What was MTV's AWKWARD?
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- What was MTV's AWKWARD? | A surprisingly difficult question to answer!! So many seasons, so many relationships, SO LITTLE TIME!!! Let me know what you want to see next on this BRAND NEW SERIES!
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0:00 Intro (new series / how this began)
1:02 The first episode
4:12 Season 1
12:42 Season 2
19:29 Season 3
29:02 Season 4
34:50 Season 5 part 1
37:09 Season 5 part 2
39:31 Comparing love charts / it’s too confusing
40:51 Is it CAMP or CRINGE??
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The tiktok from Lissa and Tamara’s actors I mentioned! www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8F8cpXA/
You should do one on Team Umizoomi (that is my childhood show if you couldn’t tell just saying it would be nice of you were to do one on it)
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I genuinely thought I was the only person who even watched this show 😭😭 I loved it tho it was cringey but in a good wayyyy
i love this show😭 its awful but so good. the ending was butchered
It reminds me of mean girls, which I hated. It did not age well (example: the r-slur is used; made me feel uncomfortable as I am neurodivergent)
@@sebas31415 I am too but it just holds nostalgic memories for me that’s the only reason I love this show it’s humor is kind of like scream queens for me where it’s shock based and I laugh bc it’s like “there’s no way they actually just said that” I completely understand your criticisms tho!
@@ih8cheali I completely agree I stopped watching after season 4 I didn’t even know there was a season 5 until this video 😭😭
This show was so iconic
I still quote "you're welcome" the way Sadie does to this day. It has absolutely stuck with me
Oh my god I hear the infamous Sadie internally any time I do this
@@2kstephanie11 funnily enough you have the same name as the friend I had in middleschool. We would watch this show together
OMGGG me and my sister too. We say it that way everytimmeee we have to genuinely say “you’re welcome” 😂😂😂. And we had no idea what it’s from 😂😂
This was my show growing up, I was obsessed
My little sister watched it and even though I was 23 I finished it 😂
I’m so glad you’re reviewing these random ass shows because I think most people have either watched it all and completely forgotten it, Watched a few episodes but couldn’t finish it and always wondered “what happened,” or has the outside perspective of “this seems so weird but soooooo interesting”
The way these teenagers were written to have the most exciting and scandalous love lives is something that will never NOT be weird to me. No wonder we were all terrified of high school 😂 Media shows it as a place filled with sex, drugs, bullying, violence, etc. (of course there are schools that probably have these things, but not as dramatic as they make it seem on TV)
what high school isn't full of sex, drugs, bullying and violence???
I went to a fashion high school In Manhattan it was definitely filled with sex, drugs, violence, and bullying I loved it felt like gossip girl😂
Every school I've been too is filled with these things unless you live under a rock and I've gone to 5 different secondary schools. It's just dramatised for Tv
i dont think ppl read this comment right bc u said "ofc they happen at high schools is just more dramatic" and ppl are saying "what schools dont have it" 😭
At times, it was a bit much, but sometimes stuff like this happened, just not to one girl. Jenna was like a combination of multiple girls' stories at my school, except the "suicide" storyline. It was much more subtle and less dramatized and sensationalized, because it was real life and not a TV show.
Due to how the show is successfully intentionally awkward, I guess it's both camp *and* cringe.
As someone who’s mother was abusive and emotionally neglectful while I was growing up, the mom’s character arc is definitely realistic(esp the cycle of abuse part). She’s been making amends consistently for years and is now my best friend.
Oh man, your mum should talk to mine and give her advice. Mine is still blaming me for "misunderstanding" her "jokes."
I don't get why people act like all these characters and shows needs to be unproblematic. How else are you going to depict teen life in a realistic way?
YOURE KIDDING ME! my partner and i are rewatching this show rn!! its my billionth time watching the show so im so excited to watch this video but its their first time watching it so they’ll have to wait til we finish lol
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My condolences
I respect the writers they did whatever they wanted and they were as insane and ambitious and unique as possible without any restrictions they had complete creative freedom within their budget and they didn’t care what anyone thought and they had fun with it
😂 this
they made a masterpiece .
