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What Cutting the Cord: Reborn as My Mom's High School Frenemy is about
Nora, dying of cancer at 28, wakes up in 1996 as healthy 18-year-old Scarlett. She plots revenge against her mother Valerie, who refused bone marrow. But she discovers Valerie isn't cold—she's a traumatized teen hiding pregnancy from a rape by Austin, Nora's own father. Nora learns her mother secretly loved her but couldn't save her.
It runs 41 short episodes on DramaBox and leans on revenge, second chance and secret identity tropes, with each episode ending on a hook.
Is it worth watching?
If you came for revenge, the payoff is the slow build to a payback that lands hard. On top of that: a lead who knows how it went wrong last time and plays it differently.
Plan on roughly 1–2 hours from the first episode to the finale.
How to watch it
Every episode is listed on this page. Tap episode 1 to start, and switch episodes from the strip under the player at any time.
