In Grimcutty, it’s a new generation with new problems, but the implication is that helicopter parents are doing more harm than good. In the ’80s, the face of the suburbs was changing, and more and more families began locking their doors, the lyrics for heavy metal, punk, and rap music inciting moral panic, and parents not knowing how to talk to their kids about these considerable threats. The comparison seems more than appropriate, given cultural changes.

And, like Elm Street, it deals with a supernatural hunter coming after them. It’s extremely reminiscent of the parents in A Nightmare on Elm Street, who clam up and refrain from telling their children anything about the horrors they’re about to face. Things move fast from the start of Grimcutty, and there’s this weird air in the story where the parents, who are more than forthcoming on the information regarding Grimcutty lore, almost seem as though they’re hiding something whenever their children have questions.

Asha’s parents end up introducing Asha and her brother Kamran (Callan Farris) to the idea of Grimcutty, and Asha soon has a run-in with the being. While at a phone-free outing, they hear about a new challenge where kids cut themselves, one even stabbing his mother, saying that a demonic entity named Grimcutty told them to do it. After their research indicates that screen time leads to debilitating depression in teenagers, they’ve decided to detox their children and cut down on screen time. Hulu’s latest original film, Grimcutty, begins in a similar fashion, where the latest online social provocation is a bit more intense.Īfter abruptly quitting the track team, Asha’s (Sara Wolfkind) parents ( Veep’s Usman Ally and One Missed Call’s Shannyn Sossamon) have become super strict. At some point, I have to think maybe the outrage is drawing more attention to these challenges than the people actually enacting them. Now, maybe I’m not as dialed in as I used to be, but the kids I know at that age do not have the culinary skills to cook a chicken, let alone the wherewithal to douse it in cold medicine. Apparently, adolescents were cooking chickens after soaking them in the nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, fever, so you can rest medicine. Are you up on the latest Tik Tok challenges? Last week the internet was buzzing over a NyQuil chicken challenge.

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