Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticEvery time I watch a new show that’s ostensibly about high schoolers but stars thirty year-olds going through twentysomething drama, I wonder why there aren’t there more TV shows set in college.
It’s a contained setting that allows for a cast as sprawling or tightknit as need be. High school experiences may be more broadly universal, but college offers many similarly intense ones with the added narrative bonus of the characters living within the same square mile, or even the same room, as they go through it all.
And yet college shows remain few and far between: for every “Greek” or “A Different World,” there are a dozen high school dramas, comedies, and dramedies stressing about which lunch table to sit at or.
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