Man it isn't until you started mentioning how these shows all treat teenagers as party-drinking-social media-drama machines that it really hit me why this kind of media feels so... weird and shallow. Last thing I saw that actually treated teenagers like humans was Booksmart

telling your twin that “my mom died” is insane

the wanna be euphoria style is made worse when you can tell the show is trying to be trendy and fashionable but is actually giving 2014 millennial ☠️☠️

I didn’t do anything last summer.

everyone after the pilot was shot: "thank god that's over, it'll never get picked up" Amazon Prime: "I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER"

If my “best friends since kindergarten” saw my head being chopped off and all I got was 2 blinks I’d simply die for a second time. One death for each blink

Helen should have been the final girl!!!! Amen. I was wondering about the show and I'm glad I skipped now.

"FKA Twigs.....she loved FKA." Holy shit, I'm dying 😭

Something interesting to note, they re-adapted the book to fit the modern era. I only found this out after I bought it to read around Halloween last year. Turns out my copy was the 'modern' one. It's really sloppy. Any time a cell phone would come in handy they slap a line in about how 'There's no service' or 'My phone just died'. All the 70's lingo is still present despite the idea being that the plot now occurs in the 2010s. Also, any time the Vietnam war is mentioned, it's just blatantly replaced with 'Iraq'.

"How do y'all have the nerve to be, unlikeable, uninteresting and fucking stupid, at the same time?" I ask myself this same thing, every day

as soon as you said they killed a twin i thought to myself: "oh it's gonna be one of those i stole my twin's identity stories isn't it" and I WAS RIGHT

I want someone to make a super campy satirical teen show that just makes fun of all these new shows trying to sound 'Gen Z'. Something like the leaked powerpuff girls script but ironic and turned up to 1000

I would love a faithful adaptation of the book one day because it's absolutely brutal. In fact, the book is worse than the film or tv show because the characters think they've killed a child! Also, it's one of the most suspenseful books I've ever read and no one even dies in it. Lois Duncan really was an amazing writer.

To have them be wearing the same outfit, they could have been on a private school, or a camp, I don't know, some place where they wear uniforms.... or they could just be really close, instead of the completely different personality trope. There is also bikinis... and, straight up, no clothes. Although, even their hair being the same bothers me.

Brianne Tju after seeing a dead body: [shocked, terrified, traumatized, upset] Her friends: 🧍🏼‍♀️🧍🏾‍♀️🧍🏻‍♂️

The moment you said that the tv series had them kill a person in their friend group I audibly yelled 'What?!' because the point is that they are awful, but irresponsible teens who don't understand the seriousness of their actions (its easier for them to not get caught). They're prime suspects if its their friend. And I am very tired of writers writing unexpected twists. Even the basic rules of the genre have that the audience should be able to figure out who the killer is. And I've actually never been impressed by an unexpected killer reveal, the shocking and interesting part is when it adds new meaning to the story. It needs to cement the theme but make the audience realize they misunderstood the theme. Like Fight Club you think is about 2 guys but turns out it was just one guy, everything you thought the story about was wrong but it also told you sincr the beginning. Se7en, what's in the box isn't important, its who the Wrath sin is. Prisoners was completely character driven whoever the killer was didn't really matter because the damage had been done. Zodiac and Memories of Murder don't even have a killer reveal because murder mysteries are not actually good because of 'who dun it' but because they still follow good writing structure and you don't need to be surprised by who the killer is to have impact.

I have some suggestions for improving this show. 1. It’s a Halloween party and the party twin bullied her sister into matching costumes. All night, people are confusing them for each other which gives believability to why no one would know which twin they killed. Also set up mutual animosity between the two. 2. Friend group used to like both twins but it’s implied they now hate the one twin for a good reason which is revealed throughout the show. 3. Keep it ambiguous which twin died and whether or not hitting the dead twin was an accident. Is the alive twin who she says she is? Or is she pretending to be her sister?

I forgot this...thing existed until your video showed in my recommended

This might just because I have a love of 90s fashion, but the costuming in the movie is miles better than the TV show. You’re right, the tv show’s costuming tells us absolutely nothing, to me it looks totally bland and uninteresting and like someone found a random Pinterest board from 2019 and used that as the entire moodboard for the show’s outfits. At least the movie’s clothes look good and feel like they add something.

