Mrs. Edna Garrett, the Drummonds' former housekeeper, teaches to a group of girls of a boarding school how to tackle issues throughout teenage life and later adulthood.
Written on a painfully simplistic level and laden with really ripe acting performances... , The Facts of Life simply doesn't hold up all that well after two-plus decades.
The second season fares much better; in it, the show pares the principal cast down to just the four school girls along with Mrs. Garrett. The humor is far more developed in this season.
