That was an excellent one.

Best movie ever!

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Sam McPherson (Carly Pope) is the leader of the Unpopulars, and Brooke McQueen (Leslie Bibb) is the queen bee of the Populars. To both their dismay, their divorced parents (Sam's mom and Brooke's dad) decide to be a couple. This leaves them in competition more than ever. And the two group clash. Some of the outstanding cast includes Sara Rue, Christopher Gorham, and Leslie Grossman.This is Ryan Murphy's first success in the TV world. It's a colorful teen high school drama. It pits a group of Unpopulars against a group of Populars. It's a flashy start with a lot of promise. But it lasted only 2 years. The second season really deteriorated as the group dynamics get muddy.

I have to say that POPULAR was one of the most greatest teen shows that appeared on television, it was a really good show that discussed teen issues even though that it's sourt of unrealistic, but hey i just watch it for fun. For the first season, I give it five by five as it was very entertaining and a good solution for somebody specially the teens, to run away from problems and torture. The second season was good but more serious that even the ending was twisted and gave me some sourt of depression but it doesn't mean that it's not good. I really wanted another season but I just can't understand why would they give up on this show; if the WB fear from the ratings that maybe lower then the first but even though not bad, then hell with the WB just find another network because a show like POPULAR isn't the kind to be rejected quickly.I would like to add that I hate the now CW 'WB'; why in the world did they give up on this show they didn't even give it a chance. Before Buffy, the WB begged for a least successful show and just after that they thought that they were big deals. The WB didn't not only disappointed POPULAR but they disappointed BUFFY as will which was the main reason for their success. POPULAR should've been sold to a company like ABC, cause ABC gives decent chances for a show's success; like 'Ugly Betty', this show was only successful for it's first season and went downhill fastly after that but look at ABC, they're still giving chances for this show.

I watched this show when I was much younger, 10 or maybe 11. I always loved the show and found it really funny, although watching it now (8 years on) I know there's a lot in it I probably didn't get back then. Either way, it taught me a lot about life in a way that made me want to listen. I really believe I'm a better person for watching this show when I was young - that may be a bit deplorable but there you go. I can't believe they took it off the air! I blame that for the corruption of todays youth =Pthings the show taught me about: mean people, racism, homophobia, sex, STDs,alcoholism, animal cruelty, transsexuals, homelessness, leukaemia, relationships, prejudice, exorcism, that overweight people have feelings too, working, teen marriage, that sometimes conjoined twins might want to stay attached, about chickens, pregnancy, adoption, substance abuse, blackmail, ulterior motives........and the list goes oneven if it had taught me nothing I'd still have loved this show - maybe even just for Mary cherry =Dit annoyed that there was the 'in group', who were meant to be superficial and uncaring and the 'out group', supposedly the opposite. But the two groups were exactly the same. perhaps this was the point, i don't know.next, the one character who was supposed to be individual because that's just who she really was was actually just trying to be different because she couldn't be popular or to seek revenge for petty stuff. i always hated her. but couldn't help but be mesmerised because she's beautiful lastly, a really petty point - by the end everyone gets along. real life isn't like that. unkind people usually stay unkind. it shows kids the truth about so many aspects of real life and then goes and does that.....shocking.the reasons it didn't get a 10

I remember early in the year 2000 listening to a local AM Talk Radio Station in Los Angeles (I believe it was Phil Hendrie). The topic of the hour was "What's your favorite TV Show currently on the air?" For the next hour I heard a lot of references to two shows: "Malcolm in the Middle" and this other show, "Popular." I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I had already seen "Malcolm" and knew it was hilarious. But what about "Popular?"The commercials made it look like a typical weekly teeny-bop High School show, a la "Saved By The Bell," but in Prime-Time (lest we forget Zach did go to college in the evenings though). The amount of praise I heard for "Popular" made me check it out.The advertisements were wrong.What I found in this show was a sleek, hilarious, dramatic, clever, filled to the brim with 80's references show not about kids in High School today (circa 1999-2000), but if kids from my generation were to go to High School today (yes, I went to High School in the 80's).I think the failure of "Popular" was the advertising I referred to earlier for the show...it was going after kids in high school for ratings. But the show was made for (I feel) an entirely different generation. If only the ones it was made for had watched....it would probably still be on.This is one of the few programs I have ever seen that managed to balance outright slapstick comedy with serious drama...and it did it so well in my opinion that I seriously mourned the loss of the show when it was canceled.My favorite Season Two moments - 1) Mary Cherry's (Leslie Grossman) audition for judges, including Jim J. Bullock (way before "American Idol" became a household name). "Rock Me Amadeus, by FALCO!"2) Nicole Julian's (Tammy Lynn Michaels) "rise" to Class President (one of the most clever and complex episodes ever written for television -- flat-out incredible comedy).3) Every scene with Michelle Phillips ("Abra-abra-cadabra!!!!").4) The "Gay" episode about Bobbi Glass (Diane Delano) - it gave me chills and again proved how the writers were almost magically able to juggle comedy and drama every week.The casting of the show was simply brilliant. Everyone did an incredible job and I am pleased to see several of the cast riding other roads to fame as of 2008 (Christopher Gorham on "Jake 2.0" and then the successful "Ugly Betty").The only thing I can pray for at this point are either reruns (Lifetime or Oxygen I'm guessing...but maybe Comedy Central?) or, *gasp* -- A DVD Release. Then a lot more people can have a chance to see a show that I firmly believe should have been "Popular."*EDIT* Both Seasons are on DVD now. There really IS a God!My personal thanks to the callers of that Los Angeles AM Talk Radio Program who touted the praises of this show. You got it right, and I'm glad I saw of it what I did.