Blue Mountain State

9/10

A series about a football team with loads of sex and drugs.. So, college. This is a great series for what it is, but not much more. It has a lot of good jokes and a lot of good characters. The 'bully' and captain of the team is hilariously insane, and the story is compelling to any teenager. If you've come for intelligent television, you're looking the wrong way, because this is pretty dumb television, but I enjoy watching it.

Watch it if you like movies like "American Pie", "Dude, where's my car?" and similar teenage movies.

Also, am I the only one who thinks the main character is sort of like a younger Johnny Depp?

I did not expect much from this show at all. Some friends were watching it and I just caught a few minutes. One night I got bored and noticed that it was available on Netflix. I was hooked from the first five minutes, and I finished watching every single episode within three days. People say that the humor is similar to American Pie, but I disagree; it is more fun by far! The characters are perfect, and the actors have done a magnificent job. The jokes, the scenes and the actors together make this show the funniest I have watched in ages. I could not stop laughing. All I can say is that if you have a sense of humor and a love for stupidity in all shapes, you will love this show. I was really surprised, in the best way possible! Enjoy!

The deeds and misdeeds of the Blue Mountain State college football team. Between numerous parties and general mayhem they manage to play some football, and play it well. Lead by coach Marty Daniels and captain Thad Castle they're a formidable team. Joining this team is second string quarterback Alex Moran and team mascot Sammy Cacciatore.

I initially wasn't that impressed with this series. The humour was quite juvenile and low-brow though there was a great momentum to proceedings that made the vibe quite fun.

Luckily I stuck with the series as things improved. The humour was often still quite juvenile but it also got more intelligent with some clever plots, scenes and one-liners.

The characters also become more engaging and fully formed. Alex Moran is the central character and is solidly played by Darin Brooks. However, the pick of the characters is Thad Castle, played by now-action-star Alan Richson with a great self-deprecating, jock-satirising humour. On the negative side I found Sammy Cacciatore (played by Chris Romano, co-creator of the show) largely irritating.

On the whole it's funny and good fun.

I am a TV lover. I'm into everything and its not often that a show gets me as excited about seeing it again and again and again . really !! this show has got to be the best TV series i have ever seen to date and I've seen a lot. i cannot believe that spike decided not to launch a 4th season. if there is any chance of the show been brought back to life it would make my life a hole not better. this show has given me so much laughter even when things are bad i look to the watch BMS and by the end of one single episode i have a smile and feel great. this show was and is the best TV show i will ever see. please bring it back !!!(please)

When BMS was originally on air, I was only about 12-13 years old so it was just a little out of my age range. However now, all these years later, I decided to binge it because I never watched the full series through and because it came up in a conversation with some coworkers. Also, I just recently graduated from college so I always enjoy the overtop portrayals of American college life in TV and movies.

As I come close to the end of the third season, I can't help but be amazed at the masterpiece of comedy this series is. It's able to strike the perfect balance of crude and absurd humor with brilliant plots every episode. Typically, shows that feature this kind of crude humor, especially in portrayals of American college life, push far past the point of comfort where the dirty humor shoots past "American Pie"-ess levels of raunchiness and you just start to feel physically gross watching it.

Not BMS. Don't get me wrong, it has plenty of absurd comedy around sex, drugs, and other faucets of the party side of college. But where it excels is in its ability to have creative and outrageous plot lines that keep you engaged while making your laugh. The characters are goofy but likable (maybe not Thad) and the whole casts itself works perfectly together. It's over the top without plummeting off the edge.

Now fair warning: for people who didn't grow up or go to college in the era it was made, the comedy is a reflection of those times, meaning by today's standards it would mostly likely appear utterly gross and offensive. In short, I really don't think there's anyway this show could ever be released today. We can talk all we want about cancel culture, which I'm not a big fan of, but I'm not going to lie either: this show over-sexualizes and objectives women, features an intense display of what would be called toxic masculinity, and includes insults that certainly would be frowned upon by todays standards.

But I think the key here is this: nuance. As i said, the comedy is a reflection of when it was made. We can't judge it by todays standards. It is completely ok to genuinely enjoy the show while at the same time realizing that what they may be doing and saying is wrong and that we have grown and matured as a culture and society. Some people might not agree with this, but so be it. We can pick apart the show all we want about where it's offensive, politically incorrect, etc etc. But at the end of the day, it is possible to do this in the back of our minds WHILE having a good laugh and just enjoying the show for what it is: absurd and brilliant.

So kick back, crack a beer, light up a you-know-what, and have a good laugh at all the shenanigans of Thad, Alex, Sammy, and the rest of BMS.