This was wonderful fun. With a smart nod to Hitchcock, this revenge drama was entertainingly gripping from the get-go - b=not least because of a very sharp script, delivered with relish by the cast, particularly Camilla Mendes and Maya Hawke, the latter who, in a number of shots, looked almost identical to her mother, Uma Therman, with both having that quirkily attractive distinctiveness that could nevertheless be quite radically transformed.
The ‘appropriate’ musical soundtrack was, pleasingly, not as either incessantly assertive or heavy-handedly appropriate/ironic re the words and the action unfolding on the screen as it so often is in modern dramas.
There was also real care given to characters emotions and relationships so that we had a sense of they being (pretty) real characters and not mere modern drama high school ciphers. We cared about them and could, partially at ;least, often understand and empathise with their actions. this was largely due (of course!) to the crackingly excellent script, with some great one-liners that really did sound as if they could come out of the mouths of students, even if they did look somewhat mature for their indicated role.
But the best aspect of the script were the the marvellous plot twist towards the end which inverted ones expectations - but completely convincingly, I felt. Too often such techniques try far too hard and end up being dramatically unsatisfying or even comp0letely ludicrous. But not so here; an almost textbook example of how it can be done..
Perhaos not quite a dark as Heathers but in many respects a worthy companion piece - far more so than Mean Girls, highly enjoyable though that is.