Episode
grown-ish: Crunch Time
Overview
It’s Junior year and the gang throws an HBCU-themed Homecoming party to kick off the semester at their new off-campus house. Zoey returns from her summer internship abroad and realizes that she has to confront her feelings for Aaron and Luca quickly. Meanwhile, the rest of the crew is left to deal with some of the repercussions of their big mistakes before summer break.
Details
- Series
- grown-ish
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 1
- Air date
- 2020-01-16
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Crunch Time is Episode 1 in Season 3 of grown-ish. It aired on 2020-01-16. The runtime is 22 min.
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