The Secret Life Of The American Teenager – Volume 6
(Disney DVD)
Picture:
B- Sound: B- Extras: C Episodes: A
Get ready
for drama, the laughter, the friendships, the break-ups, the heart-aches and
everything in the life of a high school teenager. Changes are happening at Ulysses S. Grant High
School, unexpected pregnancy, new couples, friendships, a group of close-knit
group of friends experience what it mean to become young adults. Starting with the wedding of Ben and Adrian,
Amy and Ricky tries to start a relationship again, Grace and Grant take their
relationship to the next level, but with all that has happened, friendships
will be tested and strained, old and new rivalries will appear, can these
hormone charged teenagers handle it?
In this volume, Adrian
has decided to have the baby and to marry to Ben, Amy not wanting to be out
done by her starts pressuring Ricky to have more of a commitment to her. Meanwhile while all their other friends start
wanting their own relationships as well. After a summer of hearing who did it, who got with who, and who didn't do
it, no one wants to be the last one to get hitched, so when unexpected events
happen, their friendships, their lives will never be the same again...
This series is about high school teenagers as they explore their sexuality
and how their sex affect their lives, the drama it causes between their
friends, family and its consequences afterwards. As the series progresses it shows how their
lives parallel their friends and how they are similar to their parents, but
then explains the differences between them (and the generations), and how their
differences separates them and makes different choices than what their parents
would have made. The tale
of how the American family struggles raising it's teenagers in a
modern world, the irony in how it's parents want them to grow up, but then
at the same time worry when they grow up too quickly and have issues with
letting them go. It explores the nature
of teenagers, modern values, worries, concerns, the ups and downs of
relationships, teenage pregnancy, marriage, single parent households and
many more... each episode is filled to the brim with drama, never a
dull moment.
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Episode 1: Who Do You Trust
Adrian and Ben
finds out what their baby's gender is. Everyone is talking about who did 'it' over
the summer, Amy wants Ricky to get tested (to his dismay) for STDs.
Episode 2: Mirrors
Amy find out she looks like a young version of Ricky's mother, which scares
Ricky. IS he making the same
mistake as his mother did?
Episode 3: Guess Who's Not Coming to
Dinner
Ricky is embarrassed for Amy's parents to meet his mother and want to find a
way to get out of it. Meanwhile Ben and Adrian's parents meet and
talk if marriage is the right path for Ben and Adrian.
Episode 4: Another Proposal
Adrian
announces her wedding which gets all the girls jealous. Amy works up the courage to propose to Ricky.
Episode 5: Deeper and Deeper
Amy waits for Ricky's answer to her proposal. Ben gets ready to move out and in with Adrian.
Episode 6: Moving In and Out
Ricky doesn't want to give any commitment to Amy. Both Amy and Adrian get what they want but
then lose confidence, did they really want it or was it they just
want to be first one to get it?
Episode 7: Young At Heart
Ricky, Jack and Tom are all frustrated that they aren't getting any sex. The girls learn from Grant's father they
shouldn't place conditions on love.
Episode 8: Loose Lips
Adrian wants a
baby shower, but things turn into a fight dragging in everyone and taking
sides. Bitter feelings are revealed,
everyone says something in anger but regret it later, but then no one wants to
be the first to apologize or admit they were wrong.
Episode 9: Round II
After the harsh words were exchanged, everyone has their own grievances but
feel guilty for making others feel worst instead of finding a solution. Everyone in the end apologizes and things are
made right again.
Episode 10: It's Not Over Till It's
Over
Ben and Adrian plans to have the baby and want to finish high school, as
well as make plans for the wedding. But when things don't goes as
planned... both Ben and Adrian begin to have doubts and second thoughts.
Episode 11: To Be...
Now that Ben and Adrian are married, friendships and relationships have
changed, a beginning for everyone.
Episode 12: ...Or Not To Be
The baby is coming! But there are
complications...
Based on
the reviews of the earliest sets, the picture and sound have improved, though I
liked the show the most of the three writers who have covered it to date. You might want to start from the first set,
but I enjoyed the show in progress,
- Ricky Chiang
