Consistently challenges the viewer and rewards attention

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Teenagers navigating addiction, identity, and trauma in a Los Angeles suburb. Exceptional visual craft — Sam Levinson's direction and Marcell Rév's cinematography are genuinely distinctive.
The second season declines in narrative quality but the first season's formal ambition is substantial. Educational about addiction and adolescent mental health in a stylized form.
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