The TV Addict 

I finally got back into watching down all the episodes saved on my DVR, and it is a darn good awful show. The show is so hilariously offensive in the way it portrays 15-year-olds as people who only talk about sex, who routinely have sex, and who fall in love after one date. You say it’s secretly funded by religious family groups…I say Brenda Hampton is secretly the Devil and this show (along with 7th Heaven) is just a hugely subversive parody of religion. Maybe I’m just disillusioned, but I can’t imagine anyone watching this and thinking the way the show portray’s religion is in any way favorable.

I love this show. it is very clever. the only bad part of the show is how religious grace and her family are.

I found the first episode marginally entertaining, almost fell asleep in the second, and having Amy and whatshisname saying they love each other four seconds after they first meet pretty much put me off completely. The only interesting character is Ricky. The acting is horrible, the writing is clunky and unrealistic.

But what I hate most about it is knowing that this kind of rubbish is doing well in the ratings for ABC Family and has been picked up for a second season. While the network’s best new show, The Middleman, probably won’t make it past 12 episodes.

Okay, so the show has it’s issues. Okay, I take it back the show is one big GIANT issue in itself, but I can’t wait to see the next episode. Even my big, tough, heavy-metal guitarist fiance can’t wait for the next episode and that’s saying something. Some of the show is hilariously awful (the microwave counting down when Amy takes the pregnancy test; hilarious) and the dialogue makes me cringe (some of the acting is bad but you can’t really blame them; they didn’t write the script) but I just have to watch the show! Shailene Woodley is actually an excellent actress; better than all of the others including the adults. The stereotypes portrayed and the sappy-sweetness and ridiculous obvious statements and reflections on life are just Brenda Hampton all the way; that all is not surprising. For some reason everyone seems to be able to look past all of this and compulsively watch the show. I dunno!!! I think it is the best worst show of all time.

I tried the first episode, but I gave up. It was unwatchable. The writing was clunky, the acting wooden… I couldn’t take it. Maybe a marathon will suck me in at some point, though. Never say never.

Why was it a trainwreck? What happend? I’m curious.

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The show is a great show. I think it shows the “could be” side to us teenagers. I’m honestly addicted, and honestly it doesent shock me how amy had sex with ricky on their first encounter, i mean THIS STUFF DOES HAPPEN and it would be very “silly” for people to think it doesent. I’m 16 i’ve been sexually active since june.1.2008 and this show started when i most needed it, it makes you think twice before you do what your going to do, and it makes you question and answer whats next. Instead of it happening to me i can just watch Amy go through it. (WINK!)

I think that this show should be supported… it is true that the acting is a bit bad , but it’s true that we have all new actress here and we have no Robert de niro, or tom cruise or other very famous actors.
I think that also the greatest actor became what they become only after making show bad like this one… so, let them grew up and let’s see what they are going to do… nobody should say : “The actors are worse, the setting is worse, it is written worse…” oh come on guys… why do you ever critic each fucking new show who do not have any famous actor? it is getting bored… you are all equals… if there is not any famous actor : “Oh that’s rubbish”, and it’s the same if there is not famous actor or famous director… i’m so tired to go away saying my thoughts… so bye…

Some of the actors in the show can’t act at all. Like Ashley, she has no expression and Ricky is so monotone. But I am totally addicted to the show. I love it!!!! It’s so hilarious and I can’t seem to not watch it. I just think she should of told her parents sooner.

This is the worst show that has ever been on tv. The acting is terrible, the writing is atrocious, it is offensive and stupid and I must watch it every week.

This show is just so incredibly ridiculous, so poorly written, so unreal, and so incredibly bad, but I still can’t seem to stop watching this show. I mean, to be honest, I pretty much dislike ALL the characters on the show because they’re so screwed up. Like Amy for example, she’s totally screwed no doubt about the fact that she’s pregnant, but she should at least own up to it and at least have some responsibility about this instead of whining and going on and on in monologues about how incredibly not fair her life is. But I think its because these kids are so ridiculously hilarious that I can’t stop watching this horrible show.

