All About Us

Sometimes you have to wonder if TV networks know what they’re even doing. This teenage dramedy follows four high school girls that, despite, varied backgrounds and personalities, become friends. Alecia (Alecia Elliott) is an Alabama gal who just wants to sing country music. Niki (Marieh Delfino) is a rich bitch who likes the finer things. Sierra (Crystal Grant) is a hippy chick who only cares about the latest cause in her life. Cris (Alicia Lagano), who for some reason is referred to by her last name all the time, Castelli, as if to reinforce that she’s an Italian stereotype, is the jock of the group and comes from a family that, no shock here, runs an Italian restaurant. If these four were any more similar to characters from Saved by the Belland the Facts of Life, the producers would be getting arrested about now. Unfunny jokes, poor writing, characters that will make you gag with their awful personalities, and stereotypical quirks, this half-hour Saturday morning-moral-teaching kids show is every bit as bad and banal as Saved By The Bell and California Dreams. Their school features no bullies, no burn-outs and nobody that isn’t in one of the following categories: A) great looking, B) obese and/or a geek, C) of an ethnic minority background. And what’s worse? They all hang out at a coffee bar, as if this lame series needed to steal a concept from yet another series more successful than it could ever be. NBC should be lambasted for picking the series up in the first place. Then they should be congratulated for canceling it midway through the first season. Then they should be lambasted again for re-running the first half-season SIX TIMES before finally getting a replacement series in place. Guh.