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How many people actually LIKED this show?


It seems as though almost every post on this board is negative. I watched the show a little bit when it first came out, but then I lost cable for a little while and never got back into it. Thank goodness for Netflix, I've been binge-watching it for a month and just started season 5. I honestly really enjoy it. I am 25 and I still think it's educational in a sense. I love the actor/actress choices. I really enjoy how much Ricky's character grew and changed. I love how Anne discovered her true self and stuck to it, although not everybody was happy about it for a while. I love how it helps show teenagers the consequences of sex, like unplanned pregnancy and the possibility of STDs (for instance, when Ricky had to go get tested). It's been a fairly enjoyable show.

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The show was such a trainwreck, it just kept sucking me back in. A case of so bad it's good.

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I fully agree with you. Personally, I started watching this show when it first came out. I was only 16 at the time. I am glad that I despise teen pregnancy. Besides, I was so mad at my cousin when I found out that he got a girl pregnant. I blamed her more than I blamed him because she was trouble the second I met her. After Sarah got pregnant from my cousin Devin, one girl that i grew up with ends up getting pregnant too. Her name is Bree. To be honest, when my mom told me that she had a boyfriend, I knew that raised a red flag. One year later when mom told me she had bad news after coming home from the supermarket, that's when she told me. I was so mad over this because these kids had no business engaging in intercourse in the first place. When I was in school, I made sure that I did not engage in that mess. I'm 25 and still abstinent up to this day. However, in high school, when I did have a relationship with a guy, I made sure we didn't do anything we didn't have any business doing. All we did was talk, hug, and I would let him feel on my backside, which felt good. But that's it. By the time, I reached my early 20s, I'm glad that I researched other safer alternatives methods besides abstinence, birth control, and condoms. In community college, there were guys who tried to get me to engage in that mess, which backfired. However, there was one guy that never did that with me. But, I am glad that I tried dry humping. I would give anything to do that again in private. Furthermore, I showed him my breasts, my backside, and what I look like shirtless and he did the same. Then we engaged in dry humping like crazy. You have no idea how good that felt. Good times. Now I'm in a university trying to work on my Bachelor's and if I managed to get someone to give me that moment again, I have very intention of looking forward to it. The highest I'll go for sexual urges are:

Kissing
Hugging
Breast feeling
Showing off my breasts and backside
Backside feeling😄
Dry humping😄

Oh yeah! But that's it. Who knows? I might reveal what I look like naked and get him to do the same.

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It's great to have such wonderful goals. I had very strict goals for myself as well. But if I thought peer pressure in my teens was bad I had no idea what it would be like once I was an adult.
I didn't give in right away though. I was abused as a child and I was not about to let that make me wild like it did with my sister. But one night when I was 21 I got really drunk and it just happened. (I kind of sound like Amy there, huh? Except I knew what was happening I just let it happen) I honestly don't regret it. I knew from the first time I was abused as a small child that the only way I would be able to sex as an adult was with drugs or alcohol. I was afraid. Afraid of flashbacks. But also, afraid I'd never be able to have sex as an adult. So I got drunk and let it happen. Hopefully your story is nothing like mine and you do wait until the perfect time. Marriage perhaps. Part of me wishes I had waited but another part of me is glad it happened.

I am now in a fully committed relationship. Our 10 year anniversary is March 11th. So, keep waiting! Don't do what I did! Don't do what Amy, Grace, Adrian, Alice and all the other random girls on the show did. Take my word for it. Waiting, although some people may not understand, is easy, safe and healthy.

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I fully agree with you. I will.

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I gotta say, I picked this show up on Netflix since I like Shailene Woodley in Divergent and really like Molly Ringwald (she's why I kept watching- pretty funny in this). I didn't think much of it but watched the first season (skeptic but was going to give it some time). Anyway, I was a former health teacher at a high school a few years back and I was interested in the educational components and parenting skills played out on screen. I feel this is somewhat educational concerning good discussions about sex and unplanned pregnancy risks, STDs, and emotional/social consequences. However, a little over the top as I can't imagine being that OVERLY open and so chatting with my daughter nor having a parent die and remarry so fast and being open about sex with new husband (do not think that story line was needed and it's laughably fake). That being said, I stuck with it and I am now at the end of season 3 and it really has grown on me and I enjoy the character development. I really like seeing the main cast growing and Ricky is awesome! The young man playing him does a nice job, as go most of the actors. Also, I enjoy the family dynamics of all the cast (except the one I mentioned). I'll stick with it!

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