Heathers is the original Mean Girls. I once told one of my millennial coworkers this, and she promised to watch it over the weekend. She came back on Monday and was horrified. “What the hell did I just watch?” Exactly. Winona Ryder > Lindsay Lohan. Jealous much?

I don’t know if millennials can appreciate the horrific beauty of Heathers. When I first watched it in 1988, Winona Ryder was everything to my thirteen-year-old self. She was the coolest girl on the planet. (Now she’s the raggedy mom on Stranger Things, but we can’t stay young forever, can we? What a waste. Oh, the humanity.)

Christian Slater? I die. He was every Gen-Xer’s dream man. Creepy and cool and weird and handsome. I chased a lot of quirky losers in the 1990s just hoping to find a guy with one tenth of Slater’s charisma. Spoiler alert: I failed.

Now Heathers is being reimagined as a series on TV Land. The series will be set in present day, with each season bringing in a new cast of characters. One famous face is returning, however: Shannon Doherty. She won’t necessarily be reprising her role as a Heather, but she will be playing a “pivotal, unnamed character.” (Doherty has been battling breast cancer, and it’s great to see her working again.)

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the reboot is flipping the perfect, popular clique on its head, but keeping the snarky, dark tone of the original:

TV Land’s take is described as a black comedy that takes place in the present day. It features a new set of popular-yet-evil Heathers — only this time the outcasts have become high school royalty. Heather McNamara (originally played by Lisanne Falk) is a black lesbian; Heather Duke (Shannen Doherty) is a male who identifies as gender-queer whose real name is Heath; and Heather Chandler (Kim Walker) has a body like Martha Dumptruck. Veronica Sawyer will continue to take center stage and serve as the narrator of the potential series. The new Veronica is described as a 17-year-old who is very similar to Ryder’s movie character. The teen take is smart and loyal — and snarky. The new J.D. is 18 and is described as darkly hot and dangerous, similar to Slater’s character.

I will be watching, but I don’t know if anything can hold up to the original Heathers. Is that mean? Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw. Do I look like Mother Teresa?

Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw. Do I look like Mother Teresa?