I loved awkward so much as a teen and I identified with Jenna's feelings a lot, she had a really low self-esteem and she was always afraid that the guys were just playing her or that she was too inferior to them. A lot of the stupid things she does are mainly because she's insecure and wants to feel a little bit in control. I feel like the show depicts perfectly what is like dating in high school, it's a lot of drama because you're immature and you enter this toxic pattern where you know it's a bad relationship but you keep coming back to it because you're forced to see that person every day. I think this becomes clearer after they breakup and go to different colleges, when she comes home she's a really different person and she's made to feel awkward again and falls back to her old patterns, and consequently wants to be with Matty again.
“Lore’s edgier cousin”
This is the first episode of this series I’ve seen and I already love it
There IS no fourth season of Awkward in Ba Sing Se.
😂😂😂
Just did a double take lmao. Athena P WhatAlsaid animation when /lh
Listening to this was so stressful because I can't even watch Disney Channel sitcoms without getting too stressed out anymore, props to Athena for actually making it through the whole thing xD
Disney channel sitcoms are wholesome and unique and comforting
Y so cynical
What’s stressful about them they’re adorable
New or old?
@@madnessarcade7447 it’s nothing really to do with cynicism or not thinking they’re good (I used to love them, Liv & Maddie and Austin & Ally especially) but they all still cover fairly realistic familial/friendship issues and I’m just too empathetic and high-anxiety to deal with any of it, even if everything works out in the end 🤷🏻♀️
@@nightflame2037ah sorry I misunderstood your comment 😅
@@nightflame2037you would probably like the newer shows then
Does anyone remember Finding Carter that aired around this time. It's was very short-lived on MTV.
Awkward was so insane. I remember I lost track during season 3, so I had to rewatch. I didn't fully get into the show until 2012.
Honestly with Season Two Jake, that's who I wanted Jenna to end up with. I think she needed a guy who was more emotionally intelligent and more open minded. So for me personally, I'm with y'all on this one. Season 3 was the finale for me, I have not seen Season 4 or 5. So this was a great recap
I really love how Athena works on her videos.
I find it very funny that Athena is covering this show this week when she’s covering Elena of Avalor next week. This is because two of the main voice actors for EoA (Jillian Rose Reed and Joseph Haro) are in this show. Reed plays Tamara in this show and Naomi in EoA. Haro plays Clark Stevenson here and Mateo in EoA.
P.S-great video as always Athena!!!!
OMG I CANT NOT HEAR JILLIAN NOW 🤯 she killed it as both Tamara and Naomi daaang
@@AthenaPOfficial oh my gosh! I wasn’t expecting you to actually read my comment. Much less respond. I feel so special now. You’ve just made my day! Thank you so much!!!!!
Can’t wait for Saturday!
Also, yes, she did kill it with both roles.
I used to love this show (but, even back then, I knew it was cringe, so I don't think I would survive a rewatch. thank you for your service lol). From what I remember, the original showrunner left after s3 so I always wondered if that's why it felt like an ending, because, to her, it *was* an ending. It was her last season and she wanted to give the characters a good send off/goodbye before she left.
Also, the teacher was played by Anthony Michael Hall from The Breakfast Club and I think some of his scenes were meant to be a nod to that (like him reading Jenna's paper at the end of s3 with Jenna's voiceover just like how Vernon read the letter, with Brian's voiceover, at the end of TBC -- I'm sure there were other moments but after, like, 10 years that's the only one I can still remember lol)
Anyway, sorry for the long comment, loved the video!
I had no idea the writing teacher was the kid from The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles! You learn something new every day!
