Awkward is an American teen comedy series created by Lauren Iungerich for MTV. The main character of the show is Jenna Hamilton (Ashley Rickards), a Palos Verdes, California, a teenager who struggles with his identity, especially after an accident is misunderstood as a suicide attempt.
The series aired on July 19, 2011. MTV renewed the series for the second season on August 24, 2011. The second season aired on June 28, 2012 at 10:30 am Awkward was officially updated for the third season with an order of 20 episodes on July 25, 2012, which begins airing on April 16, 2013, at 10:00 pm. On June 26, 2013, it was announced that the show creator Lauren Iungerich will be out of the show after production of season three ends on June 27, 2013. The rest of the third season of the show begins airing on October 22, 2013.
MTV updated the series for the fourth season on 5 August 2013, which aired on April 15, 2014, with new showrooms, Chris Alberghini and Mike Chessler, to replace the former showcase creator, Lauren Iungerich.
Awkward in the first season was generally well received by television critics praising the realism and writing of the show and its main character, and was included in the top ten list of critics.. The event also earned several award nominations, winning one Teen Choice Award and one People's Choice Award.
On October 8, 2014, Awkward updated for the fifth and final season, which aired on August 31, 2015. The mid-season finals aired on November 9, 2015; when the show returns in 2016, the story is taken during the summer after the freshman year in college. The second half of season 5 airs on March 15, 2016. Producer Chris Alberghini says that there may be a season 6 if MTV decides and that there are more stories to tell. While most players agree that they will gladly return if there is a season 6, telling fans to tell MTV if they want more seasons, the series has not returned. During the series, 89 episodes of Awkward aired for five seasons.
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Plot
The social outcast Jenna Hamilton had an accident, but it seemed she was trying to kill herself after getting the letter "careful". He started a blog that helped him deal with different high school issues such as boys' problems, peer pressure, and trying to fit in. By making changes and embracing his misfortune, he became famous for his friends.
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Episode
Season 1 (2011)
After losing her virginity to popular Matty McKibben during the summer camp, Jenna Hamilton continued a secret relationship with her only known by her two friends Tamara and Ming. After returning home from the camp, Jenna received a "care" letter from an anonymous source, brutally criticizing her for "losers". When Jenna tried to get rid of the letter, she fell and broke her arm, accidentally making it look like a suicide attempt. Gossip spread quickly, which made Jenna receive unwanted attention at school, especially from the nosy counselor, Miss Mark, and the girl who meant Sadie Saxton. Jenna decides to accept suggestions in a care statement to be bolder and more open, and her popularity increases as a result. Jenna's growing popularity initially created tension between her and her friends but all three eventually changed. Jenna begins to hate a secret relationship with Matty. Then he learns that Matty's best friend, Jake Rosati, has concealed a crush on him. Jake broke up with his beautiful but ditzy girlfriend, Lissa, to ask Jenna to Winter Formal. Jenna ends her relationship with Matty to be with Jake, with her and Matty keeping their previous relationship with the secrets of Jake. After some false hints, Jenna found out who wrote her confrontation letter - her mother, Lacey.
Jake falls in love with Jenna and they start a relationship, but this leads to a strange tension between him and Matty. Both try to keep proof that they are together secret. Meanwhile, Jenna told her mother to tell her father that she wrote the letter "carefrontation". After that, Kevin moves in and breaks off with Lacey because he can not understand how he can do something so cruel to his own daughter. Meanwhile, Sadie starts dating Ricky Schwartz, who makes Tamara disappointed. Jenna "Aunt Ally" returns to get married and Jenna is worried that Lacey's high school boyfriend, invited to the wedding, will ruin her parents chance to return together. Jenna intervened and eventually Kevin and Lacey made up. Jenna wrestles with her feelings for Jake and realizes that she still loves Matty. Sadie tells Jake about Jenna's previous relationship with Matty and she broke up with him. On the way to apologize to Jenna, she watched him kiss Matty. The two boys were involved in a public fight, but eventually made up and asked Jenna to choose between them. After much consideration, Jenna chooses Matty over Jake and the two start their relationship again even though Jenna wonders if she made the right decision by choosing to stay with Matty rather than going on a summer trip to Europe. At the end of the year party, Jake and Tamara kiss and become a couple while Sadie feels crushed to find Ricky having an affair with another man, Clark.
Season 3 (2013)
When school starts again, Jenna is jealous to know that Tamara has a new look and has become closer to Jake and Valerie. However, Tamara's increasing popularity creates tension between her and Jake, especially when they are facing each other for the president's student organization. Ming finally finds his girlfriend and becomes head of "Asian Mafia" even though that power quickly gets into his head. Jenna started taking a creative writing class where she met Collin, an interesting intellectual. When Jenna is bored with her relationship with Matty, she starts having an affair with Collin.
