Netflix’s new original show “Alexa and Katie” is anything but original. The show makes use of many high school cliches and focuses on a common theme in young adult television — the friendship between ...

Alexa Mendoza has cancer. But she doesn’t want anyone to know that. “Instead of seeing me, everybody is going to see cancer,” the 14-year-old says a few days before starting high school, as tufts of ...

Alexa’s cancer is ever-present in the way that winter was on the first few seasons of “Game of Thrones.” “Alexa & Katie” answers the question that no one had thought to ask: What does the ...