Netflix's Baby-Sitters Club Avoided Repeating The Books' Biggest Mistake
Netflix's The Baby-Sitters Club series managed to avoid the books' biggest mistake in Baby-Sitters Club's season 2. Based on the young adult book series by Ann M. Martin, The Baby-Sitters Club, which was recently canceled, made quite a few alterations in adapting the books for a modern audience. While The Baby-Sitters Club, created by Rachel Shukert, stayed faithful to the spirit of the original series, there was one change made in the Netflix series that benefitted the show for the better.
One of the biggest and most shocking plot points in the Baby-Sitters Club book series is Dawn Schafer, a main character, moving back to California. Dawn originally moved to Stoneybrook, Connecticut in book #4, Mary Anne Saves The Day, which was adapted in the Netflix series' season 1. After feeling a strong bout of homesickness, she decides to return to California in book #67, Dawn's Big Move. Dawn comes back to Connecticut after a few months, but moves back to California for good in book #88, Farewell, Dawn.
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However, in Netflix's Baby-Sitters Club series, Dawn does not move back to California, which was the right call for the show. It would have been easy for the Netflix series to write Dawn's character out, especially since Dawn's original actress, Xochitl Gomez, departed The Baby-Sitters Club after season 1 to film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, where she plays teen superhero America Chavez. Yet, getting rid of Dawn's character would've had a profound effect on Netflix's Baby-Sitters Club. Dawn was a fan-favorite character in the books, and her character in the show is similarly beloved, especially since Dawn in the show was changed
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