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Zoey 101
- Nickelodeon
- Genre: Comedy
Common Sense Media says
Tweens will love this fluffy California dream.
Parents say
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that this upbeat series is about kids let loose in a peer-dominated world where privilege is a way of life. Tween viewers are going to love the California coastline, the sunny days, and easy life. Parents might cringe for the same reasons.
What's the story?
In ZOEY 101, Zoey Brooks (Jamie Lynn Spears) and her younger brother, Dustin (Paul Butcher), are new students at Pacific Coast Academy, which was formerly an all-boys' boarding school -- and is still a place where most students live priveleged lives and get everything they want. Spears (Britney's younger sister), is no stranger to the small screen. She's been a regular on All That, Nick's answer to Saturday Night Live. Tweens are going to love her in the role of Zoey -- a fair-minded heroine who befriends all kids who come her way, even when they're a bit awkward or geeky.
Is it any good?
Zoey and her peers live in an utterly unreal world, where her character confesses during a truth-or-dare type game that "Once, I burped in church." This is admitted by a kid wearing full makeup and a miniskirt. How do innocence and being expected to make adult choices co-exist in the 21st century? Let's hope that kids viewing this show go a little deeper for answers than these characters.
Nick has kept Zoey 101's plot pretty shallow for a reason: Without adult supervision, kids in the circumstances that they appear in this program would get into a lot of trouble. But besides some bickering and tricky behavior, these are pretty well-mannered kids. Fantasy? You be the judge.
Explore, discuss, enjoy
Families can talk about whether these kids are growing up too quickly in certain ways. They're expected to problem-solve like adults and even to work on top of dealing with homework and normal hormonal challenges. Is this pure fantasy, or do kids in boarding school really have it this sweet?
In what ways are the characters themselves realistic? In what ways aren't they?
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Kid, 10 years old
March 26, 2011
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Zoey 101
Personally i love the show and think it is great! Only they stopped making more episodes so you have to watch the same ones over and over again which gets kind of boring. Other then that i Love the show!
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Teen, 14 years old
April 10, 2010
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1st seasons are better, definetly recommended!
This is an awesome show for tweens and teens, and I think I've seen every episode, especially because it seems it's on in the after-school time slot, which is when I usually tend to turn on the tube. It's pretty realistic, but no one seems to have to work to have an amazing room, clothes, or generally stuff, and characters like Nicole (In earlier episodes) and Logan make things funnier. If you're going to watch online, or buy on DVD, I'd definetly reccomend the first couple of seasons, it seems they're less romance and love triangles, and more girls power and funny stuff!
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Kid, 10 years old
April 7, 2010
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Used to be fine. Now Jamie lynn is pregnant so it's awkward
Used to be a good show until she got knocked up at 16. Making-out is brief. Nothin too bad in this. But now jamie, as quoted by several people, has "shattered the innocence" of little kids who watch this. Good for 10+. Just a LOT of dating. It's barely funny either. More of a tween-drama than a comedy.
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Teen, 13 years old
October 17, 2010
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This show is so unrealistic, it's not even funny. Let's start out with the fact that it's a BOY and GIRL boarding school. If this wasn't rated Y7/G, and it was rated TV14+, they'd be having s*x constantly. How this made through, I don't know. The acting is terrible and monotonous, the situations are completely unrealistic and even predictable. Each episode seems to get more boring than the previous. It's... it's just not funny. The characters are spazzes. Watching the show, it takes all I have to keep from throwing me T.V across the room in pure fury. Horrible show. But hey, seven year olds might like it. It still comes on TeenNick.... but I wouldn't advice 7-10 year olds to go on TeenNick.
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Teen, 15 years old
July 23, 2010
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Show is funny, who cares about the stars?
yes, yes, okay, jamie lynn spears got pregnant. WHOA!!!! but let me ask you this: why are we talking about some flimsy star doing something wrong when we are supposed to be reviewing the show??? i personally think that zoey 101 is pretty funny, certainly one of the better nick shows. i liked the first few seasons, but then i admit it got a bit boring. nicole and dana were the best characters, and quinn falling in love with logan? that's just wrong. should've had a better ending. good try, nick.
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Teen, 16 years old
July 11, 2011
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ZOEY 101
Funny, enjoyable, and original but I have a problem with how the show treats "nerds", "weirdos", and people with disabilities. It seems to me that all nick shows do this. There's always one or more girls who the "nerds" like and they're so desperate too. The girls always shut them down and go on to their amazing lives.
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Kid, 11 years old
April 28, 2011
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Victoria Justice acts better in Zoey 101 than Victorious
This show is very good. I kinda miss this show. Victoria Justice is way better in Zoey 101 than victorious! I love it!
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Teen, 15 years old
April 12, 2011
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Amazing show!
I love this show!!! :DD Zoey and her girlfriends are very awesome and independent, and the relationships are funny. I love this show.
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Teen, 13 years old
April 17, 2011
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Pretty good, depending on how you look at it.
This show does sometimes revolve around relationships, and there's a lot of kissing. Also, the kids are pretty spoiled and sometimes their world is a little unrealistics.
However, I think it provides many positive messages to balance out the bad ones, such as sexism being wrong. The two main characters, Zoey and Chase, are good role models, being bright and very good problem solvers. The others are a little iffy, though. Some characters to look out for are Quinn, who's very smart but sometimes goes a little far with her "experiments", Logan, who's very shallow and mean, and Nicole, who's flirtatious to the point where it's rediculas. However, the show makes it obvious that all three of these characters' habits aren't normal, so I wouldn't worry about it.
I rated this on for ages 10+, mostly because anyone younger will probably get bored from all the teenage drama.
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Teen, 14 years old
October 10, 2010
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It was a very well made show
It was one of my favorite shows, it was funny and the set was beautiful. Zoey was a good role model, good grades, nice to her friends and brother, she never got too bad at all! Quin wasn't afraid to be herself, she loves science, though people judge her for being really weird. The boys are pretty tame, kinda into 'chicks' but respectful and not too over board. Although Logan is really into himself (for comedy) There was one girl who was obsessed with boys, and her friends always thought she had something wrong (she didnt' go over-board) and in the second or third season she couldn't come to PCA anymore because she had some disorder that got her obsessed with males (weird, but true) It never over did anything, the friends fought, but not anything serious. Chase has a crush on Zoey (they date in the very end) but I'm glad their relationship didn't start in the middle of the show because that junk irritates me. The only thing that bugs me is that they say "oh my God!" all the time, they shouldn't do that, and it sometimes shows people kissing. Otherwise its pretty tame for your kids to see.
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| Topics: | book characters, friendship, high school |
| TV rating: | TV-Y7 |
| Network: | Nickelodeon |
| Cast: | Jamie Lynn Spears, Paul Butcher, Sean Flynn |
| Genre: | Comedy |
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