"Between" on Netflix is interesting enough, although it's yet another youth-oriented show. This one takes the whole youth-oriented thing to a whole 'nother level, eliminating every person over the ripe old age of 22. I haven't watched enough yet to discern whether there might be some Lord of the Flies level ideas, or if it's just a dystopian teen-oriented drama.
I like diversity in my performers. I tend to find those productions which involve only Pretty Young Mostly White People, or as I call them, Pretty People With Petty Problems, dull.
Between didn't just put the icky old folks in the background. You might say it went full on Logan's Run, but really, it was more of a Miri. The obsolete people over 30 voluntarily stepped into a floating laser death chamber in Logan's Run, because you surely can't have people with lines on their faces uglying up your society.
In the Star Trek TOS episode, everyone who hit puberty died of a combination of retroviruses designed to preserve youth.
It remains to be seen whether Between has any sort of message about how people over 22 are actually useful in some way so if they died that would be a bad thing and stuff, or if croaking everyone over the magical age of 22 was just a cool excuse to keep Pretty Lake free of icky lines and gray hair.
~The Cheese Hath Grated It~
I have determined that this post needs more Keith Richards
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Yes, more Keith Richards...with Ronnie Wood. 😉
Keith is such a wonderful counterpoint to youth-oriented culture. He utterly defies such, being far cooler than all the cool kids while being unabashedly (gasp) old, and not doing a single thing to try and disguise his gray hair or eradicate the lines on his face.
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