High Life

TV Mini Series
2017

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6.9/10

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Genevieve, a very sensible, creative and overachieving 17-year-old students in a respectable, middle class family, seems to be having the perfect ride, until her sanity spectacularly unravels in her first manic episode of Bipolar Disorder.

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Genevieve, a very sensible, creative and overachieving 17-year-old students in a respectable, middle class family, seems to be having the perfect ride, until her sanity spectacularly unravel... Read allGenevieve, a very sensible, creative and overachieving 17-year-old students in a respectable, middle class family, seems to be having the perfect ride, until her sanity spectacularly unravels in her first manic episode of Bipolar Disorder.Genevieve, a very sensible, creative and overachieving 17-year-old students in a respectable, middle class family, seems to be having the perfect ride, until her sanity spectacularly unravels in her first manic episode of Bipolar Disorder.

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- Glen Dolman
- Luke Eve
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IMDb RATING

6.9/10

110

YOUR RATING

Creators
- Glen Dolman
- Luke Eve
Stars

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Awards
- 24 wins & 8 nominations

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BBC 1 in England showed High Life as an hour long film, losing the episode format.

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Well I learned one thing, indirectly, as a result of watching this. I'd expected a long period of "normality", interrupted by a short manic episode; but it turns out an "episode" is more like a "season", as it will generally last a number of months. So Genevieve is in a manic state for the entirety of this.

I found it strange that Genevieve is supposed to be musically-talented, but Odessa Young (the actor who plays Genevieve) is a very poor pretend piano/keyboard player. Perhaps it doesn't matter in the scheme of things, but it struck me as a poor piece of casting.

I didn't find Genevieve to be a sympathetic character. Perhaps that's the point: that her bipolar disorder leads her to behave in ways which make her unsympathetic? But I didn't feel I got anything of value, directly, from watching this.