Ranking Every HBO Drama Series From Worst To Best
30. We Are Who We Are
Luca Guadagnino’s 2017 film Call Me By Your Name was a surprise smash hit, a romance by turn swooning and melancholic centred around a surprising love connection between two young men in a gorgeous Italian backdrop.
Venturing into TV with We Are Who We Are, Guadagnino and his co-creators try to do the same thing on the small screen with this coming of age story set on a US army base in Italy, but unfortunately the pitfalls it drops into are myriad.
Most notably, instead of scorching performances from Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, the show is staffed with teenagers of varying qualities. None of them are awful and some of them are in fact highly talented actors, but this equates to eight hours of adolescent stropping over various hot button issues.
Indeed its problems are much the same as Here And Now - an effort to do everything all at once, a maximalist show about every single emotion one could feasibly experience. It’s good for a bit but becomes exhausting.