Alexa & Katie is an American sitcom created by Heather Wordham as a Netflix original series. Matthew Carlson serves as showrunner. The series debuted on Netflix on March 23, 2018, and ran for three seasons, concluding on June 13, 2020. 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 ill 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 high school seems to bring while Alexa is dealing with cancer. Alexa is battling cancer. This is where the typical high school experience differs from a lot of people since Alexa is undergoing treatment for cancer. While it’s not a foregone conclusion sometimes she does end up losing her hair and has to find some way to fit in so that she won’t look weird or give other kids a reason to harass her.
The cast of Alexa and Katie :
- Paris Berelc
- Emery Kelly
- Eddie Shin
- Jack Griffo
- Forever in Your Mind
- Tiffani Thiessen
- Finn Carr Actor
- Nathaniel J. Potvin
