Boo, Bitch

Falling flat amongst a number of better teen shows, Netflix's Boo, Bitch isn't worth your time.

Go too far in one direction and the audience is left unable to care about any of the characters. Colletti is also terrific as the best friend who just wants to see Erika be happy. So much of the series is derivative. Too many of the jokes fall flat, like the recurring one about Alyssa (Alyssa Jirrels) who didn’t know she was pregnant and gave birth in a hot tub… There’s a surprise twist which I won’t ruin but I also don’t think will be too hard for you to guess (it references another popular film). Showrunners Erin Ehrlichand and Lauren Iungerich count shows like Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, On My Block, and Awkward between them. Go too far in the other direction and the show may end up not being satire at all. You’re gonna live life” go down the side of the screen. And though she’s dead, everyone around her can still see her and talk to her. “We’re finally leaving high school and all we have to show for it is our education,” Gia laments. It is a scary time to be creating television. The CW just canceled Tom Swift. Despite being based on a series of popular novels, there’s not a lot of chatter about Amazon’s The Summer I Turned Pretty. How do you reach the target demographic who prefers their entertainment in Tik-Tok sized snippets? No show seems to be creating that much buzz.

Lana Condor (Erika Vu) · Zoe Colletti (Gia) · Mason Versaw (Jake C.) · Aparna Brielle (Riley) · Tenzing Norgay Trainor (Gavin) · Jason Genao (Devon).

Along with those, he’s also appeared in films such as the popular superhero movie, Logan, and Ladrones. She’s also appeared in several other TV shows such as Grimm, The Librarians, Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life, and more. Next up on the cast list of Boo, Bitch, we have Zoe Colletti, who portrays Gia, the best friend of Erika. Colletti has been all around the map in terms of where she has worked, from movies to television. Mason Versaw is relatively new to Hollywood, as most of his roles have been smaller parts where he hasn’t been given the chance to truly shine as much. In 2022, she starred in the HBO Max original film, Moonshot, and in the past, she’s appeared in films such as X-Men: Apocalypse, Alita: Battle Angel and more. Telling the story of Eika Vu, a simple high schooler, all she wants is to live her life to the fullest and she decides to go to an absolute rager of a party.

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The bolder and weirder youth fashion gets on TV, the wider the door opens for real-life teens everywhere to dabble and experiment with their self-expression. That’s not to say that every teen on every teen show should dress like someone you’d see down the aisle at the grocery store. And besides, it’s always more fun to watch a show go over-the-top with its wardrobe choices than to see the pendulum swing in the opposite direction. Still, as more and more shows try to capture today’s teens’ take on Clueless chic, the efforts can feel strained. Sometimes, however, the youth’s adoration for power clashing and decade blending seems to short circuit the adults tasked with replicating (and heightening) teen fashion on screen. It’s been decades since anyone could honestly expect a kid on most teen TV shows to dress like one of the mop-heads you might find at your local skate park.

Aparna Brielle is perfect as mean girl Riley in Netflix's comedy series Boo, Bitch. Learn more about the talented actress bringing her to life!

You can find Aparna on Instagram @aparnabrielle. She has more than 34.5k followers, although she doesn’t have that many posts, less than 30. Aparna Brielle plays mean girl Riley, who is essentially the show’s main antagonist. Boo, Bitch starring Lana Condor has finally arrived!

The limited series starring To All the Boys' breakout Lana Condor as an embodied ghost starts off irreverent and devolves into nonsense.

Condor is an appealing actor who seems to relish the 180 – she can pull off the role of stone-faced high school villain – but even she can’t compensate for the show’s abrupt heel turn, nonsensical plot (even for a story about a ghost) and very loose handling of grief. The final two episodes demand that the audience acknowledge the death of a loved one – ghosts can’t stick around forever, after all – but not care enough to actually think about what that means nor tease it out for anything beyond a quick resolution. By the sixth episode, I already missed the innocence of watching the first 30 minutes and not knowing how annoyingly, unnecessarily mean Erika would become. In search of any helpful info beyond The Sixth Sense and Patrick Swayze in Ghost, the two enlist a student supernatural club, whose medium, Gavin (Tenzing Norgay Trainor) takes a rare interest in Gia. The gleefully bonkers quartet, including wannabe magician Brad (Reid Miller) and psychic Raven (Abigail Achiri), are the funniest part of the show – I laughed at a good third of their lines. In her terms: “Till I figure out my unfinished business, I’m going to get down to business.” (Again, the line between hokey and camp is hard to parse.) We meet Erika and Gia 48 hours “pre-mortem”, on the precipice of their final six weeks of high school.

Boo, Bitch! Premiere: Grade Netflix's Ghostly Lana Condor Comedy Series. By Andy Swift / July 8 2022, 4:00 PM PDT. Boo Bitch Netflix.

Weigh in via our polls below, then drop a comment with more of your thoughts. Heck, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t also see shades of Matty McKibben in Boo, Bitch!‘s dreamy-but-sensitive male lead. But for Erika, it’s more like purgatory.)

Netflix's 'Boo, Bitch' features Lana Condor as Erika Vu, a girl who dies and has to find a way to pass on. But how did Erika die and what happens at the end ...

Gia is officially able to pass on after she's finally known among her classmates and everyone receives a text with a picture of her as she fades away. Before she pushed Gia, Erika got her BFF's necklace and switched their shoes in her ghost form to make it seem like Erika was the one that died. Nope. Gia explains everything in episode 7 after Erika discovers who really is under the moose.

Lana Condor is charming in Netflix's supernatural high school comedy, but the show is much too slight for its own good.

