Nico Parker (daughter of Thandiwe Newton & Oliver Parker) stars in this Hulu original currently streaming. Taking place against the backdrop of the Terry Schaivo drama (a Florida woman who was on life support but when her husband wanted to take her off of it, it became a cause celebre on the news for arguments & protests), Parker's brother, Cree Kawa, is in the final throes of life & being moved from his home to a hospice facility, the same facility where Schaivo is awaiting her own fate. Already at odds w/her overbearing mother, Oscar nominee Laura Linney, who has essentially enlisted Parker to assist in Kawa's care supplanting her own life as she's the odd one out at school. Things change however on one level when she meets a protestor at the hospice, played by Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson, who tries to put into perspective where Parker's life is in now while at school she makes head way w/the cool clique by offering up her now empty home (since Linney spends all her time by Kawa's side) as a place to party even getting invited by the cool kid, Amarr, to the prom but Kawa's looming final end constantly plays in her head whether she likes it not. A little fey in its presentation (something I remember a Cameron Diaz starrer named My Sister's Keeper from 15 years ago did much better) which wants to embrace the horror of the situation in Parker's life w/the ridiculous circus that is high school peppered w/wise bon mots from Harrelson who becomes a defacto color commentator. Buoyed by the perfs of all the leads w/Parker, who I think is on her way to getting a breakout berth some time soon, this weak treacle still manages an anemic good time on the couch which is not saying much.
