While family dramas tackling drug addiction tend to deal with parents grappling with what’s best for their afflicted teens — “Beautiful Boy” and “Ben Is Back” among recent examples — “Stay Awake” perceptively flips the script. As presented from the vantage point of a pair of small-town brothers who selflessly serve as caregivers for their opioid-dependent mother, writer-director Jamie Sisley’s …
Netflix Sophia Lillis and Wyatt Oleff in "I Am Not Okay With This." The Netflix Highlight: “I Am Not Okay With This,” Season 1 What’s up: Netflix’s “I Am Not Okay With This” is a superpower, coming-of-age comedy about high schoolers living in a Pennsylvania town near Pittsburgh. The graphic novel and the show have the same first line of …
