Whoever watched Alexa & Katie in its first season went through a roller coaster of feelings. The series, where the comedy predominates, makes fun with something delicate: cancer, which affects one of the main characters and against which she fights a hard battle. But far from using this as a ladder to make you laugh, the series shows the routine of a teenage girl with leukemia and her best friend, who doesn’t leave her. It speaks, therefore, of friendship and empathy, which already makes it an obligatory production for those who enjoy the genre of drama (watch here).
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Alexa & Katie Netflix accompany in this second season the life of the two teenagers after Alexa is considered cured of the cancer that afflicted her. This, of course, does not mean that she can fully live the life of a teenager, just like any other. It takes a lot of care, which she needs to take to keep the disease from coming back. With the help of her inseparable friend Katie, they now also have to face their sophomore year of high school, and deal with all the consequences of past events, especially from the end of the year’s prom which closed the first season of the series.
Speaking like this may seem like the series is more tense than the previous season. Wrong. Here there is a much greater lightness, because there are scenes that those accompanying Alexa & Katie would like to have seen in the previous season. For example: Alexa finally plays basketball (who saw the previous episodes know about the importance of this). There are still risks and dangers that make the series, in many moments, something rather melancholiac. But overall, good humor predominates here.
Alexa & Katie Netflix has, as a major attraction in this second season, the deepening of the friendship between the two girls. It’s a beautiful thing to watch, no doubt. At a time when relationships are so liquid (as it is philosophically discussed nowadays), watching an “old-fashioned” bond of friendship comes to excite. The two are inseparable and their friendship is unshakable. If they have gone through such a difficult time as this disease, high school and all the implications of age are easy to solve. But is it true?
Its weak point is still in the supporting cast, which is somewhat forced in several moments with performances that border the caricature. But nothing that spoils the well-armed sentimentality of a series made to cause laughter and thrill the audience.
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Synopsis 1: High school’s hard. Cancer’s harder. But they’re besties, and they’ve got this – because together, they’re never alone.
Synopsis 2: Alexa is battling cancer. But with her best friend, Katie, by her side, she’s also starting high school — and ready for whatever comes next.