I think the show at its core is about sisterhood. Sterling and Blair have a strong sibling bond, but do you think the ending discredited that “twin telepathy” is only applicable to twins? Did they discredit that idea? I’ve certainly auditioned for roles before that said “promiscuous.” So what jumped out at me was the fact that they were trying to make a show about female sexuality that in no way had a negative connotation about it. I think that they said it perfectly without slut shaming or acting like it was a bad thing. The breakdown for Blair when I got the audition said, “Blair is her own sexual lab rat.” I just thought to myself, this is me, and I realized that I’ve never run a breakdown like that before. As if the shock of learning they had an aunt wasn’t enough, the truth about Sterling and Blair’s relationship is also unveiled as Dana reveals herself to be Sterling’s actual mother.īelow, Anjelica Bette Fellini breaks down that shocking finale, shares her hopes for Season 2 and opens up about her bond with the cast.Īnjelica Bette Fellini: Definitely female empowerment. While all signs point to their mother Debbie’s (Virginia Williams) guilt in a string of past crimes, but a twist end reveals that it was their aunt Dana - Debbie’s twin - who was guilty. Some star talent is nurtured, not simply bought, and Jordan and her leads may well be on their way.The season takes an unexpected turn for the private school darlings when their conservative parents become part of the criminal fray. And, though a show like this is a part of Netflix’s mission that gets far fewer headlines than the A-list talent on its service, it also represents something likely much more valuable, and more sustainable, than simply looping in a superstar. The show’s lower-budget pleasures feel right-sized for an afternoon of streaming. “Teenage Bounty Hunters” is not perfect television, but it’s infused with the sort of small-scale, needle-sharp sensibility that can’t be achieved by committee, nor, really, by anyone fearful of falling flat. ![]() It was a show about a sociopath whose refusal to try to engage the viewer came to feel inhuman if nothing else, one got the sense that Ben Platt and Gwyneth Paltrow believed they were doing the viewer a favor by appearing in it.Ī show falling flat in precisely that way - being so larded with prestige expectations that its own sense of itself grows top-heavy - is, perhaps, a hazard of putting together shows with talent so top-flight that they can be presumed to be entertaining no matter what they do. That show’s awareness of its own pedigree came across in a sort of ungenerosity to the viewer, a withholding of real jokes or of any moment of genuine emotion. ![]() The show is produced by Jenji Kohan, but creator Kathleen Jordan (previously behind the Lifetime series “American Princess”) brings to it a sense of throw-it-all-it-the-screen brio, and a crowdpleasing desire to bring the audience in on the joke.Ĭontrast this, again, with “The Politician,” set in a similarly wacky comic universe, and similarly concerned with a character’s coming into themself defined by and against constrictive social norms. The show is called “Teenage Bounty Hunters,” after all, but beyond that surreality, there’s the fact that the pair’s mentor, Bowser (Kadeem Hardison), operates out of a yogurt shop, or that the girls’ school operates with the sort of rigorous obsession with tradition and propriety that’s easily and delightfully punctured. All of this takes place against a goofily heightened backdrop that only emphasizes the reality of Sterling and Blair’s bond.
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