Honestly, I was just watching this and thinking "wow, this show had two-three-FOUR Asian actors in it?" and feeling impressed by that even tho by all means it sounds like a shitty drama. I know that's not the point of this video, but I guess as an Asian person I'm so used to not seeing that much representation of just random Asians sprinkled into a cast (without their whole character being about how they're an Asian character) that I was weirdly pleasantly surprised. :')

Dove Cameron could have played these twins. She was so great as Liv and Maddie, so much so that I thought Liv had chemistry with a boy that Liv dates... but Liv had no chemistry with the boy..... it's the same actress, the fuck?

So I went to a school where a handful of students were dealers, and they drank and partied etc. There were at least two teacher-student relationships that happened, one of which was an open secret. It's why the criticism towards teen dramas sometimes rubs me the wrong way. However, I feel like studios use that as a carte blanche to just portray teenagers in gratuitous ways rather than exploring the nuances of these children trying to act like adults.

Since they made Lennon terrible anyway they should have had her intentionally dress like Alison to trick Dylon into having sex with her and had that be the reason why she and Alison were dressed so similarly

Twins that live together: Twin 1: My mom died! ...

i remember me and my sister tried to watch this and we couldn’t make it past “my stunning queer king” we just immediately turned off the tv 😵‍💫

We already have an I Know What You Did Last Summer style TV show and it's called Pretty Little Liars and it's obnoxious problematic trash with terrible writing and filled with plot holes and it's fucking CAMP

What is it with recent horror or thriller TV shows thinking there needs to be a cult in everything, like wasn't that a thing on Riverdale already?

“No mom, I can’t make it to the funeral, Yhara Zayd has a new video”

At first, I thought Lennon tricked Dylan into sleeping with her by pretending to be Allison. That would’ve actually made sense considering through flashbacks we see Dylan was reluctant to do anything with Riley, “saving himself for Allison” as Riley put it, and that kind of deception would have been a good reason to hold a grudge against Lennon. But the people behind this show have something against good writing.

I'm trans, and have a ton of experience with voice therapy. Dylan's voice? I can absolutely tell, from just the few seconds shown here, that he's REALLY forcing it deeper. But the problem with going that hard is that it just ends up making him sound super congested. I'm so sorry you had to suffer through actually watching this dude... listening to him for only 10 seconds is already mad annoying lmaooo

Helen Shivers is a great character. I’d frequently reenact her chase scene as a kid, and I’m always gutted when I watch how she goes.

"And they waited until Johnny turned 18" 🤮

I have seen never a minute of this show, and don't intend to, but I'll drop everything for Yhara's videos. What a waste of Madison Iseman and the rest of the cast!

I watched the premier at a cemetery screening of the OG I Know What You Did last Summer. I felt so bad, 'cause the main cast of the reboot showed up but half the audience left after the movie. Unfortunately, what I did see was... not promising They want every single to be The Most and why? For all the edginess, not a single character left an impact. As for Dylan. I never understood how someone could have negative screen presence until I realized I forgot he was IN THE CAR during the climax of the first ep 😭

Instead of this I watched Yellowjackets. It’s a perfect mixture of modern and late 90s nostalgia. And has a way better mystery.

Why wouldn't they just hire twins to play the role as if there are in a bunch of twins in the world?

I wanna pass a law that requires there to a teen/youth in the room anytime a tv show producer/movie director wants to include social media. Basically what I’m trying to say is that it seems like writers think that the inclusion and mere mention of social media will make teen audiences worship their work. That the murderer telling her instagram followers how she killed someone’s is interesting and shocking. The tiktok dances are just omg. Influencer characters in general are just ugh. I get it’s a remake of an adaptation and they wanna modernize it I don’t know why that just means throwing in a influencer. I’m not gonna talk about the weird kids love drugs and having sex with grown adults 🤪 idea that writers have too. Why is this a requirement to write “good” shows now. Man this is why I started watching cartoons again

The whole "Helen should have been the final girl" thing: Like, even narratively it makes more sense, because he finds them due to the pageant crown, right? So, why didn't Helen get The Letter?

