Twinkling Watermelon
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A time travel show about a hearing child of deaf parents, and much better than that premise suggests. The boy goes back to 1995 and meets his father as a teenager, and the whole trick is letting him see a person instead of a parent. The band material is charming, sign language is treated as a language rather than as decoration, and the emotional payoffs are set up hours in advance. It is sentimental and it earns all of it. It deserves a far bigger audience than it got.
A CODA (child of deaf adult) student born with a gift for music crash lands at an unfamiliar place after time traveling through a suspicious music shop. There, he forms the band Watermelon Sugar with other mysterious youths.
Hooks early Episode 2, once he lands in 1995 and meets his father at eighteen.
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