'My Life With the Walter Boys’ Drama Was Inspired by 'Vampire Diaries’ - Livelifebytraveling

If the My Life With the Walter Boys love triangle offers you, like Us, main The Vampire Diaries vibes, that’s as a result of it was meant to.

“There’s always something to be said about love triangles, but it was inspired by Damon and Stefan [Salvatore] from The Vampire Diaries,” creator Ali Novak advised Entertainment Weekly in an interview printed on Thursday, December 7. “There’s just something so compelling about a love triangle, and there’s so many YA books that have been influenced by that show.”

TVD, which ran for eight seasons on The CW, had a central love triangle between Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev) and vampire brothers Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Stefan (Paul Wesley).

My Life With the Walter Boys, in the meantime, has its personal love triangle — with none supernatural entities concerned. My Life With the Walter Boys dropped on Netflix Thursday, December 7, intently following Novak’s Wattpad novel of the identical identify.

In the story, highschool pupil Jackie Howard (Nikki Rodriguez) relocates from her posh life in New York City after her household tragically dies in a automotive accident. Jackie strikes in together with her mother’s greatest good friend from faculty, Katherine (performed by Suits alum Sarah Rafferty) and her massive household, together with husband George (Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Marc Blucas) and their eight youngsters. Two of Katherine and George’s sons — Cole (Noah LaLonde) and Alex (Ashby Gentry) — secretly harbor emotions for Jackie, who finally begins crushing again on each of them.

My Life With the Walter Boys Love Triangle Was Actually Inspired by The Vampire Diaries — Nikki Rodriguez as Jackie and Ashby Gentry as Alex Courtesy of Netflix

Throughout season 1 of My Life With the Walter Boys, Jackie finds herself drawn to the two brothers regardless of their fully reverse personalities. (Cole is the All-American, football-playing small-town golden boy, whereas Alex is the shy, bookish kind.)

“We wanted to make sure that both boys have equal weighting,” Novak advised EW. “And I think there is so much more to this story than just the love triangle.”

Of course, Jackie will decide between the two boys by the finish of the first season, however devoted e book followers shouldn’t count on the literary ending onscreen.

“We have to make changes to make it work as a TV series,” showrunner Melanie Halsall advised EW. “The way that relationships unfold, especially Jackie and Alex’s relationship, is slightly different than in the book. And what happens at the end will surprise people because that is different than the book, but I’m hoping that gives the audience, both the audience that loves the book and the new audience, a bit of a surprise.”