Drink Slay Love and the Eternal Problem of High School

The moral case for realizing that high school dynamics never really end.

High school complicates your life.

Up until that point things seem pretty simple when it comes right down to it. You do what your parents tell you. They make the decisions and it's your job to do it, or at the very least you go along with it whether you want to or not. Mainly because they are in control of your life. From your perspective, it's been that way your whole life as far as you can remember. There's no reason to necessarily question this fact, though some kids do have a habit of at least questioning some things. However, at the end of the day you have to go along with it. Because that's just the way things are. When you get older though, opportunities start to open up to you. Ideas that never occurred to you before start to sound more and more appealing. Mainly the idea of making choices for yourself.

It's usually in high school when you really start to get these opportunities given to you. Your parents and other people around you want you to decide which courses you want to take at school. All with the intention that you will end up choosing how your life is going to go in the future. Generations after generations of teenagers have to go through this process and come to terms with the personal choices they're going to make. It's been going on for so long that endless numbers of stories are created about the high school experience and no matter what your age, you can recognize yourself in the characters. Largely because you're either going through it yourself, you've been through it in the past, or for the younger people, they're about to go into high school in a few years.

Almost like the high school experience is immortal and will never die. Some of the basic facts might change, such as the people going to it who are constantly growing up, or the technology available to students. But fundamentally, the situation is the same. You have a group of teenagers with raging hormones and needs all trapped together in the same place for hours on end. Forced to deal with each other on the most basic levels. Perhaps you could even say that high school feeds off the eternally young and their desires.

Drink Slay Love is fundamentally about the eternal reality of high school. Pearl, as played by Cierra Ramirez, is a young teenage vampire in the prime of her life. She enjoys being a vampire and feeding off human beings. One particular young man at the local convenience store especially. She enjoys her life and what she's able to do. It's only when she discovers she has the ability to walk in the sun that things begin to change for her. Due to the fact that her other vampire family members can't seem to walk in the sun, she's enrolled in high school with the intention of using it to find new victims for her fellow vampires to feed off.

Yet when she does start to get to know her classmates, she finds that things aren't exactly clear. When given the opportunity to think for herself and make her own choices, using people as victims doesn't feel like a great idea anymore.

It's a fun thing to watch and you should explore the immortality of high school by checking out Drink Slay Love as soon as you can.

Drink Slay Love is available on Lifetime as well as AppleTV and Amazon.

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