the show started out really good…i like the idea of a bunch of the characters (twins who are very different like that, but whose style isn’t super different coz they live on an island and just where shorts)…Dylan is the bare bones of an interesting character like he’s got OCD and his best friend is a drug dealer and whatever. Margot is the best character probably even though I hate what happens with her character (but it’s Alison who makes the ending so unbelievable). The whole mom stuff was a lot more important than it should have been, and the dynamic of their mother killing herself is way more interesting. I don’t think Lennon and Alison are supposed to act that similar at all but the actor makes Alison (acting like Lennon) just act like herself most of the time but it should have been a giveaway to everyone around her, especially her homies who have no idea she’s actually Alison.

Justice for Helen Shivers!

I haven't even gotten that far into the video, but I just wanna say that I love your voice, it genuinely makes me happy to listen to you talk. Thanks for all your great videos and hard work!

Fun thing. In the book Helen was considered the final girl. But also it was about consequences not a slasher.

All I really know about these movies is that they made a joke on Wizards of Waverly Place about the progressively longer titles the sequels got, like "I still know what you did last summer" or "I will never forget what you did Last Summer" or "Don't even for a second think I forgot what you did last summer, because I still know"

Honestly this was one of the worst shows I think I have ever seen. The acting was awful. The dialog was awful. Every character was so insufferable. The “twist” of the twin.. only one episode did it actually feel real. And was intriguing but very quickly the actress just didn’t convince me of being two people. And also she was suppose to be “the better twin” whatever that means.. but yet, she had NO emotion throughout about her dead sister. Lol The ending of who to villain was was so so so DUMB. All the unnecessary s*x scenes…. Just A MESS!!!

What I don't get is why they shoved in the twin switch plot when they could've just killed some kid they didn't know.

I like how you tried to sneak by that “Riley is a drug dealer” like whut lol It’s crazy this show can’t even be more entertaining than Pretty Little Liars

I think it was just a horror show because Prime is doing a lot of gory thriller-esque teen shows (Yellowjackets, the Wilds) I think they want to mix Fear Street and Euphoria

I forgot that I needed this. I think I just repressed the existence of this mess and never looked back

Fun fact! Freddie Prince Jr. never watched the sequel bc he just knew it was bad 😭 Im a horror enthusiast and am so disappointed that this show was terrible!! The scream tv show was okay up until season 3? With the new cast 😤

Great content, love your essays. Big fan of your clean and precise delivery, it's like biting into a very fresh green apple. Wonderful.

They could have made a big thing about how their friends are such assholes that they can’t even tell Lennon and Allison apart from each other without the necklace. That could have been part of the motive of Allison being the killer. That they’re so self-absorbed that they can’t tell two people that they grew up with apart.

Makes the Scream tv series look as good as the original Scream

I spent almost an hour rewriting the plot to the show and it was good I’ve decided that the teens main antagonist needed to be the cult and I think I might turn that into a book because it was good.

I was holding out hope that the writers had at least one braincell to spare and made Allison the killer, but they didn't. Disappointed would be an understatement when I say that it was Margot. I still hate Dylan. His performance was so bad it was memorable. I still wished he had died but if they got a season 2 (god pls no) he'd be the killer for sure

Anyone who had identical twins for friends 'THEY'RE NEVER TRULY IDENTICAL!!!'

To be fair, I have not actually seen this show but, if Margot is the killer, why would she go after everyone else and then let Allison live at the end while they just both keep each other's secret? Like, Allison was the only one of the friend group that knew it was Lennon who died so, even though it's obviously still character ruining-ly horrible and callous for them to cover up the hit and run and hide her body, it seems weird Margot wouldn't have just immediately been like "Hey, that's actually Lennon everyone!" or at least that the majority of her revenge should have been aimed toward Allison since no one else was purposefully covering *Lennon's* death. I agree that it would make much more sense/be much more interesting for Allison to be the killer since even the people she thought she had some amount of connection with were willing to toss her in a cave when it came down to it. The twins' dad or a not-actually-dead Lennon could have also worked, or even if they didn't reveal it was actually Allison that lived until the end and it was someone trying to avenge her for the way she was always treated as less important than Lennon and THEN it got revealed that she had been Allison the whole time, that could have added some more intrigue. It just seems like it was one of those "Yeah, we didn't see it coming but it's not because it was clever, it was because it literally makes no sense" kind of situations.

