15/Love

'15/Love' is a mix of 'Degrassi Junior High', an MTV music video and a tamed-for-television version of those modern movie classics 'Fast Times at Ridgemount High' and 'Animal House'. Like the kids at Degrassi students at 15/Love's Cascadia face common teen and preteen problems: first love, competition, vanity, peer pettiness, and, of course, those intrusive, overbearing, rule-making adults. Many of the program's 'filmic' techniques--off-angle camera shots, zooms and pans, funky scene transitions, etc.--share the speedy cadence and rock-and-roll feel of MTV videos. Now, this character 'Squib' is neither a Sean Penn 'Spicoli' nor a (may he forever smirk in peace!) John Belushi 'Bluto Blutarskyto', yet he certainly does share their absolute irreverence for authority, their ravenous appetite for shenanigans, and their uncanny ability to succeed in spite of, or in most cases, because of themselves ... and yes there is a food fight. I liked the show enough to register at the 15love.tv site and found games to play, stuff to win and thriving online viewer community. Wow, this show IS popular. Yah, it's kinda cool: it works and I'll keep watching. OUT.

15/love... oh where to start. It truly is not what you expect it to be. The stereotype is: Tennis show; jocks running around in minimal clothing pegging tennis balls at one another, and romances playing everyone hot and cold (including slash and fem slash pairings) But really, it's nothing of the sort. In essence, there is one beautiful character (which there would have to be - face it), and the rest are healthy young adults who take care of their bodies (I bring this up because anorexia is such a huge problem for teens in today's society) Amongst some major plot twists and in the huge themes which are well constructed and played, there are some addictive romances, quirky characters and brilliant dialogue that change your perspective entirely. In what I thought would be a good way to kill half an hour, I found myself in for a ride that would make me laugh, smile, cry and yell, and still make me think about the underlying themes. Truly not what you expect at all

i first started watching 15love by accident really,it was on before what i like about you and it first caught my attention because of the quirkiness of the characters and there accents. Although i saw parts of the first episode like 6 seconds the first steady attention i payed to it was episode 6, the famous kissing scene between squib and Cody. i fell in love with it! the deaths of Megan and Sebastian were written so beautifully into the series, the two episodes dealing with it were real enough to make me bawl for 60 min straight but also not to much that i had to turn off the TV. any real super 15love fan knows all the little words or extra's or secrets to almost every episode after that paying tribute to Jaclyn and vadim. vadim's brother was an extra in the first episode of season 2,along with a friend of Jaclyn's. through its two seasons the show has been funny,sad,romantic,real and always irresistible. i recommend it to anyone and i can't wait till July 3rd for the 3rd season!!!!

At first, I found the show charming. Then as the later seasons came I realized that nothing really interesting was happening. The characters became dull and the acting also lost something. Some episodes didn't even focus on what I THOUGHT was the main focus; tennis. I know, I know, just because tennis is an important part of the show doesn't mean it has to be in every episode, but still. I started to feel like they were straying away from everything in order to create new plot lines that would usually only last three seconds.

Like I said before; the story just got dull. It was just the same people with the same problems. There was little character development (since the plane crash) and eventually Laurence Laboeuf's acting started getting on my nerves (her narratives were quite dry).

If you really need something to watch and there is nothing on TV aside from 15 Love, watch it. Under any other circumstances, you might as well skip it.

I actually got started when a friend sent me to play the games on the website www.15love.tv, but then I checked out the behind the scenes stuff and the trailers and thought it might be worth it to give the show a shot. The characters are pretty stereotyped but that's what makes for good comedy and they have just enough depth to provide some good drama from time to time. New characters are being introduced, in part because 2 of them died (and to whoever said the official site should have a tribute, they DO) but also because 2 others are leaving. The pace is fast and the show really jumps at you, so if like me you want some off-time after a long Monday, the show's perfect.