Alexa & Katie is an American sitcom created by Heather Wordham as a Netflix original series. Matthew Carlson serves as showrunner. The series stars Paris Berelc and Isabel May as Alexa and Katie. Alexa is a high schooler suffering from cancer. Her best friend, Katie, helped her every step of the way. Katie even shaved her head for Alexa. Jolie Jenkins, Emery Kelly, Eddie Shin, Finn Carr, Tiffani Thiessen, with Jack Griffo also star. The series debuted on Netflix on March 23, 2018,[1] and ran for four parts, concluding on June 13, 2020.[2]
Lifelong best friends Alexa and Katie are eagerly anticipating the start of their freshman year of high school. The two friends confront a crisis when Alexa discovers that she is diagnosed with cancer and starts undergoing treatment for the illness, which leaves them feeling like outsiders at a time when what seems to matter most is fitting in. To support Alexa, Katie makes an important decision and shaves her head with Alexa. The girls try to navigate through all the troubles that high school seems to bring, together, while Alexa is dealing with cancer.[1]
Alexa & Katie is the first multi-camera sitcom produced by Netflix.[3] The series was ordered in early 2017 with Wordham as executive producer. Berelc and May would star as the protagonists with Carlson serving as showrunner.[4] In June 2017, Thiessen, Shin and Kelly were cast as Alexa's parents and older brother, with Jenkins cast as May's mother.[5] In August 2017, Griffo, Medders and Leighton were cast as Berelc and May's classmates.[6][7] On April 9, 2018, Netflix renewed the series for a second season, with Wordham replacing Carlson as showrunner.[8][9][10]
On February 15, 2019, the series was renewed for a third season of 16 episodes. The season was split into two parts, each featuring eight episodes and focusing on Berelc and May's characters navigating through their final years of high school.[11][12] The first part of the third season premiered on December 30, 2019.[13] The second part of the third season, which served as the series' conclusion, was released on June 13, 2020.[2]
Alexa has leukemia a type of cancer, however after the doctor clears her for school, she and her best friend Katie get ready to start their first day of high school. However due to Alexa's chemo her hair begins to fall out, which leaves her distressed. She convinces Katie to teepee her rival Gwenny's house, but they then realize they accidentally teepee'd their principal Trugly's house. After being suspended for three days, Dave then finds out that Alexa knew she was teepee'ing Trugly, making Katie upset. After Jennifer returns Katie's ski cap, which Alexa had borrowed when they teepee'd Trugly's house, Katie finds Alexa's hair in the cap and realizes why Alexa wanted to get in trouble. After Katie confronts Alexa, Katie helps Alexa by shaving her hair off, claiming that Alexa will never have to go through anything alone.
After the girls shaved their hair off, they go to a department store to buy wigs. The wig Katie wants to buy, however, costs $300, more than she can afford. Not wanting to let Alexa know about her money troubles, she buys the wig anyway, along with a brightly colored one. They also avoid Hannah and Reagan on many occasions making them upset. Meanwhile, Dave struggles with seeing Alexa without any hair and offends her after seeing her in her expensive wig saying "There's my girl". Katie has to return the wig until Jennifer gets her paycheck. Alexa and Katie then attend their first day of highschool in the brightly coloured cheap wigs.
Alexa wants to try out for the basketball team and compete with her rival, but due to her chemo, she isn't allowed to. Katie tries out for her as a sign of support. Subsequently, a rumor starts to spread that someone in the grade has cancer. Lori starts to work from home to be closer to Alexa, but it doesn't work out, due to Lori being so preoccupied with work as she struggles to parent. During basketball try-outs, Katie blocks a ball through an air jump, but causes Katie's wig to fall off and her bald head is revealed, leading everyone to believe she is the one with cancer.
Alexa continually ropes Katie into doing bad things with her to prove to her that her mother won't ground her. Including watching a rated R movie, spilling coffee on her mom's favorite sweater, etc. Then after having a heartfelt talk with Lori, Lori agreed to try to be around more. Eventually, Lori comes to her senses and grounds Alexa, and for getting a bad grade on her math test, hires a tutor, which is Lucas's friend Dylan.
