As we enter the vacation season, chances are you’ll be in search of one thing candy and simple to binge in your journey house, or when it’s essential take a break from the household. Enter the brand new Netflix sequence, My Life with the Walter Boys, which quietly dropped on Friday December 8, 2023.
Based mostly on Ali Novak’s e book of the identical title, the present follows 16-year-old Jackie Hudson (Nikki Rodriguez) who’s compelled to maneuver to small city Colorado from New York Metropolis to dwell along with her new guardian Katherine Walter (Fits’ Sarah Rafferty), and her giant household when tragedy strikes and her total household is killed.
Jackie, who’s a kinder Blair Waldorf (full with preppy Higher East Aspect seems to be together with polo shirts and chinos) takes the transition in stride as finest as she will, till she meets the Walter boys – Katherine Walter’s seven sons, Will, Cole, Danny, Alex, Nathan, Jordan and Benny, and two nephews Lee and Isaac – and their youthful sister Parker.
My Life with the Walter Boys hits nearly each trope you’ll be able to consider – the massive metropolis lady within the small city group, the highschool soccer participant’s jealous girlfriend, brothers at odd and in addition brothers in love with the identical lady, the most effective pal’s unrequited love, the farm in bother, the youthful sister who seems like she must be tomboy – however someway, it really works.
© NetflixAre there points? Sure.
With the 5 eldest boys plus Jackie, the farm’s monetary troubles, and supporting characters from the highschool together with the steering counselor all receiving their very own storylines, a few of them have little depth, throughout ten 40-minute episodes.
© NetflixEven storylines for Jackie fail to really dive into the upheaval she faces; Jackie is a Latina who’s dropped from her busy life and circle of high-achieving friends in New York to the Colorado world of rodeos and highschool festivals.
Set over nearly a complete college yr, there was scope right here for an attention-grabbing story on ethnicity and being the outsider on the within, and even an intimate take a look at grief and the way teenage women course of feelings.
© NetflixHowever as a substitute the main target stays on Jackie’s love life and the triangle she finds herself in between brothers Alex (Ashby Gentry) and Cole (Noah LaLonde).
As episode one ends it is already clear that Alex is midway in love with Jackie, whereas Jackie is drawn to Cole, the stereotypical dangerous boy who any viewer value their salt will already acknowledge as hiding a softer aspect for a cause that can be decided at a later date.
© NetflixNoah as Cole brings the broody swagger wanted for any small city dangerous boy, trying up at Jackie from below his blonde bangs, and is proficient sufficient to make the viewer root for him as we slowly unpick what turned him from the star quarterback star to the impolite and brash boy silently crying out for assist.
He is the alternative of youthful brother Alex, the candy and romantic horse rider who’s hurting over an as-yet-unnamed incident that occurred with Cole earlier than Jackie arrived.
The 2 brothers are at odds, even earlier than Jackie will get within the center, however with so many Walter kids, mother and father Katherine and George (Marc Blucas) have, shock shock, but to see the tensions brewing below their very own roof.
© NetflixThe episodes play out with this backwards and forwards escalating with an explosive second that sees a turning level emerge – however the last moments of the season drop a serious cliffhanger that had me contemplating going straight to the unique supply materials to search out out what occurs subsequent.
Here is hoping Netflix offers us a season two — and that it retains all of the tropes we love for a cause whereas additionally providing a deeper perspective and narrower focus.
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