Was in the middle of your newest video when it suddenly became unavailable. Why did you private it?

Honestly, I didn't even know they made a TV show. As a twin, in my experience, twins won't wear the same thing on purpose. Besides, the twins wear 2 different tank tops At least their father fucking recognized Alison.

Wait...why did the poster have honey on the character's faces??

You are pretty much the only person I would watch do a "X is terrible and here's why" style video! Love it!

The problem with relying so heavily on TikTok as a motif is how poorly and quickly this will age years later. And I'm tired of shows not treating teens like actual teens - like yeah, they go through stuff and have issues, but not everything is gossip girl or PLL - more writers need to take a note out of Degrassi's book, there's a reason why that franchise has survived multiple decades and stayed relevant with audiences.

"If you're gonna make a show based on any 1997 horror movie, Mimic is the way to go, baby" finally some good takes.

The Dylan/Samuel parallels can totally see it as well. Great point.

All of it feels so extra. Why couldn't they just do a more faithful adaptation of the book. It's different enough from the 1997 movie that it wouldn't feel like a standard shot for shot remake. It's so simplistic and more a thriller than straight up horror. Something in the vein of the Killing Mr. Griffin adaptation for lifetime.

I absolutely love your take on pretty much every show/movie you’ve reviewed on your channel! You are so articulate and insightful, it’s very refreshing to hear your genuine opinions as well as intellectually fascinating theories/observations. Keep doing you, boo! ❤️ VIDEO SUGGESTION: Would LOVE to hear your take on The Neon Demon (2016). (Apologies if you hate that movie lol)

I can't believe Scary Movie 2 was a more faithful adaptation of the book than the original movie was.

This remake reminds me of the yandere simulator rip off that tried to create a version with a diverse cast but accidentally conceptualised a game where you bully minority NPCs into unaliving themselves.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre New Generation is one of the greatest postmodernist films ever created ( am not joking) - it is super meta - it literally has a film director appear at the end of the film, it satirizes the role of the villain (with sissification of Leatherface) and has apex Twin Peaks vibes. Strong rec. I really hope it appears on Criterion one day.

Can we ever have party scenes after euphoria without calling it discount euphoria? Is that not allowed? I feel like if we nitpicked every decision like that, no show would be safe :/

this is completely unrelated from this amazing video but my adhd sent me down at a rabbit hole at 21:02 lol i couldn't read the label of the ice cream but the packaging brought me so much nostalgia so i spent like an hour desperately googling 'green ice cream packaging with flower' in different variations to no avail haha eventually i rewatched and made out 'lani' and i found roselani ice cream! i grew up in hawaii but was poor so i'd always stare at this brand in the ice cream isle and just dream of one day trying it, the packaging is so cute and the flavors look so good! (i guess its in some parts of cali now, where i'm sure this mess of a show was filmed) anyways now i feel like the *only* good moment of the show--where the dad recognizes the twin who didnt take the SATs, (also omg mood i had such bad test anxiety i also skipped mine lol)--is made just a little better for me personally now because now theres also visual symbolization of what a good parent would do (or buy) for me.

Thank you for uploading. Best channel ever. So cool.

Yay!!! A new video!

I didn't get into the movie, yet I was curious about what they changed to make the tv show, knowing full well I'll never watch it. Thank you for covering this blindspot in my pop culture repository.

I never clicked on a notification so fast

Plank from Ed, Edd, and Eddy emoted more than Dylan did.

16:30 I actually think the mystery would’ve worked if the costumer’s gave them really different outfits. Unless one of their styles has a really flashy difference (like one only wears designer brands with the logo plastered on it or holographic fabric) I think it’s pretty easy to forget what a person is wearing even if they’re very fashionable. Especially in a moment of panic like hitting someone with a vehicle. Like I’m aware that the girls in my class have a pattern of wearing specific things, but if you told me to describe what they were wearing yesterday I probably couldn’t remember. Even if you go ignore my point about flashiness and have one of their styles be very distinct then force them to swap clothes after the accident, 16:30 I actually think the mystery would’ve worked if the costumer’s gave them really different outfits. Unless I one of their styles have a really flashy difference (like one only wears designer brands with the logo plastered on it or holographic fabric) I think it’s pretty easy to forget what a person is wearing even if they’re very fashionable. Especially in a moment of panic like hitting someone with a vehicle. Like I’m aware that the girls in my class have a pattern of wearing specific things, but if you told me to describe what they were wearing yesterday I probably couldn’t remember.