The young girls naturally turn to pop culture for clues, digging into everything from Ghostbusters and Ghost to The Sixth Sense, and figure that Erika just has unfinished business in this world before she can depart in peace. It’s what drives Gia and Erika to try all the new things (drinks! edibles! who do I yet want to be?), Boo, Bitch feels thematically on point and Condor is charming as Erika, even as she’s initially called to play a character whose mantra is “Better to be unseen than seen.” Borrowing from the Buffy playbook, here is a supernatural narrative that hopes to illuminate a very ordinary plight: not just feeling unseen but feeling like no one might actually miss you if you just disappeared. To be fair, she and Gia had already tried to make the most of their last two months as high school seniors. Having dutifully played the wallflowers for much of their time at school, the BFFs had decided to make up for lost time. Convinced she has unfinished business, Erika decides to make the most of this odd second chance.

Zoe Colletti plays Lana Condor's BFF in the new Netflix teen comedy, 'Boo, Bitch.'

“I went to a small school, and that didn’t go over super well for me all the time,” she says. “I’ve always marched to the beat of my own drum,” Colletti says. “But I’ve gotten the opportunity to play young characters who have really cool stories around them.” Her latest daughter role as Steve Martin’s character Charles’ stepdaughter in the new season of Only Murders in the Building is similarly dynamic — her character constantly surprises the detective trio, pushing their investigation in an unexpected direction. As a high schooler, she wasn’t worried about fitting in, and she certainly doesn’t care about it now. My brother got an agent, and the agent didn’t want me because [I] didn’t speak.” Both she and her brother got the part. Now, Colletti brings her infectious energy to her character Gia, loyal best friend to recently deceased Erika (Lana Condor) in Boo, Bitch. The Netflix dark comedy, out July 8, follows the tight-knit duo after Erika’s bizarre and untimely death.

Boo, Bitch is now streaming on Netflix. What is the comedy miniseries about? We shared the synopsis and so much more right here.

Then, one day, Erika and her best friend Gia decide they want to experience their last days as seniors living their best life, so they engage in a wild night out. she’s a motherf*%king ghost. The story follows a high school senior named Erika Vu, who has stayed under the radar for most of her high school experience.

Condor plays a high school senior who wants to be seen, but ends up needing to be dead first before it can happen.

We’re sure there will be some conflict at some point — that’s the way of the romcom — but we enjoy the chemistry Condor and Colletti have with each other in the scenes where they’re together. Parting Shot: “Why is that dead girl wearing my shoes?” says a panicked Erika as she sees her body under the moose. The first episode doesn’t really go into how Erika is dead but can still walk, talk, and essentially exist among the living; it’s the second episode where she and Zoe start trying to figure out the rules of this and why she’s still hanging around. Gia convinces Erika that they still have time left to make their mark on the school, and convinces her to go to the senior blowout party one of their classmates is throwing. Without Condor and Colletti playing the main roles, the show would have been very forgettable. The rest of the cast feels like generic high school stereotypes, so we’re hoping they can surprise us as the limited series goes on. She does a good job of running through Erika’s conflicting emotions: Happy that she’s finally being seen by her high school class and frustrated and confused that she’s dead — or dead-adjacent, at least. We also know she can effect the temperature and electronics; it’ll be fun to see her try to harness this as she navigates the rest of her senior year. “They’re mine,” says the voice of Erika Vu (Lana Condor). “Do the math. But the twist here is that she’s going to try to do all that while she’s very, very dead. Than how come Erika can still walk, talk, touch things, and interact with the living world? Now, they’ve given her an entire limited series for her to play a wistful teen who wants to be seen and find some love.

Netflix's new limited series 'Boo, Bitch' starring Lana Condor calls back teen movies and TV shows about the supernatural and mean girls.

As a ghost with nothing to lose, Erika becomes the bad bitch she never was when she was alive. While Boo, Bitch is not nearly as dark as Jawbreaker, there is a darkness to it. In many ways, Boo, Bitch feels like a loving callback to other iconic titles and themes. Lana Condor of the To All the Boys… movies stars alongside Zoe Colletti as Erika and Gia (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark), two loner BFFs who decide that they should attempt to put themselves out there so they don't graduate with regrets. When thinking about the themes of teen TV shows and movies, I can't help but think of the final speech that Drew Barrymore makes in Never Been Kissed. Yes, the 1999 movie is problematic (what with its plot about a young reporter undercover as a high schooler who falls for her teacher), but when Josie waits on the pitcher's mound to try to make amends with the man she wronged, she talks about growing up in a way that many of us know to be true. … And there's still that one guy with his mysterious confidence, who seems so perfect in every way—the guy you get up and go to school for in the morning."

Netflix's new series Boo, Bitch ends on a touching moment between Erika and Gia, but when you think about it, it doesn't make sense and is a big plot hole.

This is just the kind of terrifying discovery that pushes Erika to get a wiggle on and discover what that business is. Boo, Bitch relies on the sentiment being charming enough that you don't look too hard for flaws. Through a cloud, or an animal or…" However it does not clear up the incident with the lava lamp five months later. A LAVA LAMP. Are you making the connection? Early on, the girls set about trying to learn the rules of Erika's (which we now know to be Gia's) undead existence.

The stars of Netflix's latest series share their secrets from set in regards to Boo, Bitch's surprise reveal.

Yeah… things got real real by the end of Boo, Bitch and that twist was surprising! With the exception of Condor and Tenzing Norgay Trainor’s Gavin, who has medium powers, the rest of the Boo, Bitch cast had to be aware of not looking at Coletti because she was an invisible ghost the whole time who only Erika could see. After Lana Condor’s Erika Vu rises to high school fame and leaves her bestie, Zoe Colletti’s Gia, in the dust, she finds out that it has been Gia all along who was killed in a freak deer-car accident.