July 2, 2011

2023–

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2023–
Shrinking
The new streamer starring Harrison Ford and Jason Segal has Vassar in a not-uncommon list of good schools being looked at by a high school student.



Sharper
This is a slight spoiler so don't read much more if that would bother you. This is a slick, smart con-artist movie co-written by alum Alessandro Tanaka '96. In an early scene, our main character reveals herself to be lying when she tells a woman she went to Vassar -- she'd told her boyfriend in an earlier scene she's an NYU student. We come to learn she's conning him, and in a later scene we get a flashback to see her getting trained in her craft.


The Watchful Eye
A positive twist on the Vassar as sexually free trope, and timely for 2023.



The Night Agent
Popular streaming thriller of spies and counterspies, Vassar arises in an irrelevant aside as character backstory.


City on Fire
Poorly reviewed streaming series, based on the 2015 novel of the same name and produced by the same team that did the original Gossip Girl. Our character Regan is noted in this scene as "just down from Vassar" but she's also married, divorced, has kids, and has the life of someone older than that description, so...it's confusing. Not too much here, but always nice to see John Cameron Mitchell. The novel also has her as a Vassar grad.

Fired On Mars
This adult animated show for HBO Max follows a graphic designer living and working on Mars. 

Frasier (2023)
In the second season of this rebooted Frasier show, Dr. Crane meets another therapist who's a fan of his, and is kooky. It's yet another tired sitcom reference in the year of our lord 2024.


Looks Can Kill
 I found an article about this being shot at Vassar, and it's about Vassar, but all I can actually locate is this trailer. Which says it was coming in summer 2023 but I can't find any evidence that actually happened. There's enough fun stuff for our purpose in the trailer that I'm posting the whole thing, and hopefully this will find its way to a screen someday.


Sugar
This hard-boiled L.A. neo-noir contemporary detective show from Apple has a couple of people trying to learn more about the titular detective, John Sugar, who [spoiler alert!] in later episodes turns out to be an alien. Delightfully they call up a transcript of his first two years at Vassar which contains actual classes with actual course numbers, and the correct address. Screenshot of the transcript below, since it goes by fast.



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