This season—the show’s fifth--is filled with just as much teen-centric drama as ever, but it’s all more urgent and more compelling thanks to the characters’ impending separation from one another.
A series about a high-school girl that's neither maudlin nor alarming nor conceived with intent to preach or to shock. It's further distinguished by its focus on entirely recognizable teenage pains, as endured by an entirely recognizable teenager, Jenna. Its other distinction: strong echoes of an older kind of storytelling, the sort whose characters grow and acquire depth.