Rounding out the bunch is transgender actress Josie Totah as the self-obsessed (yet charismatic) reality TV star Lexi Haddad-DeFabrizio and Belmont Cameli as Bayside’s football captain Jamie Spano, who may be my favorite absolute dumbass to hit TV in quite a few years.
Alycia Pascual-Peña provides another grounded character as the tradition-breaking Aisha, with Dexter Darden bringing some sardonic distance as the musical-loving Devante.
Thankfully, Tracey Whigfield and her creative team didn’t cast the new Saved by the Bell to match the original character dynamics beat for beat (b-b-b-b, go Bayside!), and embraced a more diverse cast.
There are no weak links here, even when it comes to the side characters.