‘High School Musical: The Musical: The Series’ Star Sofia Wylie Says Season 3 Finale Is a ‘Drama Bomb’: ‘It Gets 10 Times’ Worse

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Hold on to your hats, Wildcats! Sofia Wylie is gearing up for High School Musical: The Musical: The Series’ season three final two episodes – and fans should prepare for the love triangles to get even messier.“[It’s a] drama bomb!,” Wylie, 18, exclusively told Us Weekly on Monday, August 29, ahead of the impending final two episodes, which are set to air on Wednesday, September 7, and Wednesday, September 14, respectively. “There’s already been so much drama this whole season, but I swear it gets 10 times more.”The show — called HSMTMTS for short — made its debut on Disney+ in November 2019 and is set at the now-iconic East High School Salt Lake City, the same campus where the iconic High School Musical franchise was filmed.

The mockumentary-style comedy follows fictional students Ricky (Joshua Bassett), Nini (Olivia Rodrigo), E.J. (Matt Cornett), Ashlyn (Julia Lester), Carlos (Frankie Rodriguez) and more as they navigate through adolescence — and the ups and downs of being a theatre kid in high school.Wylie, for her part, plays Gina Porter — a new student who’s ready for the spotlight.

Introduced as an antagonist, the character does a complete 180 over time — something the Andi Mack alum appreciates about the role.“I think my favorite part [of playing Gina] is how unpredictable is, or how human she,” the Arizona native explained to Us. “Because as humans we are very unpredictable, and a lot of times in television or in movies, characters can become very stereotypical because we like to put people in boxes.

But in the real world, we are all so malleable and changeable and we grow and we fall.”Change is certainly something Wylie’s character is facing in season 3 of the musical drama.