#Tegan quin girlfriend series

High School also avoids rushing headlong into the hows, whys and wherefores of Sara and Tegan’s musical evolution and success.

#Tegan quin girlfriend series

Though the series is clearly aimed at and has greatest sympathy for a younger, queer demographic, Simone’s experiences – as a social worker with tremendous responsibilities, as a mother of troublesome teens, as a wife and as a woman – are given space to unfurl. But after that, the focus broadens to include other characters, including Phoebe (Olivia Rouyre, another relative newcomer – she got her start on YouTube – who acquits herself well in a storyline that includes coming to terms with her sexuality within a homophobic family) and the twins’ mother Simone (Cobie Smulders). The first episode alternates between the two sisters with timelines frequently overlapping, so we see the same events from two sides. Tegan’s growing closeness with new friend Maya (Amanda Fix, who lifts all the scenes she shares with Railey) involves another navigation of a young, gay relationship. It becomes clear that she and Phoebe are girlfriends, but not out to anyone. Friendships take root and flourish, although Sara’s do so with the help of drugs. Things improve, for the sisters and for the viewers. The only spots of – metaphorical – brightness are an approach from a potential friend for Tegan towards the end, and a silent rapprochement between the sisters in the final scenes, as Sara helps remove the gum Tyler has stuck in Tegan’s hair.īut stick with it. There is the boredom of lessons, an annoying bully of a boy called Tyler, and lonely canteen lunches, all filmed in a constant grey gloaming. There is festering resentment between them based on Sara having “stolen” Phoebe, a formerly shared best friend. They moon morosely as they make their way through their first day at their new high school in suburban Calgary. The girls are played by twins Railey and Seazynn Gilliland, who are TikTok creators in their first acting roles (but don’t let that put you off: they are not bad and get better as the series goes on). The first episode is about as boring as those of us who also went through a 90s adolescence remember it being. Look me in the eye and promise no love is like our love look me in the heart and unbreak broken it wont happen.H igh School, an Amazon Freevee adaptation of the memoir by twin sisters Tegan and Sara Quin, concentrates on the pair’s 90s adolescence before they became the indie-pop duo Tegan and Sara. Look me in the heart and tell me that you wont go. (sings): Look me in the eye and tell me you dont find me attractive. Imagine that person and then I want you to sing at the top of your fucking lungs. The first person that didn't know how good you were and they missed you, they passed you by. The first person that changed their phone number because you called them 62 times in one day. The first person that didn't like you back, the first person that said shitty stuff about you. And I want you to imagine the first person who broke you heart.

And I can see you, so don't cheat me here.

And so what I want you to do is close your eyes. And I remember how hard it is to be rejected the first time when you're young. I see some of you young people out there and I remember how hard it is to be young. I can tell, I don't know any of you that well, but I can see it in your faces that and some of you have faces that remind me of what my face looked like when I was younger. “You don't need this prep but I'm going to give it to you anyway.