Baby-Sitters Club for the 2020 Millennial/Gen Z Soul

Baby-Sitters Club is the middle school educational special for the millennial soul. That delightful club of girls just looking to make a business, hang out with their friends, and get through adolescent life is honored with a very decent reboot on Netflix. In the age of redos, remakes, and continuations, this 90s style, but modern retelling, is done with the family friendly vibe it always had, and the deeper moments I remember. It was largely written and directed by Lucia Aniello (Producer/Director Broad City) and is a majority women led program that deserves a good watch in my book. This review will have light spoilers, but nothing to take away from the family fun that was always the Baby-Sitters Club. I, for one, am a Baby-Sitters Club aficionado. Yup! I had (still have) almost all of the books sitting in my childhood room, I watched the 90s TV show and own the movie on VHS. No forreal I still have it. Image Courtesy of Aisha Jordan I don’t know why I became this Baby-Sitters Club collector, (I of course also had Nancy Drew). Maybe it was because I grew up in a small town in western Mass with majority mixed kids and white kids and few kids of color. It doesn’t mean there were never Black kids. We were there of course. We just all knew each other and most of the time we were the only Black kid in our classrooms. Maybe, it was the business aspect of it. My Virgoness was like look at these girls making a whole business in middle school! I then started my own bookmark and frien…