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How ‘Felicity’ Shaped My College Experience
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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 ...
How Hilary Duff’s ‘Metamorphosis’ Inspired Millennial Women
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How Hilary Duff’s ‘Metamorphosis’ Inspired Millennial Women

“Hilary Duff is banned from this year’s talent show.”These were the words that sent an entire room of Lizzie McGuire merch-wearing 9-year-olds into a frenzy. The year is 2003. “The Lizzie McGuire Movie” had changed the lives of younger millennials everywhere, and Duff released her first studio album, “Metamorphosis,” just months later. I don’t know how my fourth grade music teacher found the confidence to shut down over a dozen synchronized dances and off-key renditions of Duff’s “So Yesterday.” But, to this day, I don’t think I’ll ever forgive her for the absolutely epic performance me and my friends had worked on that’ll never be seen in public. (That said, we absolutely killed our Beach Boys interpretive dance.)Today, if you ask any early 30-something American woman what “metamorphosis...