Everything’s Gonna Be Okay premiere introduces us to Drea’s parents
In the two-part second season premiere of Josh Thomas’s Freeform series Everything’s Gonna Be Okay, we pick up with the aftermath of Nicholas, Matilda, and Genevieve’s trip to New York after Matilda’s acceptance to Juilliard in the first season finale.
After deciding she wouldn’t be able to navigate New York on her own, we catch up with Matilda in a state of grief, shutting out everyone around her, including her girlfriend, Drea.
When Matilda finally gives Drea a call after a month-long period of ghosting/avoidance, her mom, played by the brilliant Maria Bamford, picks up instead.
While Thomas’s Nicholas is a hands’ off guardian of his younger sisters, figuring it out as he goes, Drea’s parents are overprotective and overeager, allowing the show to explore multiple facets of emotion as well as how caregivers of autistic children parent differently.
Everything’s Gonna Be Okay guest stars radiate energy
The second season of Everything’s Gonna Be Okay was filmed during quarantine with social distancing themes loosely incorporated into the show’s storyline as Drea’s parents, played by Bamford and the always excellent Richard Kind, watch Drea and Matilda reunite from their car in the driveway while eating popcorn.
It’s a hilarious physical element that not only highlights the helicopter parenting nature of the characters but also utilizes the social distancing requirements of filming to comedic effect throughout both episodes as Nicholas decides to host them outside to give Drea and Matilda more privacy, distracting them with frozen mojitos.
By virtue of Thomas’s storytelling style, the show follows more of an emotional story than a hard three-act plot structure, allowing Bamford and Kind’s energy to radiate throughout the premiere in multiple ways as Nicholas’s boyfriend, Alex, deals with the fallout of his parents’ sudden divorce, and Nicholas has to grapple with his own discomfort at a surprise social interaction.
While the premiere culminated in a necessary breakup between Drea and Matilda, I hope the series will utilize Bamford and Kind again as Matilda inevitably has to find a way to rekindle and maintain her friendship with Drea, and perhaps allow for more frozen mojitos in the driveway.
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