The Boys in the Banddebuts on Netflix on September 30.
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Just like the characters themselves, you enter expecting a celebration, only to encounter something much more troubling.
The critical reaction toBoyswhen it first opened, even from those who liked it, is horrifying to revisit.
The show was a hit.
The Netflix movie is likely to be his final creative legacy, and it arrives at a good moment.
But its just as jarring to see most of the other characters barely raise an eyebrow at it.
Mantello doesnt give you that out.
For one thing, he has solved the problem of the set.
There is a balcony, accessible by a spiral staircase.
But, somehow, it works.
They know all about reading someone (The library is open!
Crowley left that sentence unfinished.
Writing its ending is, as this vital revisitation of his work reminds us, our job.
