Production Designing HIGHSCHOOL, for the talented Clea Duvall, Laura Kittrell, and DP Carolina Costa, was a refreshing dive into nineties suburban malaise — and Calgary playing ITSELF! Schools, houses, raves, diners, and endless middle class housing – the team built a beautifully bland suburban landscape of pain and joy for the young cast to shine in.
Produced by Plan B, for Amazon’s Freevee:
https://press.amazonstudios.com/us/en/amazon-freevee-series/high-school/1
The whole team had a blast reproducing gig posters, invading record stores, taking over Crescent Heights High (where Tegan & Sara went to school), and generally stewing in a grungy stoned teen haze of feelings. EXCLAIM! magazine called it “impeccably drab” –and that makes me very happy. Mission accomplished. They add: “Tegan and Sara’s High School is pure nostalgia — but not the rose-tinted kind. The oversized ‘90s grunge fashion is more drab than quirky, Calgary is depicted during its bleak winter, and each new friendship is a new opportunity for hurt feelings.“ - Alex Hudson
“It’s a heartfelt, eventually rather touching portrait of sisterhood – the actual and broader kinds – and of the power of friendship, the vexed business of negotiating the complexities of a queer adolescence, finding yourself, and the joys of uncovering a voice and a talent you can make your own.“ — Lucy Manga, The Guardian.
The show came in as Rolling Stone’s #7 on the Best TV Shows of 2022.