The series has received widespread acclaim for showing teen girldom in its full range
Watching a 13-year-old explore her sexuality on-screen can make you feel like an absolute creep, especially if you don’t know the lead actors in “By the end of the Hulu series’s third episode, I half-expected the feds to show up at my door. It’s basically a 28-minute montage of Maya, a middle-schooler, discovering masturbation, which she experiences as simultaneously shameful and titillating.
The adult actors benefit from their frames and their styling . While the minor actors sometimes serve as objects of Maya and Anna’s desires, Erskine and Konkle, the adults, are the only ones we see making out or wearing a visible thong. They’re where the action is. So on the infrequent occasions they ground a show, middle-schoolers don’t tend to act like middle-schoolers. They’re sanitized. “Pen15” offers a representation of seventh-grade girls we might recognize.
In addition to the ick factor and the nuance factor, there are a host of practical reasons why scenes involving middle-schoolers’ sexuality aren’t often shot.
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