Did you enjoy Andi Mack? There may be a show that resembles Andi Mack a lot in a way, and that you could enjoy. It’s called ‘Jamie Johnson’ and you could say that it’s Andi Mack if Jonah Beck was the titular character and the show had no storyline restrictions… which doesn’t sound very groundbreaking but hear me out.
From the get go, at the heart of the show are three friends: Jamie (which is basically Jonah Beck, he’s very bland and he thinks liking football is personality trait just like Jonah with frisbee BUT there’s also a hint of Andi when it comes to storylines with his family and rather shocking revelations surrounding his family), Boggy (which is basically a hybrid between Gus and Cyrus but without the gay factor),
and last but not least, Jack (which we could easily compare to Buffy – athletic girl who wants to join the boys football team and doesn’t care what others think about that because she’s basically better than everyone there, her journey’s amazing and there are also some similarities with her creating a new team along the way and her mom always being away, just like with Buffy)
Every group of protagonists needs an antagonist – that would be Dillon, who we could definitely compare to TJ – at first comes off very mean, does questionable stuff and has that one thing that makes him open up a bit (with TJ it’s dyscalculia and with Dillon it’s [I won’t spoil]) BUT Dillon’s characterization goes way deeper than that with his dad being a whole bully, Dillon’s one of the best developed characters on the show so far and they really did well with his character as the seasons went by… there’s also this other thing that connects him with TJ, which I will get to in a few.
We could say that these characters are the core four of the show since Season 1 but as the seasons go by they add up more and more interesting characters… with Season 3 and onward, they also write in character-centric episodes, which gives more development to characters that are not these four – for example Zoe who has to take care of her mom with MS; Ruby and Alba who are looked after by two foster moms which results into a whole storyline about homophobia (and surprisingly very honest and rough depiction of it), Wozza with ADHD, etc.
As the show progresses, the mood of the show gets rather serious, every character gets their own space and storyline, and the budget for the show gets better and better – in Season 4, the show’s football team competes in a world tournament in Sweden forreal and the scenes were filmed during the real event – them casting actual football players makes this whole experience a lot more authentic. Don’t even let me start on them showing one of the main characters getting hit by a car just like that… TRUST, this show is wild.
The show’s not only putting championing women’s football and gender equality at the front, but also in Season 5 mental health issues will be explored (possibly with Boggy) AND they’re taking Dillon on a journey to coming out as gay this season, which was heavily hinted at in Season 4…. I mean
The gay storyline starts next week (June 4, S05E05) with Elliott coming in the picture (he’s being looked after by Ruby and Alba’s moms as a foster kid on an emergency placement and in the trailer it’s revealed he’s gay).
Them creating a show which seems to be targeted at young guys and then putting in all the issues and storylines in to raise awareness is, at least in my humble opinion, a smart way to teach a certain group of people a lesson they wouldn’t want to hear otherwise… it’s a really chill show, easy to binge, AMAZING loving coaches (one of them on the pic below) throughout the seasons, the show has a lot of great moments. It may surprise you how far they go with some storylines for a show of this nature. The storylines are very consistent and if they start something, they pull it off all the way (unlike Andi Mack because of Disney restrictions). If you wanna watch, BBC has all the seasons on their site, come on.
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