EPISODE
SEASON
The Secret Life of the American Teenager - Season 1
Amy, a teenager becomes unexpectedly pregnant, and her life turns upside down. This season stresses on the relationships among friends and families and how they tackle their problems.
6 October 1966, San Fernando Valley, California, USA
6 January 1976, Milltown, New Jersey, USA
24 July 1986, Lindsay, Ontario, Canada
13 August 1961, Brooklyn, New York, USA
8 February 1964, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
19 January 1992, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
12 December 1981, London, England, UK
13 March 1953, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 April 1976, Bronx, New York, USA
9 September 1965, East Los Angeles, California, USA
15 April 1952, New York City, New York, USA
6 March 1970, San Diego, California, USA
2 January 1991, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 March 1929, New York City, New York, USA
June 30, 2008
Unlike the dopey Gossip Girl characters, these kids are fleshed out - not cardboard cut-out teens who improbably order martinis at New York hotel bars without a hint of trouble.
July 01, 2008
Let's give credit where credit is due. As entertainment, the pilot is a most impressive work of economic and focused storytelling.
August 01, 2008
Her [Shailene Woodley] performance lifts a well-meaning, rather brave, but ramshackle show a notch. And it needs all the notch-raising it can get.
June 30, 2008
Shailene Woodley is terrific as the teen in question. Unfortunately, other parts of the show feel so contrived they border on soap opera parody.
July 01, 2008
ABC Family means well but could not have done worse. "Secret Life" doesn't take the fun out of teenage pregnancy, it takes the fun out of television.
June 25, 2008
Secret Life so awkwardly blends the cutesy with the smarmy that you can't help wondering if naming the football team "the Lancers" is meant as a phallic joke. In a show like this, even scoring probably has a double meaning.
July 01, 2008
Nothing about it feels original or even especially timely, and it certainly doesn't reveal any great secrets about society.
June 29, 2008
Some truly dreadful acting by a few of the young stars and a tendency to rely on statement-making dialogue that sounds like it comes from a research study rather than natural conversation.

