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James Franco’s New Show Looms Threatening On The Horizon

01/27/2012 By 2 Comments

Hey, do you guys know what television needs? ANOTHER SHOW ABOUT WHITE KIDS DOING THINGS THAT DON’T MATTER. Also! MORE JAMES FRANCO. Because frankly, aside from his ridiculous website, his “artwork,” his poetry, his movies, his fiction in Esquire, and taking/teaching his classes at esteemed Ivy League universities, there is so much more he can offer us. Whatever your Franco exposure level is, let’s be clear here: the world needs so much more of James Franco showing us how great it is to be young and privileged.

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Franco’s new show Undergrads was born when his little brother decided that there just aren’t enough honest portrayals of college life out there. Dave Franco, in an interview with MTV, said, “The basic idea stems from a conversation I had with my friend about how there are really only a handful of projects…that really capture what college is like.” He claims that the shows and movies that already exist are, “all sensationalized and over-the-top.” So Dave Franco and his big brother James Franco took this show in another direction. WAY ONE MILLION MILES in the other direction.

The show takes place at USC. In the preview, we follow a group of young, pretty kids with names like “Keelin” and “Paley” drink beer and top shelf liquors as they attend frat parties and football games. The ladies of the show work on crossing things off of their “Senior Year Bucket List” like, “Go to a concert” and “Learn to golf.” And then? Oh. Wait. That’s it. That’s all there is. Huh.

So, James Franco. Maybe it’s best to stick to your Usual: being unbearably pretentious. I can’t wait to never, ever give this show any thought ever again.

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About Kelly Q

Kelly Quirino is pretending not to take herself seriously and waiting for that to actually come true. She lives in the middle of the country with her husband and her two ridiculous children: The boy who happens to be The World’s Tiniest Anarchist, and the girl who, at 4 years old, claimed GLaDOS as her spirit animal. When she is not chasing said children around or trying to remain interesting and reasonably charming while writing about herself in the third person, she is a knitter, an obsessive reader, and really good at Putting Things Off. She also blogs at Go Go Gadget Zen.

  • http://twitter.com/Avath Avath

    Ugh I couldn’t finish the teaser even. I think that looks like every single College movie I’ve ever seen. The fuck is James Franco on about? My university life consists of watching hours and hours of lectures a day, then eating food, then going on memebase.com and falling asleep. But then again, I’m not American so I don’t know if the system is different over there? Do you guys not need to study at all, just ‘grow’ and expand your social circle? My bucket list consists of acing all my tests. Or at least passing them. I like to type an excessive amount of things it seems.

  • http://twitter.com/ryenerman rynerman

    Because the a show about events at a college that bears the nickname the University of Spoiled Children is EXACTLY what I’ve been waiting for.  Or not.  UGH.