The Breakfast Club was for teenagers. It featured five archetypal kids—a pampered princess, a jock, a nerd, a rebel and an outcast—marooned together in a Saturday-morning detention, little by little realizing that they’re all concealing secrets and vulnerabilities under their labels. “We’re all pretty bizarre,” observes one. “Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all.”
In Grown-ish, the high school kids have turned into first- and second-year college students, including Zoey, the eldest daughter in Black-ish (played by Yara Shahidi). The detention hall is now a class that runs from midnight to 2 a.m., taught by a mostly absentee adjunct professor with an erotic fixation on drones and attended almost exclusively by whores and methheads. And the kids’ secrets reflect that three decades have passed; overbearing dads have been replaced by drug-dealing and manipulative moms by closeted bisexuality. But other than that, television critic Glenn Garvin explains, the show is maddeningly familiar.
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