Degrassi: The Next Generation

Today as I sat in my room flipping through the channels I came across a show I actually like to watch, Degrassi. The show is really for teenagers and is basically all drama of what lots of normal teens go through. Although some situations in Degrassi seem extremely farfetched, I feel that this show does well in showing a tough situation and different solutions for it. The episode I caught was about a girl's exboyfriend persuading her into letting him cheat off of her on a math final and then she feels very used after. This scenario is very realistic in today because people cheat all the time and feel different pressures from specific people. The show has the girl go through the whole problem and by the end of the episode she finds a mature way to deal with it. Although the show does show more serious issues as well like vandalism and bullying, there's a wide range of plots. I feel that whether a teenager realizes it or not, watching this show helps to open our eyes that not everything is really "the end of the world", as many teens go about saying. This shows even has solutions to simple problems most of us have gone through or are currently going through.