In a lot of ways, I’m an uncomplicated TV viewer. Yes, after the fact, I will analyze and critique and categorize tropes and storylines and …
Mean Girl Nemesis
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An Isosceles Love Triangle
This week I was home sick, and I managed to consume the entirety of Never Have I Ever season 3 in one day. This show …
Alternate Timelines… or, How Can I Chop Garlic If I Can’t Remember Learning?
It’s a completely recognizable trope on television (not over used, really, but common enough) to take an episode to glimpse into an alternate version of …
Deconstructing the Universal Experience: 21 Jump Street
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 …
The Spectacular Now
This summer, a string of coming of age/teen experience movies with an indie feel have filtered through my local independent cinema. Finally, I actually made …
Identity Processing
There is no question that Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one of the best teen dramas. Or at least, there’s no question to those of us …
To Hell With Lazy Stereotypes!
Of all teen television shows that have graced the small screen, Friday Night Lights is special. There are so many little things that set it …
Talking Pregnant… Again!
I feel like I keep coming back to television’s depictions of teen pregnancy over and over again. It is a narrative that seriously shows up …
It’s a Far-From-Wonderful Glee Christmas
While searching for a little holiday entertainment this year, I found myself giving Glee another chance. It seems inevitable at this point that every time …
Is Appropriate Cliché an Oxymoron?
The Older Man. It’s such a cliché, it’s no wonder my first reaction to Julie Taylor sleeping with her T.A. irked me. In fact, it …