The HBO Max comedy aims for the universal feelings of the transition years at a elite college with middling results Television has long had a fixation with the high school years, from teen soaps (Gossip Girl, Riverdale, One Tree Hill) to campy romps (Glee) to dramas that are essentially prestige teen soaps (Euphoria). But for the countless portrayals of American high school life, very few series have attempted to capture the subsequent four years at university. That’s in part because college remains a much less universal experience than high school; less than a third of Americans have an undergraduate degree. And it’s in part because there are fewer common templates for a college story; ABC Family’s Greek (2007-2011) “cracked the college TV show in a way no series had before or has since,” wrote Alison Herman in a retrospective for The Ringer on the 10th anniversary of its finale earlier this year, by focusing on the heightened emotions and inflated self-importance amid the fraught and often ridiculous subset of sororities and fraternities. Continue reading...
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