Based on Rebecca Starford’s memoir, the new Stan series should come with a trigger warning for former teenage girls
The four-part series Bad Behaviour is streaming now on Stan.V loves a good monster. The Last Of Us presents the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse. In Stranger Things, supernatural beings inhabit a hostile alternate dimension. But the new Stan series Bad Behaviour confronts us with a more everyday terror: teenage girls.
Secluded in the Australian bush, they are meant to be building resilience in a Duke of Edinburgh-style program for children of the wealthy. But as new scholarship student Joanna “Jo” McKenzie quickly learns, it is an enclave where the base level brutality of single-sex high school is amplified and able to flourish to the point of – in one instance – violent and public self-harm. A horrifying premise indeed.
Markella Kavenagh’s Portia is a villain for the ages, a girl who manipulates all around her with ease and could teach a masterclass in gaslighting. Ha is great as Alice, who cops much of the worst of the torment. McKinnon’s Jo is less effective, though she does have a difficult line to walk – someone your heart hurts for, but not innocent enough to get behind.
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