Melodrama implies a heightened level of emotions evoked by the depiction of sensationalized events. While some of those tropes are there (more class warfare, less romantic quadrangles), this is not teen melodrama. From Netflix’s Elite to chwartz’s The O.C., we’re trained as viewers to expect certain tropes-from class warfare to romantic quadrangles-in the private school soap subgenre. When Miles is paired with Chip “The Colonel” Martin (Denny Love) for a roommate and meets Chip’s best friend, Alaska Young ( The Society standout Kristine Froseth), both scholarship kids from working class backgrounds, he is immediately pulled into the ever-escalating prank war between the two groups. This is still a private boarding school, which means class tensions between the rich kids who go home on the weekends and the scholarship kids whose future trajectories could truly be changed by the prestigious school.
Miles is obsessed with learning the last words of famous dead people, and is in search of his “great perhaps”-something he actually tells people-a quest inspired by French Renaissance writer François Rabelais’s final words, and that brings him to Culver Creek.ĭon’t let Culver Creek’s camp-like aesthetic fool you. For the unfamiliar, Hulu‘s Looking For Alaska is set in 2005, and follows high school misfit Miles “Pudge” Halter (Charlie Plummer), who convinces his caring, but emotionally-distant parents to let him leave his home in Florida to attend junior year at his father’s Alabama-based alma mater: Culver Creek Academy.
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