New York Times Critics' Pick

Gotta be honest, sit in the Why of it all.
The boys are fucked. And they know it. In their own obscure corner of the internet, they offer each other proof that the game is rigged against men: it was over before it began, they will never be loved, better just to lay down and rot. When an unexpected relationship begins to form, the consequences of the boys' fatalism are made painfully clear.
From Else Went, writer of Initiative (Vulture's Best Theater of 2025), Degenerates offers a telescopic, darkly funny view of one insular community, formed on the bedrock of shared and infinite miseries.