Netflix LOL '90s Sitcom EVERYTHING SUCKS!

a few thoughts

i thought this was nice, though yes, light entertainment with lots of nostalgia

when i saw kate's girlfriend i immediately thought this person does not look like she is in grade 9, is she a teenager? so not surprised that she is 20. it's a little strange to have a 20 year old kiss a 14 year old, but i guess if no parties were pressured into this, but stuff like this doesn't come out so soon, which makes me a little ambivalent

i don't particularly think tv nowadays is a step up from netflix, i always thought the opposite, actually

Unless it's changed a ton since I last saw anything on it, I don't really think Nickelodeon would deal with teen sexuality this way and they definitely wouldn't show a teenage girl getting caught masturbating by her dad.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, February 28, 2018 10:52 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Schlikelodeon

Iirc, Kate is in Gr 10, Emaline is in Gr 11 (one more year to go before she can graduate)?

oh true

still she doesn't look like a teenager

not gonna do the back in my day spiel

Ime, teenagers on TV never look like (and are rarely played by) teenagers unless they are supposed to be geeky or awkward. If anything, this show is less bad than Glee or 90210. Iirc, Linda Cardellini was (and imo looked) about 25 when she did Freaks and Geeks?

Luke Perry was like 38 or something by the end of 90210

woah gabrielle cateris from 90210 is the same age as valerie bertinelli

haha xp

What always struck me about Heartbreak High was that the teenagers, indeed, looked way older (because they were). But the extra's in the show seemed of the age they had to play, which created this weird effect that the returning cast was indeed 'cooler' than anyone around them.

I think BH90210 did the same.

*'cooler looking'

I love all teen shows/movies and could not get into this. Something was just so off putting.

I mean Dylan was supposed to be just one year older than suicide kid Scott? C'mon man. xp

It's basically what distinguished the freaks from the geeks in F&G.

yeah i just looked James Eckhouse (Jim Walsh, Brandon and Brenda's dad) is 9 and 6 years older, respectively, than Ian Ziering and Gabrielle Cateris

sund4r

i guess i watched too much degrassi junior high lol

i have never checked to see if they were actually the age or close to the age their characters were but at least it seemed like it to me

I think OG Degrassi did use teenagers. That shit was funded by tax dollars.

the good ol days

think of arthur, the zit remedy
those were not 20-somethings

Yeah Gabrielle Cateris was or was near 30 when it started iirc.

Gabrielle Carteris is the president of Screen Actor's Guild which is whoa.

ha weird! Wasn't Melissa Gilbert for a long time?

Gabrielle Carteris is the president of Screen Actor's Guild which is whoa.

― Yerac, Wednesday, February 28, 2018 12:42 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha that's awesome so fits in with andrea zuckerman's character, high achiever/student council type

this show is so cute. sure it's no Freaks&Geeks, but it's easy to get into and the episodes are blessedly short.

i lol'd at the JTT and Rider Strong posters in Kate's bedroom, and also her dad dancing to "Breakfast at Tiffany's". Her coming out story is so well done, neither queer-baiting nor male-gazey.