Monday, August 3, 2009

The Secret Life of the American Teenager

This show is an acquired taste...at first you think it's just plain WIERD...but then you get used to the way the characters bluntly talk about their drama and personal lives. This is NOT a rated R series- it's TV14, and VERY appropriate for teenagers. It actually discourages sex, which is a good thing and tries to make the whole scene realistic. But then it has to be entertaining....so there are a bunch of complicated plot devices to spice it up a bit. 
My favorite character is...NO ONE. Everyone is kinda screwed up in one way or another. If it is either through their personalities, or their decisions, BUT at least, it shows how lame having a baby in highschool is. No matter how much you love the child, it was produced at the wrong time...
Amy Jergins has a baby with the school player, Ricky. And after she finds out she's pregnant, Amy falls for a sweet boy named Ben (too clingy as we see through later episodes...). Then her mom gets pregnant by her dad WHILE they are having a divorce. If this is not complicated enough for you...then try the relationship between Ricky and Adrian (the school biatch/slut/girlfriend of Ricky)....Excuse me, but I think I accidentally forgot to mention the two most boring characters...Grace, a christian/cheerleading  barbie doll, who's irritatingly perfect and her innocent, nice but slow football boyfriend, Jack. The most normal character would be Jack, but then he had a thing with Adrian and did all these strange things which made him enter this show's conventional club of stupids. 
SOOO...if I am complaining so much...why the HECK do I watch this show???
It's not inappropriate, there's drama, characters that would do things that I would never do, etc. 
So it's time pass. If ya wanna kill your time watching an american soap opera, especially for teens, ya gotta accept the stupidity in the lives of its characters. 
AND that is precisely what I am doing...
yay me. 

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