It is impossible to try to describe what 21 Jump Street is about without making it sound much worse than it is. This is a movie …
Deconstructing the Universal Experience: 21 Jump Street
comedy
Teenage Punchline
Maybe it’s the moodiness, but teenage characters seem to shine far better in drama than in comedy. In teen dramas, teens are often allowed the …
The Importance of Parents
I generally write and reflect on teen television, sort of ignoring that sister genre, the teen movie. I tend not to review films, partly just …
It’s Awkward.
Last week brought the season finale of MTV’s latest teen show, Awkward. It wrapped up smoothly, and predictably at the winter formal dance, after a …