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  Sypnosis  During an assembly at Colegio Nacional (National School), a hacker exposes a huge secret of one of the students. This causes panic and humiliates a closeted transgender student. The hacker continues revealing students' secrets which causes numerous students to turn on one another. Sofía Herrera, an introverted teenager, tries to uncover who this hacker is before the dirt on her becomes public.   Cast & Character Main Ana Valeria Becerril as Sofía Herrera, her love interests are Javier and Raúl. She is a very observant and quiet student, often seen as an outsider by her peers and when secrets are revealed, she sets out to investigate who the hacker is. She is smart and very justice-driven, but normally has to keep the peace between Raúl and Javier and she suffers from mental health problems due to her family situation. Michael Ronda as Javier Williams, the new student and a love interest of Sofía. He quickly makes friends with Sofía on his fi...

Dash & Lily

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  Sypnosis During the Christmas holiday season, two teenagers living in New York City develop mutual romantic feelings as they open up to each other by trading messages as well as dares in a notebook around a multitude of locations. Along the way, they deal with how their blossoming romance affects and is impacted by friends, family members, and previous love interests.   Cast & Character Main Austin Abrams as Dash, a teenager who hates Christmas Midori Francis as Lily, a 17-year-old girl who wants to find love Dante Brown as Boomer, Dash's best friend Troy Iwata as Langston, Lily's older brother Recurring Keana Marie as Sofia, Dash's ex-girlfriend Michael Cyril Creighton as Jeff the Elf/Door Queen, a local actor Patrick Vaill as Mark, a clerk at the Strand Bookstore William Hill as Santa Claus/Uncle Sal, Lily and Langston's paternal uncle Leah Kreitz as Aryn, a member of Lily's caroling group Ianne Fields Stewart as Roberta, a member of Lily's carolin...

Racket Boys (2021)

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  Sypnosis  The series is about a middle school badminton club at Haenam Seo Middle School, which is in bad shape. It tells the story of several boys and girls facing challenges as they train to become national level badminton players and how they grow as they participate in a junior athletic championship. Yoon Hyeon-jong (Kim Sang-kyung), a former badminton athlete, and Ra Yeong-ja (Oh Na-ra), a legendary badminton player, now coach these boys and girls, who dream of becoming badminton idols.   Cast & Character Main Kim Sang-kyung as Yoon Hyeon-jong, A badminton coach and father of Hae-kang who moves to the countryside to earn more money Oh Na-ra as Ra Yeong-ja A living legend in the badminton world and junior high school coach, also called as "Ranos" for her go-by-the-book attitude, mother of Yoon Hae-kang and Yoon Hae-in Tang Joon-sang as Yoon Hae-kang An ex badminton prodigy and baseball enthuist, who starts playing badminton again after moving to ...

Cobra Kai (May 2018- present)

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  Sypnosis  Thirty-four years after being defeated by Daniel LaRusso in the 1984 All-Valley Karate Tournament, Johnny Lawrence, now in his 50s, works as a part-time handyman and lives in an apartment in Reseda, Los Angeles, having fallen far from the wealthy lifestyle in Encino that had been enabled by his verbally abusive step-father, Sid Weinberg. He has a son named Robby with his former girlfriend Shannon Keene, but he abandoned them both when Robby was born as his mother Laura died shortly before Robby's birth. Johnny, admittedly, has never recovered from his breakup with his high school girlfriend, Ali Mills. After losing his job, a down-and-out Johnny uses karate to defend his teenage neighbor Miguel Diaz from a gang of bullies. Miguel, an asthmatic kid who lives with his Ecuadorian single mother Carmen and grandmother Rosa, asks Johnny to teach him. Initially reluctant, Johnny finally agrees and decides to reopen the Cobra Kai karate dojo as a chance to recapture his p...

