Netflix has a new original series: The Baby-sitters Club! The second season and final covers eight books: Kristy and the Snobs, Claudia and the New Girl, Stacey's Emergency, Jessi and the Superbrat, Mary Anne and the Great Romance, Dawn and the Wicked Stepsister (notice the title change?), Claudia and the Sad Goodbye, and Kristy and the Baby Parade.
The plots are largely the same as the original books, so I won't rehash that except for the episodes that veer way off. But here are some things I noticed:
What stood out as surprisingly (not necessarily good or bad) different to me:
Mimi dies quietly in her sleep, without a drawn-out hospital stay. The suddenness of it helps the audience feel as shocked as Claudia.
Ashley Wyeth is still around--because she's Janine's girlfriend.
What I was happy stayed the same:
Another not happy about it same thing--Stacey's parents are fighting, badly.
Other interesting touches:
Claudia has a few shirts with portraits of artists on them, like Salvador Dali and Frida Kahlo.
A personal thing--Claudia narrates that she has the next 80 years to feel sad about her grandparent's passing, so why start now? She's 13, so she expects to die at 93. My grandfather just passed away, at 93.
