Second Jen

I stumbled onto Second Jen randomly, while flipping through channels. I happened to stop at a scene from the fifth episode, where the two main characters were seeing a doctor together. Despite having no context of who these characters were, or what they were doing, I found it charming and funny. I decided to go back to the beginning and watch the whole season.

The show has received some acclaim for starring two female Asian characters as the leads of the show. This goes beyond any sort of token diversity, as these two characters are framed by their experience as second generation Canadians (hence the name), as well as being 20-something women. While the latter characterization may not be ground breaking, I did find the way it was presented refreshing. These two characters are very charming and relatable, but without becoming too twee or annoying.

Second Jen's greatest strength s its two lead actors, Amanda Joy and Samantha Wan. They have great chemistry together, and trade quips and barbs with ease. While I may not have gotten wrapped up in its plot, I always wanted to see more of Mo and Jen.

I hope that Second Jen is renewed, but barring that, I hope to see more of Amanda Joy and Samantha Wan on Canadian television.

This show is so cheap it's as if it was thrown together in a couple hours by a grade eight class doing a video project. Some of the worst writing I've ever seen. The acting isn't good either but it's hard to say for sure since they are given such crappy writing.

This show is really bad. Just like really really really very bad. Nothing else to say but this is really bad. Don't waste your time. 2 out of 10 only because I have seen even worse than this.

This show is currently the worst show on Canadian TV in my opinion. The writing is sub-sub-sub-par with some of the worst comedy scripts I've ever seen performed on television. The jokes are so bad even my parents groan at them. The entire show stinks and the flimsy premise wears thin after the first minute of the first episode. The show is also just poorly produced and looks amateurish and cheap. Frankly it looks like it doesn't belong on TV.

Worst of all though are the annoying characters and the awful performances by the worst possible cast. Unless only two people showed up at the auditions they must have deliberately chosen the worst possible ones? Whoever cast this show and approved of that cast needs to never work in TV again. They're really so surprisingly bad I actually looked up the casting credits here on IMDb which is something I've never even thought about doing before, and the woman credited for casting this show has a resume full of duds. I'm looking at you Marjorie Lecker. Check various other people working on this show and their resumes are full of duds too. How do people so bad at their jobs keep getting more work in this industry?

I mean if I was really bad at filing and data entry I would be fired from my job, so when your shows are critically panned and poorly rated and canceled and hated by movie and TV fans here on IMDb HOW do you keep getting more jobs? This is a serious question. Is it because Canadian content rules mean the government has to keep sending tax money to these people to make Canadian TV shows? Is it because the industry in Canada is a clique where terrible, untalented people just hire each other because they're friends and don't care about the quality of the shows they make? I would really like to know because it may answer the far bigger question of WHY are so many Canadian shows bad... it really is like these people don't care about the stuff they make being good, and also like they don't HAVE to care.

The system needs to be fixed and awful shows like this prove it. In the states if someone makes a show anywhere near this bad they stop airing it and the people who made it don't keep getting work automatically.

Second Jen is just atrocious. It's awful. It's a train wreck. This show is terribly, horribly, unbelievably, horrifyingly bad. I would need a thesaurus to even begin to describe just how mind-bogglingly bad Second Jen is.

Worst acting ever? Check.

Worst writing ever? Check.

Jokes that are so not funny that we literally wondered if they even qualified as jokes at all? Check.

A show so ineptly conceived and put together that we weren't sure until the end credits if they had even bothered to hire a director or producers? Check.

This show has literally nothing to offer. Since moving to Canada, I would say this show is easily in contention for the worst comedy series I have ever seen. The fact that I can think of two or three other shows that are even in the same conversation as shows that are as bad as this one should alarm Canada's television industry, because Second Jen is so inexcusably awful - every part of this show is so poorly thought out and executed - that I am mystified as to how it was ever produced let alone broadcast on a major television network.