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Euphoria is a teen psychological drama series created by Sam Levinson. Based on the Israeli miniseries of the same name by Ron Leshem and Daphna Levin, the HBO series follows a group of teenage students as they struggle with various issues like modern sexuality, substance issues, mental illness, love, and friendship. Euphoria stars Zendaya, Maude Apatow, Angus Cloud, Eric Dane, Alexa Demie, Jacob Elordi, Barbie Ferreira, Nika King, Storm Reid, Hunter Schafer, Algee Smith, Sydney Sweeney, Colman Domingo, Javon Walton, Austin Abrams, and Dominic Fike. So, if you loved the intense drama, relatable storylines, and compelling characters in Euphoria, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Exclusive: Sony Pictures has set an all-star cast for its adaptation of Chuck Klosterman’s Downtown Owl with Lily Rabe, Academy Award nominee Ed Harris , Vanessa Hudgens, Finn Wittrock, Jack Dylan Grazer and August Blanco Rosenstein. Rabe will also be directing the pic with long-time collaborator Hamish Linklater, joining her as co-director. Linklater, who most recently starred in Midnight Mass, also adapted the screenplay. T Bone Burnett is doing the music.

The film was part of the Sundance Institute Creative Producing Summit and Talent Forum and will be produced by Bettina Barrow and Rabe of Kill Claudio Productions, Rebecca Green and Linklater. Laura Rister is exec producing as well as Lee Broda. Tom McLeod is co-executive producer. The pic is currently in production in Minnesota.

Three Point Capital is financing the pic. Initial artist support funding provided by Esme Grace Media.

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We have bad news for fans hoping Netflix would tie up loose ends in a second season of Grand Army. On June 17, Variety reported that the streaming service had canceled the teen drama after only one season. Loosely based on Katie Cappiello's 2013 Slut: The Play, the show premiered on Oct. 16, 2020, and follows the lives of five students at the largest public high school in Brooklyn. Some of the issues Grand Army tackles in the first (and only) season include systemic racism, sexual assault, international adoption, sexuality, and feminism.

The show hasn't been without controversy, as back in September 2020 playwright and screenwriter Ming Peiffer quote-tweeted the trailer with allegations about the abusive treatment she and other writers of color received in the writers' room. "Me and the 3 writers of color who worked on the show quit due to racist exploitation and abuse. The show runner and creator went full Karen...

Netflix has swung the axe on another TV series.

The streamer on Thursday officially canceled Grand Army after a single season, almost nine months after its launch on the service.

The series "tunnels into a generation that’s raging and rising. Five students at the largest public high school in Brooklyn take on our chaotic world as they fight to succeed, survive, wild out, break free and seize the future," according to Netflix.

9 episodes comprised the first season, with So Yong Kim, Darnell Martin, Tina Mabry, Silas Howard, and Clement Virgo on board to bring the project to life.

Executive Producers include Katie Cappiello, Josh Donen, Nicolette Donen, Elizabeth Kling, Beau Willimon, and Jordan Tappis.

The expansive cast includes Odessa A'zion as Joey Del Marco, Odley Jean as Dominique (Dom) Pierre, Maliq Johnson as Jayson Jackson, Amalia Yoo as Leila Kwan Zimmer, Amir Bageria as Siddhartha (Sid) Pakam, Alphonso Jones as John Ellis,...

Another Netflix series has received an early discharge. The streaming service has cancelled the Grand Army TV series after one season of nine episodes.

Based on the 2013 play Slut: The Play by Katie Cappiello, the Grand Army TV series stars Odessa A’zion, Maliq Johnson, Amalia Yoo, Amir Bageria, Odley Jean, Alphonso Romero Jones II, Brittany Adebumola, and Crystal Sha’re Nelson. The teen drama revolves around five students who attend the largest public high school in Brooklyn as they take on a chaotic world and wrestle with sexual, racial, and economic politics. Read More…...

Grand Army will not return for a second season. Netflix has canceled the drama series after one season, Deadline has confirmed.

Grand Army, loosely based on Katie Cappiello’s 2013 play Slut, was executive produced by Gone Girl producer Joshua Donen and Beau Willimon (House of Cards).

The show revolved around five students at the largest public high school in Brooklyn as they take on a chaotic world and fight to succeed, survive, wild out, break free and seize the future. Odessa A’zion starred along with Amalia Yoo, Maliq Johnson, Amir Bageria and Odley Jean.

Capiello also served as an executive producer along with Donen, Willimon, Jordan Tappis, Nicolette Donen, and Elizabeth Kling.

Variety was first to report the cancellation.

Netflix has canceled “Grand Army” after just one season.

