You're Nothing Special
By Joyce Slaton,
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Language, sex talk in thoughtful supernatural series.
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What's the Story?
YOU'RE NOTHING SPECIAL is a series about 16-year-old Amaia (Dèlia Brufau) who moves from big-city Barcelona to the small Spanish town where her mom (Elia Galera) grew up. But as Amaia soon learns, her family has a reputation in the town: Amaia's grandmother was reputed to be a witch, with people coming from far and wide to receive her predictions and spells. Just for fun, Amaia tries to cast a spell with her new school friends: and it works! Can it be that Amaia has inherited her grandma's powers?
Is It Any Good?
Light, peppy, and intriguing, this supernatural series mixes high school drama with not-of-this-earth antics, resulting in a teen-witch show that's more thoughtful than most paranormal outings. You're Nothing Special's likeable heroine carries a pleasant whiff of both Bella Swan and Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Like Bella, she's a new girl everyone whispers and wonders about (an aspirational idea for many teens who feel drab and unnoticed); like Sabrina, she has something special that the others don't.
But while The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and other, similar supernatural series for teens took on dark, edgy material (demons? Blood sacrifices? Orgies?), You're Nothing Special has a milder take on magic. Amaia and her classmates are looking for love spells, to know their future, to show their bully what it's like to feel humiliated and afraid. There's equal weight on magic, who's got a crush on who, and how Amaia gets on with her family. And speaking of that family, that part of the story is unusually deep too, with both Amaia and her multiracial sister dealing with the challenges of small-minded locals, and growing closer to each other in the process. You're Nothing Special is ironically named for an atypically sensitive and affecting teen drama.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about how witchcraft has traditionally been portrayed on television and in movies. Think about how witches figure in some of the things you've watched. Are the witches depicted as heroic? Monstrous? Why does it vary, and what does this say about what witches represent to us?
Why is it important that Amaia is young? How would this story change if she were an older character? What's interesting or special about youth, and why is it so often the center of drama? What types of stories make sense for young characters and not older ones?
Developing otherworldly patterns is a common premise for drama on TV. Why? What's particularly appealing about that setup for an episodic show?
TV Details
- Premiere date: September 2, 2022
- Cast: Oskar de la Fuente , Dèlia Brufau
- Network: Netflix
- Genre: Drama
- TV rating: TV-MA
- Last updated: February 17, 2023
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