EPISODE
SEASON
The Secret Life of the American Teenager - Season 1
This TV series is about a teenager, Amy who gets pregnant unintentionally, and now has to deal with a completely different chapter in her life.
7 August 1981, Moore, Oklahoma, USA
31 October 1990, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
1 October 1992, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
19 April 1976, Bronx, New York, USA
August 01, 2008
Her [Shailene Woodley] performance lifts a well-meaning, rather brave, but ramshackle show a notch. And it needs all the notch-raising it can get.
June 25, 2008
Secret Life so awkwardly blends the cutesy with the smarmy that you can't help wondering if naming the football team "the Lancers" is meant as a phallic joke. In a show like this, even scoring probably has a double meaning.
July 01, 2008
Let's give credit where credit is due. As entertainment, the pilot is a most impressive work of economic and focused storytelling.
June 30, 2008
Shailene Woodley is terrific as the teen in question. Unfortunately, other parts of the show feel so contrived they border on soap opera parody.
July 01, 2008
ABC Family means well but could not have done worse. "Secret Life" doesn't take the fun out of teenage pregnancy, it takes the fun out of television.
June 29, 2008
Some truly dreadful acting by a few of the young stars and a tendency to rely on statement-making dialogue that sounds like it comes from a research study rather than natural conversation.
June 30, 2008
Unlike the dopey Gossip Girl characters, these kids are fleshed out - not cardboard cut-out teens who improbably order martinis at New York hotel bars without a hint of trouble.
July 01, 2008
Nothing about it feels original or even especially timely, and it certainly doesn't reveal any great secrets about society.

