The Secret Life of the American Teenager
I swear, I’m a sucker for advertising. All the magazines I read and all the shows I watch have been promoting this new show on ABC Family called The Secret Life of the American Teenager. According to the previews, it’s about a girl who finds out she’s pregnant and… well, that’s really all you get from the previews, other than Molly Ringwald is her mom. So, of course, since Greek is over and the only new shows on are seriously awful reality programming, I figured it can’t be that bad, so I taped it and watched it last night. Here are my thoughts:
I understand that shows today need to have a lot of drama to keep people interested, but this show goes a little overboard. The first episode starts with band geek (and French Horn player) Amy coming home from school and discovering she’s pregnant. Then we find out she’s 15. Seriously. 15. Scary. Plus her mom is Molly Ringwald, and that’s also weird because she’s old and it’s creepy. Her little sister is 13 and dresses like a whore. Funny.
Anyway, so then we go to the school to meet the rest of the characters and that obnoxious Avril Lavigne “Girlfriend” song is playing, which proves they filmed this a long time ago. There’s Grace (aptly named) who is head cheerleader and a super Christian who wants to wait for marriage to have sex, and her boyfriend (and football star) Jack flips out a little when he finds out her parents gave her a promise ring. Lol. People really do that? Another fun fact – Grace’s parents are Josie Bissett (Jane from Melrose Place) and Clark Kent’s dad from Smallville. She also has a tard brother. Of course.
Then there’s this kid named Ben who desperately wants to have sex and falls in lust with Amy, who agrees to go out with him even though she’s pregnant. Stupid girl. Her two best friends (one is black and the other is fat, of course) decide that the best plan of action is to date Ben, have sex with him, and then tell him and everybody else that it’s his kid and they’ll get married. Retarded plan, I know, but I guess it isn’t so bad considering who the actual father is. His name is Ricky, and he’s the most obnoxious character on the show, in my opinion. He was sexually molested by his father (and actually says things like “he took my childhood away”) and as a result is a huge whore. Cause that makes sense. Whatever. Then, the most stereotypical character is Adrian, the Latin whore, who seriously eats apples all the time like we need the religious reference shoved in our faces. At the end of the episode we find out that she and football star Jack had sex (or at least something Grace considers sex, which seems to be everything – although Grace dances pretty whore-y) – drama!
All in all, I enjoyed the show, but mostly because it’s hilarious and isn’t trying to be. All of the dialogue sounds like the writers read a dozen pamphlets on teen sex and pregnancy and copied them down word for word. My favorite part is when Amy is with her friends and the black girl (bad actress) tells her she should go see her doctor while she still has options and the fat girl (also a bad actress) says “don’t tell me you’re suggesting she has an abortion” and it isn’t mentioned again. Insane. Of COURSE she should have an abortion. She’s 15 and isn’t Britney Spears’ little sister so she’d actually have to raise the kid herself. I’m curious to see how the show is going to pan out, and I hope enough people watch it so it can go at least a full season. In fact, I’m going to watch the first episode again. Hooray for new shows with obvious agendas!!!
I understand that shows today need to have a lot of drama to keep people interested, but this show goes a little overboard. The first episode starts with band geek (and French Horn player) Amy coming home from school and discovering she’s pregnant. Then we find out she’s 15. Seriously. 15. Scary. Plus her mom is Molly Ringwald, and that’s also weird because she’s old and it’s creepy. Her little sister is 13 and dresses like a whore. Funny.
Anyway, so then we go to the school to meet the rest of the characters and that obnoxious Avril Lavigne “Girlfriend” song is playing, which proves they filmed this a long time ago. There’s Grace (aptly named) who is head cheerleader and a super Christian who wants to wait for marriage to have sex, and her boyfriend (and football star) Jack flips out a little when he finds out her parents gave her a promise ring. Lol. People really do that? Another fun fact – Grace’s parents are Josie Bissett (Jane from Melrose Place) and Clark Kent’s dad from Smallville. She also has a tard brother. Of course.
Then there’s this kid named Ben who desperately wants to have sex and falls in lust with Amy, who agrees to go out with him even though she’s pregnant. Stupid girl. Her two best friends (one is black and the other is fat, of course) decide that the best plan of action is to date Ben, have sex with him, and then tell him and everybody else that it’s his kid and they’ll get married. Retarded plan, I know, but I guess it isn’t so bad considering who the actual father is. His name is Ricky, and he’s the most obnoxious character on the show, in my opinion. He was sexually molested by his father (and actually says things like “he took my childhood away”) and as a result is a huge whore. Cause that makes sense. Whatever. Then, the most stereotypical character is Adrian, the Latin whore, who seriously eats apples all the time like we need the religious reference shoved in our faces. At the end of the episode we find out that she and football star Jack had sex (or at least something Grace considers sex, which seems to be everything – although Grace dances pretty whore-y) – drama!
All in all, I enjoyed the show, but mostly because it’s hilarious and isn’t trying to be. All of the dialogue sounds like the writers read a dozen pamphlets on teen sex and pregnancy and copied them down word for word. My favorite part is when Amy is with her friends and the black girl (bad actress) tells her she should go see her doctor while she still has options and the fat girl (also a bad actress) says “don’t tell me you’re suggesting she has an abortion” and it isn’t mentioned again. Insane. Of COURSE she should have an abortion. She’s 15 and isn’t Britney Spears’ little sister so she’d actually have to raise the kid herself. I’m curious to see how the show is going to pan out, and I hope enough people watch it so it can go at least a full season. In fact, I’m going to watch the first episode again. Hooray for new shows with obvious agendas!!!
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