So The Best Years went from promising to bad to so bad it's awesome. In last week's episode, they were all at a pep rally and some jock refused to let Samantha (that's her with the brown hair and the bangs) see superstar jock Devon (dread dude) unless she proved her school spirit by jumping over a lame ass bonfire. Seriously. And she was all set (with everyone chanting after Devon announced her totally awesome intentions to the crowd), but she stopped short and Devon looked like "Man, you really don't love me if you're unwilling to jump over fire for me. Bitch." Then his actual girlfriend Shannon (not pictured) pathetically leapt over the flames and into his arms. It was so lame that I watched it three times. And it didn't stop being funny. 
Then the shit got even better. Devon and Samantha both PHYSICALLY ATTACKED their romantic rivals for each others affection and sweet nerdy Cynthia (not pictured) got super drunk after seeing her crush Noah (far left) kiss Samantha and said to Sam: "In Sammy's world, everything's just peachy...she gets whatever and whoever the hell she wants. Well Sam, guess what, in Cynthia's world, I see through your lies and if I could go back in time, you would have died that night and not John. You would have cracked your head on the hard ground. You. You stupid, self-obsessed, backstabbing bitch." I know! And while all that was going on, a scene from the show-within-the-show, Bel Air High, was playing and in THAT, Manny from Degrassi was coming onto Snaps (the chick with the curly hair). And that's when I knew that there was no way for me to turn away from a masterpiece like The Best Years.When a good show goes bad, it's called jumping the shark. This episode of The Best Years inspired the Subletter to coin a new phrase: Jumping the fire. It's for that special moment when a bad show becomes legendary (see: Hill, One Tree).
This week was even better. There was an actually good storyline involving Snaps and the Bartender (the dude pictured with her in the middle) finding out that their beloved Lee is HIV positive. Snaps and Bartender are my favorite characters (and the best actors) but I totally don't know their actual character names. Weird. Anyway, the rest of the hour was a countdown to Cynthia's living up to the promos and trying to kill herself. Unfortunately, the character is mentally ill and was most likely molested by her dad and no matter how you come at that (even with bad acting and crazy behavior) that's not hilarious. But you know what is hilarious? Samantha literally trying to talk Cyn off a ledge with this bon mot: “If you do this, it’ll be all my fault. It will mess me up forever if I have to watch you do this.” Cynthia was right. She is a self-obsessed bitch.
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Despite the fact that this television show "Isn't real", THE BEST YEARS is "FELICITY" without poignant storytelling, sincerity, characters you can relate to (even it never happened to you), and intelligence. To even relate this show to Keri's Russell's breakout role entitled series is rather insulting but its the only series based on collage entirely.
BEST YEARS takes over used 'lesson in morality (or not)' and poory excuted 'love triangles' themes from previous television series on "THE N" (such as Degrassi and South of Nowhere without the Lesbian-drama) and has it revolving around the character, Samantha Best, who's Orphan sob story is straight out of a Teen Novel of various carnations, who ends up in trouble half an hour into the first episode and its bailed out by the snooty dean of the Collage. The characters are carbon copies of 'Degrassi's past and current cast, none of them make an impact worth remembering.
There are various problems with the series, the main being that the actors -- the ones portraying collage students at the ages of 17 and 18 --- tend to look over the age of 30 (especially Samantha Best) and the acting is hardly convincing in any of the episodes. Another irksome problem is that for a girl who's supposed to come from a unblessed life, everybody just "Loves" her (Samantha frequently kisses one man then another when things go sour between her boyfriend Devon, rejecting their love in the end), while her poor Asian friend, the stereotype nerd, ends up getting most of the baggage that should've been the main character's. Asian-Nerd ends becoming the subplot to Samantha's rough past, when Sam finds out the Asian-nerd and her little sister is a Rape-Victim of her father's sicko desires. They try to play Samantha off as the character that will take the high-road, as opposted to the moraless idiot Blondes they try to portray as Intelligent (its laughable really), who ends up making mistakes and gets forgiven for them because "No one can stay mad at her forever". I mean really, there is no substance to their series at all. No effort whatsoever was put into this seires and it shows (hell even the wardrobes are terrible). Its shallow-Teen melodrama at its best [failing at what the WB's FELICITY suceeded in] and it will please people despite this fact. The only person I can commend on this show is Brandon Jay Mclaren, who, like Amy Jo Johnson, has managed to break out of his POWER RANGERS[: SPD] role and find other jobs.
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