User blog comment:Don25/Because objectively Gwen can be in Daycare./@comment-5899967-20180402181930/@comment-32912801-20180402184735

"Ashley J. Towns I’m pretty certain she doesn’t literally mean prequel in the sense that this show leads into the teenage seasons. I took it more as a prequel in the sense of focusing on what these characters were like when they were children.

Also, I have a theory on Jude that is probably wrong, but I was thinking the first episode could feature him as the new kid in class so we have a point of entrance character to introduce us to this new world."

Christine says it's not a prequel.