Prime Video’s new young-adult series Sterling Point has gone viral for its sharp, witty portrayal of Gen Z.

The series captures a generation fluent in attachment styles, trauma, boundaries, and therapy-talk.

Sterling Point explores how family secrets, adoption, and sibling bonds affect identity.

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Prime Video’s Sterling Point has many of the ingredients of an irresistible coming-of-age drama. It has an idyllic summer setting, complicated families, messy romantic choices, and enough buried secrets to ensure nobody can sit by the lake and enjoy themselves.

Created by Megan Park, the series follows 17-year-old Annie Jacobson (Ella Rubin), who discovers that she and her twin brother Connor (Keen Ruffalo) have inherited a remote Canadian island from the grandfather they were never allowed to meet. What begins as Annie’s attempt to uncover her family history quickly turns into a story about adoption, identity, and siblinghood,

Five things Sterling Point gets especially right:

1. Gen Z Is Fluent in Mental Health Lingo

One of the funniest running jokes in Sterling Point belongs to Maple (Mabel Strachan), Oona’s precocious younger sister, who appears to be pursuing an unsupervised graduate degree in psychology. Her reading material includes Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score, Alice Miller’s The Drama of the Gifted Child, and Mel Robbins’ The Let Them Theory.

When Maple is asked about The Body Keeps the Score, she explains that she needs to find out exactly what the score is and where in the body it is being kept.

She is a child taking the title of an enormously influential trauma book hilariously literally. I’m not entirely convinced that a child dealing with her mother’s absence needs to be casually working her way through the trauma canon; seeing these books showcased in the first place is striking.

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