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“Women’s Studies” Dramedy in the Works at HBO Max from Natalia Castells-Esquivel

Castells-Esquivel: Deadline

HBO Max has put “Women’s Studies,” a one-hour dramedy described as “‘Dear White People’ meets ‘The L World’ sprinkled with some ‘Broad City humor,'” into development. Deadline broke the news.

From Natalia Castells-Esquivel (“High School Musical: The Musical,” “Ingobernable”) and Dani Chase, “Women’s Studies” follows Adriana, a Mexican-American woman “who starts her first day at a women’s college in Atlanta filled with ‘queer AF, feminist women’ — but it doesn’t seem like Adriana’s scene considering she is superficial and a little ignorant. But like Alice in Wonderland, her ideas and values are challenged the second she steps on campus,” the source details. The series “explores the loss of innocence and self-actualization as the audience watches a campus of young women evolve, embracing the new, dispensing with the old, and figuring out how to topple the heteronormative patriarchy in the process.”

“Women’s Studies” is loosely based on Castells-Esquivel’s own experience at a women’s college in Atlanta.

Other HBO Max projects in the works include a “Gossip Girl” reboot and an adaptation of Jennifer Weiner’s “Good in Bed” starring Mindy Kaling.


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