Just because kids are in a show doesn’t mean kids should watch a show. Or maybe parents either: The opening scenes of “Betty,” with one of its heroines skateboarding-while-phoning through Midtown Manhattan traffic, are scarier than getting mail from the Internal Revenue Service. Cardiac arrest aside, the six-episode “Betty,” which was derived from the 2018 feature film “Skate Kitchen” by its director, Crystal Moselle, is electric, energetic and certainly freewheeling: Its characters are female skateboarders/street rats trying...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 29, 2020 19:30 UTC