<i>The End of the F***ing World</i> Is Pitch-Black Perfection
The new eight-part Netflix series is about a heartwarming love affair between a budding psychopath and a sulky teenager.
“I feel, I dunno, I feel comfortable with him,” is how 17-year-old Alyssa (Jessica Barden) describes her burgeoning relationship with James (Alex Lawther), another teenage misfit whom she met at school, in the first episode of The End of the F***ing World. “I feel sort of safe.” Unbeknownst to Alyssa, while she’s pondering her feelings, James is ferociously sharpening a hunting knife with a gleam in his eye, plotting how to kill her.
The concept of a heartwarming, quirky romance between a budding
