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Looking for Alaska - Season 1
Miles has a friendship with roommate Martin and classmate Takumi who have different experiences with each other. Miles meets with a friend of Martin, a girl named Alaska Young, where Malaysia seems to be happy with that coincidence. Martin seems to be happy to find his place through Alaska, where it is the beginning of the adventure.
3 August 2000, Chicago, Illinois, USA
August 29, 1969 in New Orleans, Louisiana
October 15, 2019
With eight episodes, there's rarely a character who doesn't get to reveal some more vulnerable layer. These cracks in the veneer sometimes take too long to show themselves, but they're always welcome.October 09, 2019
It's a familiar coming-of-age story, but one executed at a high level, and with far more thought than usual given to all the kids who were forced to grow up long before the main character has to.October 14, 2019
The best of the three bright newcomers is Hulu's Looking For Alaska, which is long on charm and beautifully textured performances.October 17, 2019
Based on the autobiographical novel by John Green, the series is freighted with foreboding and the intensity of adolescent emotion.October 08, 2019
It's as if Looking for Alaska was cut loose from the anchor of Miles's narratorial voice and then swung in the direction of the strongest prevailing wind, drifting toward all the new, rich material the miniseries finds.October 17, 2019
In Schwartz and Savage's hands, Looking for Alaska actually manages to improve upon the original work-no small feat for an onscreen adaptation of a beloved book.October 10, 2019
Dominated by Froseth and the solid young cast, it's a solid adaptation of a much loved book, even if its successful adapting can't always fix its problems.October 01, 2019
Hulu's Looking For Alaska limited series is sure to become a coming-of-age mainstay, a series teenagers and adults alike will turn to for comfort and catharsis as the seasons of their lives turn and loss inevitably comes, as it is wont to do.October 16, 2019
Looking for Alaska is a cup of melancholy chamomile tea sipped while staring wistfully out of a window.October 17, 2019
Hulu's Looking for Alaska is a coming of age story done right. Yes, it's filled with the melodrama you would expect from a teen drama, but it delivers a solid plot about a group of younger people trying to find themselves in the world.October 14, 2019
Looking for Alaska is an emotionally compelling story about tragedy and grief, about hope, friendship, forgiveness, and the chaotic complexity that is the human condition.