Forever...

I was going to omit a rating, because I'm definitely not the target audience and I didn't want to unfairly affect its overall score. I thought maybe it just didn't age well, or something; but then I read a few reviews written by teenagers and now I feel better about my gut reaction: it's just bad. The main characters are slappable, the guy is gross, the parents are super-slappable, the dialogue is unbelievable. The supporting cast isn't terrible (I like Jamie), but honestly, the possibly-probably queer guy being suicidal and ending up in the psych ward isn't a narrative that needs to be encouraged or supported in this day and age. For that matter, the fat girl being promiscuous was also really gross and awful. It's way past time that these decades-old stereotypes were squashed.