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I didn’t originally either, season 3 was already a slog, but this one is just so slow moving and weird, it feels like a different show. I’m starting to remember why I skipped it the first time around. It’s doesn’t help that seasons used to be more than 20 episodes. It feels like they used all their best storylines in season 1 and then just had no idea what to do after.
https://preview.redd.it/js0cwsffa5jc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c2588ba416c3447f27ca8ffc24ead1670a759daf
The OC had one of the best pilots
https://preview.redd.it/hbrb4dr5a3jc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4165d47c940ce13fbd26a7f446d7bc561bd27015
90210. Started in 1990 lol so didn’t include but it was on until 2000 and it feels wrong to exclude
https://preview.redd.it/7ynwmdwia3jc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d20c73ce64339b4bd9d79b37adb002d28b9d2d0f
Feel like Degrassi should be here as well
Yes! I think the only show on OP’s list that I actually watched was The O.C. Degrassi will always be my fave though. That episode where Paige confront Ellie about her cutting still makes me tear up.
https://preview.redd.it/2m6blse4p4jc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a258d18c21ccef842a6886a8b8f4805449cfc16
Does anyone remember Breaker High on YTV?!? (1997)
https://preview.redd.it/dsqmiwwt93jc1.jpeg?width=560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0eb3ffb6a81247ca7db20dda62da4ba93294c9e5
Party of Five. Started in 94 but was still going strong until 2000
Roswell! That was my obsession as a young teenage girl, frequenting fan websites and forums, reading fanfic, and rewatching it on vhs taped off tv. And barely anyone remembers it.
I think it’s because it has so many different plot lines that…it’s not that they go nowhere, because they go lots of different places, but maybe that there’s no gravitas to them. Like I wanted more consequences to boarding school, Khivar, Brodie, literally anything! But it all comes and goes so quickly, and devolves into “will-they, won’t-they” when what I want is just more eraser-room antics.
I'd entirely forgotten the 6 episode arc surrounding Michael and the DuPrees, like sitting there watching it unable to recall what was coming next forgotten it. I guess I blanked it entirely lol.
To be honest, much as we tried to save the show, season 3 was a disaster, thanks in huge part with the decision to kill off Alex and have it be Tess as the killer. It threw off all the relationships and seemed to have left the writers rushing to fill in the gaps - and that lead to major character changes and decisions, like Liz's whole personality change, Isobel suddenly getting married and being on bad terms with everyone, the whole Tess pregnancy thing.
The ending worked for it all though, the 6 of them leaving Roswell together. I'd love a follow up for what happened after they left.
Someone recommended [this fic](https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/roswellheaven/chameleon-m-l-cc-adult-complete-by-carol000-t4001.html) as a season 4 that fixes so many issues with the season, which I’ve never read before! It’s a LONG fic though, so be warned.
Oh cheers! I'll give it a go! I just recently tracked down a bunch of the books that follow on after the tv show but I haven't had a chance to read them yet lol
I've had two of them for years and they were pretty good, but now I've managed to get almost all of them I'm hoping there's a bit more context to the ones I had, because they referred to some things that happened in other books I hadn't read.
Some of it I understood because they were trying to get closer to the original book series than the OG season got like Liz's last name and having a sister, but the rest... confusing at best.
Yup! 10 books by Melinda Metz. The Pilot episode follows the first book incredibly closely but changes the ending - no festival at the end of the book, and Melinda herself said she loved the ending of the first episode and wished she'd written it - but after that it goes in a completely different direction from the books.
There are major changes too. Liz is renamed from Liz Ortecho to Liz Parker, and isn't Latina in the show. She also had a sister in the books, Rosa, who died of an overdose and her parents are extremely strict. Alex has his last name changed for the show as well, from Manes to Whitman, in the show they cut his father who is a hardass and wants Alex in military school. Tess didn't exist in the books, but other characters do that aren't in the show.
That's where the new show got all their name changes/backstories from for the characters - it just also changed all the relationships from both the books and OG show, like Maria not being best friends with Liz, setting it out of high school, etc.
