The conclusion proves a fitting end to Guadagnino’s treatise on the messiness of coming of age, underscoring the message at the heart of Hynes’s music: “Time will tell if you can figure this and work it out,” he croons at one point to a packed crowd of eager young fans, all but speaking directly to the show’s dual protagonists.
Set at a 2016 concert Hynes performed in Bologna, the chapter brings the show full circle in what is ostensibly a Blood Orange–scored bottle episode. During episode six, for instance, breaking with the show’s narrative and immersing us in a dreamy fantasy sequence, We Are Who We Are offers a beat-by-beat re-creation of said song’s video, with Caitlin and Fraser (Jordan Kristine Seamón and Jack Dylan Grazer) executing Hynes’s one-take choreography with aplomb.Īs the composer for We Are Who We Are, Hynes suffuses the Italy-set highbrow teen drama with a twinkling minimalist musicality that features heavily in the season finale. HBO’s We Are Who We Are doesn’t have an opening credits sequence, but if it did, it would likely be set to Dev Hynes’s “Time Will Tell.” The swoon-worthy dance ballad from Hynes’s 2013 album, Cupid Deluxe (released under his Blood Orange moniker), has been a musical and thematic thread throughout the Luca Guadagnino–directed series. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for Renell Medrano & WeTransfer
