Just Beyond

In the first episode, “Leave Them Kids Alone”, 14-year-old Veronica (McKenna Grace) has started to protest about everything at school, and she’s suspended for going on her “streaks”. Her parents send her to Miss Genevieve’s School for Difficult Girls; when she gets there, she sees that all of the girls are polite, listen to Miss Genevieve (Nasim Pedrad), the schoolmaster, and all have the same bob that was last fashionable in the mid-’60s. Her roommate Heather (Lauren Lindsey Donzis) warns her that “no music, ever” is allowed. With the help of a fellow student, Claire (Leeann Ross), she finds out what it means to “get her hair done” at the school and why everyone is so damned vacant.Just Beyond Season 1 Download

In the second episode, “Parents Are From Mars, Kids Are From Venus,” Jack (Gabriel Bateman) and Ronald (Arjun Athalye) are noticing that their parents are acting weirder than usual towards them, and they’re pretty weird to begin with. When they go over to Arnold’s house to get something on the adults’ “game night”, they see their parents (Tim Heidecker, Riki Lindhome, Parvesh Cheena, Rajani Nair) in robes levitating a lit globe. They go to Chris (Henry Thomas), owner of their favorite curiosity shop, to show them evidence they found, and he tells them that their parents are aliens, and they’re waiting for them to mature so they could eat them.As with most anthologies, the quality of the episodes on Just Beyond vary, but the one thing that they have in common is Grahame-Smith’s ability to pack a lot of story in just under 30 minutes, with fantastic sets and CGI to enhance the stories’ fantastical elements. There’s no running theme to the episodes; perhaps “kids rule, grownups drool”, but that’s pretty much every teen-oriented show, right?Anyway, we enjoyed both of the episodes we watched, but for different reasons. “Leave Them Kids Alone” felt like it could have been fodder for an entire series, where Veronica and Claire find out the secrets behind Miss Genevieve’s school and why the school master does something so extreme to her students. We were a bit disappointed when the episode was suddenly wrapped up, though we liked the resolution. But it felt like a subject that could have been expanded and explored.