Jane Schoenbrun writes and directs the standalone follow up to We're All Going to the World's Fair.
Justice Smith - Owen
Brigette Lundy-Paine - Maddy
Ian Foreman - Young Owen
Helena Howard - Isabel
Lindsey Jordan - Tara
Summary
In 1996, awkward teenagers Owen and Maddy are avid fans of TV series The Pink Opaque, which follows psychics Isabel and Tara battling supernatural monsters sent by big bad Mr. Melancholy, who aims to rule the world by trapping them in the Midnight Realm.
When Maddy disappears the following year, The Pink Opaque is cancelled.
Eight years later, Maddy shows up at a grocery store and takes Owen to a bar, claiming she's been inside The Pink Opaque for almost a decade.
Luna juice
Visually appealing and genuinely absorbing, peculiar psychodrama largely sparkles.
Even though Mr. Melancholy ripping Isabel and Tara's hearts out isn't shown on screen, sequence was still unsettling.
For all the good, the bad (and even ugly) was the final 10 minutes.
After having a breakdown, Owen enters a bathroom and cuts his chest open (exposing a TV screen). He then apologises to people for his recent behaviour.
As everybody ignores him, I guess he's no longer part of common reality.
Whatever, it didn't land.
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