Highly Overrated But Still Good

A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

I've been a fan of Degrassi since 1987 so I know I'm dating myself. I'm defiantly out of the loop as to what this generation of teens talk about. I've seen the first few episodes of Degrassi: Next Class and I don't understand why this show has to jump into all the social issues of today (many of which are created to keep people stupid). Must every show have a gay character or two (or three)? Must there be a Muslim character but let's ignore other religions? Must race be talked about ad nauseam? Are these the only issues this generation deals with?I know this is a teen show and I probably have no business watching this. But it's getting tiring to see every friggen social issue being discussed right away.

I admit, I found myself watching it because it was a show that required little to no attention to understand whats going on. But I think for majority of people they will not get into this. I can see many teenagers getting into this, but its quite disheartening to see such blatant feminism PSA spread all over the show. The pacing and character development is nothing of any other degrassi show before it. There are only 10 episodes per season and they try to cram as much drama as they possibly can. So what do you get? You get a show with no breathing room. This happen and end all in the course of an episode with the underlying tone of a teenage written progressive liberalism script. The production is quite decent and I do recommend it, if you can muster up the strength to sit through some cringe.

I loved Next Generation so I mainly tuned into the New Class for the "reunion" and because my younger sister asked me to watch it with her.To say I was disappointed is an understatement! I'm not an actor or a TV writer so I tend to try to stay away from talking too much about those things. But I have to this time. Some of the actors were great. Some were AWFUL. The writing? It was so predictable. There were times even I was able to finish the characters lines. It was corny too. It had a couple of what I call "Full House moments". (You remember- when Danny would talk to DJ or Stephanie and the music would start. Then we'd get the life lesson, a hug, and an apology.) Before, Degrassi would focus on a lot more characters too. I guess there's only so much you can do with 10 episodes.The reunion was OK. It was great seeing them- I just wish more had come back. Maybe I'm just spoiled from watching The Next Generation, I don't know. What I do know is that TNG students weren't perfect- and everything wasn't resolved quickly. Sometimes things weren't resolved at all and that was OK because high school (and life) is that way. Now, in The Next Class, everything is tied up with a big pink bow on it. It's more after school special than anything else and it's a shame.

For over a decade I have watched Degrassi: Next Gen. and it's movies. I have a fond memories of growing up as a preteen and teenage girl waiting for each episode to come out screaming, laughing and crying online with my friends with what each character said or did. So In 2015 when I heard that the Degrassi series was going to be canceled on Teennick I was devastated; I had not watched the series in years, but it forever made a mark on me growing up. It was a guide of what to do and not to do while in JHS and/or HS. Later on it was said online what the new series of Degrassi( Next Class) was soon to be on Netflix and Canadian Television. Excited I patiently waited the day of which I was able to watch it. I called some old friends over and we binged the whole season. And... It was horrible.The first thing I noticed was the horrible opening song, with some weird remixing(?) type of new intro with pseudo snap chat and Instagram pictures and videos. And we dove right into the content, while I had to say I hated most of the characters because they were not developed correctly, whatever problems these characters went through we all laughed because we didn't care or feel for any for them. And then we have the classic: Gay guy, confused guy/girl, emo chick that's hiding a secret, on-off couple, unstable characters etc.But what bothered me and really ticked me off was there portrayals of "social issues." In the first and second season; they used buzz words, talked about issues that HSers do not even talk about. Seriously when you were in HS did anyone really join "feminist club" and tried to screw over everything you liked for no reason? I am not one to have issues when talking about racism,racial equality, sexism , LGBT rights and etc. And I even try speak about women's rights in the west and east, but they were ridiculous. When you try to do these things: DO IT RIGHT!Let me give you a few examples: -Maya calls out a heckler at a bar and he called her a B, but that's what hecklers do they heckle and if you're a performer you have to learn to deal with that. But she calls him a sexist pig as she breaks his phone.The feminist rally to get the EQUAL bathrooms of 6 for boys and girl in 7 for girls and 5 for boys. They complain that the girls bathrooms are always crowded. I agreed with this until my friend said, "of course they are; girls usually fix their makeup in there, bring friends that don't need to go, have periods and do more things in there than boys do." What BS, they end up rallying and shame all the guys that want to keep the bathrooms equal-They shame a white girl who is on the volley ball team who accidentally drew a black member of a rival team as a monkey and that girl who did acted like it was nothing. They then say she did it because she has white privilege and doesn't know anything about racism and she is a racist.*HOWEVER, the writers of this stupid show could have used that episode to show that the girl was privileged not because she was white but because her parents and rich and have influence. But, no you're white and you did that it doesn't matter if it was an accident, you're still a racist.They have a protest for a black kid who was wrongfully suspended( which was right, he was some guy body slammed him and he defended himself) But they focus that said volleyball player got no time for being racism of which they didn't tell anyone! NO ONE WENT TO THE PRINCIPLE OR TEACHER OR TELL THEIR PARENTS?!-The characters get super easily offended, a police officer says that they should muzzle their friend, she is Hispanic in return that doesn't mean he's saying for them to shut-up, but he is calling her a dog. (Yes words don't mean words) A teacher says man power and a student says he was sexist. Misunderstandings are racist,sexist and homophobic. And even if you get everything right about a culture down to the T if you wear tradition clothing of speak the language you're so insensitive and horrible.Just watch the 2 seasons, I got so mad half way the 2nd I stopped watching. This isn't HS, at most they are trying to act like this is college with the things these kids do.Overall a someone who has watched since the first season of next gen, this is disappointing. The writers of this show are following some radical SJW book and acting as if this is what you should be doing in HS, no it isn't. These shallow characters always go on another person for doing something they like. Every episode someone is offended and cries that no one with listen and blah blah blah.Utterly disappointing, I guess this is what you do when you've washed up 2-3 decades of this type of show... I wish I could give it a 0/10.