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Starring: Grace Kaufman, Pico Alexander, Jacques Colimon, Cherry Jones, Jason Segel, Ji-young Yoo

OUR RATING: ★★½

Story:

A24 and Apple TV+ drama directed by Josephine Decker. The Sky Is Everywhere (2022) centers on 17 year-old Lennie Walker (Grace Kaufman), a shy musician who is struggling after the sudden loss of her older sister, Bailey (Havana Rose Liu). When the charismatic new guy at school, Joe Fontaine (Jacques Colimon), enters her life, she finds herself drawn to him. However, Lennie’s uncertain relationship with Bailey’s devastated boyfriend, Toby (Pico Alexander), starts to affect Lennie and Joe’s budding love. Through her vivid, visceral imagination and conflicted heart, Lennie navigates first love and first loss.

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'It's such a colossal effort not to be shattered by what was lost, but to be enchanted by what was.' - Fiona (The Sky Is Everywhere) Click To Tweet

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Lennie: There were once two sisters, who shared the same room, the same books, the same thoughts at the same moment. The older sister walked ahead of the younger one so the younger one always knew where to go.

Bailey: Which do you like better? Green or the blue?
Lennie: The blue.
Bailey: You didn’t even look up, Lennie.
Lennie: Fine. The green. Really, Bailey, I don’t care what shirt you wear.
Lennie: [narrating] It turns out she wore the blue. Turns out those were the last words I ever spoke to my sister.

Lennie: There was no more music in me. Not one note. There were no more dreams in me. And just like Cathy and Heathcliff, from Wuthering Heights, I’ve lost the one person on Earth who understood me.

Lennie: [referring to Toby, Bailey’s boyfriend] He is not interested in talking to me.
Fiona: Go. The kid is out of his tree, running loose through the park. Right along with the rest of us. I know you never liked him much, but come on. She was the love of his life.

Lennie: The weirdest part of grief, the most inappropriate part is that all of a sudden, since Bailey died, I can’t stop thinking about just falling into someone’s arms.

Sarah: Lennie! You made it! Did you get my texts, my emails, my Morse code, my skywriting?

Rachel Brazile: [to Lennie, referring to Joe] Don’t even think about it. He’s like so out of your league. Anyway. When’s the last time you had a boyfriend again? Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Never.

Lennie: There were once two sisters who were not afraid of the dark. Because the dark was always full of the other’s voice.

Lennie: Wait. You followed me? From band?
Joe Fontaine: No. Just, you know, I had this sudden urge to go for a run with my guitar on my back down a long, dark creepy road.
Lennie: Creepy.
Joe Fontaine: Uh-huh.
Lennie: I mean, it’s literally called “California’s enchanted forest”.

Lennie: I don’t want to play some untapped duet with you. Okay? And I don’t want to be first chair! And I am not applying to Juilliard!
Joe Fontaine: Okay. Fine, dude.
Lennie: No. No, nothing is fine, “dude”.

Lennie: I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.

Lennie: No one at school gets it.
Toby Shaw: I don’t think it’s possible to get it. Unless you’re in it, like we are.

Fiona: All we can do is love the world as she loved the world, with daring, and spirit, and joy. It’s such a colossal effort not to be shattered by what was lost, but to be enchanted by what was.

'The absolute worst thing you can imagine in life can happen at any time. The absolute best thing you can imagine can happen at any time too.' - Lennie (The Sky Is Everywhere) Click To Tweet

Bailey: [flashback] Why can’t you ever be happy for me about Toby?
Lennie: You’re just so different now. I miss how it used to be.
Bailey: I’m in love, Lennie! Maybe one day you’ll put down Wuthering Heights and live your own life.
Lennie: Hey, maybe one day I will!

Lennie: [to Toby] You know, it’s possible you’ve taken the whole strong, silent type thing a little far.

