It’s Time for ‘High School Musical’ to Graduate for Good

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Both the original Disney Channel movie series and the Disney+ spinoff, 'High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,' have run their course.

, have run their course. We’re going to need at least another decade before we can bring back the East High Wildcats for more kitschy dances and high school romances.has come a long way since it premiered in 2019, one of the very first original series to debut on Disney+.

, East High, where the movie took place, will put on a high school production of the show with Miss Jenn, who starred as a backup dancer in the movie. Since then, the series has veered away from its ironic beginnings. The series found a way to emulate the originalrioted over the fact that the HSM universe now prominently featured a gaggle of LGBTQ+ characters, and that *gasp* a young boy was now playing Sharpay—if you piss off Breitbart, you know you’re doing something right.

But the last two seasons have taken a slight detour into more hokey, less witty territory. Still, every episode is of equal quality to the original Disney Channel movies, and even if its legacy isn’t as strong as Kenny Ortega’s OG flicks, at least the show has made a huge star out of Rodrigo.Season 4. Miss Jenn is skipping over the first. Ricky and Gina , who are finally an official couple, will obviously be Troy and Gabriella. Kourtney will be Sharpay, and Carlos will play Ryan.

That’s because, across the hall, the High School Musical Universe is getting yet another reboot in the form of. Disney is bringing the characters back for one last hurrah. Everyone—sans Vanessa Hudgens, Zax Efron, and Ashley Tisdale—is back, from Lucas Grabeel and Corbin Bleu to Bart Johnson and Alyson Reed . The plot will follow the new “it couple” at East High. Not so shockingly, a bunch of the drama kids land roles as extras. One even scores a leading role.

have really started to feel like homework for the main characters. Everyone must have their perfect match. Happy couples are forced out of their relationships so that they can reunite or find new love in the final episodes. Characters who make no sense together end up in a boring pairing. It’s not that serious—it’s high school! Alas, gone are the days of Ricky and EJ competing for Nini’s hand.

 

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