Totally Spies: Season 5
TL;DR: The spies graduate and go to college. There they do lots of the typical college stuff, trying to live in a dorm, sign up for classes, try to attend classes, get their "first" jobs, and deal with their standard shenanigans. At this point, I regard the show as a slice of life interrupted once per episode by being WOOPHed, getting restrained some how, and then winning the day. I am still enjoying this show, but it's probably running out of slack.
I still like this. I'm impressed that they graduated them from high school after four seasons. Then they went to Mali. U., which seems to be a pastiche of UC Santa Barbara.
They have to deal with signing up for classes, and then getting into a dorm and trying to live there. Somehow Mandy and her blonde cousin managed to get admitted to the same university.
The stuff proceeds as expected, though this time a lot of the shenanigans happen or or just off campus.
They do show how dorm living could be annoying only to quickly circumvent it by giving the girls a penthouse suite for the three of them on top of the dorm.
Them having to get a job at the college coffee bar and put up with the various pressures was actually interesting. It puts them in a very different dynamic, answering to a boss who's right there and asking for good customer service (which isn't a strength).
There's also a surprisingly touching attempted clumsy date between Alex and the owner?/manager? at the bar. That wouldn't be kosher, but the actual disaster of a date, and the attempts to impress are pathetic but written with sympathy.
It's obvious that some of the show writers have been to college, and know enough to poke tongue in cheek fun at the foibles of going to college.
TL;DR: The spies graduate and go to college. There they do lots of the typical college stuff, trying to live in a dorm, sign up for classes, try to attend classes, get their "first" jobs, and deal with their standard shenanigans. At this point, I regard the show as a slice of life interrupted once per episode by being WOOPHed, getting restrained some how, and then winning the day. I am still enjoying this show, but it's probably running out of slack.
I still like this. I'm impressed that they graduated them from high school after four seasons. Then they went to Mali. U., which seems to be a pastiche of UC Santa Barbara.
They have to deal with signing up for classes, and then getting into a dorm and trying to live there. Somehow Mandy and her blonde cousin managed to get admitted to the same university.
The stuff proceeds as expected, though this time a lot of the shenanigans happen or or just off campus.
They do show how dorm living could be annoying only to quickly circumvent it by giving the girls a penthouse suite for the three of them on top of the dorm.
Them having to get a job at the college coffee bar and put up with the various pressures was actually interesting. It puts them in a very different dynamic, answering to a boss who's right there and asking for good customer service (which isn't a strength).
There's also a surprisingly touching attempted clumsy date between Alex and the owner?/manager? at the bar. That wouldn't be kosher, but the actual disaster of a date, and the attempts to impress are pathetic but written with sympathy.
It's obvious that some of the show writers have been to college, and know enough to poke tongue in cheek fun at the foibles of going to college.