My Life with the Walter Boys is a teen drama series on Netflix. It’s an adaptation of Ali Novak’s novel of the same name, which was first published on Wattpad.
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- My Life with the Walter Boys is an American teen drama television series.
- It premiered on Netflix on December 7, 2023.
- It’s a coming-of-age drama series.
- The series follows recently-orphaned Jackie Howard (Nikki Rodriguez), a teenage girl from Manhattan who relocates to rural Colorado after she is taken in by the Walters, a family of seven sons.
- The series was developed by Melanie Halsall.
- It stars Marc Blucas, Alisha Newton, and Sarah Rafferty.
- In December 2023, the series was renewed for a second season.
- Based on the book by Ali Novak which was originally posted on the online platform Wattpad.
- High school scenes filmed at Chestermere High School
- Noah LaLonde and Corey Fogelmanis also played brothers on Criminal Minds S16 E4 “Pay-Per-View” (2022)
- Both Alisha Newton and Nathaniel Arcand played on the Canadian show Heartland.
- Sony Pictures Television and iGeneration Studios are producing My Life with the Walter Boys, following iGeneration Studios’ acquisition of Komixx Entertainment.
- Ed Glauser joined production alongside showrunner and executive producer Melanie Halsall.
- Ed Glauses was the executive producer for Netflix’s The Kissing Booth film series, which also a hit Netflix teen rom-com.
- Filming for the series began in March 2022.
- Filming took place Alberta, Canada.
- It was concluded by September 2022.
- Some other filming locations were the city of Calgary, the town of Cochrane, and the town of Crossfield.
- The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 40% approval rating with an average rating of 5.1/10, based on 10 critic reviews.
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 50 out of 100 based on 6 critics, indicating “mixed or average reviews”.
- After Nikki Rodriguez sent her audition tape in for Jackie, she told her friends on a hike in Los Angeles the next day that “it was really fun,” but “I just don’t think anyone’s going to see me as Jackie.”
- So she was in for a big surprise one morning when she was making a breakfast burrito in the microwave.
- She said that when she found out she was casted as the main character she sat on the floor and cried for about 30 minutes and did not eat her breakfast burrito.
- Marc Blucas brought his own motor home up to the five-month shoot and wore mostly his own clothes for the role, too
- Noah aLonde can personally relate to Cole’s identity crisis after losing football, as he was a serious hockey player growing up.
