Ep. 1: Time Flies

De: Michael DiMartino

Narrado por: a full cast

A mysterious new student, Sanaa Starr, transfers to Norhaven High. The contents of a 100-year-old time capsule in Norhaven, Rhode Island, rock the lives of Darius Hightower and his friends.©2022 Audible Originals LLC (P)2022 Audible Originals LLC

I did this horrible piece of dross get green lighted?

The clichéd dialogue, the ham-handed moments of conflict, the stereotyped characters are all bad enough, but…seriously? An evil old white guy with a racist secret from the past is a laughable caricature of a villain. There’s real and actual bigotry and racism in America, its past and present, but this cartoon is appropriating actual and serious issues merely to evoke the dopamine rush of outrage. It’s an insult to the actual victims of racism.

Needs serious editing 

Intolerable. The acting... ...is okay. The characters are subpar. The plot? Non-existent. Issues? Overstated. I could not recommend this to anyone.

Childish and poorly acted.

Nope. Quit listening. Just not for me. No thanks. Deleting download now. Too childish.

So woke it’s broke

Wat a load of crap
Teach kids twisted history and this is what you get

Barely tolerable.

The heroes are shallow and annoying. The bad guys lacking any nuance. The politics superficially dumb. The acting seemed fine in spite of the weak material. You have to be of a very specific age and viewpoint to find this attractive.

Disappointing

Modestly clever dialogue doesn’t excuse the predictable plot and two dimensional caricatures. Reminiscent of the sorts of melodrama we’ve seen for years in YA TV sold by the CW.

Relativizism

Imagine what evils people are going to see of us and our society 200 years from now.

Measuring the past against our current value system is impossibly tricky. All of a sudden, everything is bad. George Washington is evil. MLK Jr is bad for sequentially cheating on his wife. Mark Twain is horrible for writing in his common cultural vernacular of the time. Latin American homicidal tribes committing slavery and genocide. African tribes complicit in the slave trade. Should they pay reparations?

Here’s a secret: everyone’s sh*t smells.

And going back in time to “fix it”… errrr… don’t fix anything. It’s all just a victim culture hogwash.

Overly woke

Focuses on being woke instead of creating an interesting story or compelling characters. Could have been good.

Too woke

This is way to woke for me. I don't want a story about brainwashed kids, there's already enough of them in reality.

dialogue was really good

I thought it was genuinely dope Ive worked with kids before and heard conversations almost exactly like the ones these kids had throughout the episode.