Molly Ringwald in
"The Secret Life of the American Teenager" on ABC.
This cautionary series, which begins Tuesday on ABC Family,
woodenly follows the trials of a 15-year-old named Amy (Shailene Woodley),
a good student and dutiful daughter who becomes pregnant the first time she has sex.
“I didn’t exactly realize what was happening until like after two seconds,
and then it was over,” Amy tells her two best friends.
Her friends tell her she has options, but abortion is apparently not one of them;
that choice is dismissed right away in horrified tones.
The despairing Amy does not even know the baby’s father well enough to tell him,
and he probably wouldn’t care;
he’s a cad in the high school band who sleeps with as many girls
as he can because, viewers quickly learn, he has low self-esteem.
Created and written by Brenda Hampton; directed by Ron Underwood;
Ms. Hampton, executive producer; Lindsley Parsons III, producer;
Jeffrey Rodgers, Chris Olsen, Jeff Olsen and Elaine Arata, consulting producers;
Ronald E. High, director of photography; Michael DiMeo, production designer;
Janet Weinberg, editor.
WITH: Shailene Woodley (Amy Juergens), Molly Ringwald (Anne Juergens),
Francia Raisa (Adrian Lee), Kenny Baumann (Ben Boykewich),
Daren Kagasoff (Ricky Underwood), Megan Park (Grace Bowman),
Greg Finley (Jack Pappas), Josie Bissett (Kathleen Bowman),
John Schneider (Marshall Bowman), Mark Derwin (George Juergens),
India Eisley (Ashley Juergens) and Jorge Pallo (Marc Molina).
(NYTimes)
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Bureau of Family Health
and Secret Life of american teenagers
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