![]() ![]() The stories contained in these halves are often ones shot through with loneliness and anxiety, as characters struggle to understand what’s changed in their relationships or withdraw into themselves rather than open up to their loved ones. More than a gimmick, the bifurcation is key to High School‘s rare emotional sensitivity. For instance, when Sara and Tegan call their mother Simone (Cobie Smulders) from a house party in the first half of the second episode, we’ll get to see Simone’s side of the call, including the stressful day that led up to it, in the second. The not-quite-twist is that the stories typically overlap in time, intersecting here and there as they go. Every half-hour installment is split in two, with each half following a different character. ![]() The show’s real masterstroke, however, is its structure. Neither Tegan nor Sara is much given to over-explaining themselves, but Seazynn Gilliland can speak volumes with Sara’s tired glance and Railey Gilliland with Tegan’s flirtatious giggle. The Gilliland sisters match that care with precise performances of their own - they’re first-time actors who were discovered by the Quin sisters on TikTok, although you wouldn’t know it from their naturalistic performances, or their effortless charisma. It certainly notices when Sara stubbornly refuses to look at Tegan because she’s mad, or when Tegan clocks the unwritten hierarchies that guide the school’s social scene. The camera seems to recognize when Tegan or Sara have crushes before they themselves do, lingering on the back of one classmate’s head or leaning into another’s smile. Showrunners Clea DuVall (who also directed the first three episodes that screened at TIFF) and Laura Kittrell have an eye for tiny details that define the girls’ interior arcs and the intersections between them. Sara’s started ditching Tegan in favor of more time with her best friend, Phoebe (Olivia Rouyre), and the more Sara pulls away, the more tightly Tegan seems to cling, prompting Sara to pull away more firmly still. More challenging, though, is the distance that’s sprung up between them over the summer. Practically speaking, they’re starting grade ten at a new school in suburban Calgary, away from all the kids they’ve grown up with. Set in the mid-’90s, as indicated by pitch-perfect period details like the wallet chains swinging from the characters’ hips, High School finds identical twins Sara (Seazynn Gilliland) and Tegan (Railey Gilliland) navigating uncharted territory in more ways than one. 14 (Amazon Freevee)Ĭast: Seazynn Gilliland, Railey Gilliland, Cobie Smulders, Kyle BornheimerĮxecutive producers: Clea DuVall, Tegan Quin, Sara Quin, Laura Kittrell, Jeremy Kleiner, Dede Gardner, Carina Sposato The Brigid Alliance is a referral-based service that provides travel, food, lodging, and child care for people seeking abortions in the United States, and Noise for Now are working with the Abortion Care Network to support independent abortion clinics across the country.Airdate: Friday, Oct. In 2020, Good Music’s last fundraising project compilation, Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, raised over $600,000 for voting rights organizations.īandcamp Friday ensures that all profits of sales on the site go directly to the artists, so 100 percent of the net proceeds from the compilation’s sales will benefit nonprofit organizations whose missions are to provide abortion care access to all. The compilation was produced in tandem with Brilliant Corners Artist Management, Dave Eggers, Like Management, Noise for Now, Panache Management, TMWRK, and Q Prime. The tracklist is loaded with legendary acts and some of rock’s most-beloved contemporary faces, including covers, demos, live recordings, and famous songs by Cat Power, David Byrne with Devo, Death Cab for Cutie, Grouplove, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Mac DeMarco, Maya Hawke, The Regrettes, Pearl Jam, PUP, R.E.M., Sleater-Kinney, Soccer Mommy, Ty Segall, and Wet Leg, among countless others. The cover art for the project, “Liberate Abortion” painted in black on a white canvas, was done by Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon. As part of the October edition of Bandcamp Friday, Good Music, in collaboration with Noise for Now, have released Good Music to Ensure Safe Abortion Access to All, a compilation of 49 songs by 49 artists, available for 24 hours only. ![]()
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