What if The Archives of BFF Were in a 2010s Teen Drama?

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A very easy question without a shadow of doubt.

Degrassi: The Next Generation. It would be insanely interesting to see the members of Switch live their lives as a regular high schooler in Toronto, Canada. 

Varsity Line would probably be the graduating seniors, living life large while JV Line (including Rap and Duo Line) are the trouble maker/rebel juniors. Oh and of course Maknae Line would easily be the incoming freshmans. I mean out of all Degrassi generations, Maknae Line would have thrived in the Class of 2014.  Leader Line would be a mixture of juniors and seniors, with mainly Lisa and Xan serving in student government.

Anyways the chapters would be only tweaked to fit the setting of school life rather than a singer’s dream. Also more lore about the parents of each member? Yeah that would be a sight to see. 

Another 2010s teen drama that would suit the characters of TAB would be The Next Step. Yes, another Canadian show. Here me out. Remove the singing talents and have everyone be dancers. The Next Step is set up like a mockumentary and every member of Switch would eat that up. Especially David of all people. The only question would be, who is their competition? I have no idea but I doubt they would be better dancers than Switch… Well maybe, if they did a dance battle with Rap Line. I wouldn’ bet my last dollar for those guys to win.  

What else? Not another Canadian show but I literally see the vision. Okay, do any of y’all remember Flight 29 Down? It came on Discovery Kids at some crazy time of the day. The show did come out in 2005 so it is not necessarily a 2010s drama. Though who cares. Switch being stranded on a remote island with little to no survival skills? I can already see everyone losing their mind. The only people with some actual sense would be Xan, Lisa, and maybe Leo. Everyone else would be too busy in the politics of ‘who should date who’. Plus I am sure turf wars would start between the seven sub-units. Now another show called "The Tribe" (a New Zealand Y2K teen soap show) would be another alt reality for The Archives of BFF but I have a very rocky relationship with this show (Its literally Tai San and Lex storyline) so we will stick with Flight 29 Down.

Honorable mention is On My Block. Though I don’t approve of Ruby’s character flaws of his inappropriate desires throughout the series, I like how everyone vibes with each other. Because of that, I can see the members of Switch beefing with the OMB crew. And of course I can see Rap Line, more specifically Jean having beef with Cesar. Why? Cause Cesar had a crush on Cameron. Obviously. 

No real talk, I like the members of Switch to co-exist in their own intellectual property protected parallel universe. A universe where they are simply a music group with banger music and eventually a heart for the God who saves them from all their crisis and anxiety. Cause Jesus saves everyday, all day. And if they somehow got tuck in the storyline of "The Tribe 1999" well... Yeah Jesus still saves. I believe these storylines of various teen shows can all be point a common theme in where the Good News can be shared.

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