Our take
Unabashedly embracing the ridiculous twists, rotating romantic pairings, and other tropes common to young-adult comedy-dramas, Good Trouble offers a massive number of storylines that are always delivered with an easygoing charm and real filmmaking flair. Set in a communal living space in Los Angeles, each character’s personal drama often intersects with everyone else’s—allowing the show to look at every issue through a wide range of perspectives, and letting the authentic mess of human emotion and miscommunication drive the stories forward. It’s undeniably cheesy most of the time, but the energy in the show’s filmmaking and the fun chemistry among its actors helps dignify even the smallest everyday occurrence as something meaningful.
The story
After moving to The Coterie in Downtown Los Angeles, Callie and Mariana Foster realize that living on their own is not all that it’s cracked up to be.
Elsewhere
"Good Trouble is a strong renovation, at least so far. It feels built to disarm skeptics."
— Emily Nussbaum
"But it's not just the characters who have grown up: The format of the show seems to have gone through a maturing of sorts, too."
— Maggie Fremont
Streaming arrival
Who picked it
Emil Hofileña is a curator at A Good Movie to Watch. He also writes as a theater critic, with work published in Rogue and Out of Print, among others. He’s probably crying over a movie or an episode as we speak.
… ten years worth of this-these production(s) not worth spending nearly one-hundred-dollars-for