I think you r all pretty clueless to think teens don’t go around talking about sex and saying sum don’t go around having sex all the time. There are tons or teen girls getting pregnant. That is high school. parents think that there kid would never do that. Hey sum might not. but trust me if you could go one day in this life time to see what kids do i think you would be shocked. I know girls and guys who lost it when they were 13 its the “cool thing” although i disagree and i think its pretty lame to look at something so beautiful and take it as a joke. But i think its a grate show for parents to see the pressure kids have and what they go through in life and its nice for teens to see there life from a different view maybe they can see how stupid a lot of things sound. i think the only point this missed was all the drugs that are going around now and how cool ppl think drugs are.

u guys r all stupid for thinking its a bad show. this show is relistic and no1 can change my mind, the goodlooking bad boy, the sweet girl that never does anything wrong, the shy girl who has made a mistake, the jock, and slut, im in jr high, and guess wat this show is very relistic to wat im experiancing in school.

This show is completley unrealistic.
Who talks this much about sex? espeacially with their parents?
Whose thirteen year old sister looks like a prostitute?
Who has sex at band camp when they’re fourteen?
Who says they love eachother after about a week of knowing eachother?!
and who in the hell wants to spend the rest of their life with someone when they are only a freshmen in highschool?!

I personally like the show. My daughter and I watch it every monday night. People think that kids aren’t talking about sex, my daughter is 13 and she said half of the kids she goes to school with are already having sex. I think the show emphasizes with the reality of what can happen through the eyes of a teenager not just the parent saying don’t do this because this is what can happen. The actors are new, they are not professionals, but I am certain that everyone starts somewhere. I also like the fact that there are still a couple shows that are not scared to put God back into the picture here and there, because thats whats wrong with our youth today they are brought up to do whatever and not to respect themselves and their bodys. Maybe if more parents had their children in church where they need to be our world not be so corupt today..

I don’t know where the rest of ya’ll are from but this is the high school that I went to. My high school was nothing but talk about sex and pregnancies. I graduated in 2007 and everyone that I hung out with has a baby or kid. I had sex when I was 14. Everybody talks about it and there is nothing wrong with it. Every school has the “Adrian” and every school has the “Grace.” I hate it when ppl say that teens don’t know what love is! The teens have feelings and if they think it is love, then who are we to tell them any differently? This show is awesome and it shows the reality behind teenagers and their lives in today’s soceity. Our parents don’t want to admit it, but that show is the true story behind at least 1 teen girl per school.

Oh Jeez. This show is so bad, it actually causes me physical pain to watch it. I’ve realized that one of the worst things about this show is that it’s horrible, but it get’s you hooked. I’m 15 years old and definitely offended by these characters. We’re not all like this, I promise. Anyways yeah, awful writing, really bad acting horrible flat characters and “ow! my brain hurts because I’m shallow and only have room for thoughts about sex!” *Ben faints from someone else being in pain* ridiculous.

i love this movie..i was pregnet at 15 and i lost it…this really has me relate to it in some way…it helps me..i can’t wait till season 3…

Sorry but i like this show. But i have noticed that it is very unrealistic. Did u see how big that baby was. Too big!! And Amy’s contractions started and just stopped and that is not what happens. Im 11 and if i can notice that i think everyone can. Some of the shows were pretty boring because the only exciting thing that was going to happen was amy having the baby and so they had no good topic before the season finaly. I think it would be an even better show if adrien or grace got pregnet with rikki. I know its acting but when amy was in the hospital she was a brat. I CAN’T WAIT TILL SEASON 3.

I love the show. I’m completely addicted. But I must admit that the acting is terrible and it is very much like 7th Heaven. I also agree with most of you all on here who are saying that they talk way too much about sex. I was a 15 year old once and I never talked about sex that much, ever. But I do think that the show does have a good backround, being that so many young girls are having kids these days. I can’t wait to see what is in store for season 3 and I’m hoping the acting is a bit better as well!

I can’t put my finger on the oddness of this show– the acting or the poor writing? It’s like everyone is reading cue cards with an important lesson to be learned on each card. There never seems to be a NATURAL conversation. It’s forced language, preachy and unnatural. The show is a good idea. They just need to fire all the writers and start over again.