American Vandal

    There's always a prankster at school that disrupt the learning process. Whether it's a school jock or someone that just enjoys the sensation of giving their teachers a difficult time. We see that same depiction of a student in American Vandal. While student, Dylan Maxwell is known for drawing obscene pictures at school, the recent vandal at school is not one of his doings.

   Dylan Maxwell is the type of student that nearly all of his teachers have trouble with. As stated in the show, he got sent to the office more than 10 times and constantly caused interruption in his classes. He's known for pranking his teachers by drawing obscene pictures on the whiteboard in class and pantsing strangers in the park. All these reasons led up to him being guilty before trial by the students and faculty members at Hanover High School.

   At the beginning of the episode, Dylan Maxwell was interviewed about the vandalism of 27 cars on the school parking lot. He was accused of the crime by his peers and faculty members with only his three friends and girlfriend defending him. Considering that they're his friends and assuming they'd be willing to lie for him, this prank is beyond him. Dylan and his friends claimed he was at Lucas’s house but his girlfriend had a different story. Dylan had a weird obsession with soft toilet seats and often leaves Lucas's house to go to Priceless Moments Antique store to use their restroom. Dylan told his friends that he was going there but really went to his girlfriend's house. He said that his friends would make fun of him if he told them he was going over there so he lied instead. Which doesn't help the story against him because the stories that were being told between his friends and girlfriend, are not consistent.

   There's also an honor student, Alex, plotting against him, claiming that he saw Dylan spray painting the cars. However, Alex is known for lying, specifically about a sexual encounter he had with a popular female named Sara on campus. How can we be so sure that he isn't lying about this situation as well? Either Alex has had it out for Dylan to begin with or he seen someone similar to Dylan spray painting the cars.

Continuing with the flaws of the case built against Dylan, the drawings were slightly different and were not pointed out by faculty or lawyers. The drawings that Dylan has drawn throughout his entire life, includes hair in every single drawing he has ever had. The drawings that were on the car, did not include a single strand of hair and were slightly neater than the drawings of Dylan's.

   Additionally, the camera footage was missing from the parking lot. Despite the fact that Dylan has access to the video footage, many people believed that Dylan was not intelligent enough to erase the footage from the video surveillance cameras. Dylan's pranks are typically amateur and he admits when he has committed a wrongdoing but not this timr. This prank was mapped out all too well whereas Dylan doesn't think about the prank he's doing. He doesn't plan for his pranks to happen, which is why he couldn't have vandalized the cars in the school parking lot.

   If there's a student that gives you a hard time and something suddenly happens to something personal of yours, stop and think, “Would this person be capable of doing such as thing?” Would they have even thought of anything like it? Even when the previous actions tell you they do it, think about who would really benefit from the troublesome student not being at school anymore. It may surprise you, it may very well be an honor student.