The Other Two: what happens to adult siblings when their teen brother becomes Insta-famous?
A comedy from two former SNL writers about jealousy, generational conflict and how the entertainment industry corrupts young performers
Comedy writing rarely succeeds in telling stories about young people’s relationship to social media. For every bright spot – such as Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade – there’s an Unfriended; too often teens on screen do little else than just stare at their phone during family dinner and roll their eyes.
The sharp 2019 series The Other Two is a welcome exception. It manages to pull back the curtain on the murky, shallow and often dark world
