![]() ![]() ![]() Her clues lead them to Dana’s home, and Bowser engages in a shootout with Dana’s boyfriend. At the rest stop, they find a message from Sterling written in the dust from Sour Patch Kids gummies. She overdrafts her debit card at a rest stop vending machine by buying candy, which sends a notification to Blair’s phone. Luckily, Sterling helps Blair, Bowser, and her parents track her down by putting her bounty hunter skills to use. Now, she’s kidnapped Sterling, and with the help of her criminal boyfriend, plans to hold her niece for ransom. It’s Dana who’s the arsonist on the lam, and she’s been shaking down the Wesleys for money for years. As the real Debbie, who’s back at home with Blair, is forced to reveal, the lady who’s kidnapped Sterling isn’t the twins’ mom. ![]() Her usually perfectly-appointed mom looks a bit unkempt, and she doesn’t remember the name of Sterling’s boyfriend, Luke, or the family dog. Unfortunately for the twins, neither encounter goes well, and Debbie pulls up outside of the girls’ school to pick Sterling up.īut once in the car, Sterling quickly realizes that something’s wrong. Sterling and Blair seem reconciled to their mom’s past, and head off to resolve the issues in their romantic lives, with Blair confronting Miles at his incredibly fancy house, and Sterling trying to convince April to go public with their relationship at the school lock-in. Some star talent is nurtured, not simply bought, and Jordan and her leads may well be on their way.Shop at Hearst It turns out that the Wesleys are hiding even bigger secrets. And, though a show like this is a part of Netflix’s mission that gets far fewer headlines than the A-list talent on its service, it also represents something likely much more valuable, and more sustainable, than simply looping in a superstar. The show’s lower-budget pleasures feel right-sized for an afternoon of streaming. “Teenage Bounty Hunters” is not perfect television, but it’s infused with the sort of small-scale, needle-sharp sensibility that can’t be achieved by committee, nor, really, by anyone fearful of falling flat. It was a show about a sociopath whose refusal to try to engage the viewer came to feel inhuman if nothing else, one got the sense that Ben Platt and Gwyneth Paltrow believed they were doing the viewer a favor by appearing in it.Ī show falling flat in precisely that way - being so larded with prestige expectations that its own sense of itself grows top-heavy - is, perhaps, a hazard of putting together shows with talent so top-flight that they can be presumed to be entertaining no matter what they do. ![]() That show’s awareness of its own pedigree came across in a sort of ungenerosity to the viewer, a withholding of real jokes or of any moment of genuine emotion. The show is produced by Jenji Kohan, but creator Kathleen Jordan (previously behind the Lifetime series “American Princess”) brings to it a sense of throw-it-all-it-the-screen brio, and a crowdpleasing desire to bring the audience in on the joke.Ĭontrast this, again, with “The Politician,” set in a similarly wacky comic universe, and similarly concerned with a character’s coming into themself defined by and against constrictive social norms. The show is called “Teenage Bounty Hunters,” after all, but beyond that surreality, there’s the fact that the pair’s mentor, Bowser (Kadeem Hardison), operates out of a yogurt shop, or that the girls’ school operates with the sort of rigorous obsession with tradition and propriety that’s easily and delightfully punctured. All of this takes place against a goofily heightened backdrop that only emphasizes the reality of Sterling and Blair’s bond. ![]()
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