Lennie: [after Toby tells her that him and Bailey were getting married] “We” were going to Juilliard together! “We” were going to room together in New York. That was the plan! And she and I, we are the “we”. And she was waiting to apply when I did. So we could be there together.

Lennie: You know, I don’t know how I’m going to do it. Day after day without her, forever.
Toby Shaw: Oh, Len. Me neither.
Lennie: You miss her as much as I do. I can feel it.
[they start kissing]

Lennie: Once, I decided I wanted a heart like Bailey’s instead. I took her medication for days. Waited to get prettier, cooler, funnier. Waited to sing in my sleep. I waited to eat petals off flowers. Waited to move through the world like music.

'Grief and love, I don't think we get one without the other.' - Fiona (The Sky Is Everywhere Trailer) Click To Tweet

Lennie: [calling Bailey’s voice mail] I don’t know what to do. Bailey, I’m so sorry. Nothing like that will ever happen again. I promise. Never, ever. Can you send me a sign you forgive me? Please. Anything. I’ll know.
Lennie: [just then she sees Joe playing his guitar in the street] Him? He’s the sign, Bails? Oh, my God. He is. Joe Fontaine is the sign.

Lennie: I keep calling her voice mail. How did you guys get through it when my mom died?
Big: I’m not sure that we did. Len, I’m sorry, but I’m just not sure that you ever do. It was you guys who saved me back then, moving back in with my mom to help raise you two. All of a sudden I got these wobbly little drunks. Just banging into everything. Especially you.
Lennie: You are like my dad, Big.
Big: You’re like my dad too.

Lennie: Do you believe in signs? Like from the beyond?
Big: I believe in everything.

Lennie: Big, what if you did something terrible?
Big: Don’t do it again.
Lennie: Yeah. Okay. What if you want to? What if you can’t stop thinking about it?
Big: Ah. Got it. Welcome to the human condition, kid. Try thinking about something else maybe?

Lennie: [referring to Joe] He loves Wuthering Heights too? He’s my Heathcliff.

Lennie: Sarah, I have to tell you something. And if I don’t say it right now, I never will. Something happened with Toby.
Sarah: Something like “something”, or something like “something”? Oh, no. It was Toby’s “it”?
Lennie: When we hugged. Once. But it gets worse. We kissed. Like we really kissed.
Sarah: Wow.

'Grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door, that buries itself into the ground while everyone is sleeping.' - Lennie (The Sky Is Everywhere) Click To Tweet

Sarah: [after Lennie told him about kissing Toby] I don’t know what to say. I can’t believe you would do that. And him. But how could you do that? God, Lennie, it’s like you’re someone else. And…
Lennie: And what?
Sarah: Nothing.
Lennie: No. Say it.
Sarah: Fine. And I don’t know if I like her.

Sarah: Lennie, I love you, and I can’t imagine what you’re going through right now.
Lennie: No, you can’t! But Toby actually can.

Lennie: When I’m with Toby, there is someone with me in my grief. Someone who knows its architecture as I do, who can walk with me from room to sorrowful room, making the whole rambling structure of wind and emptiness not quite as scary, as lonely, as it was before.

Lennie: [referring to Bailey] I know I shouldn’t say this, but I can’t stop thinking that the better one of us was taken. That it should’ve been me.
Toby Shaw: Oh, no. She’d hate for you to feel that way. I hate for you to feel that way.
Lennie: You’re the only person I can tell these things. I’m so guilty that I’m still here.

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Lennie: [referring to Toby] My mind is not a safe place. I can’t shove the dark out of my way. Why does being near him feel like being near you? I have to throw these thoughts away.

Big: [as Joe is knocking on their front door] I think the front door must be telling him jokes, because his face is so lively.

Joe Fontaine: [shows Lennie her note that says, “Do you believe in signs?”] Yes, by the way.

Joe Fontaine: So these roses. Wow.
Big: Aphrodisiacal. Four marriages behind me to prove it.
Fiona: Don’t get any ideas about my roses.

