Season two of Peacock’s The Bell is saved On Wednesday, November 25, reboot was released. It did the same thing as all modern reboots: it pushed originality to the forefront of wakeism.
Anyone who was a tween or teenager in the early 1990s knows that an appeal of the original The Bell Saves the Bell was cute boys dating cute girls. In the 2020s version, it is now a cute boy dating a trans female who is really a biological male while his former girlfriend announces she is bisexual and dating a female in the new season. This reboot trades sexual confusion for cuteness.
The series features a handful of heterosexual teenagers. The sweet heterosexual boy, Gil (Matthew Sato, dates the pretty heterosexual girl, Daisy (Haskiri Velazquez), but he turns out to be a liar who is just wooing Daisy to win a contest. These darned heterosexuals look so bad! Or as one lesbian character puts it about straights at a school dance, “God, it’s going to be so tragic with all the straight kids flossing to the ‘Friends’ theme song or whatever it is they do.” Straight people are passé.
Daisy does start a relationship with Mac (Mitchell Hoog), a handsome lead character with no deceptive intentions towards her, in the season’s final episode. So, the token heterosexual high schoolers at least get one good relationship.
Pro-trans messaging is another major theme of this second season. The episode 5 “From Curse-to Worse” saw parents of a rival high school request that a biological male be made trans to start the soccer team. Lexi (transgender girl Josie Totah), then attempts to “solve” transphobia by creating a play that sees “the Pope being trampled and beaten by a cow.” The cow represents Harvey Milk, the notorious pederast who is revered by the radical LGBTQIA movement. (In another episode, Lexi reads a book of “Monologues for Sex Positive Sluts.”) Turns out, the Pope was actually Olivia Pope from tv.
At the end of ‘From Curse to Worse,’ Lexi ditches her play because it goes too far even for the high school’s LGBTQIA pride club. In lieu, she joined the pride club in which “queer or trans joy” is an act of resistance. The episode closes with a slideshow pointing out a website that explains how to combat “antitrans” legislation. You know, the kind of legislation that acknowledges biological reality in sports.
This woke new world is plagued by the problem of sportspeople denying biological reality. The Bell Saves the Bell. Aisha (Alycia Passcual-Pena), a sophomore female, was “star quarterback” for a football team made up of teenage boys last season. She could miraculously beat all the boys on her school’s team and at competing high schools as well. This season, fall football is cancelled after the coach gets an injury so Aisha goes on to be a successful wrestler against boys instead.
Aisha is bisexual and “decolonizes” her Spanish class when she isn’t wrestling with the men. A clueless white teacher mocks her Dominican Spanish and demands she only speak using the Castilian dialect. When Aisha and the teacher are called to the office, the teacher insults her Dominican heritage and is fired. “I cannot be racist. “I’m gay,” protests he. His character may be the most non-heroic homosexual in any teen TV series. His status as a nasty white male apparently eclipses his homosexuality in the woke hierarchy.
The word “white” is often used as a pejorative in the series just as it is in most television shows nowadays. Characters speaks in a derogatory tone about “white girls”, the “white man” , and “rich white kids.” Daisy, who is the school’s president and is Latina, investigates whether or not “the Founder’s Dance is racist” and concludes, “It is.”
The show admiringly references left-wing women throughout, from Hillary Clinton to Sonia Sotomeyer. Are the left over their obsession with Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Aisha, Daisy, and Aisha argue on the bus about how society has mistreated famous black (or bi-racial) women like Megan Markle or Michelle Obama. (Yes, really.) And the dialogue on the bus somehow manages to even accuse Ivanka Trump of stealing fashion ideas from one of the original show’s Fake Black Lisa Turtle characters (Lark Voorhies).
The series is filled with a generalized wokeism. From a BLM/LGBT sign placed in the background to a class, to Lexi’s trans boyfriend who was unironically wearing a dress for talent shows, there are many examples of this wakingism. As with most Hollywood shows, there is no God, but the characters constantly reference “the universe” watching over them.
Lexi comments on “all these reboots” of popular teen programs in an inside joke during the finale episode. Hollywood, get some new ideas! Precisely. Hollywood is content to just retread old TV series. The big “updates” are just to make the reboots’ characters gay/trans/bi/pick-a-letter and insert big chunks of dialogue about race. Such reboots are not original, just boring and broken.
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