The series “tunnels into a generation that’s raging and rising. Five students at the largest public high school in Brooklyn take on our chaotic world as they fight to succeed, survive, wild out, break free and seize the future.” according to its logline.

“Grand Army” starred Odley Jean as Dominique (Dom) Pierre, Odessa A’zion as Joey Del Marco, Maliq Johnson as Jayson Jackson, Amalia Yoo as Leila Kwan Zimmer, Amir Bageria as Siddhartha (Sid) Pakam, Alphonso Jones as John Ellis, Anthony Ippolito as George Wright, Brian Altemus as Luke Friedman, Thelonius “Monk” Serrel Freed as Tim Delaney, Jaden Jordan as Owen Williams, Ashley Ganger as Meera Pakam, Sydney Meyer as Anna Delany, Brittany Adebumola as Tamika Jones and Crystal Nelson as Tor Sampson.

The nine-episode first — and now final — season of “Grand Army” launched Oct. 16 of last year on Netflix.

Netflix is telling Grand Army to stand down. The teen drama has been canceled after just one season, TVLine has confirmed.

Loosely based on series creator Katie Cappiello’s 2006 work Slut: The Play, this Netflix drama followed five students at the largest public high school in Brooklyn. Grand Army‘s first (and now only) season — which dropped in its entirety on Friday, Oct. 16 — saw those students “take on our chaotic world as they fight to succeed, survive, wild out, break free and seize the future.”

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“Grand Army” will not march on at Netflix. Variety has learned exclusively that the streamer has canceled the drama series after just one season.

The nine-episode first season of the teen drama debuted on Netflix back in October. Created by Katie Cappiello, the series was loosely based on Cappiello’s 2013 work “Slut: The Play.”

The show followed five students at the largest public high school in Brooklyn as they take on a chaotic world and fight to succeed, survive, wild out, break free and seize the future. The cast was led by Odessa A’zion as Joey Del Marco, Odley Jean as Dominique Pierre, Amir Bageria as Siddhartha Pakam, Maliq Johnson as Jayson Jackson, Amalia Yoo as Leila Kwan Zimmer, Alphonso Romero Jones II as John Ellis, Brittany Adebumola as Tamika Jones, and Crystal Sha’re Nelson as Tor Sampson.

In addition to having created the series, Capiello served as an...

It only takes nine episodes for Netflix's Grand Army to completely hook you, but once it's over, you'll be hungry for more. The drama, which premiered on the streaming site on Oct. 16, follows a group of New York City teenagers who attend the highly competitive public high school in Brooklyn known as Grand Army. The first season tackles systemic racism, sexual assault, international adoption, sexuality, feminism, and more as the students fight to succeed, survive, and control their future in an ever-changing world.

Loosely based on Slut: The Play, written by showrunner and theater educator Katie Cappiello, Grand Army is reminiscent of shows like Euphoria and Degrassi, delving deep into the world of the new generation and all the ways they can hurt themselves and each other as they try to make sense of the world around them. In the final episodes of the season, we witness students stage a sit-in against in-school racism,...

Teen dramas often capture the angsty realities of adolescent life, but most don't have roots in actual events. Netflix's gritty Grand Army echoes real life, centering its plot around a terrorist attack reminiscent of Sept. 11. Set in a contemporary backdrop, it follows the lives of five students at Grand Army High School in Brooklyn. But is Grand Army based on a true story? Well, the answer is both yes and no.

The series is loosely based on showrunner and screenwriter Katie Cappiello's play, Slut. Slut itself takes inspiration from the real-life experiences of teenage girls from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. Beginning in Jan. 2012, Cappiello worked with Meg McInerney and her young students to develop Slut at The Arts Effect All-Girl Theater Company. Cappiello put the script together after creative sessions and discussions around the sexualization of girls.

In its finalized product, Slut's storyline follows 16-year-old Joey Del Marco,...

Warning: This interview contains mild spoilers from the premiere of Netflix’s Grand Army.

Netflix’s newest teen addiction is no Riverdale — and that’s a very good thing.

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Loosely based on a 2013 play by series creator Katie Cappiello, Grand Army follows five diverse students at a public high school in Brooklyn.

What do a Chinese adoptee with white Jewish parents, a closeted Indian-American Harvard hopeful, a Haitian-American first generation college applicant and a white Free the Nipple activist have in common? They all exist in the same universe in “Grand Army,” a soapy teen melodrama set at a Brooklyn public high school. With a plot that includes bomb threats, sexual assault, Green Card marriages, and the school-to-prison pipeline, Netflix’s not-so-thinly-veiled attempt to compete with HBO’s “Euphoria” is all over the place.

