Netflix has released the trailer for their upcoming biographical series Barry, which tell the story of President Barack Obama as a young man trying to find his way in the world while attending Columbia University in New York City during 1981. The series premieres on December 16, 2016.
A young Barack Obama, known to his friends as “Barry,” arrives in New York City in the fall of 1981 to begin his junior year at Columbia University. In a crime-ridden and racially charged environment, Barry finds himself pulled between various social spheres and struggles to maintain a series of increasingly strained relationships with his Kansas-born mother, his estranged Kenyan father, and his classmates.Barry is the story of a young man grappling with those same issues that his country, and arguably the world, are still coming to terms with 35 years later.