Season 1 • Episode 19
LatestThe classmates find themselves at a hospital once again, rallying around Nicole after Yonk suffers a massive heart attack and must undergo quintuple bypass surgery. Meanwhile, Ethan struggles with his newfound feelings for Kat.
A group of 20-somethings who are inextricably bound together having shared the same third-grade class. Now face to face at an impromptu reunion to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the day they met, they wonder if they'll have anything in common besides vague memories of playground kisses and underwear sightings on the monkey bars. Turns out they do. After two decades apart for most of them, some are eager to show off, some want to rekindle old crushes and others just want to satisfy their curiosity.
Acting
Lizzy Caplan's deadpan delivery steals every scene she's in
Writing
Crane and Klarik's razor-sharp banter from 'Mad About You' DNA
Production
Genuinely committed to its single-class conceit without feeling gimmicky
Creators
David Crane, Jeffrey Klarik
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
CBS cancelled it after 19 episodes despite decent ratings, allegedly for not fitting their 'older demographic' target—meanwhile it helped launch Jon Bernthal to The Walking Dead and Lizzy Caplan to Masters of Sex.
The show's central tension—can you ever truly escape who you were at eight years old?—was Crane's deliberate inversion of Friends, where strangers become family; here, forced family tries to become strangers again.
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