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Ep. 1: Time Flies

By: Michael DiMartino
Narrated by: a full cast
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  • A mysterious new student, Sanaa Starr, transfers to Norhaven High. The contents of a 100-year-old time capsule in Norhaven, Rhode Island, rock the lives of Darius Hightower and his friends.
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I did this horrible piece of dross get green lighted?

The clichéd dialogue, the ham-handed moments of conflict, the stereotyped characters are all bad enough, but…seriously? An evil old white guy with a racist secret from the past is a laughable caricature of a villain. There’s real and actual bigotry and racism in America, its past and present, but this cartoon is appropriating actual and serious issues merely to evoke the dopamine rush of outrage. It’s an insult to the actual victims of racism.

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Needs serious editing 

Intolerable. The acting... ...is okay. The characters are subpar. The plot? Non-existent. Issues? Overstated. I could not recommend this to anyone.

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Barely tolerable.

The heroes are shallow and annoying. The bad guys lacking any nuance. The politics superficially dumb. The acting seemed fine in spite of the weak material. You have to be of a very specific age and viewpoint to find this attractive.

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Childish and poorly acted.

Nope. Quit listening. Just not for me. No thanks. Deleting download now. Too childish.

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So woke it’s broke

Wat a load of crap
Teach kids twisted history and this is what you get

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Disappointing

Modestly clever dialogue doesn’t excuse the predictable plot and two dimensional caricatures. Reminiscent of the sorts of melodrama we’ve seen for years in YA TV sold by the CW.

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Relativizism

Imagine what evils people are going to see of us and our society 200 years from now.

Measuring the past against our current value system is impossibly tricky. All of a sudden, everything is bad. George Washington is evil. MLK Jr is bad for sequentially cheating on his wife. Mark Twain is horrible for writing in his common cultural vernacular of the time. Latin American homicidal tribes committing slavery and genocide. African tribes complicit in the slave trade. Should they pay reparations?

Here’s a secret: everyone’s sh*t smells.

And going back in time to “fix it”… errrr… don’t fix anything. It’s all just a victim culture hogwash.

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Overly woke

Focuses on being woke instead of creating an interesting story or compelling characters. Could have been good.

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Pretentious and preachy within the first 8 minutes

After finishing up the excellent "Moriarty" podcast I was looking for my next listen. Audible recommended this title and the preview sounded interesting so I decided to give it a shot. Within the first 8 minutes, annoyingly voice acted and pretentious sounding teenage girl characters were discussing sexuality, gender, using terms such as Latinx, and calling another character racist for daring to introduce a new minority student to two current minority students in order to be shown around school. The topics and the dialogue came across as extremely forced and I've never in my life heard people that actually talk and speak like this. I knew it was a bad sign when this was all quickly presented in such a thrown in/preachy manner and did not seem to be a natural part of the story. I'm a Black, American man and this just came across as unnecessary pandering and virtue signaling which tends to ruin many stories of the past 9 to 10 years. Perhaps you'll enjoy it, but it's definitely not for me.

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racist review bombing

irony is when you notice that people who criticise show are exactly the people who are identified as problematic in this play. there are many kinds of racists. some hate people who are different than themselves. but there is another kind of racism, from people who claim that they're not racist, but do not want the racist actions of their ancestors to be mentioned. these are the historical revisionists who protest that people who bring up the past shouldn't because it makes the feel bad about who they are. perhaps it is important that they learn that feeling bad is important. they need to learn where their privilege comes from. you don't have to like this drama. but if you're review bombing this just because it makes you uncomfortable, you've made it clear why we need more works like this.

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