Premiering on Sept. 24 on Netflix, the reboot represents modern-day HBCU life well.

I watched A Different World every Thursday night when it aired on NBC, which initially took Denise Huxtable out of her Brooklyn family home and into her own coming-of-age story before it evolved into an ensemble sitcom.

The show gave audiences of all ages a chance to experience college life on screen, and it’s been credited with helping fuel the surge in HBCU enrollment during its heyday on TV. It also had a cultural impact, giving us moments with Dwayne Wayne’s flip-up glasses (and his love story with the bougie Whitley Gilbert), The Pit and depictions of what you’d see on campus from Divine Nine sororities and fraternities.

Netflix‘s A Different World, which drops all 10 episodes on Thursday, serves up similar moments, along with classroom lessons, relatable life issues and socio-political topics. It does so with the edginess and maturity rating you’d expect on the streamer or what you’d expect in series that share similar vibes like Grown-ish or Bel-Air (a series where A Different World showrunner Felicia Pride once worked as a writer).

Is it any good? Yes. And you should add this dramedy to your watchlist, especially if you attended an HBCU, have kids who do/did or are curious because you’re a fan of the original. (While you’re at it, see if you can spot filming locations throughout Morehouse College, Spelman College and Clark Atlanta University.)

Debuting almost 40 years after the original sitcom first touched TV screens on Sept.

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