so anyone who knows me well knows that i watch WAAAAAY too much tv. and since i don't have tv at my house now, i watch shows online. well, the fact that everything and its mom is available online nowadays is no good for me. because this means that i spend even more time just watching things that i really have no interest in. but then i start watching them, and then i want to keep up. and i can, so i do.
one show that i started watching purely out of boredom was the secret life of the american teenager. now, i don't know if anyone has ever seen this show, but it is out of control. for those who don't know, the basic premise of the show is this: this girl (amy) gets pregnant at band camp by the school manwhore (ricky). she then starts dating a kinda nerdy kid (ben), and they decide to get married, but then they decide they should just date since they're only 16. there is also another couple (grace and jack) who are members of the chastity club, but then they have sex, and grace's dad dies. there is also a girl named adrienne, who is dating ricky, and they have a lot of sex, but they also cheat on each other a lot. also in the mix are amy's two stupid friends, ben's friends who are dating each other, amy's sister and her gay friend, and everyone's ridiculously disfunctional parents. oh yea, and ben's new girlfriend from italy, who i want to punch every time she talks.
basically, the show is ridiculous. i'm pretty sure that the purpose in making the show was to teach kids about what high school is "really" like, and to show them the consequences of sex. but really, it is the least like real life of any show that i have ever seen. if i was a parent, i would never let my children watch it (until they were older than any of the characters). not because it is explicit or raunchy, but because it is literally all about how every high school student is having sex, or wants to have sex, or won't date you unless you have sex with them. i will admit, in high school i did not hang out with the most...bad?...kids. my friends were all pretty similar to me in that they never felt the need to "rebel." but i also know that there would never in a million years be a campaign called "just say me" spreading around the school to promote "taking care of yourself" instead of having sex (that is what this week's episode was about... haha it was ridiculous). and i know that not every single student was dying to have sex or would never date someone unless they were doing it with them (i'm not saying there weren't douchers like that, but not every single person was one.)
anyways... this probably seems like an angry post. but i promise it's not. the show is just out of control... it's incredibly entertaining in its ridiculousness. you should just watch an episode... or even 5 minutes of one. then you will know what i'm talking about. just warning you, though:
a-the acting is really bad.
b- i think the writers don't know what pronouns are. seriously... every single conversation will have the same word like 60 times.
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you are weird
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