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Looking for Alaska

TV·2019–2019·Hulu·Drama, Romance·1h·7.8·Created by Josh Schwartz, Kendall Rogers

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Looking for Alaska thrusts us into the perspective of Miles "Pudge" Halter who is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave "the Great Perhaps" even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . After. Nothing is ever the same.

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Charlie PlummerCharlie PlummerMiles HalterKristine FrosethKristine FrosethAlaska YoungDenny LoveDenny LoveChip “The Colonel” MartinJay LeeJay LeeTakumi HikohitoSofia VassilievaSofia VassilievaLara ButerskayaRon Cephas JonesRon Cephas JonesDr. HydeTimothy SimonsTimothy SimonsMr. Starnes / The EagleUriah SheltonUriah SheltonLongwell Chase

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