![]() But perhaps that’s because this is a show that is difficult to neatly pin down. It’s frustrating in the best of ways, as your theories about the season-long mystery are proven over and over again to be wrong.Ĭonsidering how much time we spend together, the fact that Netflix only considered me and Teenage Bounty Hunters a 73% match was, frankly, an outrage. It’s refreshing to see two women talk openly about their feelings and their sex lives with no shame or embarrassment. ![]() It’s oddly satisfying to watch two high schoolers take down a snobby man hiding out in his holiday mansion. It’s also just a really cracking way to spend a series of evenings – or to devour in a one-day binge. And despite the soap operatic tone, bubble-gum colours and heightened storylines, when it comes to its characters – who become more complex with each episode – Teenage Bounty Hunters somehow remains grounded.īlair and Sterling turn to seasoned bounty-hunter-slash-yoghurt-shop-owner Bowser (Kadeem Hardison) for assignments – and mentorship. The series is meticulously planned: creator Kathleen Jordan remains one step ahead of viewers she knows our expectations and cleverly twists them, pushing at boundaries and tropes wherever possible. But here the writers aren’t simply going for “good enough”: instead, the premise provides an entertaining and compelling backdrop to something that is part teen drama, part comedy and part coming-of-age story, which also takes aim at issues of privilege, race and class, as well as exploring gender expectations and sexuality. The shtick of having two teenage girls starting out in what is the traditionally hyper-masculine field of bounty hunting would have been enough to sustain a show. Sterling, on the other hand, is keen to embody their Georgian, Bible belt values – she dresses more conventionally, is elected “fellowship leader” (essentially head girl of their religious studies class), and has a picture-perfect relationship with the captain of the school golf team.Īs the twins get drawn further into the seedy world of bail jumpers and criminals, it becomes more and more difficult to hide their secret life from their friends, their enemies, and their respectable, church-going, traditional parents – all of whom, as it turns out, have some secrets of their own. Much like the members of a boyband, the characters are doing their utmost to conform to their chosen types.īlair wants to be the rebellious one – she has messy hair, alternative clothes, and talks a big game about being “slutty”. ![]() Sterling and Blair are, aesthetically, everything we’ve come to expect from the lead characters in a show about teenagers: they are young, white, and conventionally attractive. ![]() But by the end of the pilot it becomes clear that Teenage Bounty Hunters has more going on under the surface than you’d expect. I originally thought this would be a background kind of show – the type that you have on while doing chores, where you can wander off and make a cup of tea and still follow what’s going on. ![]()
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