As that other Disney series That's So Raven wound down and out in its final third year, average for a Disney series, the President of the United States John D'Aquino somehow heard about or tasted father Rondell Sheridan's cooking. Rondell made his living as a chef. The president was so impressed with his culinary skills that he invited Rondell to live at the White House and permanently cook there. So for at least four years Mr. Sheridan has a job.
For reasons I can't explain the invitation did not include the women of the Baxter family. Raven Symone daughter and T'Keyah Crystal Keymah didn't make the trip to Washington. But Kyle Massey as Cory Baxter did and he's living high in the White House. Hence the title of the show.
His new found White House status means this average kid Cory is now moving in some new circles. He's going to an exclusive school now, populated with the children of big movers and shakers, both foreign and domestic. His new love is an ambassador's daughter from some unnamed Eastern country Maiara Walsh. And his best friend Jason Dolley has the very WASP name of Newton Livingston, aka Newt. That boy's ambition instead of an Ivy League path of success is to make rock 'n roll. He's also the best character on the show, so incredibly brain dead.
Half the episodes center on Cory's school life and half of them center on the White House. The president has a lovely little daughter Madison Pettis nicknamed America's Angel and she plays that for all it's worth in her dealings. But next to Dolley the best thing about the show is President Valenzuela, the first Latino president of the United States. A well meaning decent guy, but a bit fatuous he's probably an improvement over any of the candidates running now.
It's probably in the lower half of the Disney Channel shows, some of the situations are forced and face it way too unrealistic. Still it's not bad that the concept of a Latino president is floated out of the Magic Kingdom.
But I'm waiting for when the folks at Disney decide that Jason Dolley's Newt ought to meet Brenda Song's London Tipton from The Suite Life Of Zack and Cody. If they ever marry the children from that union might push back the evolution of mankind for a hundred generations.
For reasons I can't explain the invitation did not include the women of the Baxter family. Raven Symone daughter and T'Keyah Crystal Keymah didn't make the trip to Washington. But Kyle Massey as Cory Baxter did and he's living high in the White House. Hence the title of the show.
His new found White House status means this average kid Cory is now moving in some new circles. He's going to an exclusive school now, populated with the children of big movers and shakers, both foreign and domestic. His new love is an ambassador's daughter from some unnamed Eastern country Maiara Walsh. And his best friend Jason Dolley has the very WASP name of Newton Livingston, aka Newt. That boy's ambition instead of an Ivy League path of success is to make rock 'n roll. He's also the best character on the show, so incredibly brain dead.
Half the episodes center on Cory's school life and half of them center on the White House. The president has a lovely little daughter Madison Pettis nicknamed America's Angel and she plays that for all it's worth in her dealings. But next to Dolley the best thing about the show is President Valenzuela, the first Latino president of the United States. A well meaning decent guy, but a bit fatuous he's probably an improvement over any of the candidates running now.
It's probably in the lower half of the Disney Channel shows, some of the situations are forced and face it way too unrealistic. Still it's not bad that the concept of a Latino president is floated out of the Magic Kingdom.
But I'm waiting for when the folks at Disney decide that Jason Dolley's Newt ought to meet Brenda Song's London Tipton from The Suite Life Of Zack and Cody. If they ever marry the children from that union might push back the evolution of mankind for a hundred generations.