As everyone thinks Katie is the one with cancer, everyone begins being so nice to her. After getting the lead part in the play Romeo and Juliet, she is left wondering if she is getting special treatment so Alexa tells everyone that she is the one with cancer to give Katie a fair chance. Jennifer asks Lucas to babysit Jack, however it proves harder than he thought.
As Alexa has reveiled she is the one with cancer everyone has started being very nice to her – even her rival, Gwenny. She continually plays pranks on Gwenny to get her to start being mean to her again, which ultimately works as Gwenny recks Alexa's wigg right before the school photos, Lori was able to get a new wigg in time but Alexa ends up changing her mind and takes the photo with out it. Jennifer and Jack form a rivalry with Dave over baseball.
Katie starts to ignore Alexa more and more, as she becomes focused on the play. Lori gives Katie life lessons during rehearsals, which annoys Jennifer to a great extent.
Katie starts to feel left out as Alexa, who is back in the hospital, is receiving support from her fellow cancer patients. Lori stresses over her care, and bakes a load of cookies to try to bribe the hospital nurse into giving Alexa special treatment.
Due to her low immune system, Alexa is ordered to stay home, however she video-chats with Katie on an iPad to access her lessons. Jennifer gets upset when Jack asks Dave to go to his school career day instead of her.
Alexa cooks Thanksgiving dinner, however it doesn't take long for it to be ruined. Meanwhile, Katie tries to reconnect with her father, but gets upset when he continues to treat her like a little girl.
Dave and Lori take Lucas on a trip to pilot-school interviews, leaving Alexa home for the weekend, at Jennifer's. However, she and Katie get up to no good while they are gone. Ryan asks Katie to the winter formal.
Jack takes a 'stray' cat under his wing, which Dave develops an allergic reaction to. While Dylan and Alexa try to get closer, Lucas persistently interrupts the two and tries to break them up.
Alexa and Katie get ready for the Winter Formal. Alexa convinces Katie to ask Ryan to the dance, and Hannah tells everyone. Eventually, the news gets to Ryan, and he says yes before Katie can even ask him. On the day of the dance, they find out there is a flu outbreak, meaning Alexa can't go. However Katie gets an idea which will allow Alexa to go; wearing a medical mask. Meanwhile, Jack tries to persuade Jennifer to get a puppy, and in the end, Jennifer adopts a rescue, who Jack names Potato. Upon entering the dance, Alexa finds everyone with masks, including Gwenny. Alexa dances with Dylan, and the two kiss. The episode ends with everyone dancing together to Katy Perry's "Firework".
The Mendozas struggle to deal with Alexa's upcoming checkup as her and Katie's first day of sophomore year arrives.
Katie uses a job-giving app to pay for an acting program in London with Alexa's help. Elsewhere, Jennifer and Jack take a bet to who can stay away from their addictions, coffee and chocolate, the longest.
After Katie's ChoreCats idea fails, she decides to apply for a job at Wired without telling Jennifer. Meanwhile, she and Alexa also try to sabotage Lucas's new relationship with Gwenny.
Katie struggles on her first day working at Wired, and Alexa realizes that her cancer has affected her basketball skills. Katie eventually learns how to deal with rude customers, and Alexa accepts her position in junior varsity.
Alexa and Dylan begin fighting over Alexa's friendship with Katie. Katie attempts to fix this at a Halloween party, which leads to a disastrous break up.
Alexa bottles her sadness about her break up with Dylan in order to go dress shopping with Katie, Lori and Jennifer. She eventually breaks down, realizing that her first relationship is over. Dave also helps Lucas with dating advice.
Alexa faces Dylan for the first time since their break up on Halloween, and Katie struggles to study for her midterms whilst working at Wired. Elsewhere, Lucas decides to create a band with his classmates Cameron and Steve, much to Lori and Dave's dismay. Katie eventually tells her mom about her job.
It's Christmas, and Lori decides to do secret Santa. Jennifer gets Lori and doesn't know what to get for her. Alexa finds her old cancer bag and remembers when she first got cancer.
Lori struggles to beat Dave and Jennifer during New Year's Eve activities with her naive partner, Jack. Elsewhere, Katie finally gains the courage to tell Ryan about her feelings for him, until she accidentally destroys Wired's coffee machine.
