EPISODE
SEASON
Popular - Season 1
Two girls who despise each other, due to being on opposite sides of the 'popularity fence', are forced together upon learning that their parents are getting married.
4 August 1970, Kennesaw, Georgia, USA
6 March 1923, Detroit, Michigan, USA
24 December 1959, Palo Alto, California, USA
25 July 1967, Hempstead, New York, USA
6 November 1978, Falls Church, Virginia, USA
2 October 1974, Fallon, Nevada, USA
5 November 1976, Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, USA
26 January 1972, Locust Valley, New York, USA
4 March 1934, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
21 April 1963, Chicago, Illinois, USA
29 May 1987, Palo Alto, California, USA
11 January 1958, Anaheim, California, USA
22 February 1975, Akron, Ohio, USA
30 September 1979, Queens, New York, USA
15 May 1963, Klamath Falls, Oregon, USA
30 July 1956, Orlando, Florida, USA
June 26, 2018
The point gets lost in the forced hubbub created by the producers, who haven't got anything new or thoughtful to say but who are going to exercise their TV First Amendment anyway.
June 26, 2018
Popular makes valid points about the unfairness of social stratification. But with its gimmicky camera work and flights of surrealism, it tries too hard to be hip.
June 26, 2018
Characters spell out the themes more than necessary, but they're important themes, and the stories present adolescence as the morally complex, emotionally draining experience it is.
June 26, 2018
The first season as a whole is full of memorable, off-kilter gems.
June 26, 2018
Most of Popular avoids gratuitous attitude, as it dissects high school culture like the frogs in Sam and Brooke's lab pan.
June 26, 2018
Although designed to be mostly light and zippy, this series is memorable only when dealing honestly with serious issues... Such moments are relatively fleeting, however.
June 26, 2018
The show is an acidic, insightful survey of a social ecosystem - and an early preview of a sensibility that would come to dominate TV.
June 26, 2018
Popular still has the potential to strike some chords in viewers, but its chances are undermined by a cast that looks about 15 years too old to be high-school students and by writing that just doesn't seem credible, even for these characters.
June 26, 2018
Popular is socially reprehensible and relentlessly superficial. TV's latest high school series, from the WB, is also kind of fun... Popular is eye candy. Have a Starburst. Chew happy.
June 26, 2018
One thing that creators Ryan Murphy and Gina Matthews deftly convey is that high school popularity is a nebulous force, constantly shifting its tide.