The Way We Weren't

Episode 3 aired and was mainly focused on the Jenna and, her hookup/crush, Matty front. She thinks things are starting to look up when Matty invites her to a party at Lissa's (cheerleader and best friend to Sadie) house. Jenna thinks this is the first move for their ever so private relationship to go public and her best friend Tamara looks at it as a way into the popular crowd. Tamara brings a lot of quirky and common teenaged concepts to the show. For instance, she looks at the party as a "red cup photo" opportunity. The idea being that people are cool based on how many photos with red cups (used to drinking at parties so they hide the contents) they have on their internet profiles. So, upon arrival to the party they see it is actually more of a backyard get together than an actual party. Sadie greets, well is the first to say anything to Jenna and Tamara. She screams, "Who invited you?" and Matty comes up and says, "I did". Jenna sees this as Matty coming another step closer to taking them public, but then says pretty much grab some cups and have a good time. Jenna then sees Matty making out with a girl in the hot tub later on in the evening and runs off into the house. She finds Matty's best friend, Jake, sitting alone inside the house. He tells Jenna it is his 1st month anniversary with Lissa and that he knows he is expected to take things to the next level, but doesn't really want to. Lissa walks by and sees Jenna and Jake having a good time and feels threatened and throws herself at Jake. Jenna then walks away and tells Tamara she is leaving. At the same time, Lissa offers Jake not to go all the way, but to do some other things and he declines and runs out of the room. Jake leaves and runs into Jenna on the way out and they laugh about everything that happened at the party only Jake never knows her stories are about Matty. Jake ends up giving Jenna a ride home and they just enjoy each other's company.

Knocker Nightmare

On the second episode of Awkward, Jenna's cast is downgraded from a full upper body to a functional, more discrete arm cast. The problem with this is that while changing for her gym class, the mean girl/rich cheerleader, Sadie, snaps a half naked picture of Jenna as her shirt got stuck on her cast. Sadie decides to send the picture around the the entire school with some secret hate towards Jenna, and the viewers still aren't made aware of why Sadie is so mean to Jenna. After finding this out, Jenna is mortified. This issue in the episode shows the power of cell phones in school and how this is relatable to the everyday teenager. Jenna gets called into the guidance office and is questioned at to why she sent the photo around, after Jenna gets Sadie to admit that she sent it the guidance counselor is manipulated by Sadie to simply ignore that it ever happened. With the entire school still talking about it, Jenna sees her hook-up/crush with a large group of people making fun of the picture saying, "Come on guys, it's not like there's anything to even see" and when Matty sees that Jenna had heard him he simply turns away. At the end of the episode, Jenna figures if people are going to talk she minus well give them something to talk about and calls everyone's attention in the middle of the hall. She then flashes the entire student body and gets sent to the office again. What she thought would settle the situation just made it more of an issue and granted her some community service hours.

Pilot

In the season premiere of MTV's newest show, "Awkward", we are transported into what we can all relate to as high school's best and worst most memorable moments. The main character, a 15 year old high school girl named Jenna Hamilton, is a typical high schooler; Jenna has her own group of friends, not very popular amongst her peers, but gets by academically and socially. Her first week of high school though doesn't go exactly as planned. Jenna trips in the bathroom after taking some pain medicine (which spills all over the floor), drops her blow dryer in the bath tub and passes out. She ends up in the hospital with a huge body cast and everyone around her thinking she was trying to commit suicide. What doesn't help is the fact that she keeps a blog about her everyday life and happened to have a bad day because of a guy she hooked up with at summer camp. The blog that day happened to mention her jokingly saying something along the lines of her being "better off dead". So, what started off as a normal high school experience now turned into the show, "Awkward" and as we can see it is fitting. To top things off, Jenna receives an anonymous letter with a list of hurtful observations and is signed, "a friend". In just the first episode we have the typical high school girl with the star football player crush, nerdy, attention craving friends and the desire to be somebody.