Review of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

I was excited about there being a new Disney series based on High School Musical, a movie that was my entire childhood. Knowing that some of my favorite Disney Channel actors and actresses were on here too made me even more excited to watch it. My friends were all telling me how good this show was and I decided to give it a shot and watched a few minutes of one of the episodes with my sister. It's pretty corny and cringy - the Nini-Gina "rivalry" that is included is really unnecessary and honestly made me cringe more and made me more uninterested. For me, it doesn't accurately represent high schoolers today and overall the show is pretty dull. I was half asleep by the middle of the episode; it just isn't that compelling to watch and it's kind of unoriginal. Like the director, trying to be that stereotypical "cool mom"? Makes me cringe twice as hard. However, on the better end, there is a great amount of POC and LGBTQ+ rep - Nini has two moms, girls seem to take on an important role in the show, so A+ for that. I think the show does have a lot of potential, but the way they executed all of this was pretty poor. The creators kind of just took famous ideas from popular TV shows and squished them into this TV show. I like the concept of a mockumentary, but agreeing with quite of other reviewers on here, the transition to "personal thought interviews" like The Office does seem kind of unnatural for a show like this. In my opinion, a pause and just like a voiceover would be more effective. I think I could watch it again if it improves, but here's my two cents for now.