As far as antiheroines go, Not Okay’s satirical primary character Danni Sanders (an aptly caustic Zoey Deutch) has few redeeming qualities. Indeed, regardless of Deutch’s simple charisma and easy attract, Danni simply feels unlikable, largely as a result of she appears fully unbothered by how tone-deaf she is on the subject of, properly, every thing.
But within the rigorously woven, zippily edited, and largely entertaining world that younger, insightful writer-director Quinn Shephard builds for Danni—one which open-endedly displays on social media, influencer fandom, web fame, and the so-called “cancel tradition” that holds wrongdoers accountable for his or her misdeeds, maybe a bit too severely at instances—that tone-deafness is a branding train to Danni. “Lena Dunham does it,” is how she defends her frequent incapacity to learn the room and unpublishable pitches to her on-line journal’s editor, the newest of which is cringingly titled, “Why am I so unhappy?”… [Tomris Laffly]
