Laikals
The greatest movie ever made..!
Smartorhypo
Highly Overrated But Still Good
Patience Watson
One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.
Abegail Noëlle
While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
captainsandwonderlands
The first two seasons of Awkward are so so addicting. When I first watched this show I was hooked from the first episode. I first watched it around the time the first season had come out, then I stopped in the middle of season 3 because I became frustrated. Then recently I decided I wanted to see how the show kept going from there/how it ended. Boy oh Boy was it an emotional roller-coaster in some episodes and some episodes felt like disappointing rides. This show, similar to Glee, has its moments of predictability and showing topics such as sexuality/self discovery as main elements. Gonna address the things I liked a lot and the things that were irritating/ could've used improvement -Likes: -Jenna's relationship with her parents, more specifically her relationship with her mom. Though they disagree a lot and think differently, they have a unique and special bond that both of them treasure. They have a very open relationship and I love that. Throughout the series I think that's what has the best character development. In the beginning Jenna tends to get very annoyed by her mother wanting to know details and fix her hair but as seasons go on she's always going to her mom for advice and clothing help. Lacey(her mother) grows with her daughter and its beautiful. Also her Dad is a highly under appreciated character. Not only is he funny but a very supportive father and husband. Jenna bonds with her Dad easier then her mother and he's very good at showing Jenna that there's great in most people including whenever she's annoyed with her mom. -Jenna's friendship with Tamara and Ming. They have a very special and fun friendship that the viewer will find similar to some of their own friendships but also enjoy the quirky sides of their friendship that is unique to the show. -Jenna and Matty's relationship. They grow a lot as characters through the experiences they share together. Honestly at times Jenna did not deserve his sweet soul. -Jake. -Sadie becoming more complex. At first she's that typical popular girl who's rude but overtime though she's always sassy, you see her struggles with body image and issues with her mother. Her friendship with Matty is fantastic too and makes me :). Annoyances: -Jenna the entire third season. I'm gonna be honest during third season- fifth season she can be irritating but the third season really takes the cake. I was so frustrated with her for being with Collin and doing stupid things with him. He was an annoying character on his own. My other issue with Jenna is she is really bad with her feelings for Matty. Some episodes she's not dating him and gets easily Jealous when he goes after someone else, even though she likely will be dating someone else at the time that Matty's dating someone new too. She's very hypocritical especially in the third season. The most times I get angry with this show were when Jenna was doing stupid things for a boy. -Sometimes to unrealistic. Though this show is like most shows and has bits of realistic and bits of humor, sometimes it was to much. I gotta agree with another reviewer in that the characters seem to care so much about dating and hooking up but never mention school/electives as much. It gets tiresome during the third season because you start to think "omg we get it so and so isn't kissing you right now and you're upset. maybe focus on school?". -Though Val is a funny character, it can be annoying at times how much she doesn't act adult like. The students are always tearing her down as if she's the student. This show has lots of adult characters that try to hard to be friends with the kids instead of being firmer with them and sometimes that gets annoying.It was disappointing at times but always entertaining. Cheesy and ridiculous one second but very sweet and sentimental the next. Lots of laughs and it did make me cry a few times. This show never failed to make me laugh. Whether it was a witty line from Sadie or someone's facial expression id get a laugh in. I'm glad I did decide to finish it because I think the ending was a perfect way to wrap it together.
djbaby-68703
I love the show don't get me wrong. From T the BFF to Jennas Mom & the hilariousness that follows those great characters even the Counselor was hilariously fantastic, but can we have some more situations where Jenna sticks up for herself? She is too wimpy at times and blames herself where the other people in her life should be questioning their motives instead. It makes you want to yell at the screen and tell her damnit stop being a victim all the time even awkward people have lines to where enough is enough.
badcrcs
I was bored and saw this show on Amazon Prime so I gave it a go. I'm in no way uptight about nudity or cursing or sex on TV, but I found a lot of stuff in this show disturbing and sometimes creepy, mostly because they brush it off like it always happens or is expected to happen these days, which isn't true in most cases. They took topless photos of a minor in the locker room and texted them to all the students and even posted poster size topless photos of the girl all over school and other than the girl being embarrassed it was pretty much brushed off as run-of-the-mill bullying, no one even got suspended. In real life people would be doing jail time for that and I'm sure no school staff would allow nude posters to be posted all over. One of the girl's moms hears about a party they're going to and loves the idea so much she buys them a bag of booze, tells them how to get drunk without being sick, and drops them off at the party with a nice story about how she was basically gang raped by seven guys after she passed out when she was their age and lost her panties that night. In one scene there's a bunch of HS kids in a hot tub making out and one girl is asking "who wants to make out with me?! ANYONE??" I went to many parties when I was in HS and never saw anything like that. And yes, I know everyone probably has a HS slut, but usually even those sluts only "dated" a select group of individuals. My point is all these topics on this show just seem glossed over like no big deal, no consequences, no one ever gets into trouble, even for criminal acts. Very weird. Other than that the acting is pretty good, story lines are about average.
Hailey Park
Although I find this show refreshing, three girls who are trying to make it through high school together. Often girls are against each other in film and TV, but this show does show female relationships. It also shows a lot of different sides to different characters, it doesn't mind if we hate the good characters or love that bad characters. This show does skate around major issues, and always everything goes back to normal. If they truly wanted to make this show amazing, they wouldn't have been so quick to make sure everything works out. That being said, this is one of the few shows that I think somewhat properly shows teenagers, fully using social media, and not shying away of how jaded we are. I think this show has a lot of laughs, and mixes both light and dark humor flawlessly.