I can remember it clearly now it was the evening of September 15th at around 11:30 pm which was a Friday night and that Friday night went like a typical Friday night; basement, open bag of chips, several empty soda cans laying around, PS4, Netflix, lights off. Except there was something different happened that night I had finally finished Marvel's The Defenders on Netflix. As I was scrolling through the endless list of shows to watch something caught my eye. A bold red text that read American Vandal and an image of an inappropriate body part spray painted on a car so naturally my curiosity lead me to watch the first episode and I was hooked almost instantaneously. So to start American Vandal is set up like a true crime story that is shot like a documentary. The plot centers around a group of students who are investigating a school prank that has been taken too far and with the school board furiously wanting answers a series of events leads the school board to believe that a student named Dylan Maxwell was the student responsible for the prank.
The group of students is the high school's morning show department who are investigating if there is any chance that Dylan is innocent. What is interesting about this series is that the documentary is being posted online in the shows real time universe with mock reactions being made to the show online such as twitter feeds, Facebook posts, and Snap chat reactions. Personally I thought that the show was one of the greatest Netflix culminations I have ever seen mostly because I thought that the acting was genuine and how people in the real world would react. Furthermore what really gives this show an 100 in my book was the fact that like most documentary's which opened with a question and ended with a question, this show opened with a question and ended with an answer. I highly recommend watching American Vandal for an excellent blend of suspense, story and characters.
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