Stacey McGill (Shay Rudolph) is sophisticated, self-conscious, and boy crazy. Claudia Kishi (Momona Tamada) is optimistic, creative, and a misfit in her own family.
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In her new TV form, club president Kristy Thomas (Sophie Grace) is authoritative, well intentioned, and a little selfish. What does that look like onscreen? It would be terrible for the show to be thoughtlessly sweet, but arch detachment would’ve been even worse.
There’s an almost paradoxical sentiment in it, something like heady, thrilling earnestness. The two-decade time jump concerned me what does The Baby-Sitters Club look like now that all these kids have mobile phones? Mostly, I had trepidation about mood.
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I worried about casting, and whether the series would fall into the TV trap of making the protagonists seem implausibly old, even when they’re supposed to be 13. So I was worried about an adaptation of The Baby-Sitters Club with the same skepticism of anyone who loves something and then learns it’s going to be remade. I remember some scenes with intense detail: Claudia breaking her leg, the reveal of Stacey’s secret, Jessi learning ASL so she can babysit for a family with a deaf child, Kristy navigating her parents’ divorce. They were given real responsibilities and sometimes made consequential mistakes. The protagonists, a band of self-sufficient, thoughtful, middle-school-aged girls (and one boy!) dealt with health crises and upheaval within their families. The world of The Baby-Sitters Club was straightforward and obstacles could usually be overcome - but not always.
The characters were vivid, distinct, and clearly drawn their problems were often simple but deeply felt. Like more than one 9-year-old in 1994, I was obsessed with the books for a brief, intense period of my life. I was dubious about the prospect of adapting the series. Watching the show’s ten episodes, which all drop this Friday, July 3, was the most comforting, delightful stretch of viewing I’ve had in the last few months. Other shows I needed to watch, deadlines, laundry, feeding my children, all of it was just stuff I had to get done so that I could go back to The Baby-Sitters Club, a Netflix adaptation of the beloved middle-grade book series by Ann M. There was a week this month - one week out of this awful, excruciating spring and summer - when I found myself drawn to one TV show over really anything else in my life. Also pictured: Claudia’s secret candy stash. Say hello to your friends (left to right) Stacey McGill (Shay Rudolph), Claudia Kishi (Momona Tamada), Mary Anne Spier (Malia Baker), and Kristy Thomas (Sophie Grace), in Netflix’s The Baby-Sitters Club.
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