Season 2 is missing something. I don't know what it is exactly, but the show is not as edgy as it used to be. With its more ordinary approach and the sarcastic tone down to a minimum. I love WB series, but it seemed like the most original ones were forced to fit the mold at some point. And Popular is no more than your regular teen dramedy this season. The George character is bland, and showed liberals were already fantasizing about the perfect « specimen ». And I kind of wished the Brooke and Sam's parents love affair, was left alone as part of season 1 arc. So I don't like the « baby » plot, that felt like an excuse for them to get back together. Joe Loves Mary Cherry, is a fun episode. Where very different people are bounding, Josh and Lily rescue gay monkeys, and Nicole becomes the true outcast of the show. It's the episode that set the tone for the rest of the season, and series even. After the show became more in tune with the network's policy...
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lovely Leslie Bibb
RavenGlamDVDCollector10 November 2017
Warning: Spoilers
{spoiler bit is only at the end}
After not having that much screen time in the previous episode, Leslie Bibb is back in full force and carries the show. It, of course, continues to be the Nicole Julian & Mary Cherry Weird Comedy Hour (for you lot watching on TV with those infernal commercials thrown in) and they're particularly at it again, with chief clown Leslie Grossman getting close-ups that really shouldn't have been committed on film. Duck!
Some school that Kennedy High. Very unusual approach to the curriculum. Assignments linking the teaching of chemistry to the student's romantic lives.
Ryan Murphy has a fascination with mainly two things. One of them is plastic surgery (not mentioned directly in this episode) and the other is unusual couplings, like nothing vanilla pleases that guy. Generally, every third character traipsing across the screen, is some sexually- confused ditzy creature. In this episode, we have the cross-the-color- barrier kiss. And a bit way too much of a bromance between those Siamese twins.
The problem with the above-mentioned is that they're all usually embarrassingly bad, making the viewer not in the mood for such foolery CRINGE!
That said, the black dude in this story rises way above all stereotypes and is a surprisingly normal character, quite not in line with the rest of the show. Awesome guy like that should have been in 90210, not here.
Sara Rue seems to be a chrysalis, take note, she is quietly metamorphosing, and looks good.
Spoiler bit:
I know that few people would have that much good to say about the blonde cheerleader, but Leslie Bibb has the part that requires far more of a performance than the others COMBINED! Notice in that scene where the break-up takes place, all that heartbreak. She looks totally stricken! I wondered what she had to focus on in real life to look so shattered.
After not having that much screen time in the previous episode, Leslie Bibb is back in full force and carries the show. It, of course, continues to be the Nicole Julian & Mary Cherry Weird Comedy Hour (for you lot watching on TV with those infernal commercials thrown in) and they're particularly at it again, with chief clown Leslie Grossman getting close-ups that really shouldn't have been committed on film. Duck!
Some school that Kennedy High. Very unusual approach to the curriculum. Assignments linking the teaching of chemistry to the student's romantic lives.
Ryan Murphy has a fascination with mainly two things. One of them is plastic surgery (not mentioned directly in this episode) and the other is unusual couplings, like nothing vanilla pleases that guy. Generally, every third character traipsing across the screen, is some sexually- confused ditzy creature. In this episode, we have the cross-the-color- barrier kiss. And a bit way too much of a bromance between those Siamese twins.
The problem with the above-mentioned is that they're all usually embarrassingly bad, making the viewer not in the mood for such foolery CRINGE!
That said, the black dude in this story rises way above all stereotypes and is a surprisingly normal character, quite not in line with the rest of the show. Awesome guy like that should have been in 90210, not here.
Sara Rue seems to be a chrysalis, take note, she is quietly metamorphosing, and looks good.
Spoiler bit:
I know that few people would have that much good to say about the blonde cheerleader, but Leslie Bibb has the part that requires far more of a performance than the others COMBINED! Notice in that scene where the break-up takes place, all that heartbreak. She looks totally stricken! I wondered what she had to focus on in real life to look so shattered.
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