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Tv shows set in high school - October 11th 2016, 12:28 PM

I have thought this for a long time but one thing I have noticed is that kids in high school tv shows do not act like kids. In some shows they do act like kids - at least sometimes - such as in Glee to Gilmore Girls,but in a lot of other shows they don't. I'm thinking about shows like Gossip Girl and Vampire Diaries, like Chuck in Gossip Girl is running a bunch of business endeavours that would be full time jobs in themselves and still going to school full time. Like? Why is that being encouraged when he's only 16, it makes no sense (small business projects, yes, but not the big ones he seems to take on) and at one point he convinces his dad to open a strip joint, again he's only 16 or 17 and can't even be there legally. The same goes for shows like Vampire Diaries where the kids basically have no adult supervision, they're just like out doing whatever in the middle of the night, not even partying etc. I've never thought it was realistic and now that I'm in my mod-20's I sort of feel like that I'm the age those characters act / they've got to be that old to not have things like college or high school being ruined by whatever nonsense they're up to but they're only being out into high school for a relateable backdrop for the people who the producers are marketing the show to and every once in a while they'll mention a test ot have a parent get mad if they did something like go out of town for 3 days unannounced or something.

Am I the only one who thinks that kids in high school based tv shows aren't based on real teenagers? What are your reasons to agree or disagree?




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