Barry, An Upcoming Netflix Series About President Barack Obama’s College Years in New York City

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.