# grown-ish (2018)

> A college freshman navigates friendship, romance and identity at a Southern California university as she leaves home for the first time.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/62721

## Facts

- Seasons: 6
- Episodes: 105
- Episode runtime: 22 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: comedy
- Created by: Kenya Barris, Larry Wilmore
- Network: Freeform
- Cast: Yara Shahidi, Trevor Jackson, Marcus Scribner, Francia Raísa, Emily Arlook, Jordan Buhat, Daniella Taylor, Chlöe Bailey
- TMDB rating: 6.6/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7018644/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: none
- Tone: breezy, witty, hopeful, sincere, awkward

## What critics say

Audience reception is mixed, with a strong first season and a sharp drop in ratings across later seasons.

## Synopsis

grown-ish (2018-2024) is an American comedy series created by Kenya Barris and Larry Wilmore for Freeform, a spin-off of Black-ish. Yara Shahidi stars as Zoey Johnson, a bright young woman who leaves her family home for college and discovers that adulthood does not follow the script she imagined. Trevor Jackson plays Aaron Jackson, a charming figure in her orbit, while Francia Raisa, Emily Arlook and Jordan Buhat round out her friend group, and Chris Parnell appears as the college dean. The engine of the series is Zoey's attempt to build a life of her own while juggling romance, friendship crises, campus politics and the pressure to define herself. Each episode is a self-contained comic story built from dorm life, parties, relationships and small disasters, with running storylines that carry across a six-season run. The show is a 22-minute half-hour sitcom with a warm, chatty, socially aware register, blending goofy humor with frank conversations about race, sex, identity and class. Its college setting feels like a contemporary American campus, and its tone is breezy and hopeful. Fans of Black-ish, The Wonder Years and Greek will find resonance in its mix of family-rooted comedy and coming-of-age ambition.

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