An Irish youth comedy, tepid, but has hit a Douban 9.0 or more for three consecutive seasons.
With the recent broadcast of the third season, many netizens directly called "my happiness is coming again".
This is "Young And Crazy", aka "Juvenile Offender".
Produced by BBC, it has a super high reputation, the youth story of two Irish teenagers.
This article contains spoilers.
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Jock and Connor live in Cork, southwest Ireland, and are a pair of sand-carved friends who have the same pot-lidded short hair, the same earrings, and the same sports coats. The two men did not do their jobs, did nothing, and often committed crimes.
(Left) Connor (right) Jock
In previous seasons, we saw them jumping social shakes, stealing bicycles, beating the principal, bullying, and finally being expelled from school...
The only people they fear are the fool bully Billy and the police officer Healy.
This pair of good friends and the principal is simply "wrongdoers", but the road is narrow, and the two have fallen in love with the two daughters of the principal.
The third season continues the story of the previous two seasons. In this season, Jock and the principal's eldest daughter are upgraded to unmarried parents, and Connor and the principal's younger daughter are more affectionate.
Responsibilities from family and society rushed to the unprepared, but the two were still hanging and laughing.
Jock and Connor listen to Billy's new ways to make a lot of money and decide to do a vote with him. But this is not a good idea, it is to use the driver to change the slot to steal the TV in the car, so it is against the law.
Unfortunately, the next day the whole family was in trouble, and Jock had to take care of his daughter Starr.
What can be done, Jock immediately decided to take his daughter with him.
They are still very principled in their behavior, such as not smoking in front of their children.
But in any case, robbing with a child is like landing on the moon, and few people in the world have done it.
The three will not shrink the stroller, directly causing the frame to fall apart.
When changing diapers, Jock beckoned passers-by to help block the wind, and casually threw the diapers stained with feces to passers-by.
Bee used what he had learned in prison to succeed in getting Starr to drink milk.
The clothes on the chest are cut with a knife, and the bottle sticks out from the inside to feed the baby.
But the two did not pay attention for three minutes, and they lost the baby again.
They couldn't find it anywhere, and Jock collapsed guiltily, blaming himself for not being a competent dad. An enthusiastic mother came up to comfort him, telling him, "You're not the first father to lose your child." ”
Others speak of their unique experience of losing their children.
This warm mom gave Jock confidence and motivation.
Eventually, together, they help Jock find the child. After that, the two did not forget their "serious business" and successfully stole the TV.
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The series is based on the 2016 film of the same name, "Juvenile Offender", when this Irish small-budget comedy film was released, it became popular in niche comedy circles and won the Best Film Award at the Galway Film Festival, which received attention from the BBC shortly after its release.
In 2018, BBC invited the original team to reunite and continued to shoot the eponymous series that has been three seasons so far.
This Irish-inspired sand sculpture comedy hides and and farts, it is small and funny, some people don't like it at all, but people who like it will like it.
There are also reasons for the "pity" behind these two seemingly "bastard" character settings.
Jock and Connor are both single parents, one with only Dad and one with Only Mom. The only difference is that Connor grew up in a loving environment, while Jock has been facing an alcoholic dad and occasional domestic violence since his mother's death.
Connor's mother, Merid, took Jock out of the house, and she needed to raise two children at the same time, and the three of them depended on each other.
But the two children never let Merid worry.
The two love to steal bicycles for ten minutes, and the key is that the two of them also steal police bicycles, because the police's bicycles are never locked. After all, no one but them would be stupid enough to steal a policeman's car. From time to time, they staged a city hunt with the police.
Merid decides to take the two brothers who are constantly in trouble to see a psychiatrist in Berlin, and the chickens and dogs jump along the way, and the jokes are continuous. Reluctant to open another room, Merid spent the night in the car, confused and spilling his own urine bottle out, but forgot that the car window was not open, and the smell of urine in the car overflowed the screen. But it is also this way of companionship that makes the three people know each other better.
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To say that the advantages and disadvantages of this drama may lie in the fact that it is too "sand sculpture". It is indeed a very stylized youth comedy.
The whole drama continues the consistent style of British dramas, and each episode is very heartfelt, allowing people to experience the elements of tragedy in comedy and warmth in tragedy.
As the story unfolds, you will find that there is no real villain.
Living in the cracks between social indifference and broken families, Jock and Connor's bastards are self-aware.
Every evil judged in the audience's mind is nothing more than obedience, and comedy is like using personal absurdity to dissolve the suffering of society.
Decadent but warm, mourning but healing.
When we are young, because of purity, we are braver, not afraid to try, but often try to make mistakes, making absurd farces. When we grow up, we lack the courage we once had.
The precious friendship between Jock and Connor was built in a variety of messes that broke through the cracks and shocked people's hearts. Same personality, same hobbies, no external constraints, no interests.
It is a very happy thing to have a partner who knows you as a person and can go crazy with you.
The friendship of the two people also connected the two families.
The headmaster and Merid's family are connected by the children's emotions, and this team of love and concern is getting longer and longer, and unconsciously we all have our own people who can't let go.
The treasure series is small but warm, and the idyllic scenery of the Irish town in the play can also calm the mind.
Although it is a different culture and a different language, it can still bring us joy and touch, and bring us back to the silly youth time that was once beautiful.
Everyone may have been a young and crazy "juvenile offender", just like the last scene of the series at the seaside, the principal takes off his suit to reveal a tattoo of a flower arm, and it turns out that he also hides the history of "juvenile delinquency".
No one can predict their tomorrow, even if they are "juvenile offenders", their future is still endlessly possible.