I covered my eyes during the August Moon scenes, watching through my fingers, terrified that the One Direction imitation would give me second-hand embarrassment., where Nicholas-Galitzine-as-Hayes-Campbell is strutting around the Coachella stage, and he does something to his microphone that, to anyone who was a fan of One Direction circa 2013, feels positively unholy.
At Coachella, August Moon’s onstage screens were filled with cartoon-y drawings that looked borrowed from One Direction’s; Hayes Campbell’s stage outfit could’ve been pulled straight from Harry Styles’s mid-2010s wardrobe; another August Moon member wore the type ofEach new reference to One Direction elicited something akin to a groan from me, or an occasional “fuck off”; this movie was not sneaky about what it was doing.