The YA Drama Didn't End at Graduation: 5 College Movies and Shows on Tubi
New campuses, new crushes, and five college coming-of-age stories for the terrifying realization that nobody actually knows what they're doing freshman year.
High school graduation movies love making that diploma look suspiciously like a finish line. Caps fly. Everybody hugs. Someone makes a speech about the future. Roll credits. Meanwhile, college is standing just offscreen like, oh, you thought the character development was finished?
Because college comes with an entirely new set of coming-of-age problems. Your high-school relationship now has two campuses to survive. Your “fresh start” still includes the person you were before move-in day. Your new friends have known you for approximately 72 hours and somehow already have access to deeply personal lore. Tubi's Campus Couples collection majors in exactly that kind of college romance and chaos, while the Coming of Age collection widens the syllabus to all the identity crises, growing pains, and wait, I'm supposed to make this decision myself? moments that come with figuring out adulthood.
The following five college movies and TV shows on Tubi take YA beyond the high-school hallway and onto campus, where the drama didn't disappear after graduation. It just got a dorm key.
Sidelined 2: Intercepted
Drayton and Dallas made it through senior year. Very cute. Freshman year would now like a word. Sidelined 2: Intercepted moves the couple beyond the Friday-night lights and into college life, where Drayton's football future and Dallas' dance ambitions are no longer distant plans they're talking about; they're happening. Suddenly the relationship has to fit around new opportunities, changing priorities, and two people discovering who they are when high school isn't keeping their lives on the same schedule.
Getting together was one challenge; growing in different directions without growing apart is another. The college football gets tougher, the dance world gets bigger, and freshman year apparently forgot to include maintaining your relationship on the syllabus. Noah Beck and Siena Agudong fans, class is officially back in session.
My ID Is Gangnam Beauty
College is supposed to be your fresh start. Kang Mi-rae takes that assignment very seriously. In My ID Is Gangnam Beauty, Mi-rae enters college after undergoing plastic surgery following years of bullying about her appearance, hoping a new campus will finally mean a new version of her life. Instead, she discovers that reinvention gets complicated when beauty standards, old insecurities, and other people's opinions insist on enrolling too. Then there's Cha Eun-woo's Kyung-seok, because apparently the chemistry department needed some actual chemistry.
The college K-drama digs into one of the great freshman-year fantasies: nobody here knows me, so I can become whoever I want. Except Mi-rae gradually has to confront whether changing how people see her can actually change how she sees herself.
So Undercover
Everybody feels like they're pretending to know what's happening when they first arrive on campus. Molly is simply doing it professionally. So Undercover sends Miley Cyrus into college sorority life as a private investigator recruited to go undercover and protect a college student. That means learning the social rules, navigating new friendships, blending into campus life, and figuring out who can actually be trusted, all while trying not to expose the minor detail that she is working an FBI assignment.
It's the college reinvention fantasy with an espionage budget. Molly has to construct an entirely new college persona while discovering that the sorority sisters she's supposed to investigate aren't quite as easy to categorize as she expected. Rush week was already stressful enough, but sure, let's add federal surveillance.
Freshman Year
Here's the part nobody puts in the college brochure: freedom means you're the one making the decisions now. Freshman Year focuses on two students from sheltered backgrounds as their first year of college exposes them to new relationships, peer pressure, and choices that challenge the values they brought with them to campus. There's no secret mission or star quarterback making freshman year more complicated here. The stakes come from something much more familiar: discovering that independence sounds considerably easier before you're actually responsible for what you do with it.
College isn't always about becoming a completely different person by winter break. Sometimes it's realizing which parts of yourself you want to keep when nobody from home is standing there telling you what comes next. Turns out “you can do whatever you want” is both a promise and a threat.
Chicken Girls: College Years 2
The group chat survived high school. Unfortunately, adulthood has joined it. Chicken Girls: College Years 2 catches up with Rooney and Birdie as another college semester brings school, jobs, friendships, and romance into one increasingly crowded calendar. For fans who grew up with the Chicken Girls universe, that's part of the appeal: the characters didn't remain permanently frozen in their teenage years. Their problems grew up with them.
And honestly, that's very college. Your friendships still matter. Your crushes still matter. Except now somebody has a shift at work, somebody has class, somebody is having a life crisis at 1:14 a.m., and coordinating dinner requires six calendar invites and a miracle. College Years keeps the familiar friendship drama while letting the characters enter the stage where “figuring it out” starts becoming an actual lifestyle.