I honestly think Jenna would be a better person overall if the people around her actually talked some sense into her instead of passively watching and observing. Like when she cheated on matty; I feel like Ming and Tamara should’ve either told matty, or threatened to cut Jenna off if she didn’t stop. They were far too lenient and gave horrible advice.

And the Collin situation. Jenna talks to her parents about having fantasies about Collin and her mom basically says, it’s fine don’t worry about. It’s normal to fantasize about another guy with your partner.

Even without her writing the letter, she has a serious boundary problem, and tries too hard to live through Jenna. She also consistently gives Jenna god awful advice.

She’s lovable sometimes but the way she talks is so annoying

I just wanted to say that it's soo funny how Sadie calls Jenna the "slunt" but meanwhile she's been with more boys than Jenna has 😭😭 no hate tho it's just funny

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First in season 3 Jenna cheated on him multiple times; and made her friends not tell Matty, and right after that his parents got divorced. Then a few months later in the next school year, he finds out he’s adopted!! Then his next girlfriend turns out to be a manipulative compulsive liar. Then his next girlfriend after her cheated on him AGAIN! With his best friend!! And through all of this Jenna can’t leave him alone; sure she helped with the Eva situation, but in these situations, Jenna either still has feelings for Matty, or indirectly caused more problems (ex. Like not telling Matty about Gabbie and Jake)

I know there’s an episode where she’s making hot dogs at the country club (just watched it) and she keeps running away to fight with mattys girlfriend. I wish she had to get a job in high school because it would’ve been so funny to see her facial reactions with customers idk

Has anyone noticed how Jenna says “room” like “rum”? lol I have never heard someone pronounce it that way. Is this a normal pronunciation in some parts of the country? I’m in the south and no one says it that way.

i hated season 3 jenna but unfortunately after getting with collin was lowkey when she served her best looks 😭😭

Rewatching season 1/2 and Sadie has a crush on Matty and they kiss on NYE. But in the later seasons, Sadie and Matty have more of a brother/sister relationship and they both act grossed out at the thought of being romantic together?? Did they just forget that they already kissed and had a one-sided crush thing going on??

I noticed a handful of plot holes like this from season 1, like Lacey calling Lissa’s mom a “big boozer” when later in the show she’s super strict and religious. It’s just funny that it seems like the writers either forget or just didn’t care at all to stay consistent with the things they set up in season 1 LOL

Damn on season 5 of my rewatch for the first time in a year or so and Jenna gets worse every rewatch. IK her mom isn't a saint but damn I would've written her that letter too lil bitch needs to be put in her place

I would actually hate my daughter being like her😭

I’d love to see a Jenna/Mattie spin off of them parenting kids aged 5+? Maybe we can watch as Sadie struggles getting pregnant… Jake and Tamara are definitely on baby number 2. Would you guys watch?

So after my recent rewatch of Awkward (I hadn’t watched the show since it came out), I came to notice that maybe the reason Matty wanted to stay with Jenna after her infidelity was because his parents were going through their divorce at the same time. I never paid attention to the timeline of events during the show, but maybe Matty was projecting what he wanted his parents to do onto his own relationship. Or it could’ve been that he needed some sort of stability through that.

I liked him at first but when he came around the 2nd time i was so confused why he seemed so uptight. It's as if he kept trying to manipulate situations & say it was for her best interest. Ex. keeping the relationship a secret, setting up the interview for scu, and even the party with scu admin which seemed so boring!! Also lost count of how many times he would get pissy, leave & come back to say i'm sorry.

Also kinda like :/ b/c they left the show on a cliffhanger 😭 i guess it's okay versus a concrete ending but i was waiting for another episode after it went off tbh. I forgot it ended like that😮

So I remember vividly when Awkward was premiering around season 4 when it premiered and Ming had left (which is something i'll never get over) MTV ran a little promo type of video after the episode and gave a website link to watch the video of the person who leaked the student rankings and i can't but help but wonder if anyone else remembers that and if anyone knows who it ended up being? i thought it was Ming (maybe an opening to her coming back??) because of the hat the faceless person wore. idk anyone remember this?

Anyone else weirded out that Brett was 28 in season 1 and pretending he was 20?

(In real life I mean, not that Jake was 20)

Where the hell was Ming? And why did they just write her off?