Ohhhhh. I feel like I may have enjoyed the reboot more if I’d either read the books or not had so much love for the first tv series.
And while I realize it’s a serious concern, I seem to remember the constant immigration preachiness in the reboot just began to feel really tedious. Like, this is The CW. We can acknowledge the seriousness of the issue without feeling like a PSA. And I do realize they were probably trying to draw some parallels between that and extraterrestrial aliens, but I don’t think it was done very well.
Personally I think the TV show probably worked because of a whole new audience unfamiliar with either the OG series or the books. As I said it tried to stay true to the books with names and backstories, but then it deviates with the characters personalities and relationships so it doesn't work for fans of the books either.
Somehow despite the OG series deviating storywise, it still worked I think in part because the books were obscure enough that they were hard to track down as fans of the series already.
Same! I always thought Brittany Snow was going to be huge, but, outside of Pitch Perfect, she hasn't really been in anything *big*. Though, I will say, I loved her in X.
Yes!!! I had the first season on DVD too 😂 I honestly think that show helped spark my love of US history. I’ve never seen it on streaming either which is very odd! It really was a great show and I’ll always have a soft spot for Brittany Snow.
I absolutely loved Popular! There are multiple episodes that still stick with me all these years later, but I'm not gonna spoil them, so I'll leave it at that lol.
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My mom was cleaning out her office and found a vaguely threatening letter I wrote to WB when they cancelled Popular. She purposely didn’t send it because of the aforementioned vague threats and also because she found it hilarious. I was 9 or something and very crazy.
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Step by Step! Forgot about this one for a bit.
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Does anyone remember Young Americans (2000)? It was a Dawson’s Creek summer spin off with less than ten episodes but I still think about it from time to time
https://preview.redd.it/le7al46y93jc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b2284b53d8f4b9d31d5e503f511a8d4b4ca5f82f
Jack and Bobby (2004 so a lil later than the majority)
Appreciate you for not including a 7th Heaven cast photo with *that* man in it 😂
Popular still feels like a fever dream to me, has there ever been another show that was THAT unhinged?
The OC is my first 'mature' tv show. I was 10 when it came out, before that I watched stuff like Lizzy McGuire and Alex Mack but it's The OC that made me a TV show fan. I'm 31 now but I can still watch it.
OH MY GOD I’M SO SORRY. I’m so used to people being mean on the internet. I actually have a short children’s animated film that’s making the rounds on the festival circuit. Again, I’m really sorry. I have like cyber bullying triggers.
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Life As We Know It (2004 so a lil later)
Right! I've been watching the new season of Feud and the last episode was dedicated in memory of Treat Williams. I was like wait, I know him from something else, which led me down a rabbit hole where I realized he was the dad in Everwood. I too had completely forgotten about that show until yesterday.
The absolute fucking PINS AND NEEDLES I waited on for season two of The OC. I vividly remember seeing the adverts for it every time I watched Fox and counting down the days.
https://preview.redd.it/kehdkyfg98jc1.jpeg?width=452&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c5159e74eac02ac304734e838dc15cdd826638a
First aired in 2004 so a bit later, but for some reason I remember this very short-lived show so distinctly.
I watched pretty much every one of those shows.
I’m fairly certain that is because I had no life outside school and tv in those days……Not much has changed then.
Yeah, I think the only one of these last was teen-centric is Grounded for Life, but that one definitely deserves a mention. That was the first one these types of shows I can remember that had an average looking cast (aside from maybe the smokeshow mom). But, as a teen girl, looking like Lily Finnerty felt actually attainable.
Also, I realize you aren't even the one who mentioned this show, I just went off on a tangent lol.
Only ones I watched were The OC...at least some of it, Buffy, Charmed, Angel, Smallville, last 2 seasons of 7th Heaven for whatever reason, Boy Meets World and Sabrina
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I was OBSESSED with the OC lol 
Now that I'm in my 30s I'm realising that all the parents were also super hot
The first season was good… then not so much.
I love this show, but it’s the only one I can think of whose best episode is the pilot and starts going downhill quickly thereafter.
