After almost two years, season two of “School Spirits” has been released. “School Spirits” follows Maddie Nears, played by Peyton List, a girl who died in her school boiler room, but they can't find the body. Maddie has to solve her own disappearance, and while she gets pretty close during the first season, she also uncovers many lies around the school and the other ghosts at the school. The reason this show is so good is because it has comical moments but also emotional ones. The storyline all together is amazing and worth the watch.
Maddie meets Wally, a football player who lost his life while on the field; Rhonda, whose guidance counselor ended up killing her; Charley, who died due to his peanut allergy; and Mr. Martin, a chemistry teacher and now “afterlife support group” leader, who was killed in a school fire. He says he was the only one in the fire, but there are reasons to believe otherwise. When Maddie meets all these people in the very first episode they mention another ghost, Janet Hamilton, not being there.
Before she got stuck in the afterlife, Maddie had few people in her circle of friends, including two best friends, Nicole Herrera and Simon Elory. She also had a boyfriend named Xavier Baxter, whose dad is a police officer. At first, everyone pointed the blame at Xavier saying he killed her, but after many random discoveries like Maddie’s backpack showing up at an abandoned house, they began to think otherwise.
In the second season, viewers get more thorough backstories on the spirits that Maddie meets in season one. The reason we get these backstories is due to all of them finding out Mr. Martin had been keeping all of their items, the things that they had with them when they died, and Janet wanted to give them back on her “17th birthday,” just a few weeks before Maddie was a part of the group. They believe that if they relive and deal with the trauma of their deaths, they can finally cross over to whatever comes next in their afterlife.
With episodes coming out every week, the last episode of the season comes out on March 6. Both “School Spirits” seasons are currently out on Paramount+, and season one is also on Netflix.