Andi Mack

Andi Mack
🎵I'm ready for tomorrow, tomorrow starts today! There ain't no map to follow, but I'm with you all the way!🎵
Genre: Comedy Drama Family Running Time: 20 - 25 minutes Country: United States Release Date: April 7, 2017 – July 26, 2019 Network(s): Disney Channel Created by: Terri Minsky Distributed by: Walt Disney Television Starring: Peyton Elizabeth Lee Joshua Rush Sofia Wylie Asher Angel Trent Garrett Lilan Bowden Lauren Tom Seasons: 3 Episodes: 57

Andi Mack is an American comedy-drama television series created by Terri Minsky that premiered on Disney Channel on April 7, 2017, and ended on July 26, 2019. The series stars Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Joshua Rush, Sofia Wylie, Asher Angel, Lilan Bowden, and Lauren Tom.

Plot

Andi Mack is turning 13 when her older sister Bex returns home. With the help of her family and her friends Cyrus and Buffy, Andi works through her teenage life, including coping with the revelation that Bex is actually her mother and that her mother Celia is actually her grandmother and managing her crush on classmate Jonah Beck.

Why Tomorrow Starts Today!

1. It is one of the only Disney Channel shows that doesn't have a laugh track.
2. It has quite mature plotlines for a Disney show:
   • In the first episode, it was revealed that Andi's sister is her mother, as she got pregnant as a teenager.
   • In season 2, it was revealed that Cyrus Goodman is gay and has a crush on Jonah Beck.
   • Buffy's basketball teammate, TJ, has a learning disability and that is why he acts like a jerk.
3. The child actors are impeccable, despite their age, as they portray their characters, with tons of emotion and realism.
4. Realistic and relatable chemistry between the characters.
5. The theme song, "Tomorrow Starts Today", by Sabrina Carpenter is pretty catchy.
6. It has a diverse cast of characters: Andi has a Chinese mother and a Caucasian father, her best friend Buffy is black, and her other friend Cyrus is Jewish.
7. Plenty of heartwarming moments, such as when Cyrus comes out to Buffy, and she tells him that he's no different, despite his sexual orientation.
8. It is the first Disney Channel show to have an LGBT protagonist, Cyrus Goodman, and the show accurately depicts it.
9. All of the characters are deep, flawed, and relatable and have their struggles and arcs, such as Andi discovering that her sister is her mother, Cyrus coming out as gay, and Buffy dealing with a mom in the military.
10. It has some funny jokes, such as the running gag line, "Hey, who wants pizza?"
11. Even mean characters like TJ and Amber are likable because they both have personal struggles: TJ has a learning disability, and Amber's dad lost her job.
12. It ended Disney's Dark Age, along with Raven's Home, and DuckTales (2017).
13. Mack Chat, a series of segments where children discuss the events of the last episode, is very enjoyable and informative.
14. The final episode, "We Were Here", where Andi gets her family together fully, has a fun party with them, tells her friends about her getting into SAVA, and had an emotional goodbye with all of them, and hangs two of her pictures with her friends inside the shack, which was heartwarming, and was a good way to end the series.

Bad Qualities

1. It can be boring occasionally.
2. Season 2B tackles too many plotlines at once, and even handles some of them poorly, including
   • Buffy moving away, but then (spoilers) she moves back to Shadyside.
   • Cyrus tells Buffy that he doesn't have a crush on Jonah Beck, without telling him how he feels about him.
   • Andi and Jonah's relationship.
3. There are some occasional bad episodes.
4. Andi's personality started to become very shallow, to the point of being an uninteresting character, mostly during season 3.
5. Jonah never told Andi about his panic attacks onscreen, which felt like a loose end that deserved to be tied up, since that's the reason the two got back together in season 2, and Andi chose him over Walker.
   • There was a text conversation where he tells her, but many felt this wasn't satisfying as not everyone is even aware of Andi's Texts.
6. Some gross-out humor, mainly with Andi's little brother saying he needs his diaper charged, was used to promote the series back when it debuted.
7. Disney decided to not renew this show for a 4th season, which is pretty disappointing because it had the potential for extra storylines.
   • Conversely, fans of this series loathe Gabby Duran & The Unsittables for the exact same reasons. They're also resenting Bunk'd and Raven's Home for getting a season 4, later more because their show only got three seasons, by comparison.

Reception

The series has been praised for accurately representing the lives of young teenagers, with examples including a learning disability, panic attacks, a bar mitzvah, and the unplanned pregnancy of the mother of the title character. It has also been praised for normalizing the Asian-American experience as being diverse and multi-dimensional, and, therefore, normalizing diversity. It is the first series on Disney Channel to feature a gay main character, Cyrus Goodman, a distinction which has drawn considerable media attention, and was reported in the news as being historic and groundbreaking. Andi Mack became the first series on Disney Channel, in which a character has used the phrase, "I'm gay", which occurs when Cyrus comes out to Jonah in, "One in a Minyan".

Andi Mack Received a 7.4/10 on IMDb.

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