Red Oaks

Google. Whatsapp. Mac'en (As in: Quickly score a chicken nine with sweet and sour on that American artery sludge). To Skype. Wet transfers. If the vernacular of your brand name decides to make a verb, then as a company you know one thing for sure… You've got them by the ballz! Netflix also seems to be slowly making its way to our Fat Van Dale in that regard. Someone: “Hey Mieke, how was that Tinder date yesterday? Are you still talking a little bit? Mieke: "It was fun, but when I finally wanted to make my move I found out that he had fallen asleep while watching Netflix." A few years ago, the Netflix range most resembled such a gloomy DVD sales bin at the Blokker, but now this ever-growing film and series library consists of so many delicious things that people sometimes enjoy their entire weekend under the heading 'Netflix'. do not come out of the house. Three rounds of applause for these go-getters! Own productions such as House Of Cards, OITNB, Narcos and Bloodline are particularly suitable for binging, because Netflix is the first to understand that you can serve us the bag of chips in one go and then leave the rest to our self-control. . Or, as with most of us, the total lack of it. This often results in whole nights and in the morning at work, not with a spoon, but stir the sugar through your coffee with your deep purple bags under the eyes. Making well-considered choices is sometimes just very difficult. Even if you are already 34. Netflix is no longer the only one that shares the series they have produced with the world at once, Amazon also throws six, eight or ten parts onto the internet with some regularity from one day to the next and does so in not without merit at all. They already gave us Bosch, The Man In The High Castle, Transparent and Hand Of God, their new series Mad Dogs came online today and at the end of last year they brought us Red Oaks, an 80's coming-of- age comedy full of Duran Duran and oversized bathing suits. It's the summer of '85 and David has just finished high school. For an extra pocket money, just spend a few months at the local Red Oaks Country Club, as assistant tennis coach, Jeep Cherokee driving housewives teach decent volleyball and then real life begins. To study. During obscure house parties, slurp half liters of Budweiser upside down through a hose and funnel, fall asleep in your dorm room between empty pizza boxes and sleep in until the sun is almost setting again. That work. But before that happens, he stands on the tennis court every day like a kind of Ivan Lendl in his far too short white shorts and tries to keep his disoriented hormone system in check as best he can. Red Oaks takes advantage of all the stereotypes we know from the teenage struggles through late puberty genre. The nerd who falls for the slightly too handsome girl with the slightly too muscular boyfriend; the recalcitrant daughter who rebels against her dominant father; the not so smart guy who does have beard growth and therefore runs off with all the girls; the boy who comes to all sorts of new insights by forming unusual friendships, it is all there and it is not surprising. In addition, you do not have to follow your protagonist á la Boyhood for twelve years for a good coming-of-age, but that whole story that changed your life in one summer has now also been rehashed often enough. In terms of content, Red Oaks does not bring much news and that is a shame. I think then. Especially a shame, because the vibe of Red Oaks is very nice and with a slightly more challenging story it could have been a very good series. Now it is nothing more than a great snack with a cast that has proven in the past to be capable of greater things. Amazon has already announced that a second season is coming, so maybe they can take it a step further in round two. www.gumstarr.com