a teenage Dr. Frankenstein for the new millennium

lily_lemony linked to this: 'Herbert West' Returns as a Teenager in New 'Re-Animator' Series!

Except for Burke and Hare (described, basically, as Jay and Silent Bob, but instead of dealing pot they deal dead bodies!!!), this looks like the most amazing shit. They have a sexy Herbert, a "Randy Carter" roommate who "is always tinkering with his motorcycle" (characterization! whooo!), a "nerdy-hot" girl character who is "Constantly pushing to be an accepted member of the team" and "takes things too far and has to go to Herbert and Randy for help to clean things up – that’s if she can get away to call for help," a token gay guy who has an "uncanny ability to find a joke even in the most harrowing of situations" and gets a crush on the evil character, and a "Howie Peterson" who is a science fiction writer and saves the day by being a sci-fi geek and whose real name is "Lovecraft."
This looks like the most amazing shitty thing in the world, and I'm pretty sure I'll watch every episode of it if it's on broadcast TV or basic cable.

Seth and I came up with a much better idea for a Lovecraft-in-college series. It would be about the nerds and gothy hipster kids that attend Miskatonic, and their clashes with the inbred, cultist, froggy-looking townies who actually live there. (Maybe we could keep Burke and Hare.)
You could have, like, episodes where some kids summon a shoggoth and have to hide it in their room and make sure the RA doesn't find out, or Herbert having epic roommate wars with Dan or Randy or whoever over who keeps eating the Pop-Tarts (up to Herbert hiding his little hand-eye thing in the box to spy), and then it turns out that they've been sharing the dorm with a ghostly presence, and it's hungry... Or the flaky art major who turns in drawings and sculptures of crazy monsters for all his assignments, and it turns out the monsters he's been painting are real and live in the tunnels under the campus, and then they have to call in an exterminator or wildlife control or something to get rid of them. Or, every single one of the frats and sororities are different, warring Lovecraftian pantheon cults (I think we had a plot like that in the Vampire game on campus, actually), and hazing just means you don't get eaten by a gibbering monstrosity from outer space. Just, college humor mixed with horror-based magical realism.
But I do not think it will be anything like that. :(