
The most notable thing about
an email from Peacock announcing a new based-on-real-life, college-based microdrama was that nowhere in the press material was there any mention of college.
Instead, the announcement talks about “an elite group of students in sun-soaked Miami.” It then provides a list of the challenges they face in college, or at least their version
of college.
What are their top challenges? Navigating friendships, romance, Greek life and social media scandals (OMG!), says the press release.
These challenges “prove that behind every yacht party and perfect post lies a much messier reality.”
But no mention is made in the email release about other tasks and challenges college students face such as
reading books, attending lectures, taking notes, studying, cramming for exams and making plans for after-college careers.
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The series -- titled “Campus Confidential: Miami” -- is made for mobile viewing. It premiered Monday on the Peacock mobile app, the only place it will be
available.
As a smartphone-only microdrama, each episode of “Campus Confidential: Miami” runs only 60-90 seconds in length.
The show consists of two chapters, says Peacock. One is called “The Sorority Dropout” (above left), consisting of 27 episodes. The other is called
“Influencer Enemies” (above right) with 23 episodes.
“Campus Confidential: Miami” comes out of the Bravo reality-TV universe. The
content is positioned as an original Bravo microdrama made exclusively for the Peacock app, and not the Peacock streaming service.
The star of “The
Sorority Dropout” is Georgia Gay, daughter of Heather Gay from “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.”
The stars of “Influencer Enemies” are Sienna Long and Nikki Pindor, neither of whom have a past connection with Bravo shows.
“Campus Confidential: Miami” is the first Peacock app-based microdrama to premiere out of at least 11 more on the way this summer, the company says.
Titles include “Love Me Bite Me,” a vampire microdrama; “30 Days Till I Marry My Husbands Nemesis”; and “Do Not Disturb: Lady Boss in
Disguise.”