Adulting Children: A Television Series On Growing Up, Getting Out, and Coming Right Back

Antagonized by an economy that refuses to adjust to their basic needs and a society hell-bent on thwarting their attempts to create a living that is equal parts sustainable and personally fulfilling, an increasing number of undergraduates are moving back into their childhood bedrooms post-college. In an analysis presented by The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, it was discovered that forty-one percent of new graduates aged twenty-two to twenty-seven are working in fields that don’t even require a college degree. The media often makes light of their inability to penetrate the job market, citing lethargy, vanity, and arrogance as obstacles that keep this demographic from making a "real living." Utilizing the musings of poet Sylvia Plath and author J.D Salinger, Adulting Children is a television series that narrows in on two of these post-grads and the truth behind their so-called insufficiencies. Once estranged, the twenty-somethings now find themselves living as pseudo-siblings in a new familial dynamic as they surrender their dreams of lavish penthouses and high-paying jobs to move back in with their Emotional Support Grown-Ups. As they’re met with the realities of adulthood, the main characters must redefine their idea of success and what it means to be an adult. Our protagonists attempt to combat the symptoms of moving home as a recent alumnus and brand-new sibling, such as age regression, dependency, and depression because, after all, kids make the darndest grown-ups.

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Theatre, Dance, and Film

Grantor

Texas State University

Year dc:date.issued

2024

Author dc:creator

• Cooper, Sydney

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Morille, Jordan

Committee member dc:contributor.committeemember

• Robichaux, Richard

• pilots
• television

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10877/20182

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digital.library.txst.edu:10877/20182