Project Mc2
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| Ending theme | "Project Mc2" performed by Allie Feder |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 15 |
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| Running time | 24–29 minutes |
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| Network | Netflix |
| Release | August 7, 2015 |
Project Mc2 (pronounced Project MC-squared [1]) is an American web television series produced by DreamWorks Animation's AwesomenessTV and MGA Entertainment for Netflix. The first season, consisting of three episodes, was released on August 7, 2015.[2]
Plot
The series is set in a fictional city called Maywood Glen, California, it revolves around the fields of STEAM, and the adventures of McKeyla McAlister and her best friends, who work for a government organization called NOV8 (pronounced "innovate"), a highly secretive group of female government operatives who are trying to protect the world.
Cast and characters
Main
- Mika Abdalla as McKeyla McAlister, the lead girl and an agent of NOV8
- Ysa Penarejo as Camryn Coyle, the engineer with a high IQ
- Victoria Vida as Adrienne Attoms, the culinary chemist from Spain[3] who always wears high heels
- Genneya Walton as Bryden Bandweth, the tech junkie and tomboy of the group
- Antonio Marziale as Prince Xander (season 1)
- Marcus Choi as Charles Coyle (season 1)
- Madeline Whitby as Jillian (season 1)
- Bernardo De Paula as Defector (season 1)
- Troy Fromin as George the Security Guard (season 1)
- Oliver Vaquer as Francois (season 1)
- Danica McKellar as the Quail (seasons 1–2), the group's chief intelligence agent in NOV8[4] and McKeyla's mother[5]
- Alyssa Lynch as Devon D'Marco (seasons 2–3)
- Belle Shouse as Ember Evergreen (seasons 2–3)
Recurring
- Jonathon Buckley as Henry (season 1)
- Melissa Mabie as A.D.I.S.N. (voice), McKeyla's talking notebook. Her name is short for "Advanced Digital Intelligence Spy Notebook".[6]
- Johanna Newmarch as Carson Lazarus (seasons 2–3)
- Ty Wood as Justin (seasons 2–3)
- Maxwell Haynes as Kyle (seasons 2–3)
- Adrian Petriw as Retro (voice; season 2)
- Kurt Evans as Assistant Principal Wilson (season 2)
- Sarah Desjardins as Maddy McAlister (season 3), McKeyla's big sister
- Adam Beauchesne as Simon Temple (season 3)
- Vanessa Parise as the Falcon (season 3), McKeyla's aunt who is also a substitute for the Quail while she's off the grid
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2015)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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| 1 | 1 | "The New Girl" | Michael Younesi | Jordana Arkin | August 7, 2015 | |
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McKeyla McAlister receives a new mission. She transfers to a school in Maywood Glen, where she bumps into two girls, Camryn and Bryden. A computer A.I. program in her notebook, A.D.I.S.N., accidentally speaks in front of the girls, which causes them to become suspicious. Meanwhile, Space Inc. receives an anonymous phone call threatening them with serious consequences for everyone if they don't cancel Prince Xander's space flight. Camryn's dad remembers that he left his laptop closed at the office, but when he went back in the morning, it was open. The girls suspect McKeyla is involved, and ask Adrienne to help them get the fingerprint from the laptop. They steal McKeyla's pen and manage to get a partial fingerprint match. They follow her, but shortly, McKeyla notices that they had given her a camera pen and catches the girls spying on her. They get into the house before she can stop them, and they meet McKeyla's boss, the Quail, who is a member of NOV8. She reveals that they are trying to protect the prince, and invites the girls to join McKeyla in the mission. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Secret Agenting" | Michael Younesi | Jordana Arkin | August 7, 2015 | |
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McKeyla is doubting that the girls can take the job seriously enough, and would prefer working alone, but NOV8 wants her to have extra support due to the threat against the prince. McKeyla wants the girls to show her their skills. Adrienne makes a volcano cake. Bryden takes a picture of McKeyla and hacks into her lab's wireless system to display it on every screen in the lab. Camryn makes a "portable police scanner with added features", which they use to locate the prince. The girls notice a suspicious car, and manage to distract the guards and break into the facility where they're keeping the prince. They warn the prince that someone might be trying to kidnap him, and they take him to Bryden's house. NOV8 discovers that the prince's capsule will come close to a U.S. government cyber-satellite at the peak of his flight. Meanwhile, their location is discovered because Bryden tweeted from there, so they take the prince to a NOV8 safe house. Later, they find out that the logo they saw on the car belongs to a cyber security company called Black Star. A few minutes later, the girls get distracted and the prince disappears. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Smart Is the New Cool" | Michael Younesi | Jordana Arkin | August 7, 2015 | |
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The girls research the organization called Black Star, and interrogate one of their top agents, who believes that they are doing wrong but is too scared to turn them in to the authorities. It turns out that they were not trying to kidnap the prince at all, but instead they are using his luggage to store a device that can be used to hack into a government satellite. It will allow Black Star to access each and every person's personal data, such as email, texting, and other information that they can then sell for billions of dollars. The four sneak into the launch site, find the device inside the prince's luggage, and destroy it before they are caught by security. Black Star's head, Darone, is caught and Jillian, the prince's assistant, is revealed to be working for them out of contempt that the prince can boss her around and she can do nothing about it, and sent to jail as well. In the end, the prince goes to space and he sends the girls a Snapchat from space, and McKeyla is given permission from the Quail to stay at Maywood Glen as her base. She is shown to be attending school with her friends. | ||||||
