“We had a conversation about what’s the most reject-y, awkward, funny, sad, messed-up time, and it kept coming back to middle school,” Konkle said. “That makes us feel the same thing,” Erskine said. (Yes, you are supposed to read the title as one word and feel like a middle schooler.) “I didn’t realize that certain traumas that we had written about were actually still as raw as they are in my life,” she said. But in the show, with the benefit of a script written by adults, Anna desperately tries to make amends.

Source: New York Times March 11, 2019 17:17 UTC