How Is Netflix’s ‘Boo, Bitch,’ About an Internet-Famous Ghost, A Real Show?
The timeless struggle of surviving high school has served as fodder for countless TV shows and movies. But Netflix’s latest YA series takes the concept more literally than we’re used to. In Boo, Bitch, Lana Condor plays sheltered teenager Erika Vu, who wakes up as a ghost after attending a rowdy rager and getting hit by a truck.
With unfinished business left on earth, Erika continues to attend school and decides to prolong her purgatory by becoming a famous influencer. Basically, after playing it safe for her whole life, Erika has decided to make the most of death. “I can stick around if I’m more famous in death than in life,” she explains to her best friend, Gia (Zoe Coletti). Why? No one knows!
Posting under the handle @erikavubitch, Erika relishes her newfound popularity as an overnight Insta baddie. She swaps her ponytail and jeans for Euphoria-style eye makeup, candy-colored fur coats, and statement earrings. However, with her post-mortem glow-up, she risks losing the friend who was by her side before she died and became cool. (LOL, seriously, what is this show?)