It's the end of 2020, thank fuck! So this is the finale for my #COVID-19 CATCH UP TV post series.
We Are Who We Are is co-created and directed by Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name fame) airing in Australia on SBS on Demand.
Internationally this was another hit for HBO in 2020 (while they missed their heavy hitter, Game of Thrones) as well as Sky Atlantic in Italy.
The eight episode mini-series is basically a coming-of-age story set on a US army base in Italy. Following two American 14-year-olds, Fraser Wilson and Caitlin "Harper" Poythress.
An all star cast includes Chloë Sevigny, Jack Dylan Grazer, Alice Braga (yes the Queen of the South) Jordan Kristine Seamón, Spence Moore II, and Scott Mescudi AKA Kid Cudi.
The series premiered in September this year in the USA, I can't remember when it landed on the SBS streaming platform. However I have just smashed all episodes as the year closes out.
We Are Who We Are focuses on two American kids who live on a fictional U.S. military base in Chioggia, Italy in 2016.
The series explores friendship, first love, identity, and immerses the audience in all the messy exhilaration and anguish of being a teenager – a story which could happen anywhere in the world, but in this case, happens in this little slice of America in Italy.
Blood Orange (Dev Hynes) music features heavily in the series, whilst in episode eight, his concert is the main feature as the show concludes.
I really enjoyed this series, it was completely different. HBO has continued to push through 2020 with some truly remarkable series including Betty, Lovecraft Country, Perry Mason, Real Time with Bill Maher and Insecure's latest season. That is an impressive line up!
So if you need something new over the New Year's period, We Are Who We Are is streaming now on SBS On Demand. Great job SBS, looking forward to your 2021 offerings.
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