Usually I am annoyed by contemporary YA filled with too many 90s-00s pop culture references, but not so with this one! This may be because the television show in question was so central to the plot that Kade actually had to make her MC's fixation believable; most books use a character's "retro" media interests to add "quirky" characterization that to me just reads "lazy." Or maybe we've just turned some sort of streaming-media corner where I suddenly find a teen binge-watching old WB shows on Netflix to be quite plausible.

It's possible I'm being more forgiving because I found this narrator's innocent awkwardness rather endearing. This is a book set in college, but Caroline's just so YA...