SnoopyStyle
Dino Whitman (Sean Faris), Ben Connor (Jon Foster) and Jonathan Fields (Chris Lowell) are sex-obsessed virgin best friends sophomore high schoolers in Seattle. Dino is a cocky hockey player in love with Jackie Bradford (Missy Peregrym) who is more reluctant about sex. Her father is a drunk. Sue Miller (Jessica Lucas) is her best friend. Awkward Jonathan is friends with Deborah Tynan (Kelly Osbourne). He wants sex but she needs more. Ben has a secret fling with teacher Monica Young (Marguerite Moreau). Dino sees his mother Annie (Lisa Darr) cheating with Coach Scott. His parents Annie and Michael (D.B. Sweeney) are in trouble. Mia Tynan (Sarah Strange) is Deborah's liberal single mom and friend to the Whitmans.I really love the Jonathan Deborah relationship. It's adorably cute and hilarious at times. Ben and Miss Young have a compelling forbidden relationship. Jackie has her after-school-special life. Dino drives me crazy with his annoying whines. Some of it can be excused but it doesn't make it appealing. He simply rubs me the wrong way. Then there are the interior monologues. They are not a good gimmick and break up the flow of the show. Also Dino gets to whine AT the audience which is even more annoying. This is pretty good as a teen melodrama with a photogenic cast. The various annoyances keep it from being great.
stupid_star19
Life as we know is truly the best show I have ever seen. It relates to teenagers. It portrays what life is really like for us. No nonsense crap that show how "perfect" life is. This show is amazing. Who ever canceled it is a fool.The three main character are yes, hot as hell, but they also are fabulous actors. Jon Foster is Ben, the cute, smart, funny, shy boy that has problems talking to girls his own age. Sean Foster is Dino, the hot, girl magnet that he is. Chris Lowell is Johnathon, with that fabulous smile and eyes, who can resist him. These are the boys of Life as We Know it. They make mistakes and we a given insight into their characters, all in all which makes us love them even more.The story line is one of the best I have ever seen, and the fact that it provides comical relief makes it the BEST! In my opinion, Life as We Know it should be something ever teenager and young adult should see. I believe everyone will find something to love about this show.
kt_kool8
ooooh i was so sad to hear that life as we know it had been canceled! it was such a great show! don't get me wrong, the oc is good but it is lacking this season and life as we know it was way better! everything was so funny in it and dino and jackie were just going to get back together! it ended at the worst possible time! i just don't know why more people didn't watch this show! it was so easy to get into and i wish it was still here. it kicked the oc's butt this year and was the best teen show on TV. now i have resorted back to the oc. at least one tree hill keeps me going! maybe it will come back sometime though...you never know, although that never happened with fast-lane either so i don't have much hope. i wish it would have at least made an entire season so i could buy the seasons DVD! then i could watch it over and over :(
vsdennis
Unfortunately, it looks like ABC has canceled this show without ever properly promoting it or giving it a chance in a better time slot. It was a really well-done show, I thought. I'm a former high school teacher, and I thought the scripts accurately depicted a lot of what my students went through, and a lot of what I went through as a teen - pressure to have sex (or at least to have your friends THINK you'd had sex), pressure to conform, desire for popularity, friction with parents, students' attraction to teachers -- all in all, very well done. The critics have generally been very positive, but ratings have been low, because most people never heard of the show due to poor promotion. I'm hopeful that someone else (MTV?) will pick this show up and continue production.I've also just finished reading "Doing It," the book this series was based on. It's worth a read - it's available on amazon.com, and probably could be ordered from any bookstore.