School-based sitcoms work because they take one of the most universal shared experiences and turn it into a pressure cooker for identity, awkwardness, and everyday absurdity. High school stories, in ...

Let’s be honest, most high school comedy anime are starting to feel like one giant rerun. Same school setting, same love triangle, same “oops, I tripped and grabbed something I shouldn’t have” moment.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whether for relatability, or digestibility, the American coming-of-age genre tends to focus on broadly awkward characters with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Hughes had teen cinema cornered in the ’80s. Not only did the writer-director apply his signature archetypes and ...

Ben Wang takes on a challenging role in Will Ropp’s sweet, surprisingly funny debut. This is thanks in no small part to screenwriter Mike Scollins, whose monologues for Seth Meyers seem to have ...