And yet I gave it six stars. This is Marie Reuther's first major role and she is excellent. She makes the improbable story-line if not believable at least interesting. Julie is an eighteen year old woman who is very close to her family especially her father and her brother. She opts out of a family trip to live her life but then receives a text message from her father that changes everything; their plane is crashing and she is now an orphan.
Unfortunately because of her age and wealth, she is left unsupervised able to satisfy her every whim. And she has a lot of them. Her narration of her thoughts and actions is engaging and held my interest in spite of several WTF moments.
* Hanging herself in public only to have the rope come untied and falling to the floor.
* Deciding to fly continuously on airlines hoping they would crash only to find out it would probably takes more than a couple of decades.
* Flying to South Korea to might their ski jump champion getting his private number in a couple of hours and bedding him within a day.
* Traveling to Acapulco to visit the most dangerous street in the world only to decide to go to a rap concert instead.
* Getting the world's worst tattoo.
Up until half-way through the seventh episode I was going to give this series eight stars but then the ending was revealed. Spoiler Alert! Julie has a lot of sex within a short period of time which I would not have mentioned except its a part of resolving her grief and depression. She beds the family handyman who is adult enough to realize this was a mistake and apologize to her the next morning. She beds her classmate to get him to help her with her public suicide. Then more improbably she beds the South Korean Ski Jump champion within hours of arriving in country. Finally she beds the rapper within hours of arriving in Acapulco. All of this in less than four weeks because when she finds out she is pregnant, she isn't sure which one is the father.
So what turns this review into a six star review is the recklessness of the ending. A baby won't magically repair a broken marriage and a baby won't magically resolve your grief and severe depression but yet this is what happens here. A baby adds a level of complexity to life that cannot be fully anticipated so using the pregnancy as a cure is not a good thing.
Having ranted that, I look forward to seeing Marie Reuther again soon. She is worth watching.
Unfortunately because of her age and wealth, she is left unsupervised able to satisfy her every whim. And she has a lot of them. Her narration of her thoughts and actions is engaging and held my interest in spite of several WTF moments.
* Hanging herself in public only to have the rope come untied and falling to the floor.
* Deciding to fly continuously on airlines hoping they would crash only to find out it would probably takes more than a couple of decades.
* Flying to South Korea to might their ski jump champion getting his private number in a couple of hours and bedding him within a day.
* Traveling to Acapulco to visit the most dangerous street in the world only to decide to go to a rap concert instead.
* Getting the world's worst tattoo.
Up until half-way through the seventh episode I was going to give this series eight stars but then the ending was revealed. Spoiler Alert! Julie has a lot of sex within a short period of time which I would not have mentioned except its a part of resolving her grief and depression. She beds the family handyman who is adult enough to realize this was a mistake and apologize to her the next morning. She beds her classmate to get him to help her with her public suicide. Then more improbably she beds the South Korean Ski Jump champion within hours of arriving in country. Finally she beds the rapper within hours of arriving in Acapulco. All of this in less than four weeks because when she finds out she is pregnant, she isn't sure which one is the father.
So what turns this review into a six star review is the recklessness of the ending. A baby won't magically repair a broken marriage and a baby won't magically resolve your grief and severe depression but yet this is what happens here. A baby adds a level of complexity to life that cannot be fully anticipated so using the pregnancy as a cure is not a good thing.
Having ranted that, I look forward to seeing Marie Reuther again soon. She is worth watching.