Sure, at times it feels produced by an artificial intelligence whom the creators had fed two decades of teen TV, a few hundred tweets' worth of Gen Z slang, an American Eagle marketing email, a warm-toned Instagram filter and the script of The Goonies. Sure, it requires you to perform some mind-boggling suspension of disbelief in order to accept the tenuous thread of lucky coincidences and convenient circumstances holding together the characters' survival. Sure, like the first season, "OBX2" frequently veers into insufferable teen-soap territory - not Riverdale bad, but comparable to One Tree Hill and Pretty Little Liars. Well, OK.It made me smile to see season 2 keep up the beautiful camerawork that harnesses Carolina scenery to take us on emotional journeys: the foreboding open ocean, the mysterious coastal marsh that seems to extend forever. P.S.: You really had to call one class the "Dark Arts"? Really? You didn't think about maybe picking another name? No one in the writers' room said, "Hey, wasn't that what Snape wanted to teach?" Shrug. Instead it mainly feels like a waste of good actors and art direction. With these kinds of tiresome and regressive ideas anchoring the action, no amount of thick black eyeliner, teens ultra-violencing each other, or alterna-'80s songs on the soundtrack can make this show look fresh and cool. And male characters shouldn't need a trumped-up reason to look or act heroic. So why start what's advertised as something cool and new with something old and tired? Surely in a school for murderers, a deadly female character could protect herself. Fridging turns female characters into objects, and male ones into verbs neither are given humanity. There's a concept in comic book fandom known as "fridging," in which female characters are abused, raped, and/or killed merely as a convenient reason for their male love interests to fight villains. The problems are crystallized in the first episode of Deadly Class, with Marcus landing himself in hot water with one of the school's violent gangs when he tries to protect a female classmate he believes to be abused by her violent boyfriend. But unfortunately, that's not on offer here. At this point, the idea of a school for super-powered misfits, even violent killers from criminal families, is a narrative cliché only truly creative writing could lift it out of its been-there-done-that status. Violent and visually beautiful, this melding of Harry Potter, Suicide Squad, and X-Men comes off as less than a sum of its parts because its dramatic beats are too familiar, its point of view too basic. It's a great show but know what you're getting into.
There was plenty, even if the camera never caught them in the act. I dunno where these other reviewers are getting that there was no sex. Characters swing dildos around while drunk, condoms float in fish tanks, and there is even a scene were a cop walks in on the villain um. was at a farm. Just because a woman can kick butt, doesn't mean she's a good role model.īeyond the obvious killing and very brutal scenes, there's plenty of alcohol, drugs, and sex to go around.
But they kill people too, manipulate people, and use their sex appeal to do their assignments. Even as an adult, that's a tough theme to wrestle with. It reaaaaaally plays with morality with many of the messages and themes being that killing CAN be justified if you kill people that deserve it. This is a very gritty, dark, and violent show about kids learning to kill the bad people in the world in hopes to make it a better place. But you didn't come to this site to read about that. None of the other reviews are wrong about that. Language can also be insulting and racist: "loser," "wetback." Language includes all the four-letter words ("f-k," "s-t," etc.) as well as "bitch," "bulls-t," "a-hole," and the like. The show's whole viewpoint is dark: "The world respects those who can protect themselves," says an authority figure. Teens also routinely smoke pot and drink, and smoke cigarettes. Students are forbidden to have sex at their school, but they do anyway, and we see characters having sex nude from the side, with private parts obscured, as well as teens kissing and flirting. There are also references to pedophilia and molestation, like when a boy implies a teacher will want sexual payback for a favor. Some violence has a gendered and/or sexual edge: A female character is abused by a male one, a boy tells another about a violent sexual fantasy he masturbated to. We see on-screen hand-to-hand combat, stabbings, martial arts, and shootings, with blood but no gore. Characters, even "good" ones, commit murders that are painted as justice - i.e., they're killing "bad" people.
The levels of violence, language, drug use, and sex are mature, particularly the violence. Parents need to know that Deadly Class is about a school that trains teens to be murderers, super-villain style.
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