Faking It 

After numerous attempts of trying to be popular two best friends decide to come out as lesbians, which launches them to instant celebrity status. Seduced by their newfound fame, Karma and Amy decide to keep up their romantic ruse.

Creators:

Carter Covington, Dana Goodman, Julia Lea Wolov

Stars:

Rita Volk, Katie Stevens, Gregg Sulkin

1 win & 7 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Rita Volk	...	Amy Raudenfeld 38 episodes, 2014-2016
Katie Stevens	...	Karma Ashcroft 38 episodes, 2014-2016
Gregg Sulkin	...	Liam Booker 38 episodes, 2014-2016
Bailey De Young	...	Lauren Cooper 38 episodes, 2014-2016
Michael J. Willett	...	Shane Harvey 38 episodes, 2014-2016
Rebecca McFarland	...	Farrah 19 episodes, 2014-2016
Courtney Kato	...	Leila 18 episodes, 2014-2016
Senta Moses Mikan	...	Principal Penelope 17 episodes, 2014-2016
Keith Powers	...	Theo 16 episodes, 2014-2015

Storyline

After numerous attempts of trying to be popular, two best friends decide to fake being lesbians. They are launched into instant celebrity status. Seduced by their newfound fame, Karma and Amy decide to keep up their romantic ruse; but Amy has more than popularity on her mind as she falls for Karma.

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Plot Keywords:

best friend | teenage angst | austin texas | blended family | fake relationship | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Official Sites:

MTV [United States] Official Facebook

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

22 April 2014 (USA)

Also Known As:

Faking It - Più che amiche

Filming Locations:

Citrus College - 1000 West Foothill Boulevard, Glendora, California, USA

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

21 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

In Season 2 Episode 9, Amy jokingly says Liam (Gregg Sulkin) is a werewolf. Before being casted in Faking It, Gregg Sulkin had a reoccurring role in Disney's Wizards of Waverly Place (2007) in which he played a werewolf.

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Connections

Referenced in Truth or Dare (2018)

User Reviews

It was violently not for me.

I'm not sure why i watched it, i guess i thought i was giving new things a chance?

It ticks a fair amount of the boxes in my 'things i hate about television' area.

Its highly derivative, from the "now the uncool people are actually the cool people and none of classically cool people can grasp why" routine, which is a prevalent theme in the 2012 movie 21 jump street, to the characters which are all extremely exaggerated and defined by one loud attribute: The 'gay' guy is gay, the cute boy is a cute boy, the 'mean girls' stepsister is a 'mean girl'. They are all one-dimensional plot devices intended to push the story and humour along inorganically.

I honestly didn't get passed the house party 10 minutes in, maybe they drove home some deep introspective parable at the end that would validate watching people condense and simplify the complexities of teenage life into caricatures we've seen from a hundred different and less tedious sources before, but i couldn't get there. The plot is probably the most obvious of any show i've seen this year, no one notices us, they then think we're cool because of a lie, lets continue the lie and maintain our status even though its clear at some point in the future we will be ousted as frauds and face some form of backlash.

They are vanilla girls that are apparently unpopular despite being attractive and healthy with decent aesthetics, in the most welcome and inviting environment you can imagine, and they go to school with several thousand hipsters that manage to have a hierarchy of popularity based on not caring about your popularity, homogenising their clicks by being "alternative" together.

Let me just say, i'm not the target audience, i shouldn't have watched this show its not meant for me and i'm sure its actually pretty interesting if you're into teen highschool television, or feel like popularity is an important social factor in your lives. I'd rather squeeze lemons into a pool filled with broken glass and do a 'bomb' dive into it from a 10 meter springboard than watch this ever again, but it might be someone else's cup of tea.