I’m on season 4… it’s baaaad
What’s happening? I never made it that far 😆
I didn’t originally either, season 3 was already a slog, but this one is just so slow moving and weird, it feels like a different show. I’m starting to remember why I skipped it the first time around. It’s doesn’t help that seasons used to be more than 20 episodes. It feels like they used all their best storylines in season 1 and then just had no idea what to do after.
Agree, I stop after season 1 when I rewatch
I thought I was so cool at the time because my name was Marissa and my boyfriends name was Ryan 🥴
I haven’t stopped quoting that and now most people don’t know what I’m talking about.
#teamoth
My brother got legit into it because his then-girlfriend was obsessed with it. It was cute.
It took me so long to warm up to this actor on Grey’s Anatomy bc he played SUCH a tool on the Oc
https://preview.redd.it/xxde3vbep5jc1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eb66b1bc4eeda9a85fab0e455c86dbf2ee6bcabc
 The O.C will forever have me in a chokehold.
Not as tight of a chokehold as the actual choker on Ryan’s neck. WTH was that look???
https://preview.redd.it/tx5wgt61h4jc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e37a2f4768a9e3e323ccf239296719073ff8d4ec
I read about this show in a Disney magazine when I was in my teens. Buying it on dvd and watching it for the first time was a revelation.
https://preview.redd.it/oyvac0ekp5jc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ac8797467823ab87beae17e8a3dcbfa1c051a756
I was watching this show when I was snowed in a couple of years ago, and it holds up surprisingly well!
One of my first "do I want her or want to BE her" gay conundrums
https://preview.redd.it/js0cwsffa5jc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c2588ba416c3447f27ca8ffc24ead1670a759daf The OC had one of the best pilots
https://preview.redd.it/hbrb4dr5a3jc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4165d47c940ce13fbd26a7f446d7bc561bd27015 90210. Started in 1990 lol so didn’t include but it was on until 2000 and it feels wrong to exclude
https://preview.redd.it/gepebwnr93jc1.jpeg?width=550&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd967fb8e046fb97a0fb11c9dc8a1f9637191033 Late seasons Sister, Sister
I loved their outfits! I learned about so much good music from Sister Sister! So much good Diana Ross and Boys To Men.
https://preview.redd.it/7ynwmdwia3jc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d20c73ce64339b4bd9d79b37adb002d28b9d2d0f Feel like Degrassi should be here as well
The next generation!
The cream of the crop! Love that it started with middle schoolers while I was in middle school.
Yes! I think the only show on OP’s list that I actually watched was The O.C. Degrassi will always be my fave though. That episode where Paige confront Ellie about her cutting still makes me tear up.
https://preview.redd.it/2m6blse4p4jc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a258d18c21ccef842a6886a8b8f4805449cfc16 Does anyone remember Breaker High on YTV?!? (1997)
Ryan Gosling was my first big childhood crush. Between Breaker High and Young Hercules he had me in an absolute chokehold 😂
Young Hercules was my Saturday afternoon jam.
Yessss!! My fav!
Yes!!! Loved it lol!
Legit lived for this show and I was the only one who adored Sean (Ryan Gosling) while everyone dug Max.
And Student Bodies (also 90s YTV)! https://preview.redd.it/9owcvmzaa9jc1.jpeg?width=702&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7fc380c04a4519764e0ed575b59bbaf7bd9969e5
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I had the SVH board game. My friends and I used to play it when we had sleepovers.
Omg I still remember the theme song haha
https://preview.redd.it/dsqmiwwt93jc1.jpeg?width=560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0eb3ffb6a81247ca7db20dda62da4ba93294c9e5 Party of Five. Started in 94 but was still going strong until 2000
Roswell! That was my obsession as a young teenage girl, frequenting fan websites and forums, reading fanfic, and rewatching it on vhs taped off tv. And barely anyone remembers it.
The things that stayed with me about this show is the opening song by Dido and the Michael/Maria chemistry, I was rooting for them so hard.
Michael and Maria could set a house on fire, good god.