Tall Girl (2019)

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  Sypnosis Jodi Kreyman is 16 and 6 ft 1 + 1 ⁄ 2  in (1.87 m) tall. She has been tall for her age since she was three, which has made her insecure her whole life. Students continually ask Jodi, "how's the weather up there?". In contrast, Jodi's older sister Harper is of average height and a multiple beauty pageant winner. Dunkleman, a life-long friend, frequently asks her out, but she is reluctant, partly because he's much shorter than her. Stig Mohlin, a Swedish foreign exchange student, joins Jodi's class, and she is immediately interested, along with most girls in her school. However, Kimmy Stitcher, her bully, starts showing him around. Dunkleman is distressed to learn that Stig will be staying at his house as the host family. Jodi asks Harper for help getting Stig to notice her. Harper and their mother help her with a complete makeover. Kimmy and Schnipper prank call Jodi, pretending to be Stig and asking her to homecoming. To Fareeda's fr...

To All the Boys: Always and Forever (2021)

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  Sypnosis Lara Jean Covey, accompanied by her sisters Kitty and Margot, her father Dan, and her neighbor Trina Rothschild, visits Seoul for spring break. She reconnects with the memory of her mother by searching for a lock her mother had left on a bridge to memorialize her love for Dan, and finally manages to read her accompanying message, which says "for the rest of my life." Returning home, she mentions to her boyfriend, Peter Kavinsky, that the two of them never had a meet-cute, meeting Peter's disbelief because he remembers their first meeting quite well. She nervously waits for the result of her Stanford University application so she can attend college with Peter. As Dan's relationship with Trina becomes more serious and the family begins to plan their upcoming wedding, Lara Jean is disappointed when she is accepted to her safety schools, the University of California, Berkeley and New York University, but is rejected from Stanford. Initially leaning tow...

To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020)

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  Sypnosis Lara Jean Covey's high school sets up a volunteer program; while her boyfriend Peter Kavinsky volunteers with his friends, Lara Jean goes to Belleview Retirement Home instead, where her older sister Margot went. On her first day there, she meets Stormy, an eccentric old lady who Margot often mentioned and discovers that John Ambrose McClaren is also volunteering at Belleview. They talk about a love letter she had written to him many years ago, and he lets her read the letter as long as she gives it back to him afterward. Lara Jean is unable to stop thinking about their conversation and, in addition, is constantly insecure about her relationship with Peter because she can't stop comparing herself with her ex-best friend, and Peter's ex-girlfriend, Gen. On Valentine's Day, Lara Jean witnesses her classmates being serenaded by special acapella groups and is told by a friend that Peter had sent a group to serenade Gen every period, back when they we...

To All the Boys I've Loved Before

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  Synopsis Shy high school junior Lara Jean Covey writes letters to boys she feels an intense passion for before locking them away in her closet. Her most recent is to her childhood friend Josh, who was dating her older sister Margot until she moves to college, and breaks up with him. Lara Jean has always had a crush on Josh, but decides it would not be okay to date him. One night, Lara Jean falls asleep on the couch while hanging out with her little sister, Kitty, who sneaks into her room and finds her collection of letters. The following Monday at school, Lara Jean is confronted by a former crush, Peter Kavinsky. He received the letter she had written him, causing her to faint. After waking up, she sees Josh approaching with his letter, and in a moment of panic, Lara Jean kisses Peter to throw Josh off before running away. Lara Jean then encounters another recipient of a letter, Lucas, who is gay, as she begins to realize that all the letters have been mailed out. Sh...

I Am Not Okay with This (2020)

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  Sypnosis I Am Not Okay with This is an American coming-of-age black comedy streaming television series, based on the comic book of the same name by Charles Forsman. The series was released on Netflix on February 26, 2020 and received positive reviews, with praise for the performances, particularly from Lillis and Oleff. In August 2020, the series was canceled after one season due to circumstances related to the COVID-19 pandemic.   Cast & Character Sophia Lillis as Sydney Novak, a 17-year-old girl who starts realizing she has telekinetic powers Wyatt Oleff as Stanley "Stan" Barber, Sydney's neighbor and friend Sofia Bryant as Dina, Sydney's best friend on whom Sydney has a crush Kathleen Rose Perkins as Maggie Novak, Sydney's widowed mother Recurring Richard Ellis as Brad Lewis, Dina's jock boyfriend whom Sydney dislikes David Theune as Mr. File, the high school science teacher Zachary S. Williams as Ricky Berry, confident, monied jock and Brad's b...

