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I'll take the heavy-handed product placement and all the gratuitous skin shots in the world for a drama that celebrates academic accomplishment and tries to communicate to its teen viewers the danger, exhilaration and joy of daring to exceed social-class expectations. [12 Jul 2000]
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The acting is really, really good. And there’s not a clunker in the group.
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It doesn't make for an original TV show, of course, but Young Americans still manages to be guilty summer fun. Mindless and cliche, to be sure, but escapist entertainment nonetheless.
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What a tacky way to begin the show. But things get better as the premiere goes on, and as the series goes on, who knows? They might even get good.
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The only sparkle comes from Bosworth, who seems to be aware that "Young Americans" might work better as spoof than as semiserious drama. [12 Jul 2000]
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Its sexual-confusion subplots alone will make for a summer’s worth of sincere young actors reducing its target audience of skeptical young people to shrieks of appalled amusement.
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A bubbling stew of raging hormones, buff bodies and the culture shock of rich meets poor. [12 Jul 2000]
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The show could turn out to be one of those guilty pleasures like the early years of Dynasty or Melrose Place — a show that's fun because it is so melodramatic and dumb.
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If the show stimulates anything above the neck, it's the realization that prettier-than-thou programming like "Young Americans" is little more than glossy magazine ads set to motion.
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Time marches on, or crawls very slowly, if you happen to be watching Young Americans. [12 Jul 2000, p.D01]
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Give WB credit, at least, for trying to pretend this show is not a regular-season reject they're airing in summer for accounting purposes.
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Just when you thought the teen melodrama was completely played out, along comes another trite "Dawson's Creek" clone to cause cringes of annoyance and pangs of distress. [12 Jul 2000]
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