[Warning: The next incorporates spoilers for Season 1 of Julie and the Phantoms! Learn at your personal danger]
Discovering love in highschool will be exhausting sufficient, but it surely’s a next-level problem when the man you are crushing on is lifeless. That is the predicament that Julie (Madison Reyes) finds herself in all through Season 1 of Netflix’s Julie and the Phantoms when she begins writing songs with a ghost named Luke (Charlie Gillespie). They’re the entrance individuals of their band — Julie and the Phantoms — which additionally contains Luke’s fellow lifeless associates Reggie (Jeremy Shada) and Alex (Owen Patrick Joyner).
Whereas Julie is keen on all of her ghost bandmates, she and Luke type a particular connection over the course of the season because the band’s major songsmiths. “Once you’re writing a music with somebody it is a very deep connection. There’s a lot that goes into it and a lot that you must be prepared to do, like being susceptible, sharing concepts that you just aren’t actually snug sharing since you’re undecided if they will be good,” Reyes defined to TV Information. She and Gillespie additionally wrote a music collectively for Season 1 referred to as, “Excellent Concord,” the duet that crystallized Julie’s emotions for Luke by means of an intimate dance efficiency to the ballad in Episode 7.
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“That form of helped us notice what their relationship actually is and the way deep it goes as a result of they write songs with one another all through the entire collection…So after we wrote our music collectively, we form of skilled firsthand what they could be going by means of on a each day [basis],” Reyes continued. “It is the true liking him for who [Luke] is on the within, which is his soul as a result of that is all he actually is. Julie is certainly falling in love together with his ardour for music, how he holds himself, and the way prepared he’s to be susceptible in entrance of her…It is not your fundamental pet love college crush. It is deeper.”
The connection between these two gifted musicians is plain, however there’s a lot standing of their approach, like ghost physics. For a lot of the season, Luke could not even contact Julie, not to mention kiss her. The season finale revealed that may change in Season 2, with Luke and the Phantoms recovering from a curse they had been hexed with earlier within the season that stored them from making contact with Julie, bodily contact. For followers hoping that might be the second that Julie and Luke did one thing about their apparent emotions for one another, it turned out to not be the case — and Gillespie, for one, does not thoughts the gradual burn.
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“They’re greatest associates. They write a lot music collectively,” he stated to TV Information. “I simply love the concept we’re increase one thing. If it occurs — he is nonetheless a ghost and he or she’s nonetheless a lady. There’s so [many] unattainable facets to this.”
Nonetheless, even a pragmatist like Gillespie cannot deny that the pair have one thing particular collectively. “It is just like the historical past between these two, so comparable however so completely different on the similar time. They arrive from two completely different intervals on the earth; one is from the ’90s and the opposite is from 2020. The best way that they are capable of work together…I discover that basically attention-grabbing,” he revealed.
If the present will get a Season 2, whether or not or not the 2 can contact could be the least of their troubles in relation to doubtlessly escalating their relationship to the subsequent degree. The finale cliffhanger discovered Julie’s pre-Luke crush being possessed by the evil ghost musician Caleb (Cheyenne Jackson), hell-bent on getting the Phantoms’ ghost presents for himself. Fortunately, Reyes is absolutely on board with Staff Juke — ship named after a jukebox — even when she’s not 100 % assured the place Julie stands.
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“I am excited to see the way it’s going play out. I am questioning if Julie will perhaps begin to like [Nick] now or not,” she teased. “I am undecided she’s strong on Luke, however I am very a lot Staff Juke. I would like Julie and Luke to occur. Something that stops that I am form of like, ‘No. Let’s simply not.'”
We could not agree extra, lady.
Julie and the Phantoms Season 1 is now streaming on Netflix.