Controversy began swirling around the series in early September, when a former writer alleged racism in the writers’ room on Twitter after Netflix released a first trailer. While showrunner and creator Katie Cappiello has yet to respond to the allegations, the obvious missteps of the show speak for itself. Despite a blatant play at relevance by filling out an inclusive ensemble, “Grand Army” cannot help but center its white girl protagonist.

Netflix’s “Grand Army” (premiering Oct. 16) technically isn’t an adaptation of Katie Cappiello’s 2013 “Slut: The Play,” though it features three characters from the play—including the its central character—with one of the roles even being reprised by an actor from the play. Instead, Cappiello’s “Grand Army” goes from focusing on just one central character—in “Slut: The Play,” it was 16-year-old Joey Del Marco, a girl who is raped by three of her friends—to following five very different students at Grand Army High School in Brooklyn, New York. So while the Joey character (Odessa A’zion) and her story are certainly front and center in “Grand Army,” the series is ultimately more of an ensemble teen drama a la “Degrassi” or “13 Reasons Why,” only grittier than the former and, thankfully, less bleak than the latter.

However, in comparing it to those (or really any) teen dramas,...

In the premiere of Netflix’s new teen drama Grand Army, a bomb goes off near the titular Brooklyn public high school, forcing a lockdown. The episode acknowledges the physical danger the kids may be in, but is more concerned with how they behave in such an intense circumstance. Some are completely unfazed, like aspiring musician Jayson (Maliq Johnson) and a friend who start rifling through the purse of basketball player Dominique, a.k.a. Dom (Odley Jean), as a joke. Others treat the experience as an opportunity for self-reflection,...

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Netflix's Grand Army follows a diverse group of Brooklyn teenagers, but it's already facing accusations of racism behind the scenes. In the month prior to the show's debut, one former writer took to Twitter to speak out about the racism she said was happening in the writers' room.

When Netflix released a trailer for Grand Army on Sept. 2, playwright and screenwriter Ming Peiffer quote-tweeted the trailer with some explosive allegations about the treatment she and two other writers of color received in the writers' room, leading them to quit. "Me and the 3 writers of color who worked on the show quit due to racist exploitation and abuse. The show runner and creator went full Karen and called Netflix hr on the Black writer in the room for getting a haircut. Yes you read that correctly. Who wants to interview us?" she tweeted. The creator in question is...

Netflix has released the full trailer for its upcoming young adult drama, Grand Army, which will premiere October 16th.

The show is centered around a group of kids at the fictional Grand Army High in Brooklyn as they balance all the anxieties, pressures and joys that come with being a teenager. The trailer doesn’t offer much in the way of plot specifics, but captures an overall mood of peak adolescence packed with athletics, band practices, extracurricular activism, late-night partying, budding relationships, disintegrating relationships and more.

Early in the trailer one character,...

At some point in the near-future, we’re due to hit a pandemic-induced entertainment drought, when production shutdowns will slow new releases to a trickle. We’re clearly not there yet, however. Though blockbuster movies keep getting pushed back further and further, streaming services are still moving full steam ahead — this October, you can catch a once-in-a-lifetime concert film, an offbeat horror movie about killer hair, an all-star biopic of a highly political court case, a doc on death (sort of) and a stunning Italian adaptation of a Jack London book.

The teen drama somehow reinvents itself with each passing decade. Netflix’s “Grand Army” seeks to tell the stories of a generation facing challenges that go well beyond usual tropes. In the series, set over nine episodes, Brooklyn high school students face a world filled with increasingly difficult challenges.

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Katie Cappiello’s “Slut: The Play” acts as the basis for the project.

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In today’s TV news roundup, Apple TV Plus has released a trailer for “Tehran,” and Bravo has announced that “The Real Housewives of Orange County” will return Oct. 7.

Casting

Lifetime announced that Naomi Judd, Crystal Fox, Gil Bellows and Deborah Cox have joined the cast of “Ruby,” the first installment in a movie series centered around V.C. Andrews‘ Landry Family books. They join already announced cast members Raechelle and Karina Banno, and Lauralee Bell. The movie series follows Ruby Landry, who finds herself caught in a web of dark secrets after discovering the whereabouts of her birth family. The V.C. Andrews Landry Family book series includes “Ruby,” “Pearl in the Mist,” “All That Glitters” and “Hidden Jewel,” all of which are set to be adapted by Lifetime and will debut in 2021.

Dates

Netflix announced that “Grand Army,” a new young adult drama from playwright Katie Cappiello, will premiere Oct.

While many networks are starting to exhaust their scripted offerings, Netflix continues to have a lot to offer.

The latest offering comes from playwright Katie Cappiello.

Grand Army is a gritty young adult drama debuting October 16th on the streamer.

The series "tunnels into a generation that’s raging and rising. Five students at the largest public high school in Brooklyn take on our chaotic world as they fight to succeed, survive, wild out, break free and seize the future," according to Netflix.

