VirtualSide Looking for people you can relate to? Looking for people who may have similar lives as you? Well, look no further; A Different World is here! This is definitely one of the better college programs that I've seen.This is a spin-off of The Cosby Show, and Denise Huxtable was one of the main characters during the run of the first season. She left the show after that, and I thought the whole show was going to fall apart right there, since most shows do when a character leaves. But luckily, they were able to bring in new characters for the later seasons, and they too, were great! I was amazed at how much I could relate to some of them. My favorite character was Dwayne Wayne, since I'm a lot like him when it comes to getting good grades in school. And yet, he still manages to have a good time with all of his best friends.So overall, I would rate this program 8/10. If you haven't seen it yet, I'd recommend that you watch Season 1 first (that's what I did, and it definitely made the show more interesting for me).

smooth_op_85 I never knew about A Different World until my friend showed it to me and he exclaimed: 'I LOVE THIS SHOW' then I started watching it and it was a great spin-off that broke the classic spin-off curse to become a success in its own right (i.e Frasier). The fact that it showed black students in college was a sight for sore eyes if you ask me because most of the college shows seem to have a token black student (no offense to anyone just an observation). I like how they handled some tough issues, like parolees, social issues through the person of Freddie Brooks played wonderfully by Cree Summer, and affirmative action also. This show had some incredible promise to it and presented a realistic view of college life and its pitfalls as well as high points.This is an incredible show and I would say, if you haven't seen it, watch it. It is really good

harry_crumb This show was nothing but the biggest crock of toilet waste before friends and I hate friends. Oh before I get started I am black. This show did nothing but try to teach lessons and not show us about people people making it, but black people making it. Come on now. I want to watch something that can make me laugh and in the same breath show something. This show got to serious. To serious about Race. Way to serious Oh black people this, and black people that. I thought about this, if white people had the same show talking about white people this, and white people that, it would be considered racist. True or false. I think true. The show was not informative it was irritating. Jasmine Guy's character was at least realistic cause if someone was a snob or hey they would be shunned and made fun of in a heartbeat. In a way I wish Cree Summers character would at least realize that hey I am half white so I can not just stick to being all African American cause no matter what she is half white. The writers worked my nerves with her character. They could have at least done something like how she adjusted in an all black college. Not just jumping in. That would have been something. Kadeem Hardison's character and Jasmin Guys character were the only one that at least developed. Everyone else stuck in the same rut. Oh I forgot Freddie ditched the hair and became serious. She was still a ditz. The show had a chance but no one did not take it to where it could have gone. The writers suck, the plots can go somewhere and if this was not monitored I would have been even meaner. This show gets no love.

krazy982 I love this series; I grew up on it. I actually wanted to go to Hillman College until I was told that it was just a made up college based on the great Morehouse and Spelman. I have to agree that I didn't like Season One hardly at all. Lisa Bonet may be a good actress, however, she didn't/couldn't bring out the best of ADW. Jasmine Guy is incredible; she brings that Whitley Gilbert character to life each time the camera rolls. ADW raised issues on school pressures, peer pressures, drugs, abuse, rape, and racial discrimination. To sit here and read that it was a tired attempt at humor just astonishes me. This was the first sitcom (African-American at that) that actually based actual facts on the college life. What people seem to forget is that when they were in college, it just wasn't all about studies (although it should have been.). Yet, they had fun and they had tears as well-don't "hate" A Different World just because you live in one...