Season 2 (2016)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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| 4 | 1 | "Back to Basics" | Michael Younesi | Mitchel Katlin & Nat Bernstein | August 12, 2016 | |
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The four girls are demoted back to basics after they make a big deal out of saving the prince in the previous season. They are not allowed on any mission, even as a suspicious figure, Carson Lazarus, a criminal mastermind, is released from jail. Soon after, a figure who calls themselves "Retro" causes all technology to malfunction and glitch in Maywood Glen. The girls strongly suspect that the two are linked. The video shows that in the background, there is something labeled "Property of MGA" – where MGA stands for Maywood Glen Academy – and it is very possible that Retro is a student at the academy. Meanwhile, McKeyla tries to fit in and becomes "study buddies" with Kyle Lewis, a rather awkward and suspicious teenager. | ||||||
| 5 | 2 | "No Laughing Matter" | Michael Younesi | Paul Ciancarelli & David DiPietro | August 12, 2016 | |
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The Quail allows the four girls to figure out this case. McKeyla becomes increasingly suspicious of Kyle, but soon dismisses the idea of him being Retro. They also suspect Devon D'Marco, a troublemaker, as she spray-paints handcuffs on a picture of a drone on a poster about the upcoming launch. All four girls except Bry, who has to babysit, make ways to get detention on Saturday with Devon. Bry runs a vocal recognition as Cam and Adri confront the troublemaker and McKeyla looks through her bag. Devon is proven to be innocent, just using the school's 3D printer to make skulls for her nana's birthday. The three hide in the janitor's closet as the assistant principal walks by, and find out that Retro is planning to send a radio signal to the drone, making it crash, and pipe laughing gas through the vents so when the drone crashes, everybody will be laughing. The girls block the radio signal, and heat up the gas so it separates and becomes harmless. | ||||||
| 6 | 3 | "Trashed" | Vanessa Parise | Jessica Kaminsky | August 12, 2016 | |
| 7 | 4 | "Dam Fine Mess" | Vanessa Parise | Elizabeth Hackett & Hilary Galanoy | August 12, 2016 | |
| 8 | 5 | "Bye Bye Birdie" | Michael Younesi | Annie Burgstede & Kate Duffy | August 12, 2016 | |
| 9 | 6 | "Mission Totally Possible" | Michael Younesi | Kathy Fischer | August 12, 2016 | |
Season 3 (2016)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
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| 10 | 1 | "Finding Maddy" | Michael Robison | Nat Bernstein & Mitchel Katlin | October 14, 2016 |
| 11 | 2 | "Gummying Up the Works" | Michael Robison | Paul Ciancarelli & David DiPietro | October 14, 2016 |
| 12 | 3 | "Crate Expectations" | Ken Friss | Jessica Kaminsky | October 14, 2016 |
| 13 | 4 | "One Track Mind" | Ken Friss | Elizabeth Hackett & Hilary Galanoy | October 14, 2016 |
| 14 | 5 | "Simon Sayz" | Jon Rosenbaum | Elaine Aronson | October 14, 2016 |
| 15 | 6 | "Ear Today. Gone Tomorrow" | Jon Rosenbaum | Kathy Fischer | October 14, 2016 |
Production
On April 6, 2016, Netflix announced that the series has been renewed for its second and third seasons. The second season was released on August 12, 2016,[7] and the third season was released on October 14, 2016.[8]
Merchandise
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A line of the dolls of the same name was introduced in 2015. The first dolls were introduced in the fall of 2015, and include both basic, unarticulated dolls as well as deluxe articulated dolls that come with their own science experiments.
Fall 2015
- Core – McKeyla McAlister, Adrienne Attoms, Bryden Bandweth, Camryn Coyle
- Experiment – McKeyla, Adrienne, Bryden, Camryn
Spring 2016
- Core – McKeyla, Adrienne, Bryden, Camryn
- Experiment – McKeyla, Adrienne, Bryden, Camryn
Fall 2016
- Core – McKeyla, Adrienne, Bryden, Camryn, Devon D'Marco, Ember
- Experiment – McKeyla, Adrienne, Bryden, Camryn, Devon, Ember
References
- ^ "The New Girl". Project Mc2. Season 1. Episode 1. August 7, 2015. Event occurs at 19:10. Netflix.
Bryden: Whoa! Wait. McKeyla McAlister. That's MC. MC-squared!
- ^ DreamWorksTV (August 2, 2015). Project Mc² | OFFICIAL TRAILER. YouTube. Retrieved May 4, 2016.
- ^ "Trashed". Project Mc2. Season 2. Episode 3. August 12, 2016. Event occurs at 10:45. Netflix.
McKeyla: Their specialty here is the churrochino. Kyle: That sounds good. Adrienne: Two churrochinos coming right up! Kyle: How'd she hear us? McKeyla: She's from Spain.
- ^ Katie Schenkel (August 24, 2015). "Project Mc2: Netflix's Science-Loving Secret Spy Girls". The Mary Sue. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
- ^ "Secret Agenting". Project Mc2. Season 1. Episode 2. August 7, 2015. Event occurs at 02:20. Netflix.
The Quail: Is that understood, Agent McAlister? McKeyla: Understood. The Quail: Good. Now, remember to call Grandma. It's her birthday. McKeyla: Don't worry, Mom. I didn't forget.
- ^ "Project Mc2 A.D.I.S.N. Journal". Amazon. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
- ^ Denise Petski (April 6, 2016). "'Project Mc2' Gets Two More Seasons On Netflix". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved May 4, 2016.
- ^ Kelly Lawler (September 22, 2016). "Netflix in October: Here's what's coming and going". USA Today. Retrieved September 27, 2016.