Review of Awkward.

I was bored and saw this show on Amazon Prime so I gave it a go. I'm in no way uptight about nudity or cursing or sex on TV, but I found a lot of stuff in this show disturbing and sometimes creepy, mostly because they brush it off like it always happens or is expected to happen these days, which isn't true in most cases. They took topless photos of a minor in the locker room and texted them to all the students and even posted poster size topless photos of the girl all over school and other than the girl being embarrassed it was pretty much brushed off as run-of-the-mill bullying, no one even got suspended. In real life people would be doing jail time for that and I'm sure no school staff would allow nude posters to be posted all over. One of the girl's moms hears about a party they're going to and loves the idea so much she buys them a bag of booze, tells them how to get drunk without being sick, and drops them off at the party with a nice story about how she was basically gang raped by seven guys after she passed out when she was their age and lost her panties that night. In one scene there's a bunch of HS kids in a hot tub making out and one girl is asking "who wants to make out with me?! ANYONE??" I went to many parties when I was in HS and never saw anything like that. And yes, I know everyone probably has a HS slut, but usually even those sluts only "dated" a select group of individuals. My point is all these topics on this show just seem glossed over like no big deal, no consequences, no one ever gets into trouble, even for criminal acts. Very weird. Other than that the acting is pretty good, story lines are about average.