Surviving Summer

Surviving Summer is a Netflix Original YA series created by Josh Mapleston and Joanna Werner. Summer Torres (Sky Katz) is a problem child with a fraught ...

Surviving Summer is a strong start to the season with its great YA character development. Surviving Summer is a strong start to the season with its great YA character development. Pop culture is cool, but have you ever tried analyzing it through a historical and cultural lens so that you can not only understand the content more deeply? Some of their more passive conversations can feel a tad stilted sometimes, but there are some really funny line deliveries throughout, and on a whole, I’d be glad to watch any of them in something again. The plot is thin at the end of the day. But Ari was badly injured last year and the relationship between the four best friends hasn’t been the same since none of them came to visit in the hospital.

Ben Chessell, Sian Davies, and Charlotte George served as directors on the series with Mapleston, Marieke Hardy, Magda Wozniak, Keir Wilkins, Gemma Crofts and ...

But soon, she finds herself falling in love with the town, people, and surfing. Parental guidance is suggested. Werner also signed on as executive producer along with Stuart Menzies.

Sounds like a movie we have seen before? But surprisingly, the storyline manages to hold its own. Set against a surfing background, the show explores how Summer ...

Watching Poppy in the show was a pure delight, and she is one of the most inspiring characters in a show with a fluff theme and a realistic execution. Before Ari goes to his competition, he is looking for Summer as he wants her to see him, but finds out from his parents that she left for the airport an hour ago and also left a letter for them where she confesses that she was responsible for him going to the party and riding the waves. He goes to his parents and confesses to them that he has been having panic attacks and that Summer is the one who helped him through them. This is the ultimate act that shows he has changed and grown as a person when he recognizes the values that he actually considers important. In a certain game the group plays, which is some version of “Never Have I Ever,” it is revealed that Poppy has always liked Ari. In another scene, Poppy invites Ari home and takes the initiative to kiss him, and it looks like Ari responds, though he later decides that he would prefer to be friends with her. He also has a certain relationship with Poppy where they are good friends, but he is hurt that she did not visit him in the hospital, and Poppy is hurt because he did visit her when her mom died. He is definitely angry with his friends for not visiting him in the hospital, and that is the reason he does not visit Poppy when her mother passes away. When it comes to Bodhi, Ari is certainly glad when she and Marlon break up and pursue her, even getting her a gift, but is never quite able to confess to her due to some reason or the other. She cared enough to go to Bodhi’s house when she did not show up for the competition, and she also participated in the competition and won for the Shorehaven team. Be it the time she participated in the surfing competition for fun but only ended up ruining Bodhi’s chances with her carelessness, or the number of times her actions got Ari in trouble, or even when she takes out her anger on her mother at the group, saying she was only hanging out with them because there was literally no one else in the town and she did not enjoy it one bit, she learned from her mistakes. This is how most of Ari and Summer’s relationship goes, with Ari being the one too scared to deviate from the rules, and he appears to be someone who gives up at the first sign of trouble. While initially reluctant to stay there, she falls in love with the people and the place through a journey of self-discovery and responsibility.

A skateboarding teen from Brooklyn manages to find herself on a surfing crew in a small coastal Australian town in this new family series.

Sleeper Star: Savannah La Rain is supposed to be this show’s warmth and heart as Bodhi, and she projects that from the first moments we see her. She already as a love-hate with the flinty Poppy, seems to connect with Marlon, and finds a rival from a competing surf crew. Our Take: Created by Josh Mapleston and Joanna Werner, Surviving Summer is like the other shows we mentioned above; it does a good job of setting up its main characters while not talking down to its core audience. There, Summer is a hit, but Ari is a wallflower, jealous that Bodhi is with Marlon. The Gist: As we see Ari Gibson (Kai Lewins) surf, we see his cousin, Summer Torres (Sky Katz) is in Brooklyn, skateboarding with her friends. Netflix has recently put out a string of good teen series, many of which are produced in Australia. One thing they have in common are a lot of action sequences, that show the country’s stunning scenery.