This affair was later revealed at Jenna's 17th birthday party. Matty was willing to forgive Jenna, but she broke up with him for Collin. Jenna becomes increasingly isolated from her friends as she spends more time with Collin, who encourages her to smoke marijuana. Eventually Jenna and Collin parted after she was suspended and realized her mistake. His friends forgave him, but his actions were not forgotten.
Ming Mafia's rule of power in Asia finally ended when he negotiated with Becca to maintain his position as leader as long as he left him and his girlfriend, Fred Wu, alone.
Season 4 (2014)
Jenna is in her senior year and hopes to make amends for the previous year. She tries to become more involved in school, improves her academics, prepares her classes and relives her relationship with Matty. A new girl, Eva, enrolled in school. Ming has broken up with Fred Wu and moved to Vermont while Tamara and Jake take part in an active sexual relationship. Jake changed his image during the summer, started making music and finally decided to break up with Tamara. Sadie lives with her adoptive parents, Ally, while working night in a food truck. Matty gets a job and continues to be friends with Jenna. They end up having sex and evasion after that makes Jenna think she's shy with her. He is actually grieving over the fact that he was adopted and quit his job in rebellion. With sympathy, Matty and Jenna became friends with various benefits. Jenna finally ends up and becomes romantically involved with Luke, a freshman. This causes more friction between Matty and Jenna and to keep up with it, Jenna tries to make it with Eva. Jenna realizes that she does not really let Matty go, which puts a strain on her relationship with Luke as Matty and Jenna argue every time they see each other because Eva is causing trouble. Eva sends Sadie's electronic mail so Austin breaks off with her and tries to make Jenna jealous, including leaving her underwear on Jenna's bed, so it seems that she and Matty are sleeping together. Mid-season ends with Luke and Jenna breaking up, Eva caught in her lie, Tamara and Jake become friends, and Mr. Hamilton was injured.
On New Year's Day, Matty, Jenna, Jake and Tamara gather and decide to hit Sadie's aunt party. While there, Matty reconciles with her mother and Jenna finds a new man to be kissed at midnight, a man who then she knows is a second year student. Meanwhile, college admissions are rolling and it seems as though everyone has been accepted except for Jenna. Jenna tried to get into Lockard University, but while she was not welcome, her mother did. On Matty's 18th birthday, Jenna competes with her new boyfriend Gabby, only to realize that Gabby is really good and not dangerous. Jenna confesses to Matty that she feels like Gabby's virginity is worth the wait, and that she is not. Matty argues and tells him that she does not want to be alone when she opens a letter that will tell her who her biological parents are, which shows how much Jenna means to her. After Matty's disappointment found that her real mother did not want to be found, Jenna comforted her and both ended up kissing. Jenna tells him that she can not because she has to be loyal to Gabby but Matty says, "Here we are.It's a bit different, slightly beyond the high school rules." During spring break, Jenna puts Matty's father and they plan to meet him in Mexico. Gabby appears and goes with Matty instead. While in Mexico, Tamara was engaged to a man named Adam whom she met in a bar. Adam was in basic military training and he accepted his proposal, thinking that he would serve somewhere far away but in reality, he would be in California. Meanwhile, Ny. Hamilton finds her pregnant and considers not going to college. Later, it was revealed that Gabby sleeps with Jake and Jenna finally releases Matty as she starts dating his friend Adam. Matty goes to the beach to avoid things but instead sees Jenna and her new friend in the distance. Jake then appears on the beach, initially wanting to confess about him and Gabby but decides to keep silent instead. The season ends with Matty staring at Jenna in the distance on the beach, wondering if she has lost her chance for true love.
Season 5 (2015-2016)
In season 5A, Jenna and Matty had an inconvenient journey because Jenna knew that she really loved him but did not know how to tell her. Tamara broke up with Adam after Jenna told everyone the truth about a fake engagement during the engagement party. Jenna decides to go to Wykcoff while Matty goes to Berkeley on a soccer scholarship and Sadie and Tamara go to New York. The middle of the season ended when Matty confessed his love to Jenna at the Senior prom and they returned together. On the day of graduation Matty told Jenna that her soccer practice started the day after their graduation and she had to leave immediately. Feeling ruined that they would be on different sides of the country, Jenna decided to spend the summer with Matty at Berkeley. Season 5A ends with Jenna and Matty arrives in Berkeley.
The creator of the series Lauren Iungerich spends time with the actual high school students to decipher the teenage dialogue of the show. He also met with them to talk about their lives and make sure the show reflects reality.
