Disney+ Retrospective - High School Musical The Musical The Series Season 1

So, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, let’s take a quick look at the first season. Why am I doing a retrospective and not a breakdown, partly because I only have so much room in the schedule, and partly because season 2 felt too much like a straight comedy and doing a breakdown of the plot would be akin to telling all the jokes. But because my time has some value to me, I’ll be doing only the 10 episodes of the first season. 

Disney Channel Musical Month - High School Musical 2

We conclude our look at Disney Channel Musicals with the High School Musical that doesn’t take place at High School, High School Musical 2.

High School Musical has been the benchmark for Disney Channel Musicals since its inception. It was one of the most successful original movies Disney ever produced for the Disney Channel, so High School Musical 2 had a lot to live up to. And looking at the figures it succeeded, it was and still is the most commercially successful Disney Channel Movie produced, with a song from the soundtrack peaking at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. The success was so wide-felt that its sequel went for a cinematic release with a bigger budget.

Does it hold up? Let’s take a look.

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2020 – f*ck this year so hard

COVID-19 has changed the game, it may take a very long time for things to go back to normal, even with better testing and other measures coming into force. Physical distancing will likely be part of the new normal, making the film industry, which relies on having butts in seats, a really shaky area. The one plus has been the rise of streaming services. Some of the year’s films have been released on-demand and some directly onto streaming services.

Disney+ came out in the UK just as I had to go into self-isolation. I had paid for a year upfront and got into a few things, this year I did a full retrospective on Austin and Ally and I plan to do full retrospectives on other series, one of which is coming very soon. I also plan to cover a few series episode by episode: the Mandalorian, the Marvel stuff when it eventually comes out, and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.

But to cover that show, I first really need to cover High School Musical itself, and since the motto of 2020 seems to have been “we’re all in this together” however disingenuous that may sound, I feel like it’s a good way to round off 2020.