.AlexisKG reviews HSMTMTS (that's 'High School Musical: The Musical: The Series' to you), calling it 'a slyly self-aware work of vertically integrated genius.'
’s insecure diva, Sharpay, Gina gets stuck as Nini’s understudy, and finds herself having to scheme with Nini’s double-threat jock/drama nerd boyfriend, EJ , to find a way to untangle the weird emotional web the school’s new overly invested drama teacher has woven by making the “inspired” creative decision to cast Nini’s lovelorn skater ex Ricky as a rather unconvincing Troy.
All this convoluted high school drama-meets-movie musical plotting is fun, but it’s not really what will catch the discerning Disney Channel fan’s eye. That distinction goes to all the details woven between the lines: There’s Big Red’sbomb, of course, which works as a coruscating flare alerting viewers to the fact that Disney+ isthe Disney of your DCOM childhood.
Undergirding all of this trailblazing weirdness is the show’s format, which blends the handheld shaky cam footage and talking head sidebars of an-style mockumentary when telling the present-day story, and a more traditional scripted teen dramedy feel for the flashbacks that focus on Nini and Ricky’s past relationship.
All that said, while I did promise earlier in this review that I wasn’t going to write anything more for the dug-in Disney curmudgeons, I’m going to take that back. Because here’s the thing: The corporate behemoth that Disney has become is literally the only operation in town that could produce something as vertically integrated and as a richly and winkingly self-referential as.
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