Most people think she is a dyke, or a witch, or just weird; she is alienated and alienating, but she does have this friend Dina, and another friend, Stuart, whom she gets high with and has sex with that she pretty much regrets. This graphic novel comes off as yet another story about trauma written by someone that has not experienced such complexities in their teens. As the series goes on, Sydney must learn to control her growing telekinetic powers, especially as larger plot dynamics and dangers grow, but the true pleasure of the thing lies in Lillis’s wonderful performance, which manages to convey the depths and numbness of loss beneath the layers of more ordinary teenage fury and frustration all lying beneath the traditional pose of sardonic disaffection. On her way home, she runs into Stanley Barber, her neighbor, who suggests they should hang out soon, to which Sydney reluctantly agrees.

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I have yet to see anyone on either side of the argument reach an understanding with someone on the other side.

We were never promised future seasons, but Jonathan and I and all of us who worked on the show wanted to bet on ourselves, and we really believed that this could be a very special and resonant piece of storytelling on one of the biggest platforms in the world.Originally renewed for a second season, Netflix canceled the series in August 2020, citing "circumstances related to the COVID-19 pandemic". Suddenly, when Stan comes along and then she also kind of figures out that she has superpowers, he kind of shows her a whole new world and a whole new way of looking at herself and acting and being. Forsman convincingly explores the inner life of a gay teen girl, slowly revealing the story behind her father’s absence and her part in it, as well as her superpower. Instead of the cliched with great power, comes great responsibility motif, Forsman asks, What if we were our own worst enemy?