Fiona: Lennie’s mom, my daughter, Page, she died a long time ago. She had a real independent streak. Went to the sperm bank for the girls. They deliver it right to the house, you know.
Joe Fontaine: Sorry. Deliver what?
Fiona: The sperm, dear. Just like a pizza.

Joe Fontaine: [referring to Fiona and Big] They’re so cool.
Lennie: They are so weird.

Joe Fontaine: [after they’ve listened to Bach] I’ve never heard it like that before.
Lennie: Me either. I felt like I was listening to it through you.
Joe Fontaine: Did we just have sex? You want to do it again?

Joe Fontaine: You know, I had a dream about you. No. No, no, no, no, no. Not that kind of dream. G-rated. It’s a flying dream. One minute we were playing on the ground, and then the next we’re…
Lennie: In a fit of ecstasy?

Lennie: Grief is a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust. Grief is a house where the chairs have forgotten how to hold us, the mirrors how to reflect us. Grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door, that buries itself into the ground while everyone is sleeping. Grief is a house where the younger sister grows older than the older one.

Lennie: I don’t understand why you’re here!
Joe Fontaine: You don’t? It’s because I like you. Duh. That’s one. And two, I’m obsessed with playing with you, because I think Mr. James thinks you’re better than me, and that’s driving me crazy. And, well, three, I think you’re really pretty, and I’m incredibly shallow.
Lennie: I’m not the pretty one. You just say that because you never met…
Joe Fontaine: I’m saying that because it’s true.

Toby Shaw: [to Lennie] I can’t stop thinking about you.

Lennie: Nothing happened to me for seventeen years. Seriously, nothing. And now everything at once.

Lennie: Why do you like me? The grief girl who can barely function in the world.
Joe Fontaine: Because after that day with Bach on your porch, I couldn’t listen to music without thinking how much more incredible it would sound with you there listening to it with me. Even the water faucet. I wanted you to listen to the water faucet with me.
Lennie: That is the best thing anybody has ever said to me. Want to say it again? Maybe?
Joe Fontaine: No, I’m at my corny quota, thanks.

Lennie: It’s like I’m scared of, I guess of being alive without my sister.

Lennie: I learned this really terrible thing recently. That the absolute worst thing you can imagine in life can happen at any time. But today, I also realized that the absolute best thing you can imagine can happen at any time too.
[Joe kisses her]

Lennie: [to Bailey’s picture] I am so sick of Toby. Of you. Of death. I just want to be in love. And I just want to be in life. God, how does everyone else do it? Tell me! I mean, people die all the time, right? God. How do they do it? How do people all over the world, staring at beds that are no longer slept in, they no longer have to buy a certain kind of cereal. How do they stand in line at the movies? How do they make music, when inside, their hearts are ripping to shreds?

Lennie: Where does all the love for someone go when that someone is gone? How would Bailey ever forgive me? Does she understand that it’s just me and Toby in this house of grief? That we’re stranded here without her? That it feels like the only way to bring her back?

Lennie: I’m a companion pony. I mean, even with you, Sarah, I’m second chair. It’s who I’ve always been.
Sarah: And now?

Toby Shaw: Len, let me take you home.
Lennie: No. I am done with you. You are just going to say something so heartbreaking that I want to die. No way.
Toby Shaw: Nothing’s going to happen, I promise.

Toby Shaw: [to Lennie, referring to Joe] The three words I got in yesterday, and the ten today, add up to pretty much telling him he should give you a second chance. That there’s nothing going on between us. That we were just wrecked.

Toby Shaw: [referring to Joe] You know, I watched you guys that night, by the roses. I saw it. How you feel. I really love her, you know? More than anything. Len, you’ll make him see the light.

Joe Fontaine: [to Lennie, referring to Toby] You think it’s that easy? I don’t want tiny dresses, or stupid freaking magic flowers, okay? I can’t be with you, because every time I close my eyes, I see you with him.

