“Y’all will find life gets much easier if you don’t want so much.” --Principal Massey As a sucker for warmhearted, Southern-fried dramedies I wanted to like “Troop Zero” a lot more than I did. It practically vibrates with authenticity, capturing life in 1977 Georgia in the fictional hamlet of Wiggly. It’s the sort of homespun place with one restaurant, Butte’s Chicken, where everybody knows everybody and nobody much has any money. Blacks and whites lived side-by-side long before integration because nobody here can understand that sort of foolishness and, again, there isn’t enough coin to have two of everything.
Troop Zero
Troop Zero
Troop Zero
“Y’all will find life gets much easier if you don’t want so much.” --Principal Massey As a sucker for warmhearted, Southern-fried dramedies I wanted to like “Troop Zero” a lot more than I did. It practically vibrates with authenticity, capturing life in 1977 Georgia in the fictional hamlet of Wiggly. It’s the sort of homespun place with one restaurant, Butte’s Chicken, where everybody knows everybody and nobody much has any money. Blacks and whites lived side-by-side long before integration because nobody here can understand that sort of foolishness and, again, there isn’t enough coin to have two of everything.