The Young And The Overeducated
We're not gonna lie. We can't stand college television. Nothing short of waterboarding could make us watch another grainy newscast with hovering boom mics and copy lifted directly from that day's paper. Thankfully, Columbia Television has found a new method that entertains and complies with Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions: soap opera.
The show, titled "The Gates," will track four student characters from the first day of orientation through four years of lust, betrayal, and, we presume, post-colonial theory. First there's Julien Tamber, the handsome type A male--an "ubermensch"--who knows what he wants and knows how to get it. Julien's level-headed friend, Terry Marlowe, has to save Julien from getting beaten at a frat brawl in the first episode. Then there's the two girls, Sasha and Nare, living in the double next door. Sasha is "horribly artsy," says Davide Barillari, '09, the show's creator. "And it's a soap opera, so she's also quite promiscuous." Word, ya heard?! But wait, it gets better: Nare is a Korean engineer who starts to suspect she might be a lesbian. That's it, we're getting the cable package!
The pilot will air around Oct. 20, with a new episode every two weeks or so. They tell us non-Columbia folk will be able to download episodes on iTunes or YouTube, so stay tuned!
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