditzy, sheltered twins who may or may not be telepathically linked as they enter the worlds of sexual experimentation, family secrets and… capturing low-level fugitives. Bubbly, satirical, Bible-obsessed and horny, the new Netflix dramedy Teenage Bounty Hunters is a Frankenstein’s monster of a show, a hodge-podge of disparate pieces that not only implausibly coheres into a whole, but exhibits far more heart than anyone would reasonably expect.Ī cynical take - full disclosure: the one I initially had - on the 10-part series is that its components feel dictated by market research on underserved audiences.
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