Here's another Hulu
Into the Dark offering,
New Year New You. It's New Year's Eve and Alexis, Kayla and Chloe, three high school friends, have gathered together at Alexis's house to ring in the new year. They've also invited their fourth friend but aren't sure she'll come: they're just regular people - with jobs and relationships and possibly some light mental illness - but Danielle has hit the jackpot as a self-help/influencer. When she does show up, they are surprised and flattered and also a bit defensive. Danielle flounces in with gifts of her own product, wanting to film everything for "content." Everything she says is nice on the face of it but also sounds shallow and insincere and a little bit mean. They aren't particularly surprised by this: Danielle was a Mean Girl back in high school and they all remember it. Alexis also remembers that Danielle may have bullied a classmate into committing suicide - and we learn that this party has a purpose: to teach Danielle a lesson.
As things escalate, the viewer's sympathies switch back and forth. Danielle is the villain, yes, defiantly manipulative (and looking Joker-esque as her makeup smears) but Alexis is unstable and somewhat scary herself. Is she punishing Danielle for her bullying or is Alexis hoping to get more out of it than that?
I liked the
Mean Girls to the nth degree aspect of
New Year, New You, and Carly Chaiken (from
Mr. Robot) was great as Danielle, but I felt that what the movie was trying to say got a little muddled at the end.
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