It's the last Thursday of the month, and the last Thursday before my summer is officially over. School starts on Monday and I will have a room full of 3rd graders to teach. Hopefully, all of them will one day go to college. Hey, that's the theme for this week's Thursday Movie Picks hosted by Wanderer at Wandering Through the Shelves - TV shows about college. I think I can handle this.
A Different World
(1987-1993)
I might have picked this one a time or two, but I just can't resist. I mean, this is one of my all-time favorite shows. It started as a spinoff of The Cosby Show, following Denise Huxtable (Lisa Bonet) to the fictional Hillman University. She only stayed one year, but the show flourished without her. Over the years, it tackled lots of social issues, developed a wonderful romance, and brought plenty of laughs along with those things.
Dear White People
(2017-???)
Here, we have another spinoff. This time, however, it's not of another TV show, but of a feature film of the same name. In fact, it functions more like a sequel. It picks up right after the events of the film and those events hang ominously over everything that happens. Through two seasons the show remains committed to exploring race, gender, sexual, and platonic relationships in all the various flavors they come in. It can occasionally get very heavy, but there is a healthy dose of levity in every episode. The show is also unique in that its point of view changes from one episode to the next. Who is telling the story continually changes giving the audience various perspectives. Airing on Netflix gives it more creative freedom and the ability to not pull as many punches as it would have to had it appeared on network television. The result is a brutally honest, but still fun show about college.
Grown-ish
(2018-???)
Taking its cues from A Different World, Grown-ish is also a spinoff featuring a daughter from the parent show, Black-ish, as she goes away to college. If ADW embodies the late 80s transitioning into the 90s, then Grown-ish is pure millennial magic. The problems our heroine Zoey deals with aren't much different from her television ancestors. However, they're further complicated by life in the age of social media. Maintaining a level head can be tough when your whole life is on display. This show does an excellent job of showing that. Hopefully, it's off to a long, successful run.
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