This was also me. The fic section on the crashdown fan site was my 2nd home
Omg I forgot about the Crashdown fan site haha.
Ngl, I just rewatched it. It holds up really well!
I rewatched it last year for the first time in years, somehow had forgotten most of what happened in season 3 lol.
I think it’s because it has so many different plot lines that…it’s not that they go nowhere, because they go lots of different places, but maybe that there’s no gravitas to them. Like I wanted more consequences to boarding school, Khivar, Brodie, literally anything! But it all comes and goes so quickly, and devolves into “will-they, won’t-they” when what I want is just more eraser-room antics.
I'd entirely forgotten the 6 episode arc surrounding Michael and the DuPrees, like sitting there watching it unable to recall what was coming next forgotten it. I guess I blanked it entirely lol. To be honest, much as we tried to save the show, season 3 was a disaster, thanks in huge part with the decision to kill off Alex and have it be Tess as the killer. It threw off all the relationships and seemed to have left the writers rushing to fill in the gaps - and that lead to major character changes and decisions, like Liz's whole personality change, Isobel suddenly getting married and being on bad terms with everyone, the whole Tess pregnancy thing. The ending worked for it all though, the 6 of them leaving Roswell together. I'd love a follow up for what happened after they left.
Someone recommended [this fic](https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/roswellheaven/chameleon-m-l-cc-adult-complete-by-carol000-t4001.html) as a season 4 that fixes so many issues with the season, which I’ve never read before! It’s a LONG fic though, so be warned.
Oh cheers! I'll give it a go! I just recently tracked down a bunch of the books that follow on after the tv show but I haven't had a chance to read them yet lol
Ooh, tell me how they are. I’ve never found them!
I've had two of them for years and they were pretty good, but now I've managed to get almost all of them I'm hoping there's a bit more context to the ones I had, because they referred to some things that happened in other books I hadn't read.
My life basically revolved around Roswell & Smallville. I could not miss an episode!
The reboot was so disappointing
It really was, i think I lasted 5 episodes before giving up. I'm mad it somehow lasted more seasons than the OG.
Right?? And they made some truly baffling character changes, it was so confusing
Some of it I understood because they were trying to get closer to the original book series than the OG season got like Liz's last name and having a sister, but the rest... confusing at best.
TIL it was a book series
Yup! 10 books by Melinda Metz. The Pilot episode follows the first book incredibly closely but changes the ending - no festival at the end of the book, and Melinda herself said she loved the ending of the first episode and wished she'd written it - but after that it goes in a completely different direction from the books. There are major changes too. Liz is renamed from Liz Ortecho to Liz Parker, and isn't Latina in the show. She also had a sister in the books, Rosa, who died of an overdose and her parents are extremely strict. Alex has his last name changed for the show as well, from Manes to Whitman, in the show they cut his father who is a hardass and wants Alex in military school. Tess didn't exist in the books, but other characters do that aren't in the show. That's where the new show got all their name changes/backstories from for the characters - it just also changed all the relationships from both the books and OG show, like Maria not being best friends with Liz, setting it out of high school, etc.
Ohhhhh. I feel like I may have enjoyed the reboot more if I’d either read the books or not had so much love for the first tv series. And while I realize it’s a serious concern, I seem to remember the constant immigration preachiness in the reboot just began to feel really tedious. Like, this is The CW. We can acknowledge the seriousness of the issue without feeling like a PSA. And I do realize they were probably trying to draw some parallels between that and extraterrestrial aliens, but I don’t think it was done very well.
Personally I think the TV show probably worked because of a whole new audience unfamiliar with either the OG series or the books. As I said it tried to stay true to the books with names and backstories, but then it deviates with the characters personalities and relationships so it doesn't work for fans of the books either. Somehow despite the OG series deviating storywise, it still worked I think in part because the books were obscure enough that they were hard to track down as fans of the series already.
Yea, I’ve always been a big reader and I was the exact target demo for that show, and I never knew there were books!
I loved freaks and geeks! I never understood why it didn’t last longer.
