We
watch as she attends dances; falls into and out of the school drama club; agonizes about college; has fun with — and then starts drifting apart from — her straight - laced best friend (Beanie Feldstein); smokes weed for the first time;
fights with her family; and dips her toes into her first romance, crushing hard on both a very polite
Irish Catholic boy (Manchester By The Sea's Lucas Hedges) and a too - cool - for - school musician (Timothée Chalamet, breakout star of the upcoming Call Me By Your Name).
If nothing else, the characters»
Irish and Welsh accents go a long way to keeping you
watching along (though I'd be lying if I said I hadn't skipped a couple along to get back to
fighting).