OMG I thought the same the first time I watched the show. The end of S3 it fell like a definitive final and, in my opinion, it should have been the end of the story because the main conflict was solved. Jenna gained self confidence and she was ready to show herself to the world. And if they wanted to continue the story... I think that the development of S4 and S5 could be a waaaaaay better 😅
You should do wife swap for camp or cringe! There are some CRAZY episodes, they would purposefully put moms in uncomfortable or even dangerous situations, but there were also some genuinely heartfelt moments as well. I personally recommend the D'Amico-Flisher/Perrin episode with the iconic god warrior
This show made me feel better about not dating boys in high school. Back then I thought I was a loser and that nobody likes me, but actually it saved me a lot of nerve cells and bad experiences.
id love to see you cover some british 2000s and 2010s teen dramas as well.
obviously skins but also for example this series they played on nick at night called "misfits". nobody ever talks about it but i loved it so much i bought the first 3 seasons and watched it on my little iphone back in the day
I just rewatched it!! I love it up until Nathan leaves, then I can't be bothered to watch. I rewatchex The Inbrtweeners ad well recently
I was OBSESSED with this show. OBSESSED. Watched the new episode every week. I am so ready for this. What a fricken show man! I remember constantly thinking "this is about kids??!!? FOR KIDS????!!!"
I jsut gotta say i recently tuned into your channel and i really love your content as a weird black kid in the hood without much of an outlet to be more of myself due to the environment your videos make me feel really good about myself knowing other people are jsut as weird so thank you again sorry if this was long.
Faking it and Awkward carried me through middle/hight school
i thought i had never watched this show until you began drescribing the first episode and.... in shock i realized that, just as i had watched the first season of fakin' it in 2019 as a distraction from my worsening mental health and then completely forgotten about it, i did the same with awkward. oh my god i watched this whole thing and i guess my brain deleted it completely from my memory because of the trauma it caused me .
I kinda wish the plot moved more like New Girl, where the other characters get their moment and just intertwine with other characters; just so it didn't keep going like a one-trick pony that died and kept getting beaten. Though at some point (maybe after the Colin sub-arc) Jenna and Matty should have just called it quits and moved on with their lives. I feel like her mother needed to prove herself some more to be forgiven.
OMG YOU GOTTA DO FINDING CARTER NEXT!!!! It was on MTV and is one of these teen dramas that's messed tf up! And someone I went to high school with is an actor of that show lmao Caleb Ruminer went to my high school
my favorite comfort show to rewatch. I was obessed with awkward growing up.
I love this becoming a series!! I'm someone that never watches teen dramas but hearing people talk about it is so fun to me, it's like when a high school friend you haven't seen you in a while catches you up on all the tea (???) Anyways yeah it's fun!!
I think the humor at 31:44 was just how random and weird the statement was. The characters probably laughed because they didn't expect an occurrence like that to be described. It gave them a peculiar feeling, or an "Awkward" feeling!
ATHENA! PLEASE, WHENEVER YOU CAN, can you review the MTV show “Finding Carter” ? I remember me and my two younger sisters watching the first few episodes and thinking it was sooooo good before our mom happened to watch part of an episode where Carter’s mom basically told Carter’s best friend since childhood (who was a high school boy) to do the do with Carter at party they were having (Carter’s also in high school.) !!!! So now I totally understand why my mom didn’t want us watching it anymore! but I was so invested back then I just watched the rest of the show on a random website in secret 😅 it is also a WILD ride and was made around 2014 but it has a fairly interesting plot and slightly less offensive characters compared to some of the other MTV shows in this genre
The makeup this episode is amazing!!! The MTV logo is so well done?!?!? I love the makeup looks so much
Tamara & Ming were part of my bisexual awakening. Also which Dork Diaries book was that😭I have like half of them [the other half were stolen :( ]
i don’t know off the top of my head which book but i’m pretty sure it’s been edited out since lolol
@@ryw4lsh yeah probably I just vaguely remember it but forgot after all these years. It was probably one of the early ones cuz I have like 5/6-12 I think
A nearly hour long Athena video?!?! BLESS THE BUTTLOVING QUEEN IN ALL HER GENEROSITY
The way I was obsessed with awkward. I rewatched it so much when I was in high school.
