FIGURING IT OUT → (Desperate Housewives – murder) + (How Stella Got Her Groove Back – Jamaica) = Mrs. Fletcher
from triple-X websites, discovers
that college isn’t easy for “a straight
cis white boy” who’s never given
a second thought to anyone else’s
experience. “In high school, every-
one liked me,” he laments. “And
now I’m just, like, the bad guy.”
Only fellow student Chloe (played
by Jasmine Cephas Jones, daugh-
ter of This Is Us Emmy winner
Ron Cephas Jones) takes pity on
the woefully unwoke Brendan and
tries to guide him through the
fraught landscape of campus poli-
tics. (The late Cameron Boyce
makes an affable appearance as
Brendan’s college roommate, Zack.)
Hahn handles Fletcher’s
emotional depths—Eve’s isolation
and anger, her internalized
→ O wen Teague
and Kathryn
Hahn drink each
other in
↘ Jackson
White’s Brendan
gets schooled