Undercover High is a new documentary series on A&E that follows seven young adults as they go back to high school in secret to find out what challenges face teenagers today. The experiment takes place in Highland Park High School in Topeka, where the volunteers aged aged 21-26 embed themselves in classes for a semester. They make friends, study in classes and generally fully immerse themselves in school life as they try and get a picture of what has changed since they were at school. Each of them also has something different to bring to the process with the likes of a...read more...
- 1/10/2018
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
For years, the entertainment industry has been trying to figure out a novel way of explaining what high school life is “really like.” Sometimes it comes in the form of a generational-launching comedy, a one-season drama, or in the form of an eight-episode fake documentary about phallic vandalism.
But in the case of documentary series “Undercover High,” A&E tries to bring a new spin by filtering the high school experience through the eyes of young adults. Enlisting young-looking adults in their early 20s posing as students, the show sets out to bring a fresh angle through individuals like brother and sister Jorge and Lina, pastor Daniel, and student empowerment activist Shane. Working with teachers, administrators and the documentary crew, these “students” spend time as normal members of the student body of Topeka, Kansas’ Highland Park High School. A self-referential experiment, the result of this approach ends up closer to something more ordinary,...
But in the case of documentary series “Undercover High,” A&E tries to bring a new spin by filtering the high school experience through the eyes of young adults. Enlisting young-looking adults in their early 20s posing as students, the show sets out to bring a fresh angle through individuals like brother and sister Jorge and Lina, pastor Daniel, and student empowerment activist Shane. Working with teachers, administrators and the documentary crew, these “students” spend time as normal members of the student body of Topeka, Kansas’ Highland Park High School. A self-referential experiment, the result of this approach ends up closer to something more ordinary,...
- 1/9/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
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