Heathers
There’s no better time to revisit the 1988 cult classic that satirizes how hellish high-school cliques can really be. All the Westerburg High School queen bees are named Heather, except for the one named Veronica (Winona Ryder), who’s already grown weary of popularity politics by the time she meets bad boy J.D. (Christian Slater).
While their relationship ends up being rather problematic, to say the least, their nascent romance is rather delightful—“Our love is God, let’s go get a slushie!”—until things get out of hand with that whole murders-staged-to-look-like-suicides spree. In the end, Veronica realizes that preventing one’s psycho ex from blowing up the school is a drastic, but very efficient first step toward restructuring the teenage social order so that the long-suffering misfits can finally come out on top. (Prime Video, Roku Channel, Hoopla, Tubi, Shudder, Plex)
