Big River is living in the shadow of missing teenager Carolyn Harper. Haunted and sad, the town is stuck in a chaotic funnel cloud of grief and looming doom. It’s easy to draw comparisons to “Twin Peaks” and “Donnie Darko” and even “Riverdale” and “Serial,” yet Knives and Skin is wholly original — beautiful and gross, feminine and androgynous, hopeless and joyous and brutally relevant in its poetic investigation of a doomed world. — Rachel Morgan
