This doesn’t seem the fault of the actors, who are all excellent. (The fourth episode, which details the idyllic and messy day before one of Harper’s friends leaves base for a 2-year tour, is particularly, uncomfortably accurate on that score.) So it’s both interesting and disappointing that “We Are Who We Are” doesn’t seem to quite know who its adults are. The series is at its most emotionally resonant while tracking that oxymoronic intersection of lazy spontaneity in which teenagers live. Seam ón’s Harper is the steady hand to Fraser’s fidgety one their friendship grounds the sometimes hazy “We Are Who We Are” in something palpably real. The second episode tracks her experience of that same day up to the point when they finally meet, at which point it’s clear why they get each other on a level no one else has, or maybe ever will. Fraser is a furious live wire that no one, least of all himself, quite understands - until he meets Caitlin (Jordan Kristine Seam ón ), his watchful neighbor whom he comes to know as Harper. His first day on the base is a freewheeling exploratory mission that sees him careening through skeptical throngs of military members, meeting social butterfly Britney (Francesca Scorcese) and swigging cheap wine until he finally tumbles back home.

In the premiere, 14 year-old Fraser (Jack Dylan Grazer) arrives in Italy from his “perfect” life in New York City to live on the base with his mothers ( Chloe Sevigny and Alice Braga), one of whom, Sarah (Sevigny), is taking over as colonel.

The first two episodes act in parallel to each other, unfolding over the same period of time but from the perspective of two different kids.

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