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Mohan: The obvious comparisons are "Freaks and Geeks" or "My So-Called Life." "Freaks and Geeks" is like the best high school show ever made. And what's so great about "My So-Called Life" is that it was one of the first times you saw characters in a very real and grounded way. But the biggest influence for our show is actually this Swedish movie from 1998 called "Show Me Love," which is just a beautiful coming-of-age lesbian story about a girl living in a small town and just trying to deal with the purgatory of high school. I'll just leave this here.

That's a good point. I guess what bothered me a bit while watching the tv show was that it felt a bit paint-by-numbers. The show has a slightly plastic feel to it in my opinion, where you can quite clearly spot the influences and the references are just extremely on the nose. That being said, I still enjoyed the show, its fun to start seing shows that are nostalgic about a decade you actually remember :-)

If you haven't actually watched the movie, I don't see why you would. It certainly seems the creators were at the very least aware of the movie from this quote: "Because many of their young actors weren’t alive in the ’90s — “Everything Sucks!” star Peyton Kennedy was born in 2004 — the creators gave their cast pop culture homework. “I wasn’t really familiar with much of the music at all, so it was really great to go into that generation of music,” says Kennedy. “I prepared a lot using pop culture, [listening to] Tori Amos; [watching] ‘10 Things I Hate About You’ and a foreign film called ‘Show Me Love.’” I'd be interested to hear from people who watched the movie, it's a great movie so its well worth taking the time to do so.

Hey guys, when watching Everything Sucks, it reminds me more and more of a Swedish movie from 1998 called Fucking Åmål (and distributed internationally as Show me Love). It is almost to the point where I feel it's too close to be just a tribute or inspiration. I am not sure to what degree people in the US are aware of this movie, but for Swedish people this might be the most memorable movie of the 1990s. - The title of Fucking Åmål is a reference to the movie taking place in Åmål, possibly the most Boring town in Sweden. - Fucking Åmål is about a shy girl called Agnes, who looks and behaves a LOT like Kate, and Elin, a charismatic blonde bombshell. The movie depicts their burgouning relationship and the reaction it elicits in a small town in the 1990s. Has anybody else noticed this? How do you feel about it?