The new adaptation of Ann M. Martin's best-selling books drops on Netflix on July 3. "We've loved thinking about each of the characters and translating them into the present," showrunner Rachel Shukert tells EW. "If you take a kid like Kristy who in the '80s was this sporty tomboy, who is she in the world now? She's like this girl boss. Who is Dawn, somebody who was a vegetarian and paved the way for that in the '80s? Now we're at this time where she might be somebody with a real social justice bent, an activist about the environment and about income inequality and stuff like that. Just bringing them into modernity was really interesting, thinking about how we could tell these stories through a modern lens."
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