Rolling Stone Menu ‘Generation’ Tries to Capture the Chaos of Teen Angst
The new HBO Max series is the latest to tackle the volatile lives of a group of high-schoolers
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Late in the premiere episode of the new HBO Max dramedy
Generation, high school classmates Chester (Justice Smith) and Nathan (Uly Schlesinger) are cuddling together at the end of a very tough day for the latter. Chester promises Nathan that he’ll never feel this bad again, but Nathan is too distracted or drunk to hear the pep talk. “Will you remind me tomorrow?” he asks Chester. “It sounds like something I’d want to remember.”
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March 11, 2021 5:00 AM Matt Roush, TV Insider
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A selective critical checklist of notable Thursday TV:
[Editor’s note: All ET/CT times are approximate after President Biden’s prime-time speech at 8/7c]
Clarice (10:30/9:30c, 10/PT): When will Clarice Starling (Rebecca Breeds) ever learn? Having been warned not to put herself in another Buffalo Bill situation by going off on her own, she followed her gut and in last week’s cliffhanger found herself smack dab in a Robin Cook-style dilemma of medical mayhem. The result is a thrilling,
Silence of the Lambs-creepy hour of suspense in which a drugged and incapacitated Clarice fights to escape the clutches of deranged Dr. Marilyn Felker (Natalie Felker), who has trapped her in a ward of comatose patients. Disturbing hallucinations add to Clarice’s peril in this cat-and-mouse exercise of psychological terror.