Parents' Guide to Team Kaylie

Parents need to know that Team Kaylie is a sitcom about a social media influencer (Bryana Salaz) who starts leading school wilderness group the Porcupines after she's assigned to do community service. With its wish-fulfillment plot about tweens who get to know an online celebrity, the setup will appeal to young viewers, but this series does have some iffy content. Characters are often rude to each other, particularly a group of wealthy kids from a rival school who call the Porcupines things like "Porcupoops." One character has a crush on a schoolmate and frequently makes romantic advances, which are rebuffed. Characters are diverse in terms of race, ethnicity, body type, class, and gender presentation, and each episode has a lesson like "don't give up" (even if the lessons are sometimes muddied). Kaylie herself is painted as super-rich; we hear a lot about the luxury brands she likes. And some jokes are surprisingly mature: Kaylie says that when she dies, her mom plans to sell her cremains in necklaces, and a principal says she sympathizes with students "as much as my pain medication will let me." Scary scenes like one in which a character slips and almost falls down a mountain are played for laughs and have a light tone.