Boarding School Trilogy (Dead Poets Society, School Ties, Flirting): We Sound Our Barbaric Yawp Genre Reveal Party!

To start off our latest season "School Days," we made you another trilogy! We discussed The Boarding School Trilogy: Dead Poets Society (1989), School Ties (1992), and Flirting (1991).
Spoilers: shower scenes, acne, poetry, anti-semitism, the horrible history of 'boarding schools' and genocide in the US, Thandiwe we love you, hand jobs, book deals, Robin Williams casting history, Matt Damon doesn't deserve a redemption arc, Madeline's problematic crush on Ethan Hawke, Dave's #TeamRobertSeanLeonard, University of Chicago confessions, standing on desks and playing saxophone in a cave, Gen-X, trilogies that stopped at two, Dick Wolf.
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Music by Kirk Rawlings from Courtesy and beige on beige
Cover art by Tuli Lane-McKinley