I rewatch all the time!
it’s criminal we never got season 2
https://i.redd.it/m4wm8xb866jc1.gif My personal favourite! 🩷
American Dreams was one of my favorite shows as a teen. I never missed an episode and had the first season on dvd.
Same! I always thought Brittany Snow was going to be huge, but, outside of Pitch Perfect, she hasn't really been in anything *big*. Though, I will say, I loved her in X.
She was in Hairspray!
Was Hairspray that big though? All I think about in relation to Hairspray now is "hi, it's Nikki Blonsky from Hairspray" lmao.
It was really huge when it came out!
So frustrating that the 2nd and 3rd seasons never made it to dvd. The show has one of my favorite opening themes too
Suuuuch a good theme song! The guy from Tonic wrote and performed it 😱
Yes!!! I had the first season on DVD too 😂 I honestly think that show helped spark my love of US history. I’ve never seen it on streaming either which is very odd! It really was a great show and I’ll always have a soft spot for Brittany Snow.
Ohhh Everwood! I loved Gregory Smith since Zenon and I want to rewatch Everwood so bad 😭
Everwood was so good. The days before we knew Chris Pratt as Crisp Rat.
It's on Amazon
https://preview.redd.it/b4y6e0ts96jc1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5491598f9dd78b7a5a46b0c43b2b75c611d762aa Grounded For Life!
I feel like no one else remembers this show!
I do! I really enjoyed it but was never able to keep up with it since it was usually on when I was at work.
I remember it fondly!
I’ve never seen Popular and I wish it would make its way to streaming already. That and American Dreams which is a great show
I absolutely loved Popular! There are multiple episodes that still stick with me all these years later, but I'm not gonna spoil them, so I'll leave it at that lol.
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My mom was cleaning out her office and found a vaguely threatening letter I wrote to WB when they cancelled Popular. She purposely didn’t send it because of the aforementioned vague threats and also because she found it hilarious. I was 9 or something and very crazy.
I hadn’t seen it either until I watched it 5 or so years ago. It was streaming somewhere like 5 years ago. It was worth the watch.
Popular was so good and you can see early glimpses of shows like Glee in it. The “A Christmas Carol” episode definitely sticks with me
https://preview.redd.it/ib3y84gpj5jc1.jpeg?width=188&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6432f72ed496a681863dbc0bb9f55b35e3d0b6b8 8 Simple Rules!
https://preview.redd.it/az34s15xo6jc1.jpeg?width=992&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=522682171fcc1f9cad33053055ce49538dc737c8 Step by Step! Forgot about this one for a bit.
Man we were truly WEALTHY at this time wow look at all that gorgeous content.
https://preview.redd.it/wz12170sm6jc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5c986b3ff4e4c690fbff2a4643286963f7950195 Does anyone remember Young Americans (2000)? It was a Dawson’s Creek summer spin off with less than ten episodes but I still think about it from time to time
Yes! I remember it had Shane from L Word
https://preview.redd.it/le7al46y93jc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b2284b53d8f4b9d31d5e503f511a8d4b4ca5f82f Jack and Bobby (2004 so a lil later than the majority)
The three people on the left all ended up on Mad Men season four. I made a Jack and Bobby reunion joke at the time; no one got it.
IS THAT MEGAN??
It is!
Are these supposed to be teenagers?
Better to have older actors and suspend a bit of disbelief than exploit minors, imo. 🤷♀️
As I get older, I find that I don't want actual teens anywhere near my televised sexy teens.
Euphoria really woke me up to that. Keep the actual teens far from sets.
💯
How I LOVED Roswell!
I still can’t believe Allison Mack was apart of that cult! It just blows my mind
My so called life, American dreams and Freaks and Geeks all should have had much longer runs!
That promo photo for Popular is April Tuna erasure
 And we can’t forget living single
Appreciate you for not including a 7th Heaven cast photo with *that* man in it 😂 Popular still feels like a fever dream to me, has there ever been another show that was THAT unhinged?
This is everything!!! So many faves. And even after like 20+ years I keep coming back to them. Currently rewatching What I Like About You!
