Netflix’s latest release titled Boo Bitch is a miniseries created by Tim Schauer, Kuba Soltysiak, Erin Ehrlich and Lauren Iungerich. The show stars To All the Boys famed Lana Condor as Erika and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’s Zoe Colletti as Gia along with Mason Versaw, Aparna Brielle, Tenzing Norgay Trainor, Jason Genao, Jami Alix, Madison Thompson, Mary Aldousary, Zachary Fineman and Reid Miller.
Boo Bitch consists of eight episodes. Each episode has a runtime of 20-30 minutes, much like a sitcom.
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Boo Bitch: Mean Girls But, Make It Heartfelt
Unlike its title, Boo Bitch does not really have much sassy trash and rather skips around the stereotypes. It sure starts with a regular one and you think it is taking the same old road until it drags you to a brand new one and lands you in a destination you did not expect to find yourself in. It lags but, it lifts too and with a fresh storyline, this Netflix release just makes that little difference or variance the young adult genre needs at this point.
Erika and Gia are invisible seniors, counting their 60 days until graduation. The loners, who are stereotypical nerds without any major friend circle or network in school apart from one another, Gia is desperate to make the last high school days count but Erika wants to remain the unseen girl in the corridors until an irrelevant but unexpectedly sticky high school memory pushes her to join Gia to make their last days worth everything.
And right around the corner is a perfect party waiting for them, with the cutesy guys from school (like the Jakes!) and enough alcohol for them to make some grand memory or legacy that they will be remembered by. The young night blooms but, as the girls head back home in excitement and zeal, one accident changes their life after one of them lands up dead with her spirit still embodied and fluttering around.
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With the last days of high school closing on the girls, they need to find ways to get their unfinished business wrapped up or else risk being stuck in a ghost form forever. But, with the high school glitters spreading itself on one of them, it seems hard to keep their inner kind souls alive as bitchy life problems keep surfacing around them and pulling them down and tearing them apart.
Essentially, Boo Bitch picked up the isolated nerd girl in school becoming the queen bee trope from the very start, making Lana Condor’s Erika a mirror image of Lindsay Lohan’s Cady from Mean Girls, with a different subplot working to drive the characters to become the bad bitch from the sad bitch. This makes the first half of the series quite predictable yet enjoyable as it remains very faithful to the trope.
However, it is surely the final act of the series, especially episodes seven and eight that pull the rope down to make the show different, unique and fresh. It puts love, popularity and enmity all in the backseat and prioritizes the friendship between the girls making it endearing and truly game-changing.
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All the performances in Boo Bitch are delivered perfectly. Be it Mason Versaw’s Jake C being a total confused babe or, even, Erika’s little brother being the perfect representation of how younger brothers are in his short screentime. Although, it is truly Lana Condor who pushes her boundaries and establishes herself not only as the girl-next-door but also as a Rebecca George in the making. Watching Condor take on such a different vibe in the second half of the show and, nailing it, unlike others was definitely one of the most fun things the series had to offer.
Deep at heart, though, Boo Bitch is more about love and friendship more than anything else. With its ghost embodiment plotline, it could have tackled themes of mortality and selflessness with more fineness but, being a coming-of-age, young adult show, it did throw enough but, yes, you would have to dig them around.
Boo Bitch: Final Verdict
Netflix’s Boo Bitch is definitely a must-watch for high school drama fans who are looking for more than just the cringe romance. It has a weak narrative and really flawed loopholes at the surface but, somewhere down the line, this series makes you feel good about yourself and life. It does not challenge your mind in the deep abyss but, lets you adore the relationships around you, evaluate them, understand the influence of social media and, most, importantly help you know the difference between ‘who you are’ and ‘who you want to be.’
You can watch all the episodes of Boo Bitch, now streaming on Netflix.
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