Billy Porter's version of high school life makes the fashion-forward kids in "Clueless" look like the orphans in "Annie." The Tony and Emmy winning "Pose" star's students in "Anything's Possible" are dressed to impress, sporting fabulous wardrobes that are more Broadway than biology class, even if the senior class looks old enough to be the teaching staff.
That's the case with Kelsa (26-year-old Eva Reign), who is officially the least convincing high schooler since Ben Platt strolled through his cafeteria in "Dear Evan Hansen." But if Porter's surface details are off, "Anything's Possible" gets its emotional core right, and it handles its delicate coming of age story with grace and heart.
Kelsa is trans and she desperately wants to be known as anything but the trans girl. She has trust issues with everyone around her, worried they only want to be her friend for the "woke points," and she constantly barks "law of averages!" at her mother every time she's asked a question that a regular old mom wouldn't ask their regular old teen. She doesn't want to be a symbol or a cause or anyone's charity case. She just wants to be herself.
