Even her goodbyes to her parents and brother, before she (might) ascend by kissing Jake C, are played for laughs, given the same weight as, say, her final mochaccino with Gia. Erika can flicker lights and scramble screens, but still has to pee and go to school. The handling of Erika’s high school purgatory is, for the first half of the series, surprisingly lighthearted and just enough weird. In her terms: “Till I figure out my unfinished business, I’m going to get down to business.” (Again, the line between hokey and camp is hard to parse.) Neurotic, obsessive and hiding her condition, Erika has bigger priorities than being dead: namely, stealing her crush Jake C (Mason Versaw) from consummate mean girl Riley (Aparna Brielle), going to prom, and finally getting attention. There’s car headlights, a scream, and the next morning, Erika awakes to find herself a functional ghost.īoo, Bitch initially takes a pleasantly gonzo spin on the afterlife – “If a ghost in Ghostbusters can give a BJ then it makes sense that you can still pee,” Gia comforts Erika on her first confused morning post-mortem Erika later laments that completing one’s unfinished business might be a good time to finally try Wellbutrin. In one of the better high school party scenes I’ve seen in awhile, the duo agree to give risk a chance and say yes to everything. The inseparable duo are so invisible that they’re not included on the senior text chain, so boring that Erika’s parents (Cathy Vu and John Brantley Cole) sigh in relief when she says they’re going to party. We meet Erika and Gia 48 hours “pre-mortem”, on the precipice of their final six weeks of high school. (The title is a cute-ish wink until it becomes an overused refrain in the final episodes.) That Boo, Bitch holds the center at all for five 25-minute episodes is largely thanks to the commitment of Condor, Netflix’s immensely likable homegrown star of To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, and Zoe Margaret Colletti as her kooky, loyal best friend Gia. Created by Tim Schauer, Kuba Soltysiak, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Erin Ehrlich and Awkward’s Lauren Iungerich, Boo, Bitch straddles the fine line between campy and hokey, deliciously ridiculous and dumb, cheeky and cringe before the second half derails into borderline unwatchable, cheap nonsense. It’s all light and more fun than you might expect, until it isn’t.
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