Thank you!!! I needed this more than you know 😂 Love your ideas on how it could have been improved, like the pool scene, and Allison being the killer because of how they treated her (in life and "death"). I wish Allison had been in love with Margot from the beginning, and hadn't had a crush on Dylan at all, with Margot still being in love with Lennon (and later Allison). Even if they went with the official ending, Margot could have set out with the intention to frame Dylan, and kill Lennon for betraying/abandoning her. It would have fit better with the only scene I liked (despite being terrible for the plot): when Margot gives her speech in the ambulance. The whole show was mind-numbingly boring but "I don't care what your name is - I have never loved anyone more in my life," gave me chills.

I forgot that there was a "I Know What You Did Last Summer" TV show until now. It got cancelled after a season. The world is a better place for that! 😆

Damn, I do not know if we've ever seen you go this...lethal on something. I mean, I totally get it, I don't even like horror and I can appreciate why this is a piece of garbage (and the normalization of teacher/student stuff you showed at the end legit makes me wanna gag) I just...I dunno, it's a new side of you. I don't hate it.

The fact that I didn't know there even was a show kinda speaks for itself

OMG SHES BACK! your some of the best youtubers

As a sparkly pastel depressed person, i think the sparkly drug dealer is an interesting concept. wish I could see it done with some good writing tho. Not the lackluster main character AGAIN!? jesus, if you're gonna be a nepotism actor, at least use your parents money for some acting classes. GOD. screen writers must be pissed af

You used the Kakao talk calling tune and I was starting at my phone for ages. Wondering where the sound was coming from haha

The cat at 29:33!!! 💀☠️💀☠️💀

Lo mejor de esta serie es cuando la quitas y te pones a ver de nuevo "Yellowjackets" y ves como es que un show de terror moderno es hecho con personajes agradables por lo que te preocupas aunque sean los malos.

Absolutely spot on. I have no idea why I watched the entire season because it was so, so bad. I'm going to chalk it up to being bored. It left such a strong impact, I completely forgot who the killer turned out to be. Or who the main character was. Or that it was supposedly a horror.

Yaaaas god I love when Yhara hates a thing 🙆🏼‍♀️💕 call those nepotism babies right out

whats interesting is that they could have set it up to where the sisters are known for taking the others roles in things. like one is bad at math, so they change clothes so the other takes the math test. that kinda stuff. so, the switcheroo would be better.

damn johnny is hot. now i think i need to watch it....oh he dies in ep two? ok just two eps then. quick binge

Hey 👋🏿💙 I thought I heard you were leaving/left the platform? I'm always down for new content from you so this is dope.

Come back you're a genius at this 💙

I really want to see the version of this directed by Yhara. I was compelled by the improvements suggested to the story through out and I want to see THAT version, please! I doubt I could sit through this trash, but the possibilities offered here almost tempt me just to watch to live in the world of what could have been.

So what if they had had a 70s party and THAT'S why the twins had worn the same outfits? Either by mistake OR the pissy one knew what the other wanted to wear and then dressed the same way to be a bastard. I just thought about this movie more than the writers did.

This is awesome, she hasn't done a show I awhile 🔥

See? Now I'm thinking about a Mimic series and it's all I want.

Hope you feel better soon!

Always glad to see my fav youtubers getting sponsored

OMG you posted and I immediately clicked I didn't even read the title 😳

Yo this is a HILARIOUS analysis that makes me want to “hate watch” this show.

I know it’s not the main point of the video, but I just wanted to say how happy I was when you recommended Justin Chon’s film. I watched it years ago when it was on Netflix and it always stuck with me and it’s one of my favorite films. The brother’s song from the movie is one of my most played in Spotify too. All around love the film and Justin Chon’s work in general!