The Secret Life of the American Teenager
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| Jezebel found this 7/1/2008 on www.variety.com [flag] |
TV Reviews: ABC Family's latest original drama wants to be a slow-motion version of "Juno" but settles for being an obvious, stereotype-laden teen soap, albeit more "North Hollywood, 91607" than the story of what happens in flashier, better-known SoCal zip codes. Series creator Brenda Hampton made family drama with religious underpinnings a long-running success on "7th Heaven," but teen pregnancy -- especially on a youth-oriented network -- is too important a subject for such shallow, ham-fisted ...
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The Not-So-Secret, Pro-Life Message Of The Secret Life Of The American Teenager [Critical Mass]
Published 7/1/2008 by Maria at Jezebel
... It wasn't fun and definitely not like what you see in the movies." Or they're unhappy because they've never had it. In a most improbable conversation (in a show full of them, nerdy wiseacre Ben (Kenny Baumann) — who has decided almost arbitrarily to pursue Amy by getting himself into the marching band — tells his guidance counselor: "To be perfectly honest, Mark, it's all motivated by the fact that I'm 15, I'm a virgin, and if I want to have a sex life I've got to start somewhere." Variety : ...
