You know, I think I'm here from a nostalgic point of view. I realize this is a tv series aimed at children or young teenagers but here I am reviewing this title while I'm in my 30s.
I grew up with the BSC books and thought of them like crack. I couldn't wait to go to Walmart and buy BSC books with the pocket change I had on me. I read them for a good number of years until I aged out of the series and went to other things. Good number of years passed and I joined communities that snark the series and that inspired me to read through the series again with an adult perspective. The book characters could honestly be pretty cruel to each other. Mary Anne cuts her hair off, gets a makeover and the older club members shun her and treat her like garbage because how dare Mary Anne do something they don't approve of.
I've felt this way about the early 90s tv series and feel the same way with this series: They're both better written. I was always lukewarm about the big screen movie from the 90s. Anyway, I could buy the girls in the club as being close friends and being supportive of each other on both tv series. I also like how the girls have gained a clearer perspective than the book characters. This version of Dawn knows that some people are worse off financially than her family or the people she knows. Book Dawn didn't see that. Book Dawn was grossed out by a homeless woman eating out of the trash dumpster.
The book series went into a time warp and had the characters stuck at the ages of 13 and 11 for the bulk of the series. This tv series won't be able to time warp like that so here's hoping the characters are kept at the level they're on instead of deteriorating the way they did.
Would also like to point out that a few modern storylines are in this series. I know this world has gay people in it and people that feel like they're in the wrong body/gender so I'm absolutely accepting of the fact that the series chose to include people instead of excluding them.I realize there's some people that aren't accepting of either one so they might not enjoy the series because of that.
Anyway, I really enjoyed the series and congratulate the cast and crew for a great job. Here's to season 2!
I grew up with the BSC books and thought of them like crack. I couldn't wait to go to Walmart and buy BSC books with the pocket change I had on me. I read them for a good number of years until I aged out of the series and went to other things. Good number of years passed and I joined communities that snark the series and that inspired me to read through the series again with an adult perspective. The book characters could honestly be pretty cruel to each other. Mary Anne cuts her hair off, gets a makeover and the older club members shun her and treat her like garbage because how dare Mary Anne do something they don't approve of.
I've felt this way about the early 90s tv series and feel the same way with this series: They're both better written. I was always lukewarm about the big screen movie from the 90s. Anyway, I could buy the girls in the club as being close friends and being supportive of each other on both tv series. I also like how the girls have gained a clearer perspective than the book characters. This version of Dawn knows that some people are worse off financially than her family or the people she knows. Book Dawn didn't see that. Book Dawn was grossed out by a homeless woman eating out of the trash dumpster.
The book series went into a time warp and had the characters stuck at the ages of 13 and 11 for the bulk of the series. This tv series won't be able to time warp like that so here's hoping the characters are kept at the level they're on instead of deteriorating the way they did.
Would also like to point out that a few modern storylines are in this series. I know this world has gay people in it and people that feel like they're in the wrong body/gender so I'm absolutely accepting of the fact that the series chose to include people instead of excluding them.I realize there's some people that aren't accepting of either one so they might not enjoy the series because of that.
Anyway, I really enjoyed the series and congratulate the cast and crew for a great job. Here's to season 2!