That secret tryst is short-lived, with Grace concluding that boys will be boys, just like her dad told her in the obligatory "I know what teenage boys want" talk. On the other end of the spectrum is the saintly Grace, who has taken a vow of chastity until marriage, sending her very horny football player boyfriend Jack (Greg Finley) into the arms of Adrian. And nice girls don't want to have sex, do they? And if they do, they certainly don't enjoy it. But that couldn't be the case, because that would imply that Amy wanted to have sex. Because of the determination to keep Amy nice, her description sounds like a soft-focused rape instead of what was probably a fumbling, rushed, and awkward first experience. That Amy got pregnant after the first try isn't as shocking as her description of losing her virginity. And wouldn't you know: The whore is dark and voluptuous, the saint is pretty and blond, and good-girl Amy barely looks like she's finished going through puberty. The resident saint is Christian cheerleader Grace Bowman (Megan Park).
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She's the resident "virgin" in the virgin-saint-whore triumvirate of the series – the good girl who goes to band camp a virgin and comes back knocked up. In the end, it's downright disappointing.Īt the center of the series is Amy Juergens (Shailene Woodley). While there is a lot of talk about sex on The Secret Life, how it approaches the subject is not particularly candid, nor is it as different as the ABC Family tagline promises.
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The website (where you can watch full episodes of the original series) invites you in with the tagline, "We're doing something different." So I was really looking forward to "something different" when it came to The Secret Life – that is, something that would admit in a real and candid way that teenagers are thinking about, wanting, and having sex. On the surface, it looks as if the ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager is out to do something radical.
While there is something to be said for having those formerly hush-hush subjects lose their stigma, it's rather frustrating to realize that TV is still resorting to the same old stereotypes.
OMG! Nothing makes you feel, like, more old than seeing a "very special afterschool special" theme from your youth become the subject of a full-fledged TV series.
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