Joe Fontaine: [to Lennie] I can’t be with somebody that could do that to me. I can’t be with somebody that could do that to her sister.

Fiona: You have no idea how close I came to chopping your precious book to bits. But I have some self-control and respect for other people’s things. You come like the Grim Reaper and decimate my roses. How could you?
Lennie: They’ll grow back.
Fiona: You have become very selfish, Lennie Walker. Did it ever occur to you that I have been asking you to go on walks, or have tea, or go to the beach because I need you?

Fiona: You act like you’re the only one in this house who has lost somebody. She was like my daughter. Do you know what that’s like? No, you don’t. Because you haven’t once asked.
Lennie: You’re right. Who I’m becoming is this totally selfish screw-up who hurts everyone.

Lennie: [referring to her Wuthering Heights book] Just do it. Chop it into bits. They wasted their lives! They wasted their amazing love! I hate Cathy and Heathcliff! They were so committed to their misery. Fools! I am not going to be afraid to live my life like you two Victorian idiots!

Lennie: Grief is forever. Isn’t it? It’s not going to go away. She’s going to die again and again every day for the rest of my life, isn’t she?
Fiona: Oh, honey. I think so.

Rachel Brazile: You’re applying to Juilliard?
Lennie: That’s the plan.
Rachel Brazile: About time you got a clue. If I could play like you…
Lennie: Did you just say something nice?
Rachel Brazile: Yeah. It happens.

Lennie: [to Joe] Look, I just, I made a huge mistake with Toby that day. And when I’m with you, I feel like I’m turning into brightness. Total effing brightness. You don’t know this, but I’ve read Wuthering Heights twenty-three times. And I know that I love you more than Cathy loves Heathcliff. Knowing this feeling, I never would’ve married Edgar Linton. Ever. I want to live like Bailey did, with daring, and spirit, and so much joy. And I want you to live like that with me. Please give me another chance.

Joe Fontaine: Can’t you make it go any faster?
Sarah: No. It’s called Ennui for a reason.
Marcus: Your car’s called Ennui?
Sarah: Oui, monsieur.

Marcus: I have two cats at school named Nothing and Dread.
Sarah: Your cats are named Nothing and Dread? His cats are Nothing and Dread!
Joe Fontaine: The little train that couldn’t.
Sarah: [to Marcus] Did you just bat your eyes at me? You did.
Joe Fontaine: Hey! Only one love story at a time. Eyes on the road. Pedal to the metal. Please!

Big: [to Lennie] You took a big risk. That’s what love is.

Joe Fontaine: [referring to her notes] I get what happened. I do. I do, because of these, Lennie.
Lennie: How can you have these?
Joe Fontaine: There’s more. Okay, I know what you’re thinking. That I’m a creepy stalker dude, right?
Lennie: Yeah, that’s kind of exactly what I’m thinking.
Joe Fontaine: Yeah, but I’m not. It just kept happening. I just kept finding these. And even before we met, I found one, and then I started looking for them, like everywhere. And it was like they were looking for me.

Lennie: Bailey did this.
Joe Fontaine: What? And I don’t want to miss out on my life either just because I’m afraid. I get it.
Lennie: I just, I can’t believe it. I can’t believe you…
[Joe kisses her]

Lennie: There was once a girl who found herself dead. She spent her days peering over
the ledge of heaven. This dead girl thought her sister might be writing her notes, poems maybe, but it was such a long trip to make for a few scattered words here and there. So, instead the dead girl made sure the notes got into the right hands. She made absolutely,
positively sure of it.

Lennie: There was once a girl who found herself so very alive. She spends her days in a house by a river. There are weirdos, and roses that for sure make you fall in love. There’s music. There’s the whole, sad, beautiful world, and no stupid effing plant. There are days that turn her into brightness. There are so many days.

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