Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Loui Blair It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Alistair Olson After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

heyjudecharlotte Bad acting and poor plot lines aside, the basic plot points of the show are completely unrealistic. In one episode/movie special, Zoey, the main character, transfers (in the middle of the year) to a boarding school in England. This would never happen. The process of applying to boarding school takes close to a year (applications, campus visits, interviews, paper filing, etc.), and by the time an American student is in high school, if he has not been educated in the British form the majority of his education, he would never be able to catch up to where he needs to be in order to take the standardized testing.Another common occurrence is (as with almost all Nick and Disney show nowadays) immature, inept adults. If any the teachers/staff acted the way they do on the show, but at a real school, they would a) never have been hired, or b) been fired. And if Zoey and her cohorts did half the things they do at a real school, they would have landed themselves in front of the Disciplinary Committee enough times to be expelled.These points alone make the show terrible (for me, at least). As an attendee of a boarding school myself, it casts boarding schools in a horrible light. It's not the glamorous, parent-free world that the show makes it out to be. And, yes, we do have a sushi bar in our buffet line and flat-screen TVs in our student lounge.

lpnarnialover09 Zoey101 comes on before H20 which because of my friend I have started watching h20 not Zoey101,so I sometimes watch the last five minutes so I don't miss the intro to H20. This show is stupid and unrealistic ,the kids are snotty little brats and one episode,I guess one of the faculty member banned coffee and the kids,by kids I mean Zoey and her stupid little friends catch the teacher drinking coffee and threaten to blackmail him,and the dumb thing is the teacher just gives in,um okay,he's a teacher he's allowed to drink coffee and he doesn't have to listen to same silly little kids . Another episode had a bunch of new kids come to PCA to check it out and i'm guessing the whole thing was an excuse for a clip show because the potential students asked really stupid questions and of course Zoey was one of the question takers and I think it was Logan,than they had some random character who if she was able to answer any questions about the school or classes most likely would have given intelligent answers,of course this character was portrayed as a nerd,glasses,braces.What is it about media portraying people who wear glasses as nerds,I wear glasses,I'm not a nerd.Zoey 101 is unrealistic ,there is no real drama everyone lives this perfect life and I'm sorry,but really Zoey Brooks is a Mary Sue Nick dropped it because Jamie Lynn got knocked up,but Teennick shows reruns

splishsplash333 First of all, I will say that this isn't a terrible show. This is coming from an 18 year old girl who never liked watching Nickelodeon or The Disney Channel, no matter what age I was. But I do agree with what another reviewer said about it in terms of Jamie Lynn Spears. My big qualm about it was that I see it as a ploy to give people an impression of what Jamie Lynn Spears is like in real life: popular, beautiful, nice, stylish, liked by guys. Jamie Lynn is your basic, generic looking teenage girl who's safe enough for a mainstream audience, but so safe that she and her performance as Zoey are bland. The real acting highlights of the show are Christopher Massey (who plays Mike), Sean Flynn (who plays Chase), and in early seasons, Alexa Nikolas (who plays Nicole). Jamie Lynn is bland and lacks the quirkiness of some of the other characters. I think she's the weakest actor and plays the least interesting character. I don't think seeing a girl have things handed to them the way Zoey does sends a good message to girls: she just re-enforces a stereotype about what it means to fit in and be accepted by society. The premise of the show is catchy, especially towards the pre-teen crowd: going to a glamorous boarding school in California, how fun is that? It's a fantasy life that young girls would love to live, and that's part of what watching TV is in the first place: an escape from our daily lives. The script and many of the plot lines seem contrived and predictable, it could use some creativity and personality. It also often does not have the real, relatable element that other children's/pre-teen shows have (ex: Lizzie McGuire). It doesn't really tap into adolescent insecurity or pressure because these characters have these near perfect lives. Yes, there is the exception of boyfriend/girlfriend drama, but that is usually the height of real-life problems featured in the show.Overall, it isn't bad. It's just hard to watch because it could have been so much better. I say take away the main character and even that would improve the show drastically. Jamie Lynn just feels like a marketing tool for Nickelodeon to compete with Disney Stars of that time such as Hilary Duff or Raven Simone. I think fame was handed to Jamie because of her older sister Britney Spears, and had the show gone to an unknown public figure, I don't think it would have been as anticipated.

OffTheLeft This was another one of those shows that I watched to root out the positive elements, and because I've been a Nick fan for years. Some of those would be the stage sets, B-plots, guest stars, and a few of the main actors that were good. I dabbled in the show through high school as I quickly grew to despise Jamie Spears, along with the other chicks in the show that can't act. The only characters I seemed to like were Dustin, Quinn, Stacey, Michael & Logan. Quinn is a perfect outcast that eventually started to fit in; Stacey is a complete oddball; Dustin gets put through a bunch of strange, random situations; and Michael is kind of the comic relief right-hand man of Logan. There's a remarkable difference between the execution & acting quality of the B-plots that involve them, and the A-plots that showcased a bunch of screeching girls and an iconic "Miss Perfect," repeating bad lines and obsessing over guys. This show would have been great if the main plots contained the quality of the side plots, but the main plots just don't deliver anything. When it recently came back in reruns, and I tried to watch it again, I was more calloused towards the girls' abysmal acting and had to change the channel. However, I will give the previously listed characters credit because they did make the show more or less worth my time.