15/Love

'15/Love' is a mix of 'Degrassi Junior High', an MTV music video and a tamed-for-television version of those modern movie classics 'Fast Times at Ridgemount High' and 'Animal House'. Like the kids at Degrassi students at 15/Love's Cascadia face common teen and preteen problems: first love, competition, vanity, peer pettiness, and, of course, those intrusive, overbearing, rule-making adults. Many of the program's 'filmic' techniques--off-angle camera shots, zooms and pans, funky scene transitions, etc.--share the speedy cadence and rock-and-roll feel of MTV videos. Now, this character 'Squib' is neither a Sean Penn 'Spicoli' nor a (may he forever smirk in peace!) John Belushi 'Bluto Blutarskyto', yet he certainly does share their absolute irreverence for authority, their ravenous appetite for shenanigans, and their uncanny ability to succeed in spite of, or in most cases, because of themselves ... and yes there is a food fight. I liked the show enough to register at the 15love.tv site and found games to play, stuff to win and thriving online viewer community. Wow, this show IS popular. Yah, it's kinda cool: it works and I'll keep watching. OUT.

At first, I found the show charming. Then as the later seasons came I realized that nothing really interesting was happening. The characters became dull and the acting also lost something. Some episodes didn't even focus on what I THOUGHT was the main focus; tennis. I know, I know, just because tennis is an important part of the show doesn't mean it has to be in every episode, but still. I started to feel like they were straying away from everything in order to create new plot lines that would usually only last three seconds.

Like I said before; the story just got dull. It was just the same people with the same problems. There was little character development (since the plane crash) and eventually Laurence Laboeuf's acting started getting on my nerves (her narratives were quite dry).

If you really need something to watch and there is nothing on TV aside from 15 Love, watch it. Under any other circumstances, you might as well skip it.

I watched this show a few months ago, just sort of on a whim, and totally loved it. Unfortuently, due to my schedule, I was unable to continue watching. When my schedule relaxed a bit this summer, I was pleased to find the show was on at 9 am on the W Network. so, I've watched it ever since, and have become totally hooked. I am a total Squib/ Cody shipper, and I think the characters in the show seem so real and personable that I would love to just hang out with them. Like the effect this show has on other people, I desperately want to take up tennis now, even though I am athletically challenged in almost every way. A definite must see programme. If you live somewhere that it doesn't air in, I would suggest bribing a Canadian to ship you a recording!

I was worried after Jaclyn and Vadim died that the new season would suck but after watching the first episode on Monday, I think it'll be better! And they worked on their site some more too, great pictures from behind the scenes though they could have a tribute for Sebastien and Megan thats a big thing missing, they should have made a tribute.

But whatever I'm totally loving Cody, the actors aren't the best but their hot and I hope they put them all on DVD, you'll see when you watch it you'll want the DVDs too!

You'll fall in love with the characters, it's funny and pretty much the comment above is right on.

It was one of those shows that came on after the good/favourite shows ended. Or it was sometimes one of those late night shows that came on when everyone, went to bed. This show was your cue to either turn the tv off or change the channel. At the same time I like 15/love because of the nostalgia of watching the iCONIC YTV.

15/Love is a teen soap opera about the usual hash like love, drama, foolishness, relationships. This time it was surrounded by Tennis. A rich man game. 15/Love was also a British Show. It was an okay show. I only have respect for it because it was part of my iCONIC TV era.

Verdict: Deuce.