In the aftermath of the coffee machine incident, Katie ends up using all the money she saved up for the London trip. She decides not to tell Alexa as she's scared it will ruin her Sweet 16. Jennifer and Jack decide to fake sick to avoid going to work and school, respectively, for one last day after the holidays. Lucas is having trouble writing lyrics with his bandmates, especially when Gwenny returns from her holiday vacation. Alexa finds out about Katie, so she decides to cancel her Sweet 16 venue and move the party to her house. The refund from the cancellation is enough to fund Katie's London trip. Lucas's band performs, Megan shows up, Dylan and Alexa settle on good terms, and Katie reveals her feelings to Ryan.
Lucas goes to collage until he gets kicked out for starting a fire. Dave and Lori celebrate their 20th anniversary and Dave promises to make Lori a gazebo, (witch he dose throughout the season).
Alexa tells Dr. Corts she doesn’t wanna write it on cancer as shes more then that, and Katie tells her shes anxous about not getting into the same collage as Alexa.
The family is excited for Alexa as she has come to the end of her cancer treatment and has one last appointment, at the hospital Alexa meets Spencer in the gift shop, they exchange numbers. At the appointment Alexa is very upset to learn she has only upgraded to patient-centered care and still needs check ups. Spencer later texts Alexa telling her, he has cancer.
Meanwhile Katie wants the main role of Emily in the play Our Town, but also wants to join Peggy's study group, she ends up getting both but the study group has conflicting times with play practice, so she ends up picking a smaller part for the play so she can do both.
Alexa has been keeping in contact with Spencer and doesn't want to date him as she believes he just needs a friend. She later meets him at the hospital to support him though chemotherapy and is reminded of her time in chemo. By the time he gets his port flushed it becomes too much for her and she leaves.
Meanwhile Katie hopes to join Hannah clean up the park as she wants to demonstrate leadership skills for her collage resume, but ends up taking Jack to taekwondo practice, and try's to get a job there with no experience. She later gets assistant manager at Wired.
Alexa is looking forward to getting her drives licence and is upset when she fails the test. She talks to Spencer about it over the phone and learns it's more then just driving – it's freedom. So she gets more driving practice with Dave and accidentally breaks his gazebo he was creating.
Meanwhile Katie has gotten bored of her boy friend, but is scared to break up with him as she doesn't want to hurt his fellings, little dose she know he fealls the exact same way. She accidentally invites him over and they break up without hurting their feelings.
Its Christmas and Alexa is looking forward to seeing Dylan for the first time since he left for college. She checks on Spencer first and he seems uninterested. Then meets up with Dylan but his changed a lot. She then realises Spencer is losing his hair and goes back to him and gives him a silk pillow case and shaves his hair off and they almost kiss.
Meanwhile Kaite is hosting a canned food drive at Wired for her collage resume, and struggles to hangout with her mates as shes busy, she later wins the bet to make Barry laugh.
Alexa and kate are competing in a play competition and instead of performing a play that already exists Katie wants to write it herself as it would be good for her collage resume, her mates argue over what part they want so she rewrites it 4 times, when Gwenny quits last minute and Hanna takes her spot things start going bad. Alexa needs to leave to see Spencer in hospital mid play so she swaps with Katie and Katie gives Hanna a script and it starts to go better. They got third out of 3.
Alexa has been nervous to introduce Spencer to her mates and familiy. Lori invites him over for dinner. On the dinner table we learn what cancer Spencer has, Hodgkin lymphoma, Alexa leaves then Spencer joins her in the gazebo and tells her, he should of kissed her in episode 5, and that he wants a relationship but Alexa insists they stay friends, he then leaves.
Alexa and Katie decide to go Minigolfing to get their minds of the upcoming SATs test and how Alexa hasen’t heard from spencer in a while, Alexa runs into spencer while playing golf and they make up then see Katie breaking the golf course as a form of Stress management. Before the test Katie has a panic attack, causing them to miss the test.
In 2018, Alexa & Katie was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program.[14] In 2019, the series was recognised at the 12th Television Academy Honors.[15] The show won Favorite Kids TV Show at the 2021 Kids' Choice Awards.[16]
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