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.
10 October 1973, San Diego, California, USA
9 February 1955, Casper, Wyoming, USA
25 September 1977, Los Angeles, California, USA
29 January 1957, Los Angeles, California, USA
9 December 1980, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 September 1925, Sumter, South Carolina, USA
23 November 1964, Virginia, USA
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
One thing that creators Ryan Murphy and Gina Matthews deftly convey is that high school popularity is a nebulous force, constantly shifting its tide.
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
The first season as a whole is full of memorable, off-kilter gems.