Sydney to the Max (2019–2021)
Terrible Show With Unlikable Lead and Bad Messages
31 March 2020
Sydney to the Max focuses on 13 year old Sydney Reynolds, her single father, best friend Olive, and her Grandma who lives with the family. The show goes back and forth with flashbacks of the dad as a kid in the 90's.

Another bland Disney Channel sitcom with a stupid laugh track centering around two annoying teenage girls. Yeah, we haven't seen that before. Rolls eyes. The lead girl Sydney is awful. She is a rude unlikable brat. The way her character speaks to the father is disrespectful and way out of line.

The first episode she yells at her dad that he's a hypocrite for doing the same thing he did when he was a kid.

Syndey ask for a dog her father says no and still goes and gets one anyway. Sydney wants to go to a concert with Olive, her father says no. And you guess it, Syndey and Olive sneak out anyway.

Syndey gets her period at school and needs a change of pants. Her father brings her the wrong pants and she gets an attitude and walks off.

Sydney dodges her curfew and gets grounded and can't go to an event with her friends. She's pesters her Dad to unground her and he finally snaps and says his decision is final. She scoffs at him "Your're the worst dad in the world" rolls her eyes and stomps upstairs to her room.

We're supposed to like this spoiled snotty little brat? Ugh....

The flashbacks feel like a cheap gimmick to cash in on 90s nostalgia and frankly add nothing to the show. You can cut out the flashbacks and the show would be exactly the same. And sometimes the flashbacks have nothing to to do with the main plot.

Anyway, not a fan of this show. It's bland, it's not funny, the lead is unlikable, characters aren't interesting, the plots generic, lack of chemistry with the father and Syndey. Just an overall boring show with a lame gimmick.
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