Words: Berlyn Lee
Image: Jack Dixon-Gunn

3 Stars

An unhinged, wild ride.

Jake & Liv’s lives were destroyed in year 8 when the popular “it” girl Patina Pataznik played a video of them experimenting with each other’s bodies at a school assembly. Now they’re attending their high school reunion and they’re going to tell Patina that what she did was fucked up… But she won’t even look at them. Bitch!

So when they’re approached with a pill that will allow them to travel back in time to Year 8, they
jump at the chance! After all, Patina ruined their lives. She’s the reason they haven’t accomplished anything. She’s the reason they’re losers! She must die!

Through various, crazed sketches involving flirting with your crush who didn’t know they were gay yet, 13 year olds buying guns, and a bizarre French-language driving sequence, Jake & Liv work to fix their lives once and for all!

In the end, they don’t kill Patina and find out they are stuck in 2009. They decide to start their life over and do everything they didn’t do before. Turns out, Patina isn’t actually the reason their lives suck.

I would have loved to see them kill Patina. Even if they went back in time and decided they couldn’t kill a 13 year old, it may have been fun to see them return to the present and finally do the deed. After all, the poster is bloody, I would have loved to see some blood!

Energetic and original.

We Forgive You, Patina Pataznik
Gilded Balloon Patter House – The Penny
18:20
Aug 23-26