Awkward: Season 1

You always get to see the cliche teen show depicted, of course, with cliche teenagers. But what about the inbetween kids? The floaters? The ones who don't fit in anywhere?The ones who are awkward.This is actually a shockingly accurate representation of how my friends and I acted in high school. We made up dumb words, cursed a lot, constantly had sex on the brain, and ran around like the glorious weirdos that we still are.A quick rundown for newcomers: Jenna, the main focus of this show, creates an overnight rumor mill when a simple accident that makes it look like she's attempted suicide pushes her formerly wallflower self into the spotlight. While she does deal with things all teeangers trudge through (mean girls, gossip, and parental embarrassment), on top of it all she's harboring a serious crush on Matty McKibben, your everyday loveable boy next door jock, who Jenna also happened to lose her virginity to over the summer in a very, very awkward situation. Matty wants to keep their hookups under the radar, while Jenna, who goes along for the sake of closeness, is internally screaming for more. How can one teenage brain handle all this craziness at once?When this show started, a little part of me was going, "Alright, c'mon. You've been out of high school for nearly three years, do you really need to be watching some show about a bunch of teeangers having sex and creating drama? Go put on some CNN and listen to The Shins, you twentysomething." But my need for laughs pushed out that opinion, and so I started to watch, and became quickly addicted as I saw my high school self on the screen.Jenna is instantly likeable, and the character I most relate to my teeange self. Her choice of clothing isn't straight off the runway, she has a tendency to deadpan, and is more comfortable expressing her feelings in a blog rather than with her voice. Ashley Rickards is the absolute perfect choice for this role, she looks like a girl you plucked straight up from a lunch table full of weird alternative kids and hipsters.Tamara and Ming, her two partners in crime, are ridiculously accurate representations of those two friends the Queen of Weird always has in school. The hyperactive one who's constantly in a reality of her own making (Tamara) and the one who, despite her own weirdness, keeps up on her grades and is generally the voice of sensible reason (Ming). I haven't seen either of these girls acting in anything else, but I don't think I'll ever see them as anything but Jenna's wonderfully dorky best friends.Matty and Jake, the objects of Jenna's affections, are a breath of fresh air as, rather than the "heroine" having to choose between the jock and the nerd, she has to choose between two nerdy jocks. Every character on the show was a tinge of awkwardness in them, and these two are no exception. Matty is internally struggling with his feelings for Jenna and how to express them properly, and Jake is so goofy and charming it's hard not to smile when he's onscreen. Both actors (Brett Davern and Beau Mirchoff) are definitely swoon worthy, and you can think what you want of me, the constant eye candy was totally a factor in my initial intrest in the show.Sadie...oh, what not to say about Sadie? Never before have I found a mean girl to make me laugh so much since Regina George! Sadie's attitude is more comedic than cruel to the viewer, and I have now found that I am incapable of saying, "You're welcome" in a normal voice. Yet another interesting twist is that, instead of a tall, willowy Victoria's Secret model as the mean girl, Sadie is brunette, more of a pretty girl next door than a runway model, and curvy. Her main reason for her attitude is, rather than power or popular right or what have you, that she is angry for having been cursed with a "fat gene." This is another reason I find her likeable. Whether at the bottom or top of the high school food chain, every single girl has, at some point in her life, had body issues, and it's interesting to see the villain of the show have such a weakness.A nice little bonus is that when the episodes initially aired on tv, little "after show" bits would go up on the MTV site. These were either V-Time with Val, Morning Announcements, or Sadie's Anger Mangement. The MTV site, for me, loads very slowly, so I usually don't bother. Luckily, all of these are featured as bonus content on the dvd release!This is definitely a unique attempt at a teen comedy, and a very successful one at that! Season two got even better, and I'm very excited to see season three next year.

