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Mood:
- EmotionalHumorousWitty
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Plot:
- Social MisfitsHigh School LifeTeenage LifeLifestyleMisfitYouthFriendsComing of Age more...
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Genres:
- ComedyDrama
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century90s
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Place:
- High School
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Audience:
- Girls' NightTeens
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Praise:
- Award Winner
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Humor:
- SatireIrreverent Humor
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Style:
- Campy
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Attitudes:
- Semi SeriousRealistic
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Popular, 1999 - 2001
English
USA
Profile of Popular
Popular can be described as emotional, humorous, and witty. The plot revolves around social misfits, high school life, and misfits. Its comic aspect comes from satire and irreverent humor. Popular's main genres are drama and comedy. In terms of style, it campy humor. In approach, it is realistic. Popular is set, at least in part, at a high school. It takes place in the 1990s. The TV show has received attention for being an award winner. Popular is well suited for a girls' night and teens.
Summary of Popular
The hilarious high school comedy Popular is sarcastic, self-conscious, and in on its own joke, just like the teens whose mundane and exquisite drama the series captures. Centering around the lives of stepsisters Brooke McQueen (Leslie Bibb) and Sam McPherson (Carly Pope), Popular finds a great deal of humor in the warring cliques of teen girls--and provides sly social commentary in the process. Blonde, wealthy, and sophisticated beyond her years Brooke heads up her high school's in-crowd, along with the vicious and also blonde Nicole (Tammy Lynn Michaels) and Mary Cherry (Leslie Grossman). The brunette Sam, though equally stunning, finds herself an outcast, along with hyper-activist Lily (Tamara Mello), geeky Harrison (Christopher Gorham), and the voluptuous Carmen (Sara Rue). As it dissects the perennial divide between the popular kids and everyone else, Popular comments on the inanity of cliques, with Brooke and Sam eventually growing close as sisters, but refusing to cross enemy lines at school. It also provides insight into the state of contemporary teenage angst, with teachers who literally attack their students, complicated family relationships in which kids play as large a part in the emotional dynamics as do their parents, and a chaotic social system where kids desperate to figure out their identity must fight the labels placed on them by their peers.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 29 September 1999 |
| Runtime: | 60 min |
| Seasons: | 2 |
Cast and Crew
as Brooke McQueen 43 episodes, 1999-2001
as Samantha 'Sam' McPherson 43 episodes, 1999-2001
as Carmen Ferrara 43 episodes, 1999-2001
as Lily Esposito 43 episodes, 1999-2001
as Nicole Julian 43 episodes, 1999-2001
as Mary Cherry 43 episodes, 1999-2001
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Users Reviews
- 04.August.2010
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- by: Dan
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- 12.June.2010
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- by: David Carstensen
- David Carstensen rated this movie0/10
