The TV Addict 

Horrible show. Completely fake, very Canadian filming. Can’t even compare it to other similarly styled shows such as “Felicity”. Lead character plays too old and is not believable. I hope people take a pass on this one.

I have a feeling that “Greek” show on ABC Family will be better than this. Not immensely better, but…better.

This show is a breathe of fresh air from any other high school drama. This show has a lot of potential and I look forward to the next episode. Samantha Best is a great character because she has nothing and is open to everything coming her way. I find myself rooting for her success. She is not as hopeless as Felicity was when she started out. The first episode already has a love interest, death and a mystery. Not much else you can ask for in a premiere. The Best Years is here to stay…

this show is hot and so is brandon jay mclaren aka devon

i loved this show and whoever doesnt like it really needs to get a life because we all know it isnt real and it is just for entertainment so get over yourselfs and just enjoy the show…let others who like it watch it and if u dont like it then dont watch it…its not hard!

i actually thought it was pretty good. it had a couple good twists. i will continue to watch considering the only other things that I’m watching this summer are entourage,traveler and hidden palms,that is until big brother starts. best years is definitely better than hidden palms though.

I’ve been watching this show since in first premiered and I cant stop watching it. I admit that the leader character Samantha is a little too goody, but over all I like her and the rest of the character. I especially like the relationship thats forming between Samantha and Devon cause Devon has grown on me to be hot. But after this past Fridays episode…I’ll be marking down the days for the next episode…I cant wait!!!

Despite the fact that this television show “Isn’t real”, THE BEST YEARS is “FELICITY” without poignant storytelling, sincerity, characters you can relate to (even it never happened to you), and intelligence. To even relate this show to Keri’s Russell’s breakout role entitled series is rather insulting but its the only series based on collage entirely.

BEST YEARS takes over used ‘lesson in morality (or not)’ and poory excuted ‘love triangles’ themes from previous television series on “THE N” (such as Degrassi and South of Nowhere without the Lesbian-drama) and has it revolving around the character, Samantha Best, who’s Orphan sob story is straight out of a Teen Novel of various carnations, who ends up in trouble half an hour into the first episode and its bailed out by the snooty dean of the Collage. The characters are carbon copies of ‘Degrassi’s past and current cast, none of them make an impact worth remembering.

There are various problems with the series, the main being that the actors — the ones portraying collage students at the ages of 17 and 18 — tend to look over the age of 30 (especially Samantha Best) and the acting is hardly convincing in any of the episodes. Another irksome problem is that for a girl who’s supposed to come from a unblessed life, everybody just “Loves” her (Samantha frequently kisses one man then another when things go sour between her boyfriend Devon, rejecting their love in the end), while her poor Asian friend, the stereotype nerd, ends up getting most of the baggage that should’ve been the main character’s. Asian-Nerd ends becoming the subplot to Samantha’s rough past, when Sam finds out the Asian-nerd and her little sister is a Rape-Victim of her father’s sicko desires. They try to play Samantha off as the character that will take the high-road, as opposted to the moraless idiot Blondes they try to portray as Intelligent (its laughable really), who ends up making mistakes and gets forgiven for them because “No one can stay mad at her forever”. I mean really, there is no substance to their series at all. No effort whatsoever was put into this seires and it shows (hell even the wardrobes are terrible). Its shallow-Teen melodrama at its best [failing at what the WB's FELICITY suceeded in] and it will please people despite this fact. The only person I can commend on this show is Brandon Jay Mclaren, who, like Amy Jo Johnson, has managed to break out of his POWER RANGERS[: SPD] role and find other jobs.