How ‘Felicity’ Shaped My College Experience
There are a number of reasons audiences like returning to television series they loved as teenagers. For starters, most of them were written by people in their twenties and thirties. In the case of exasperated grownup millennials, it’s a nostalgic return to a simpler time before they were thrust into an unforgiving adult world with unjust generational standards. Many millennials and Zoomers still find themselves hoping the start of fall will signify a fresh start, just like every school year always did growing up. When adulthood starts looking less and less like those who came before us, we turn to the last period of our lives, where we felt in control.I first sought out “Felicity,” J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves’ college drama for The WB, during a period in my own university career where I ...