One of the shows that returned last night following a substantial hiatus in the midst of its first season was ABC Family's Secret Life of the American Teenager. I thought the first season of the show was cute enough, not without some problems, but cute enough. Last night's episode, though, I thought was severely disappointing.
It featured Amy and Ben figuring that they ought to get married. Well, Amy decided on it after her mom acted well and truly insane to Amy. I can't delve into all of that, but accept it when I tell you that Amy's mom, Anne, acted wholly incorrectly suggesting that she wouldn't help Amy with the baby because Anne wanted to do what she wanted to do. Nice idea of family there. But, anyway, Amy and Ben, both underage, opted to get fake IDs in order to get married. Yeah, because if you get married with a fake ID that'll be valid, particularly when people with fake IDs signed as witnesses.
For a show that handled everything in its first run of episodes in a manner that was, more often than not, reality-based, to open with such a foolish plot distressed me. Has the show decided that reality isn't the way to go? I'd be really disappointed by that, it's not the way the show has thus far expressed its worldview and doesn't seem to fit with the more "message"-based show they've been thus far.
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