Atypical (2017-2021)

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  Sypnosis Atypical is an American comedy-drama streaming television series created by Robia Rashid for Netflix. It focuses on the life of 18-year-old Sam Gardner (Keir Gilchrist), who is on the autism spectrum. The first season was released on August 11, 2017, consisting of eight episodes. The 10-episode second season was released on September 7, 2018. In October 2018, the series was renewed for a third season of ten episodes, which was released on November 1, 2019. In February 2020, the series was renewed for a fourth and final season, which premiered on July 9, 2021. However, the producers of the series are planning on filming a fifth season, but nothing is sure yet. The first season received mostly positive reviews, however, it is highly criticized for its lack of autistic actors, and many perceived inaccuracies in its depiction of autism. The second season featured autistic actors and writers, allowing them to have an opportunity to work and represent their communi...

All The Bright Places (2020)

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  Sypnosis Theodore Finch and Violet Markey are two teenagers who live unhappily in a small Indiana town. Violet is quietly dealing with Survivor Guilt after the death of her sister and Finch is a loner, called a freak by other students. They meet on the bridge where Violet's sister died in a car crash nine months earlier. Violet survived the crash, and has not been in a car since. She finds herself standing on the ledge of the bridge on what would have been her sister's nineteenth birthday. Finch, out for a run, sees Violet on the ledge and climbs up next to her, talking her down from a possible suicide. Finch begins a partnership with Violet for a school project that requires the students to explore Indiana together. Later, at home, Finch looks up Violet on Facebook, researching her sister's car accident, reading through Violet's old writing, and chatting with her online. Finch and Violet travel around Indiana to see sites chosen by him for the project. Vi...

Never Have I Ever (2020- present )

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  Sypnosis The story centers around Devi Vishwakumar (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan), a 15-year-old Indian-American Tamil girl from Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles. After Devi's father, Mohan (Sendhil Ramamurthy) passes away, Devi loses the use of her legs for three months. After a socially horrible freshman year, she wants to change her social status, but friends, family, and feelings do not make it easy for her. The following year, she tries to deal with her grief, Indian identity, and school life, also struggling with her relationship with her mother, Nalini (Poorna Jagannathan), her beautiful cousin, Kamala (Richa Moorjani), her two best friends, Eleanor (Ramona Young) and Fabiola (Lee Rodriguez), her high school crush, Paxton (Darren Barnet), and her nemesis, Ben (Jaren Lewison). The series is mostly narrated by professional tennis player John McEnroe for Devi, with one of the episodes narrated by Andy Samberg for Ben and another by Gigi Hadid for Paxton.    Cast & Character...

Elite (2018- present)

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   Sypnosis Season 1 After their school collapses, three working-class friends – Samuel, Nadia and Christian – are offered scholarships to Las Encinas, the most exclusive private school in Spain. The scholarships are sponsored by the construction company at fault for the school's collapse. At Las Encinas, the three are initially ostracized by wealthy students. As the school year progresses, their lives intertwine in a clash of lifestyles, resentments, envy, and sexual attraction. Through a series of flash-forward scenes of police interrogations, the audience is shown stories of the characters' relationships that lead to Marina's murder. Season 2 After the revelation of the murder, the second season deals with the lead-up to the disappearance of Samuel. Meanwhile, three new students – Valerio, Rebeka, and Cayetana – join the school where each of them has their own dark secrets. They befriend the students in their class whilst Samuel continues with his plan to c...

Doom At Your Service (2021)

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  Sypnosis Tak Dong-kyung (Park Bo-young), an editor for a web novel company, lives a fairly ordinary life until she stumbles into an unexpected fate. All in a single day, she finds out she is dying from glioblastoma and has only three months to live, learns that her boyfriend is a father-to-be and has a wife, gets scolded by her superior at work, and is spied on by a pervert before the pervert falls into a sinkhole. Drinking her problems away, she happens to see a shooting star from her rooftop apartment and drunkenly wishes for the world to be doomed. Her wish is heard by Myul Mang (Seo In-guk), a messenger between gods and humans. He was born between dark and light: when he breathes, countries disappear; when he walks, the seasons collapse; when he smiles, a life is extinguished. All he has to do is exist for something to fall into ruin. This is not his intention but simply his fate. On his birthday, he gets to choose a human's wish to fulfill. Sick of his fate, he...