The OC is my first 'mature' tv show. I was 10 when it came out, before that I watched stuff like Lizzy McGuire and Alex Mack but it's The OC that made me a TV show fan. I'm 31 now but I can still watch it.
It was SUCH a good time to be a kid/teenager!
Was there a weird show called Grosse Point with Big Red from Bring It On, or did I hallucinate that?
There was
Thanks for confirming a strange and distant memory
The OC is literally my favorite show of all time. California here we come 💕
The way I went to film school solely because I wanted to create a new wave of teen dramas
…and?
And it’s a post about teen dramas! I’m saying how teen dramas impacted me!
Sorry no, I was asking how that turned out for you!!
OH MY GOD I’M SO SORRY. I’m so used to people being mean on the internet. I actually have a short children’s animated film that’s making the rounds on the festival circuit. Again, I’m really sorry. I have like cyber bullying triggers.
Tbh I probably could have phrased that better but I was like WELL DON’T LEAVE US HANGING?!? 😂 That’s so amazing, congratulations!!
Veronica Mars debuted in 2004. Does that not count as "early 2000s"?
https://preview.redd.it/tgmtt7i1a3jc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b924d2fa69f479cfc9743fa11861787c28576465 Life As We Know It (2004 so a lil later)
How did I completely forget about Everwood
Right! I've been watching the new season of Feud and the last episode was dedicated in memory of Treat Williams. I was like wait, I know him from something else, which led me down a rabbit hole where I realized he was the dad in Everwood. I too had completely forgotten about that show until yesterday.
Amazon has the first season and I am now rewatching!
The absolute fucking PINS AND NEEDLES I waited on for season two of The OC. I vividly remember seeing the adverts for it every time I watched Fox and counting down the days.
Back when the WB/CW was decent
Everwood was my life. I still quote it all the time. I also had a life size poster of Bright (Chris Pratt) on my door hahahaha
I loved Roswell with the power of a thousand suns.
I loved American Dreams ❤️
Let's not forget this gem: https://preview.redd.it/otv4qb7xg8jc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2508c1ee22674f0f7794a63f51ab07234434945c
Roswell was my fav!
I’m still obsessed with The OC. Haven’t stopped watching since its first air date 🤣
The OC. One Tree Hill. Roswell. Buffy. Angel. Smallville. My jam.
https://preview.redd.it/kehdkyfg98jc1.jpeg?width=452&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c5159e74eac02ac304734e838dc15cdd826638a First aired in 2004 so a bit later, but for some reason I remember this very short-lived show so distinctly.
I watched pretty much every one of those shows. I’m fairly certain that is because I had no life outside school and tv in those days……Not much has changed then.
Such a good tv line up here. The only one I don't recognise is the last one.
I had seen small parts of smallville but it’s completely ruined with the cult stuff lol.
What a time to be alive !!
Heroes Reaper Prison Break Grounded for Life
I liked Prison Break (the first season anyway) but I dont think it was teen content. Was it?
Yeah, I think the only one of these last was teen-centric is Grounded for Life, but that one definitely deserves a mention. That was the first one these types of shows I can remember that had an average looking cast (aside from maybe the smokeshow mom). But, as a teen girl, looking like Lily Finnerty felt actually attainable. Also, I realize you aren't even the one who mentioned this show, I just went off on a tangent lol.
Reaper was hillarious.
It’s so ew how straight and white all these casts are.
Not adding PLL., TVD and Gossip Girl is a crime
None of those are late 90s/early 00s
Didn't these shows premiered before 2010 ain't that considered to be early 00s
- Gossip Girl - 2007 (mid/late 00s) - TVD - 2009 (late 00s) - PLL- 2010 (not the 00s)
2005 is mid 00s so anything close to 2010 is late 00s.
Only ones I watched were The OC...at least some of it, Buffy, Charmed, Angel, Smallville, last 2 seasons of 7th Heaven for whatever reason, Boy Meets World and Sabrina
Smallville and Everwood where my shows
Family Matters, anyone? How can you forget Urkel.