2020–2022
AJ & the Queen
The decade kicks off with a lovely, campy Vassar reference in this RuPaul-headed show.
The Boys (2 episodes)
This dark satire of superhero movies/media and the culture around it, has a tv magazine update on one douchebaggy superhero, who fell out of favor and ended up getting sucked into a church that sounds quite a bit like Scientology. The church is helping him get back on his feet and has arranged a bride for him. She turns out to be quite the power behind the scenes and helps him back to prominence, and in a later scene, he wants to expand their relationship in a terrifying way.
I Know This Much Is True
A strong limited series about mental illness, starring Mark Ruffalo and based on the Wally Lamb novel, takes place in the fictional Three Rivers, Conn., but was shot in and around the Hudson Valley. A few shots of campus appear in episodes 1 and 3.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
One of the late episodes in this coming-of-age supernatural show has the teenage witch running for school president, and considering her future plans.Thanks to Lauren Goldberg '11 for this find.
Ordinary Joe
This failed NBC show takes you through three possible lives of our protagonist, one as a cop, one as a nurse, and one as a music star. The wiseass little Vassar-as-sexually-libertine joke is as tired as everything else.
Work In Progress
This Showtime showcase for comedian Abby McEnany has an episode where she, a white woman, is tasked with writing her company’s “Black Lives Matter solidarity statement,” our exhausted protagonist journeys into her own mind, and visits with her college self listening to a police safety lecture.
Best Sellers
Aubrey Plaza is a young book publisher who is on a book tour with Michael Caine, a cantankerous old author in an effort to save her company. His drinking and dissolution finally gets the better of her.
Godfather Buck
Some male bonding at a hunting lodge among brothers brings up Vassar, nothing much to see here.
Sex Lives of College Girls
Mindy Kaling's HBO Max show was partially shot at Vassar, though set at a fictional college, and follows four roommates from very different backgrounds as they adjust to college life. I've selected a few scenes from the first episode that are fairly representative for how the campus is shown throughout the series; I included a few interiors though I'm fairly sure some are sets (though they do look right, so if they're sets they paid attention to the detail).
Minx (6 episodes)
The lead character of the HBO Max show about the first erotic magazine aimed at women in the 1970s is a graduate. In the second season, she travels to Vassar to accept an award and ask her former professor to write the foreword for her book, and the entire plotline is very Vassar-centric; the Night Owls appear (and sing! and since this is set in early 70s, let's agree to assume one of them is Meryl Streep), dorms are mentioned, and much else that rings true for the sexually liberated 70s. It wasn't shot at Vassar (though there is one stock establishing shot) but this is lots of fun.I've extracted the full 2nd-season plotline here into the second video.
Some drama is happening using college applications for one character to get close to another.
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