Playboy Entertainment Spoken Edition

Netflix’s half-hour dramedy Everything Sucks! is woke nostalgia. The series overlays post-millennial sensibilities about race, sexuality and storytelling onto a 1990s world of rotary phones and mail-order CDs. It’s goofy enough to name a kid Scott Pocket, and earnest enough to stage an impromptu death-by-corn dog performance of Uncle Vanya in the cafeteria. The result is a warm, thoughtful take on coming of age in the ’90s.