Do you find it hard to understand Millennial students or younger ACC faculty?

Fear not! Recently there has been a surge in creating tv shows for millennials (born between 1982 and 1995). Even though some can be extremely exaggerated representations, at their core they seem to have the modern values of a contemporary twenty and thirty-somethings. These three shows I’m about to tell you about might be a map into understanding what this baffling new generation is all about.

Also, it doesn’t hurt that they all have 8/10 or higher scores on IMDB and are easily accessed on HULU and Netflix.

So here we go:

• ‘Love’ – Starring Gillian Jacobs and Paul Rust, Love tells the story of a couple who have difficulties with intimacy, commitment and other things younger generations seem to struggle with. This show was created by Judd Apatow who seems to see that there is a huge market for millennials (HBO’s Girls). Once you skip through all the awkward sexual scenes, you will see two very flawed, sometimes unlikable characters finding out what they want out of a possible relationship with each other. This is an atypical romantic comedy that viewers of all generations can enjoy.
• ‘Masters of None’ – This show portrays the unfortunate realities of what it’s like to age out of your twenties and move on to your thirties while still hanging on to student loan debt, bad roommates, terrible relationships and learn to take a minute and discover what you want from the rest of your adulthood. Masters of None follows Dev, played by Aziz Ansari, who is an actor living in the Big Apple dealing with the pressure of being born to immigrant parents all while hoping to hold onto his own modern values.  This show knocks down any millennial stereotype you could have imagined (while still keeping a few for laughs) and gives the viewer an honest perspective of life as a male transitioning into his own definition of adulthood.
• ‘Broad City’ – The show that started off as a web series (a popular medium of millennials), and later turned into a successful thirty-minute weekly show on Comedy Central, is essential to understanding the struggles of an average twenty-something female. Not only do they struggle with the sticky situations one of the main characters, Ilana Glazer, always seems to get them in, but they are relentless in their trials of navigating life in New York City as two twenty-something, Jewish, college-educated girls. The other main character, Abbi Jacobson, is constantly trying to move up in her job while following her passions as an artist, like many unremitting millennials today. In the end, though life throws each of them curve balls, they always have each other to fall back on.