Amy, Jack, and I enjoyed this slapstick story of two high school girls, each other's only friend, who, with no training, form a self-defense club to try to lose their virginity to other girls--hopefully their popular crushes. We agreed that it's cartoon crazy with just the right amount of insanity.
Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri star as PJ and Josie, Kaia Gerber plays PJ's crush Brittany, Havana Rose Liu is Josie's crush Isabel, and Ruby Cruz is Hazel, another outsider trying to get in. Punkie Johnson has a cameo as a former babysitter and former NFL player Marshawn Lynch is funny as a teacher, apparently improvising most of his lines.
It's directed by Emma Seligman from a script by her and Sennott. Sennott and Edebiri were NYU roommates (class of 2017) and Seligman was a classmate and good friend.
Sennott and Seligman were last blogged for Shiva Baby. Edebiri, best known for her award-winning 18 episodes of The Bear, has also been in six episodes of Dickinson, two of Abbott Elementary, and the movies How It Ends and Theater Camp, though I failed to mention her. Kaia Gerber, who looks a lot like her mother Cindy Crawford, played a starlet in Babylon, and I didn't blog about her either. Liu is new to me, Cruz was in six episodes of Mare of Easttown, and Johnson is best known for 43 episodes of Saturday Night Live, but has dozens of other credits. Lynch has just a few other acting credits but has two nominations so far for this one.
Rotten Tomatoes' critics and audiences are putting this one at the top with averages of 90 and 89%. We rented it December 24 on Apple TV/iTunes.
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