Awkward: Season 1
User Score
7.9 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 56 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 50 out of 56
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 56
  3. Negative: 5 out of 56

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  1. retiredat56
    Jul 25, 2011
    4
    I'm clearly not the target audience. I miss by a few decades. Still, the plot was slow and really without much imagination. The dialogue was way too predicatable.
  2. novanova
    Aug 22, 2011
    3
    The audience for this show is way to specific. The characters and the plot are flat, unoriginal and boring. And it is getting worse every episode. Starting with a promising pilot it turned into classical "MTV" very quickly.
  3. SHAKEITUPSUCKS
    Nov 25, 2011
    0
    What kind of show is this its a piece of crap i swear, its just so stupid and not understandable i wish there were still good class of shows these days!!!!

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Metascore
74 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Dorothy Rabinowitz
    Jul 26, 2011
    80
    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.
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  2. Hitfix
    Reviewed by: Dan Fienberg
    Jul 19, 2011
    75
    Not only are high school horrors pretty universal, even if the specifics change, but I can find a way to fit "Awkward" into a tradition of hyper-literal high school comedies like "Pretty in Pink" or "Heathers" or "Mean Girls" or "Juno" or "The In-Betweeners" (if your taste runs to British TV). It's not as good as any of those, but it's not as bad as "Jawbreaker," which is in the same tradition.
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  3. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: David Wiegand
    Jul 19, 2011
    75
    The life of an everyday American high school girl has rarely been rendered with such sly and funny precision as it is in MTV's aptly named Awkward.
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