It takes a daring director to ask us to not just sympathise but empathise with a boy like Fraser. And Guadagnino is certainly that. He has an almost magical realist take on teenage life. Everything is at once lifelike and heightened, his gritty, gonzo approach punctured by freeze frames and fade-outs and fantasy sequences. ... The more you watch, the more that shrug of a title starts to make sense.

An eight-part opus that is guaranteed to stand as an essential work in the director’s oeuvre.

Grazer and Seamón are lovely to watch as their characters enter what seems to be a platonic relationship premised on their gentle recognition of each other’s nascent queerness. ... The writing of this relationship is spare but confident; by contrast, the secondary story lines are sometimes attenuated. ... It’s a transportive panorama of sexual exploration, frank but not caustic, voyeuristic but not leering, innocent and provocative.

An aura of pleasant aimlessness suffuses the production, its evocation of eternal summer mirroring the teens’ approach to their here-but-not-really-ness. But of course the scripts (by Guadagnino, Paolo Giordano and Francesca Manieri) are meticulously crafted, guided in large part by the steady unearthing of the characters’ layers.

The kids sometimes seem wise and mature and accepting beyond their years only to fly off the handle and engage in that distinctly teenage brand of solipsism, where the people around you don’t matter nearly as much as you and your own feelings. They’re able to be pretentious and profound on entirely their own terms, rather than seeming like mouthpieces for middle-aged screenwriters.

The show barely develops its adult characters. One hopes that will come in future episodes but in the meantime the vibe coming off the kids who want to be more worldly than they actually are proves alternately alluring, dispiriting and fascinating, which makes “We Are Who We Are” a tough show to embrace — and impossible to entirely dismiss.

“We Are Who We Are” feels like what it is: European artistes taking on a demographic into which they have zero insight and very little to add. It is, at best, a meandering, mildly lyrical meditation on arrested development – at worst, a head-scratching misfire by an otherwise major talent of cinema.

Was to completely taken with the atmosphere. Great direction and performances. Jordan Seamón and Jack Grazer are truly great here.

I’ve never seen a teen series done this sophisticated. Feels like the show has more respect for youth culture than most other series. Beautiful !

Stunningly done. Breathtaking and strong performances! Very curious to see where the series goes and how the characters evolve.

The dynamics established in the first chapter are enough to immerse you in this world. The military background and progressive characters definitely will make up for some interesting and unconventional situations. Although the trailers gave the impression that the essence of 'Call Me By Nour Name' was present, it's not the case. Let's see if Luca Guadagnino can keep us interested until the end.