Although, to qualify Moxie as just a high school drama is reductive. Both the projects are thematically close, but their tones are starkly different.
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SCREENWRITERS: Tamara Chestna and Dylan MeyerĬAST: Hadley Robinson, Lauren Tsai, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Nico Hiraga, Sydney Park, Josephine Langford, Clark Gregg, Josie Totah, Alycia Pascual-Peña, Anjelika Washington, Charlie Hall, Sabrina Haskett, with Ike Barinholtz, Amy Poehler and Marcia Gay Harden Netflix launches Moxie on March 3, 2021.Įnter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.It is perhaps serendipitous that I happened to catch the entire 10-episode Apple TV+ series The Morning Show minutes before tuning into Moxie, the newest campus drama from the Netflix stable. But I digress.Ī lot of people have spent the past year listening and learning to be a better ally to other communities– Moxie combines these ideas, so to speak, for the screen. I say this as a transgender Jewish woman who feels unwelcome in left-wing LGBTQ spaces solely because of being Jewish. In real life, intersectional feminism can still be improved. There’s more representation in this film. You can see the difference in how this film approaches things compared to similar films from 15-20 years ago. It’s a regular reminder that things are still not as equal as they should be.Īnother thing to appreciate about Moxie is that the feminism is intersectional. Davies (Ike Barinholtz) fall apart while trying to get the words out. How is any of this fair? Forget wearing pink, the women wear tank tops to revolt! Honestly, the classroom scene with this discussion is one of the best in the film.
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But guys? Guys can get away with wearing a tank top with no repercussions. Girls are forced to put on a sweater if they reveal too much skin. This film also exposes some of the sexism that regularly takes place in schools. But again, Vivian is bringing women together throughout the school in this film. They are both outing things about other students. But at the same time, Moxie the zine is honestly no different than the Burn Book. Vivian becomes friends with the cliques across the school. I hate bringing up Mean Girls again but there’s another key difference between the two.
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While Vivian starts a growing friendship with Lucy, things don’t quite stay the same with best friend Claudia (Lauren Tsai).
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Little did Vivian know, this zine would bring about a revolution throughout the entire school. Her anonymous zine also pays homage to one of Principal Shelly’s sayings. The shy Vivian rises up to take a stand against the sexist and toxic status quo. Oh, come on! When Vivian sees what Lucy experiences, she decides enough is enough. When Lucy reports the football team captain Mitchell Wilson (Patrick Schwarzenegger) for harassment, principal Marlene Shelly decides to look the other way. Vivian (Hadley Robinson) takes an ode to her mother’s (Amy Poehler) rebellious past by publishing Moxie, an underground zine. But at the same time, new student Lucy (Alycia Pascual-Peña) isn’t the main star of the film. This is a film that deals with the arrival of a new student but not in the same way as the Tina Fey-directed film.
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It’s very easy to look at Moxie and think it’s a Mean Girls copycat but when you step back, this is very much a #MeToo film.