Capitalizing on the popularity of recent true crime series like Making a Murderer, Netflix has just unveiled a new true crime parody series entitled American Vandal, an 8-part mockumentary that “explores the aftermath of a costly high school prank that left twenty-seven faculty cars vandalized with phallic images.”
American Vandal follows Dylan Maxwell, a troubled high school senior (and known dick-drawer) who got expelled after he allegedly spray-painted graffiti penises on cars in the teacher’s parking lot. While Maxwell has a long and well-documented reputation for drawing crude cartoon dicks, an aspiring sophomore documentarian, Peter Maldanaldo, believes that Maxwell was too meat-headed to not have gotten caught red-handed. Maldanaldo suspects a cover-up to get the annoying vandal kicked out of school for good and explores whether Maxwell is truly innocent or merely playing the victim.
From co-creators Tony Yacenda (Pillow Talking) and Dan Perrault (Honest Trailers), and showrunner Dan Lagana (Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous), American Vandal is a half-hour true-crime satire that explores the aftermath of a costly high school prank that left twenty-seven faculty cars vandalized with phallic images. Over the course of the eight-episode season, an aspiring sophomore documentarian investigates the controversial and potentially unjust expulsion of troubled senior (and known dick-drawer) Dylan Maxwell. Not unlike its now iconic true-crime predecessors, the addictive American Vandal will leave one question on everyone's minds until the very end: Who drew the dicks?