Review: Julie and the Phantoms (season 1)
I’m not a huge fan of standard-to-bad quality shows. I can’t stand the bad ones because… well, because they are bad, but it is even more painful to watch the standard quality shows because I know I could not do something better, so I often try to avoid them. I would have tried to do the same with this one, but my friend insisted so much that I should watch it because I was gonna like it, that I just couldn’t say no. And I don’t regret it. Let me explain. ' Julie and the Phantoms' is Kenny Ortega’s show on Netflix that adapts Julie e os Fantasmas (the Brazilian original) with a High School Musical feeling to it. It does not sound that good. And that is why I was so sceptical about it. But now, I see this was not the problem. First things first, let’s start with the most obvious problem: the overused tropes. You know them, I know them, and probably both of us don’t like them. I just could not ignore them, especially when watching the mean blonde (it’s kinda gin...