The State of the YA Adaptation (feat. Krystie Yandoli) | Episode 106

Forget John Hughes and Freddie Prinze, Jr.! 2018 was a watershed year for high school movies as Hollywood has turned to best-selling YA novels to inform the future of "10 Things I Hate About You" and "Sixteen Candles." In this episode, Chance and Noah apply their maybe too lofty standards to "The Hate U Give," "Love, Simon" and "To All the Boys I've Loved Before." The guys break down all the racial fairy tales, internet hate crimes and the sex appeal of Peter Kavinsky, plus we welcome BuzzFeed reporter Krystie Yandoli to give some context about the production controversies behind "The Hate U Give" and shout out other YA material that’s not afraid to get political. Sometimes didactic and nonsensical, but always entertaining, this genre is certainly ripe for reappraisal by two white, heterosexual men 10 years removed from high school. Let’s do it.