# We Are Who We Are (2020)

> Two American teenagers on a U.S. military base in Italy navigate friendship, first love, and identity in a sensual, emotionally raw coming of age drama.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/75298

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 8
- Episode runtime: 58 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama, romance
- Created by: Luca Guadagnino, Paolo Giordano, Francesca Manieri, Sean Conway
- Network: HBO
- Cast: Jack Dylan Grazer, Jordan Kristine Seamón, Chloë Sevigny, Kid Cudi, Alice Braga, Spence Moore II, Francesca Scorsese, Benjamin L. Taylor II
- TMDB rating: 7.3/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9848536/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: slow
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: none
- Tone: sensual, tender, languid, contemplative, raw

## What critics say

Audience reception is positive, praising the series' intimate coming-of-age portrait of teenage identity, friendship and first love on a military base in Italy.

## Synopsis

We Are Who We Are (2020) is an American coming of age drama miniseries created by Luca Guadagnino, Paolo Giordano, Francesca Manieri and Sean Conway for HBO. Its eight episodes follow two teenagers, Fraser Wilson (Jack Dylan Grazer) and Caitlin Poythress (Jordan Kristine Seamón), who live on a U.S. military base in Italy and drift through friendship, first love and the unsettled search for who they are. Chloë Sevigny plays Fraser's mother Sarah Wilson, and Kid Cudi plays Caitlin's father Richard Poythress, two adults whose own routines and tensions press in on the younger characters. The engine of the show is less a plot than a set of intimate moments: a shared afternoon, a party, a secret kept too long, each carrying the awkward exhilaration and anguish of adolescence. Set in the insular world of a military base in present-day Italy, the series moves at a languid, contemplative pace, with sun-bleached Mediterranean light and long pauses that let feeling settle. Its tone is sensual, tender and sometimes raw, and its themes of identity, desire and belonging make it a natural fit for viewers who loved the sensuous longing of Call Me by Your Name and the emotional frankness of Euphoria. The run is a single, self-contained season, and it leaves its story open rather than resolved.

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