The Baby-Sitters Club
20207.9tv
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In this contemporary take on the beloved book series, five best friends launch a baby-sitting business that's big on fun and adventure.
In this contemporary take on the beloved book series, five best friends launch a baby-sitting business that's big on fun and adventure.
“‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ was my ‘Star Wars,’” said Lucia Aniello, the director of the Netflix series and one of its executive producers.So the process of bringing the club to 2020 wasn’t so much about correcting retrograde attitudes as it was about lightly updating the world. The tone is still chewily wholesome — this is an oatmeal-raisin cookie of a show — and the set (a Vancouver suburb subbing in for the fictional Stoneybrook, Conn.) looks like it has been put through an Instagram filter designed by Norman Rockwell.
The Baby-Sitters Club is not a heavy show — quite the opposite — but its attention to these issues is very thoughtful and reveals just how compassionate the baby-sitters are. The kids are all right indeed.Netflix’s new version of The Baby-Sitters Club is a total triumph. It’s sweet, funny, hopeful, but most of all, encouraging. The message to girls, young and old, is that we are stronger together. The Baby-Sitters Club might be a pitch perfect show for kids and tweens, but it’s sure to become a feel-good obsession for grown women and men alike.
