The drama series tells the story of five high school students as they struggle with sexual, racial and economic politics and fight to succeed and become somebody.
Grand Army is ambitious, often to a fault. Still, there are flashes of beauty -- let me say again, Odley Jean is a revelation -- amid the gritty teen boilerplate.
Katie Cappiello's Grand Army joins the few projects that give us an authentic view of teenhood and the emotional saga of high school without exploiting its young people or hiding behind a glaze of Hollywood tropes.
In its best moments, Grand Army enters rare air for high school shows, elevating surprisingly close to the genre's thoughtful standard-bearer, My So-Called Life.
