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. The pilot begins with a thwarted surprise attack disrupting a faculty day at Grand Army, the fictional Brooklyn highschool filled with ambitious students from across NY City. Each episode begins with an ominous typewritten confessional letter spewing heavy-handed diatribes such as: “Borders aren’t secure. Markets aren’t secure.

Democracy’s not safe.” As if a surprise attack wasn’t enough inciting incident for one television program, “Grand Army” throws in sexual abuse, and unfair suspension of a Black boy for harmless horseplay, and an immigrant family pressuring their daughter to enter into a positive identification marriage. There’s enough story here for everyone among these characters to possess their own television program, and Cappiello should have stuck to the stories she’s equipped to inform.