So glad I ran into this video. Something about the season 3 finale made me feel it should be the end, especially when it was the original showrunner or writer leaving it so I just never continued. Based on this I saved myself some decent time because WTF lol
Yay can you please please please do Secret life of the American teenager? It's so cringe
I watched your other MTV teen drama vid and immediately wanted a video like this about Awkward but nobody had one. Thank you! This show was like a messy fever dream
This show holds a special place in my heart cause while the show was airing i too was dealing with my own matty and jake situation 💀
Me at the start of this video:
Haha, what a silly seeming show, I bet watching Athena recap it is gonna be so fun 😊
**Starts describing a main character with family life a little too similar to mine**
Me now: 👁👄👁
This is one of my comfort rewatch shows. The cringe the humor SADIEEEE I love it and hate it at the same time. Thanks for this hilarious synopsis. I’m a new subscriber instantly ❤❤❤
With this new series, I can't stress enough how much I need you to guide us through Riverdale
Riverhell
I was so obsessed with this show during the first season and by the time the second season premiered I didn't gave a shit anymore, amazing
Update: after watching the video I realised I do rememeber alot of season 2, I guess I cared a little bit still. Great video, love from Argentina
every few years I rewatch this show for some reason and right after I rewatched it recently I saw the faking it video, so glad you ended up making this cause I needed to hear someone else's input besides my moms
Athena P can you do a video about the Lore of Yo Gabba Gabba? It's also one of the weirdest kids shows I've ever seen.
This is a GREAT video!!! I just stumbled across this and clicked straight away because I thought Awkward was a weird fever dream I had in high school, but your sense of humour is great.
I love it every time Athena uploads it just brightens my day!
Also I like the braid it’s cute!!!
Omg does anyone remember My Life as Liz?? My older siblings watched so much MTV and I remember Awkward. and that show and am tempted to actually watch both shows now lol
I swear I rewatched MLAL so much from 2011 up until 2019 haha I’m 27 now and that show was so much of my youth lol
The way this show had such a hold over me back in the day and yet I too blocked out anything after season 3 in my head is wild. Loving this new series!
I won’t lie. If I had a door in my bedroom leading outside at 15 years old…I would have rarely used it and never for sneaking out. And if it had that many windows, I would have had my dad change it for a normal wood door cuz fuck windows. Too much glass. And more importantly, it would be significantly easier for creepers to creep on me or break in and hurt or kidnap me or otherwise, and I have always been that paranoid of a person, even at 15 and younger, that a door with even a little bit of windows would have freaked me out…I suppose you could say I was a paranoid, introverted, goody toe shoes.
Yeah, I’d definitely be scared of creeps. Horrifying.
“Yerrrrwelcome.” Will always be iconic.
This was literally one of my favorite shows growing up. It stresses me out so bad I literally can’t rewatch it lol thank you for making this
My life as Liz next! Nobody ever remembers that show!
I do! I followed Liz on Instagram to see what she was up to after I saw her as an extra in a movie or TV show.
Okay if this is going to be a series, you need to add some good shows in it like My So-Called Life
Thank you for popping on my timeline I am so rewatching this series after the video
Are you fr! I'm so excited! I finished rewatching the show like last week and I thought there had to be like somebody, anybody talking about it and all there was on youtube were clips from the official yt channel, I'm so happy somebody else is aware of this mess of guilty pleasure show
Just wanted to say I love the painted fence on your wall because I had one growing up! Too cute :)
I loved this show so much! I lived in the South Bay for a bit, so the thing I remember the most was actually just a random scene at a random dead end at night. I was pointing at the screen saying "I was there!! I parked at that random dead end!!"
Everything you explained is exactly why the show is legendary 😂❤ also way before it’s time just genius shit talk mixed with emotions 👏🏾 always wished for a more complete ending
I'm surprised you didn't mention the weird cold sore=cheating scene 😂
I was waiting for an upload and now we have one!!!!😆😆
Omg I watched this show for the first 2 or 3 seasons and forgot about it
I just discovered your channel through this and it was an immediate subscribe for me
Thank god someone is finally talking about this masterpiece!!! I will always be obsessed!
