At Bright Wall Dark Room, Ari Lisner interviews filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun. “So much of [I Saw The TV Glow] is reflecting back on all of the ways in which I clung to media, fiction, music, and television as coping mechanisms for that lack of a real life or a real identity. I could put all of my love into fiction, when it felt unsafe to do so in real life.

I was coming of age in the 90s and early 2000s. As a repressed femme non-binary goth kid, how could I not watch Buffy and Twin Peaks and Are You Afraid Of The Dark? How could I not read Goosebumps and Chuck Palahniuk novels? How could I not, you know, listen to Bright Eyes and Broken Social Scene? ‘Anthems for a Seventeen Year‐Old Girl’ I just loved so much. “

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