Raising Voices
Raising Voices
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Raising Voices

7.7
Yr 2024
Status Ended
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Series Brief

Overview

When a 17-year-old reports a sexual assault at her high school, an investigation upends her life and tests her relationships.

Critical Reception

What critics are saying

Score 60 /100

Critical reception for Raising Voices is mixed, with reviewers divided on the show's handling of its serious subject matter. While some praise the series as a solid and thought-provoking drama with emotionally resonant performances, others find the storytelling to be uneven, citing pacing issues and concerns that the show sometimes normalizes troubling behavior.

“The portrayals of Breta by Teresa De Mara and Alma by Nicole Wallace were exquisitely and emotionally rendered.”

“This is a very solid mini series with an interesting and important theme.”

“Bleak, problematic teen melodrama has sex, nudity, drugs.”

“We wonder if the show’s fractured storytelling and languid pacing is going to hold viewers’ attention.”

Transmission Paths

Where to Watch

Netflix
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Why fans love it

Raising Voices explores the immediate aftermath of a systemic crisis within an educational environment. By focusing on the shifting dynamics of a friendship group following a serious accusation, the series avoids simple moralizing. It instead maps how a single event forces students to pick sides while their private lives remain under public scrutiny.

Nicole Wallace anchors the perspective as the social landscape of the high school fractures. The drama opts for a clinical approach to the investigation, highlighting how the search for truth often conflicts with personal loyalties and the inherent volatility of adolescence. Based on the novel, the series examines the friction between institutional procedure and the reality of being seventeen in a compromised space.

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Keyword Cloud

Keywords

based on novel or book high school rape accusation sexual assault teen drama vibrant
Technical Sheet

Details

First Aired
May 31, 2024
Status
Ended
Origin
ES
TMDB Votes
443