9 episodes comprise the first season, with So Yong Kim, Darnell Martin, Tina Mabry, Silas Howard, and Clement Virgo on board to bring the project to life.

Executive Producers include Katie Cappiello, Josh Donen, Nicolette Donen, Elizabeth Kling, Beau Willimon, and Jordan Tappis.

The expansive cast includes Odessa A'zion as Joey Del Marco, Odley Jean as Dominique (Dom) Pierre, Maliq Johnson as Jayson Jackson, Amalia Yoo as Leila Kwan Zimmer,...

Move over Skins and Euphoria, Netflix’s Grand Army is joining the gritty (and hopefully not too realistic) high school show bandwagon.

Netflix has unveiled a release date and first trailer for Grand Army, an adult drama about a New York high school from playwright Katie Cappiello. Grand Army will premiere all nine of its hour-long episodes on October 16 on Netflix. Here is the aforementioned, decidedly gritty, trailer.

Oh yes, there is some Skins DNA in that bad boy. A mournful saxophone rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner over images of a dingy New York high school is what one might call a dramatic layup. But darn it all if it doesn’t work. Social issues highlighted here are of a much darker Degrassi variety, including kneeling for the anthem, rampant uncontrollable teenage sexuality, and perhaps even a school shooting or another similar crisis.

Netflix’s synopsis for the series reads:...

Netflix has released the first look at Grand Army, an upcoming young adult drama that debuts October 16th on the streaming platform.

Set at the fictional Grand Army High, the largest public high school in Brooklyn, the show follows five high school students as they struggle with the challenges of growing up in an ever-changing world. Grand Army is based off of Slut, Katie Cappiello’s 2013 play that reckons with teenage sexual assault; as seen in the trailer, the show expands the play’s themes to include issues of racial justice,...

Playwright Katie Cappiello is teaming with “House of Cards” creator Beau Willimon to bring an adaptation of her 2013 play “Slut” to the small screen.

The show, titled “Grand Army,” is set up at Netflix with Odessa A’zion set to lead the cast.

“Grand Army” follows five students at the largest public high school in Brooklyn, who wrestle with sexual, racial and economic politics as they fight to succeed, survive, wild out, break free and ultimately “become somebody.” Cappiello has worked with young people across the country as a teacher for over 15 years, and the characters and stories in the show are inspired by her students.

A’zion (known for she starring on the CBS comedy “Fam opposite” Nina Dobrev as well as the feature film “Ladyworld” opposite Maya Hawke) will play 16-year-old junior Joey Del Marco who lives in Stuyvesant Town on the Lower East Side. The series will...

Netflix is adapting Katie Cappiello’s play Slut into a ten-part drama exec produced by Gone Girl producer Joshua Donen and House of Cards’ Beau Willimon, with Odessa A’zion, Amalia Yoo, Maliq Johnson, Amir Bageria and Odley Jean set to star.

The series, which will be known as Grand Army, is based on the 2013 play which follows the journey of 16-year old Joey Del Marco, who is sexually assaulted by three life-long friends during a Friday night out. Inspired by the experiences of New York City teens, it tells the story through Joey and her friends and community. The play was called “truthful, raw and immediate” by Gloria Steinem.

A’zion plays Del Marco in the drama, which follows five students at the largest public high school in Brooklyn as they wrestle with sexual, racial and economic politics. It will air in 2020.

Written and created by Cappiello, who exec produces alongside Donen,...

Katie Cappiello and Beau Willimon are teaming to adapt the former's 2013 play Slut for Netflix.

Picked up straight to series with a 10-episode order, the Netflix drama will be called Grand Army and is described as a ride-along with the generation shaping our future. It revolves around five students at the largest public high school in Brooklyn as they wrestle with sexual, racial and economic politics and fight to succeed, strive, wild out, break free and become somebody.

Cappiello will be credited as the show's creator and will executive produce. Joshua Donen (House of Cards, Gone Girl) ...

International women’s rights organization Equality Now is unveiling a new campaign with Emmy Award-winning Hulu Original Series, The Handmaid’s Tale, which calls on people to use the power of their name and the power of the law to achieve equality for women and girls.

Samira Wiley, who plays Moira in Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale, filming Hope Lives in Every Name

The centerpiece of the campaign is a two minute film, Hope Lives in Every Name, in which members of the cast and production team share testimonies that may sound as if they are from The Handmaid’s Tale but are in fact the words of real women with personal experiences of issues covered in the hit show, including sexual violence, trafficking and female genital mutilation.

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The film features series writer Bruce Miller, producer Warren Littlefield and actors Joseph Fiennes, Samira Wiley, Madeline Brewer,...