Genuinely Unsure What the Point of This Series Is…
HBO has dropped the official trailer for Betty, an upcoming series that will center on a group of skateboard-loving women as they navigate life in New York City after the events of Skate Kitchen.
Betty serves as a spinoff to the 2018 film Skate Kitchen and will focus on the group’s efforts to stand out in New York City’s male-dominated world of skateboarding.
Here’s the trailer for this thing:
Here’s the character synopsis from the trades:
Opinionated and loyal, Janay (Lovelace) is strong-willed and stubborn in ways that both help and hurt her. Honeybear (Moonbear) is a quiet storm. Her flagrant style is a ruse; an armor she wears to hide her emotional struggles. Kirt (Moran) is a lover (to the ladies), a fighter (to the rest of the world), and a little kid in the body of a woman. She’s the funniest person alive, but even if she knew it, she wouldn’t care. Meanwhile, Indigo (Russell) is a street-savvy hustler trapped in the body of a well-to-do art school drop-out. On the edge of the group is Camille (Vinberg), guarded, perceptive, intelligent and awkward. She wants to be down with the dudes in the skate park and has fought hard for the small space she’s carved out with them, but she needs to realize that cool points don’t actually add up to the sum of anything, especially in the eyes of the other girls.
Yeah. Ok. That’s a lot of words to basically say one thing: These are a bunch of grown women riding around on toys like they’re twelve-year-old boys.
Feast your eyes on the end of feminism.
Who Here Watched Skate Kitchen? Anybody?
This is the trouble with streaming services having no metrics that they have to be responsible for and having no advertisers to be responsible for as well.
This is television entertainment at the end of actual entertainment.
From the trades:
The series’ official trailer shows that the bond between the Skate Kitchen group featured in the 2018 is as strong as ever, with plenty of scenes showing the young women enjoying life in New York City. Skate Kitchen focused on Camille, who was an 18-year-old living with her conservative single mother during the events of the film. She joined and had a subsequent falling out with the Skate Kitchen group, but reunited with her friends in the film’s final scene.
Paging HBO. Paging HBO. You should be panicking but it’s doubtful you even realize what’s happening here.
What Are We To Make of All of This?
If you like lesbians, women that look and behave like twelve-year-old boys, drug use, and casual racism, then this is just the series for you.
For the rest of us, this series will be remembered only as déjà vu and dismissed just as quickly.
Betty premieres on HBO on Friday, May 1, 2020.