LOVE THIS!! you should definitely look into doing a video on’You’re the Worst’
Let’s go!!! New series, can’t wait to see more of lores edgier cousin
Dude idk what just happened. You hit my brain just right cause I thought I had been watching for 5 minutes and then you said bye and I was like wait… just to see it had been 40 minutes already!!!
It makes me feel so understood that you cover literally the most random shows that I LOVE 💕 🎉
ive been WAITINGG for a deep dive on this show I just re watched recently as an adult. what a wild time it was back then
tween me was OBSESSED with Awkward, Greek, and Secret Life of an American Teenager. this video was so well done. you just got a new subscriber
Have you done the original Pretty little liars yet? I only really watched the show once because I wanted to be cool and “fit in” with the popular girls in middle school but I definitely wasn’t and it was all that anyone talked about. Also what about The secret life of the American teenager?
Dude this show was MAD! Almost logical enough to follow but just insane enough to think it wasn't real. No one I knew watched when it was airing and now I look back on certain plot lines like - surely I dreamt that?! Hahah thanks for the trip down memory lane 😅
I truly wanted Matty and Sadie to get together. I really liked their relationship.
Wtf is up with tv high schoolers.
I had one partner from 9th grade to past graduation and we ended it as friends after I realized I was aromantic. The most drama that happened was a girl hitting on him and him being super uncomfortable with it.
Right? I never even had a boyfriend because apparently nobody was into me, I was invisible in that way.
I remember watching this show w my mom when i was very very young!
Camp or Cringe suggestion: South of Nowhere! I have found memories of watching the episodes I purchased, on my ipod. What a world.
Watching this in 2011 when I was 14 was honestly the best thing ever. It was especially comforting since at the time I was living in a group home
My boyfriend and I literally just finished this!! He was thrown off by the entire thing lol can’t wait to watch the video
Jenna's haircut bothered me so much, I don't know if it was just me but the fringe was so unflattering for her head shape and I couldn't unsee it
And once again you reminded me of the existence of a show I would rather forget😭
Haha waiting for these episodes to drop in real time was definitely something. The 2010s were crazy.
This is the first video I’ve seen of someone talking about this show. This show was such a fever dream for me
Oh hey you used the series name I suggested!! Thats awesome!!
This show keeps trying to autoplay whenever I watch the iCarly reboot and I don’t know what that means but I’m excited to find out
Still at the begining , this show was my jam I LIKKKEEED IT and I am so glad someone shares that
This show was filmed at my highschool and came out my junior year so i felt weirdly connected to the characters like i was experiencing high school with them because i recognized the hallways classrooms and areas they were hanging out in
Omg this and “faking it” were my go to
This was really enjoyable and the review I needed!!! ❤
Thanks so much!! I’m so happy you enjoyed!
Keep up the great work, man I miss this show awkward
Even through the filter of Athena by the end of this episode I am just…ill with that early 2010’s shock gross out style writing. I need to go touch some grass lol.
I love this vivid blue eyeshadow on you!!
I haven't been around long enough to have watched these at the time but all this drama is soooo me (but only from your reaction because I could never commit to a whole show)
Omg girlie I hope you could do a video on The Hard Times of RJ Berger it aired along side Awkward and it has a very similar vibe. ❤❤ great video btw
Thank you!!!
I'm way too young to recognize these types of shows, but I adore your analyses of them and will watch them regardless
THANK GOD someone is finally talking about this show!!! Bless u Athena🥹
I've been waiting for this video, bless you mom
... Okay I'll say it. Does anyone think the man who plays Matty looks like Jacob Elordi or... Jacob Elordi looks like the guy who plays Matty.
My dyslexic a$$ read “why is mtv awkward”
35:44 the "weird middle name" comment made me bust out laughing..thanks for that 🤣
Okay but “God has a blind spot” was iconic and I’ll never forget the way my sister and I screamed when she said it