Heathers reboot feels like it's written for aging Fox News viewers

The Daily Beast

"If you believe that kids these days are fragile 'snowflakes,' that political correctness is running amok, and that LGBT people are now society’s true bullies, this new Heathers is the show for you," Samantha Allen says of the premiere episode, which Paramount Network released online this week. "The premiere of the rebooted cult classic, now airing for free online, takes place in a universe—clearly a fictional one—where the football team is oppressed and yesteryear’s fat, queer, and black victims now rule the school with manicured fists. The show feels like it was written for aging Fox News viewers who get angry about people’s gender pronouns—which is odd because it’s clearly being marketed to a young and therefore progressive-leaning audience who may not remember the 1988 original. The original Heathers were a group of croquet-playing WASPy socialites; the new Heathers are comprised of a plus-size girl, a genderqueer student, and a black girl. In other words, this is less a reboot and more an intentional inversion of the original concept, built on the premise that the bullied have since become the bullies."