Before the teen comedy genre was done to death there was Heathers. The '80s movie, one of the 100 Best Movies Streaming on Netflix, was a high school dark comedy starring Winona Ryder as a teen reluctantly a part of a clique of popular girls terrorizing their school. A series based on the cult classic was set for the small screen in 2012 before Bravo ultimately killed it off. TV Land has revived the idea of a Heathers series and it's going to change things up a bit.
Without spoiling the teen-angst-filled Heathers too much, the "dark" part of the comedy is in its irreverent portrayal of otherwise heavy topics like bulimia and suicide. Heathers wasn't formulaic, but subversive like later high school centered movies such as The Craft and Jawbreaker would be.
According to the A.V. Club citing The Hollywood Reporter, the planned Heathers series will be a comedic anthology that will subvert the original's group of Heathers.
Besides being outcasts the new group won't look anything like the all-white, croquet-playing original crew. The Heathers will include a "black lesbian" and a male named Heath who's gender-queer.
This is nowhere near Bravo's idea for the series which would've seen Ryder's character Veronica returning to her hometown with her teenage daughter enrolling in her former high school. There she would face the Heathers' daughters the Ashleys—which brings to mind the mean girls clique from Recess.
Will the Heathers series live this time around?