A lot of people don't consider MTV shows as having the potential to be good, and they forget about such gems as Daria, Undressed, and Spyder Games. In reality, while the bulk of MTV originals are targeted at 12 year olds whose favorite hobbies include stealing liquor from their parents' wet bars, shopping at Hollister, and engaging in peer pressure on both sides of the spectrum, there are those rare moments in human history as far back as the late 1980s where MTV has created very solid TV.This is one of those shows.A lot of other reviews have compared this show to My So-Called Life, which is definitely spot on. The show follows a female teenage protagonist who's that adorable combination of angsty and pretentious but just highschool-level-witty enough to be relatable for anyone who has been in high school. While romantic love and dating are a pretty big factor, friendship plays an equally important role; Jenna's therefore friends stick with her for most of the series and many of them become much better characters than she is.That said, puberty is really the driving theme of the show. The first episode basically opens with Jenna losing her virginity in a very calm and calculated way. She psychoanalyzes the experience afterwards, and arguably has a pretty healthy and mature view of her experience for someone her age. She's not presented as a pathetic, lovesick schoolgirl. Her thoughts and actions (for most of the series, anyway) are believable and easy to relate to. The show openly talks about issues surrounding puberty, sex, peer pressure, bullying--all of the classic after-school special themes--but it does so in a way that isn't condescending or overly didactic. Instead, these ideas exist in the show more as facts of life that Jenna just has to simply deal with, and the show doesn't shy away from really any topic of teen angst or puberty. In that way, I think of this show more as a contemporary re-imagining of Judy Blume books made for (m)TV.Apart from all of that, though, there's the simple fact that the show is hilarious. Love triangles, mean girls, blogs, supposed suicide attempts--this show has it all. You should watch it.

Is it possible? Am I actually recommending a show that airs on MTV? I AM. But I will preface all else by saying that it's scripted - it's not reality - and Matty, one of the characters, is shirtless as much as possible. Is that kind of pointless? Maybe, but he's pretty good-looking so who are we to complain, really? Also it's still a high school show so there's not supposed to be a lot of depth. Boys without shirts are always something good to add to the equation.The series follows Jenna's mishaps through high school and while some of them are super ridiculous - the first episode is a prime example - a lot of them are totally relatable. She has a friend with insanely strict parents, a friend with awful taste in guys and has no clue when to leave well enough alone, parents that seem great but don't always get it and, of course, that one boy.Who would I be to review something without talking to you about the love story? We're in season two right now and Jenna's involved in a monstrous love triangle between Jake and Matty. I don't want to spoil anything for those of you who have yet to watch, but it's seriously ridiculous. I'm positive that this show is the only one that I watch live every single week no matter what. I tweet with my friends while I watch it and I rewatch the episodes obsessively. All because of this love story. Pathetic? Maybe a little but at this point I'm past the point of caring. All I care about is resolution. TEAM MATTY ALL THE WAY.Now I know a lot of you are like, "Why the hell would I watch another teen dramady?" Because it has spunk. And it's one of only two teen shows that I watch. So you should watch it! Just try one episode. I bet you'll like it.

Reçue en très bonne états. je ne regrette pas mon achat, cette série est intéressante on s'attache vite au personnages.

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Awkward, in Deutschland besser bekannt als "Awkward - Mein sogenanntes Leben", ist eine typische MTV Serie über das schwere Leben als Teenager in der High School. Ok, davon gibt es Gott weiß wie viele Serien drüber.Doch diese ist irgendwie anders, zumindest erfolgreich...Durch einen blöden Zufall wird Jenna Hamilton zum Gespött der Schule und bekommt somit sehr viel Aufmerksamkeit. Jenna selbst ist eine Bloggerin und lebt das Leben wie es kommt. Ach und als "neues Highlight der Schule" hat Sie auch gleich 2 Kerle zur Auswahl - aber Sie kann sich einfach nicht entscheiden...Der Witz der Serie, bestückt mit viel Sarkasmus und Ironie, hat nicht nur die deutschen Fans überzeugt. In den USA wurde die Serie gerade bis Staffel 3, diesmal erstmalig mit 20 Episoden, verlängert.

Cette série est super sympas avec beaucoup d'humour, les histoire d'amour de lycée de moquerie ces super sympas quand ces pris sur le ton de l'humour, très bon casting.

Egal wie es ist eine super Teenie Komödie und sie kann wirklich jeder gucken.