Hello, this is my first time posting to this sub and rewatching this season. I watched the quiet on set, and while I was looking at the IMDB, I saw that Chrissy Stratton was a producer and wrote three episodes.

Anyway, I know that many main characters are the most hated in many different movies and TV shows, like Twilight and Harry Potter. Insert references here.

Jenna is self-sabotaging; she lacks personality and morphs into anyone she is dating. I hate her in this season. Yes, Collin is hot, but how Jenna handled everything could have been better. Matty was an asshole in the first season, but so far in season 3, he has blossomed into a good guy.

Teenagers are assholes and cheat and turn on their friends, and this is like her Spider-Man 3, bad Peter moment. She seems like she would be a serial cheater. She gets bored in relationships and only thinks about herself.

Also, Jenna's writing is an ass; she is like everything embodied about what people joke about hipsters.

Tamara: I like her, but she isn't my fav. I was a teenager when this show was coming out; no one I ever knew talked like her. It's that kind of thing where it's like a 50-year-old writing a character in the way they think teenagers are. Like Disney showwriters.

Val: Valerie is my favorite character. She is inappropriate at times. However, her stand for Jenna when her blog went public with her mom was admirable and relatable. Also, I love her and Lacey's friendship. It's like they have half a brain cell when they are together.

Ming: I love Ming, I don't really understand the Asian Mafia segment, if it was just written for comedy or if its actually real. I love her and Matty's moments.

Matty: S3 Matty deserves so much better, i hate that he wanted to get back together with Jenna and she was so cold. It seemed like she didn't want to get back together because she couldn't forgive herself, but then she showed that she was just being completely self-involved.

Jake: S1 and S2 Jake and Jenna were my total OTP; he wasn't only the safe choice but also the best choice. However, I wouldn't say I liked how he treated her after Sadie told him about Jenna and Matty hooking up. He repeatedly told her he didn't want to know, and then he hated her for not telling him. And it was a little ick that he didn't like she had sex before him, but then i gave a break because he was a virgin.

Sadie: I love Sadie; from the start, she was a raging skitch and didn't oppose it, and she has a deep character development.

Lissa: I love her and her being so dense, also she is Kelsey Grammer's daughter, I never knew that, lol.

Ally: I love her, and I like her even more when you see her with Sadie. You get to see Sadie get talked back to, but it also seems that Ally likes Sadie because she is such a bitch.

Kevin: He is hot... and I didn't like that he left after finding out Lacey wrote the letter; not only did he walk out on Lacey, but he walked out on Jenna. It would have been better if he kicked Lacey out to show that he was on Jenna's side.

Lacey: Lacey is a second favorite of mine; when you get to see why she wrote the letter, my heart breaks for her. She loves Jenna so much, and yes she is worried about labels and looks and a weird parent, but she brings a lightness to the show

I saw a similar post on here from 4 years ago. I’m rewatching the show now. Ive always loved this show it’s so funny and honestly relatable from high school lol. But my God Jenna is insufferable. She’s so self involved! Potential Spoiler for anyone who is watching this for the first time: When Matty finds out he’s adopted and he’s confused and struggling to cope with that information and he and Jenna hook up again post break up and then he “ghosts” her and Jenna is begging Matty to talk to her and not drop her post hook up and demanding that something is wrong and he’s mad at her etc. Matty tells Jenna “Not everything is about you Jenna” and Jenna blurts out “IT IS ALL ABOUT ME!” EW!! It really is how she feels. Everything is about her! She’s a bad friend to Tamara. She kissed Ricky and Jake when Tamara was with them! Gross!! I’m a Sadie stan! Sadie is so intelligent and quick witted and her commentary towards Jenna is so perfect. Hamilturd for the win. Every guy Jenna dated deserved better. Skitch!

She would say strange phrases that didn't fit her character: "what's up bee-yatches" or "i'll cut u"

Since we find out she's crazy, it's finally making sense that something seemed off...

My least liked character was Lissa. I found her whole shtick annoying and her voice grates on my nerves.

My most liked was Matty. Yes he did some questionable things in the beginning of their fling but he was honestly a good guy to Jenna through it all. Very mature.

She is supposed to be a role model as an adult and she crosses the line many times. Making sexual comments and rewatching this as an adult im extremely uncomfortable with her behavior. She seems like she might just be clueless, but nowadays if a guidance counselor behaved like her they would be in danger of being fired if not jail time. Maybe they had her like that as a joke but idk it just bugged me.