Remainder - Alternator television
#Drama #Mystery/Suspense #Romance
In a suburb where parents can legally erase their kids’ painful memories, a high school senior watches his secret boyfriend come back to school with no memory of him, and he knows exactly who’s to blame, because he’s the one who outed them.
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REMAINDER is a queer love story about who gets to decide what a kid is allowed to remember. Memory erasure is the science-fiction element, but the fights it sets off are ones families are already having.
• Parents' rights. Parents are fighting over how much they can control their kids' identities, bodies and choices. In Westfield, a parent can sign a form that removes a part of their child they don't approve of.
• The wellness industry. Self-care is sold as a product. Calder Health isn't evil; it's polite. It sponsors the cafeteria wellness table and hands out stress balls shaped like brains.
• Teen mental health. A generation is being told to "protect its peace." Here, you can buy that peace, and someone else always pays for it.
• Grief. Everyone has something they'd erase. The show takes that wish seriously enough to make it tempting, then shows what it costs the people left holding the memory.
The question underneath every episode: if someone you love could forget their worst pain, but you had to remember it for them, would you let them?
• Parents' rights. Parents are fighting over how much they can control their kids' identities, bodies and choices. In Westfield, a parent can sign a form that removes a part of their child they don't approve of.
• The wellness industry. Self-care is sold as a product. Calder Health isn't evil; it's polite. It sponsors the cafeteria wellness table and hands out stress balls shaped like brains.
• Teen mental health. A generation is being told to "protect its peace." Here, you can buy that peace, and someone else always pays for it.
• Grief. Everyone has something they'd erase. The show takes that wish seriously enough to make it tempting, then shows what it costs the people left holding the memory.
The question underneath every episode: if someone you love could forget their worst pain, but you had to remember it for them, would you let them?
