Oregon-Based Netflix Dramedy Premieres Feb. 16

BORING, OR — In a new Netflix series premiering Feb. 16, 10 half-hour episodes will take viewers on a trip back in time to when — as the title implies — everything sucked. Filmed in Oregon City this past summer, Everything Sucks! offers a glimpse of high school life in Boring, Oregon, through the 1996 school year.

Oregon in the 1990s was certainly an interesting time for any high schooler who lived through it. A freshman at Eastern Oregon's Cove High School in 1996, I was part of the generation that transitioned from floppy disks to CDs, struggled with Windows 95 and Netscape Navigator for dial-up internet research, still mostly used the now-outdated Dewey Decimal System in the library (because not everything had been digitized yet), and still rented VHS tapes from the local store.

As described in a Netflix statement, Everything Sucks! is "a quirky, funny coming of age story that follows two groups of high school misfits … an A/V club and a Drama club who collide in 1996 Oregon."

Appropriately set to music from Portland band Everclear, the trailer describes life in 1996 using the same method as Vh1's Pop-Up Video, which premiered in October 1996 and taught us so much about popular music videos. Incidentally, the song chosen for the trailer didn't release until September 1997, but meh … it still works.

"Some of our favorite shows of all time — The Wonder Years, Happy Days, That 70s Show, Freaks and Geeks — looked back at bygone eras with 20 years of hindsight," co-creators and executive producers Ben York Jones and Michael Mohan explained in a statement. "We think this is a great time to take a look back at high school and relive the fashion, music, and attitudes of the mid-’90's the way we remember it. Not sensationalized, not watered down; but desperate, heartfelt, awkward, and exciting."

Check out the trailer here:

Also, fun fact, I was pretty stoked the day I learned I could write my last name on a calculator (35007).

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