This trailer for Netflix's The Baby-Sitters Club proves Claudia is still the coolest
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Say hello to your friends (again): Netflix has released a new trailer for The Baby-Sitters Club, the streamer’s upcoming reboot based on the popular YA novels by Ann M. Martin. And while a few things have changed—including some welcome diversity—one thing remains the same: Claudia Kishi is still the coolest.
Premiering on July 3, The Baby-Sitters Club follows a group of friends as they form the eponymous group to give neighborhood parents a one-stop shop for all their baby-sitting needs. That’s it. That’s the hook. Along the way, the teens will deal with poopy diapers, hopes and dreams, and typical high school issues—it’s just kinda nice, ya know? The new series stars Sophie Grace as Kristy, Malia Baker as Mary Anne, Momona Tamada as Claudia, Shay Rudolph as Stacey, Xochitl Gomez as Dawn, and Alicia Silverstone (!!!) as Kristy’s mom, Elizabeth Thomas-Brewer.
Rachel Shukert (GLOW) serves as showrunner on the series, with Lucia Aniello (Broad City) as executive producer and director. Here’s the official rundown from Netflix:
Netflix’s new series The Baby-Sitters Club is based on the best-selling, beloved book series that follows the friendship and adventures of Kristy Thomas (Sophie Grace), Mary Anne Spier (Malia Baker), Claudia Kishi (Momona Tamada), Stacey McGill (Shay Rudolph) and Dawn Schafer (Xochitl Gomez) as the middle-schoolers start their babysitting business in the town of Stoneybrook, Connecticut. Rounding out the cast, Alicia Silverstone plays Elizabeth Thomas-Brewer, the selfless single mother of Kristy Thomas and love interest of all around good guy Watson Brewer, played by Mark Feuerstein.
Ann M. Martin, the series author and show producer, conceived the idea of these inspiring young girls with different backgrounds, personalities and opinions that were brought together by a business venture they created and bonded through the friendships they forged. The adaptation of the contemporary dramedy that continues to champion friendship, female empowerment and entrepreneurship was led by Rachel Shukert (Glow) as showrunner and Lucia Aniello (Broad City) as executive producer and director.
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This isn’t the gritty, supernatural reboot I was hoping for.
It was before they ripped it out of Zack Snyder’s hands.
I’d settle for backstabbing gossip and petty catfights. Anything to distract from the realities of how childcare works these days.
Imagine what all those [former fanfic] writers at the CW would have done with it. Baby demons!
“Hey we just got a call to babysit a porcelain doll that may or may not be possessed!”
I’m down for a crossover episode.
They are so going to make Kristy gay.
So the real Babysitters’ Club is the friends we made along the way.I used it wrong, didn’t I?
Say hello to your friends (again): Netflix has released a new trailer for The Baby-Sitters Club, the streamer’s upcoming reboot based on the popular YA novels by Ann M. Martin.Why do these qualify as YA books?
They don’t. They’re Middle Grade (generally aimed at 8-12 year olds). If you want, you can specify that they’re Upper Middle Grade (generally aimed at 11-13 year olds). Middle Grade isn’t as culturally-relevant of a genre, though, so it gets lumped with YA as “fiction for slightly-older children.”
They’re childrens books, not even middle grade. They are read by 2-4th graders. Some people like to call anything that’s not a picture book or an adult book YA.
Not sure the premise has aged that well honestly. People don’t just hire 13 year olds to watch their kids anymore when you can hire a poor college kid to do it for the same price in most cases.
I read these as a kid and was skeptical then that someone would let their 11 year old (one of the junior BSC members) watch their siblings over the weekend (a plot point in of the books).