Daniel Lawrence Taylor's six-episode series looks at the fish-out-of-water adventures of five scholarship kids from South London at a posh prep school.
A good high-school or college TV show is like a time machine, designed to transport nostalgic older viewers backward to youth or younger viewers forward to an anticipated maturity. At the same time, it’s a sufficiently codified genre that the nostalgia is as much for other fictional favorites in the same narrative space as it is for any “real” experience of high school or college.
The series is set at St. Gilbert’s, a private — or “public” if you’re British — boarding school that has been churning out the nation’s elite for centuries. But St. Gilbert’s has gone from calcified to toxic, and after a video of rowdy students taunting and tormenting an unhoused man goes viral, the headmaster determines that it’s time for new blood and a new attitude.
Jaheim , running with a marginally sketchy crowd in his old neighborhood, is athletic and has engineering brilliance. Leah is a political firebrand and is apparently a musical savant, though the latter plays almost no part in the series. It’s hard to get any feeling about his backstory, but Toby is a brilliant polyglot and a savvy businessman, even if everybody assumes that means he sells drugs. Omar is gay and an inspired cartoonist, who dreams of being part of a St.
I’ve attempted forensic analysis on the six episodes and I still don’t have a clue how much time passes in the first season of. Nearly every episode features a key moment in the annual St. Gilbert’s calendar — traditional parties, competitions, fundraising luncheons — but there’s a chance the season takes place over only a week or two, which would cause a lot of the character arcs to make no sense.
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