Citing the influence of his writing, Iungerich says he likes Friday Night Lights: "What Jason Katims has done in five seasons is really beautiful, the story and who is the one who really comes first. That's what I took from it , be so courageous to graduate people, and wrap up the storyline or allow them to come back in organic way and fall in love with new characters I want to take a lesson from it.Move forward I will take note of the brave things that he do it on the show. "
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Reception
Critical response
Awkward mostly received positive reviews for his first season. At Metacritic, which gives a weighted average rating of 100 for reviews from mainstream critics, the TV series received an average score of 74, based on 13 reviews, showing "favorable public reviews". The Wall Street Journal ' Dorothy Rabinowitz explains Awkward is "a series about a high school girl who is not crybaby or worried or conceived with the intention to preach or for shock, this is more distinguished by its focus on fully recognizable youth pain, as experienced by fully recognizable teenagers, Jenna (Ashley Rickards).The other difference: stronger echoes of older storytelling types, the kind whose characters grow and get the depth.This is the thing that's really desperately lately from any kind of TV writing, let alone the series about teenagers - quite a relief when it's not about vampires. "Hank Stuever of The Washington Post found the series "funny", which was "a wonderful surprise from MTV, the makers of so many juvenile paralyzed comedies that I lost count." The New York Times is called Awkward as "a heartbreaking performance of longing - for love, of course, but also for consistency, a very unreal thing in an ever-changing world- change school life ". John Kubicek of the BuddyTV website writes "Just like Easy Earn, Mean Girls or teen comedy centered on other strong women, Awkward has a quick intelligence and a very different vision of the world.This is a perfect blend of awkward comedy and teenage awkwardness, and in the end, the title says it all. "He concluded" The result is one of the most fun and earnest teen comedy movies produced. " Writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, David Wiegand described the show as "a very smart mix of realism and satire" and praised the writing for being sharp. Curt Wagner of RedEye states Awkward is "whips and funny" while praising the sharpness of writing.
The New York Post Writer Linda Stasi gives a three star rating of four comments "Apart from the haphazard sexuality, Awkward is a very nice, funny and fun show. ". However, Stasi says "this is not something you want to watch with your kids - or want your kids to watch." According to The Philadelphia Daily News , " Awkward , like Glee , dealt gently and semikom with issues of sexuality and intimidation but never really interesting blood ". Daniel Fienberg of HitFix gives a rating on B, "Not only is the universal horror of a high enough Universal High, even if the specifications change, but I can find a way to fit awkwardly into hyper-literal traditions. like Pretty in Pink or Heathers or Mean Girls or Juno This is not as good as they are, but it's not as bad < i> Jawbreaker , which is in the same tradition. " Variety ' s Brian Lowry was less enthusiastic about the show:" While the premise is free of gimmick compared to RJ Berger or Teen Wolf , the situation is not interesting enough to make this more than just the last days of Doogie Howser, MD with gender switches. "
The character Jenna Hamilton has received positive feedback. Entertainment Weekly writes Jenna "navigates the sharky waters of high school, friends, cheerleaders and cute boys with a loud voice that makes it - and Awkward. - -Easy to falling in love. "The Huffington Post considers Jenna's" smarter "voice-overs as" [they] make this dark-school comedy stand out from the stereotypical crowd of high school prime-time soaps. " David Hinckley from Daily News gave a four-star rating of five and wrote " Awkward very good". He explains, "Because we've seen high school exiles who feel ignored and humiliated by their peers, he's rarely played better than Ashley Rickards playing Jenna Hamilton." and continued, "If the dramas were exaggerated, Jenna made the trauma legitimate, and her narrative provided everything about the humor and self-consciousness that knew which made the most uncomfortable moments become painful." Stasi compares Ashley Rickards to Juno actress Ellen Page: "Rickards is a great teenage actress of the Ellen Page variety - a kind of beautiful, headed-headed kid flooded with her ability to look awkward and offbeat." The Washington Post writes about Rickards: "Following the footsteps of Molly Ringwald's well Sixteen Candles and Claire Danes My So-Called Life, he effortlessly strives to improve the premise unfresh from tonight's new comedy series MTV, Awkward , for something tacky but honest.
The appearance of other characters is also well received by the critics. Kubicek appreciated that the show's villain, Sadie Saxton, was not "the perfect typical skinny girl" but "a popular obesity cheerleader thanks only to her parents."
Top Ten Criticisms
After his first season, Awkward was included in the top ten list of critics.
- The Daily Beast (unlisted list)
- The Huffington Post (unlisted alphabet list)
- IMDb (unlisted list)
- The New York Daily News (unlisted list)
- The New York Times (unordered alphabet list)
Awards
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Home media releases
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References
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External links
- Official website
- Awkward on IMDb
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