Okay, it may seem like I talk about Glee a lot, but the truth is, I like other shows too.  This one just happens to be in the news more often.

So anyway, I was super excited to find out the news that Neil Patrick Harris (love him so much!) is in talks to be in Glee during May sweeps, specifically in the episode being directed by Joss Whedon, someone else I really really like.  Can’t wait until April when it comes back!!

So I was recently studying in Argentina, and I happened upon this hilarious clip from a show called El Casting de la Tele, which is basically seemed just like Argentina’s Got Talent or something.  I recorded my own version and was going to upload that but turns out this one is a lot better!  Not quite related to teenage drama, but awesome nonetheless.  Enjoy!

Congratulations to Glee for winning the Golden Globe for Best Television Series — Comedy or Musical!!

I’m so looking forward to April and the new episodes, which supposedly are going to include: an all-Madonna episode, Jonathan Groff (Lea Michele’s broadway costar in Spring Awakening), Idina Menzel, Joss Whedon directing, J.Lo, and much much more, I’m sure!  Don’t stop believing!

Vampires are all the craze now, with all the frenzy from Twilight, but let’s not forget our favorite chosen one, aka Buffy Summers, part-time high schooler trying to survive the perils of cheerleading trials and boyfriends, part-time hardcore vampire-slaying machine.  Buffy represented girl power to the extreme, but the type of girl power that could include her worries over the right  prom dress and her occasional feelings of vulnerability (though her job as slayer often prevented her from showing it).  In a lot of ways, she was exactly what post-feminists at the time wanted, a female heroine who could have it all–brains, beauty, superhuman strength, and a hot boyfriend,  too!  It was like battling evil vampires and demons every week was really a symbol for fighting patriarchy.  Surprisingly (or maybe not surprisingly), Buffy the Vampire Slayer spawned a lot of scholarship, including a collection of essays in the book Undead TV.   A lot of it is on Google Reader, here, and there’s some fun stuff in there like “At Stake: Angel’s Body, Fantasy Masculinity, and Queer Desire in Teen Television,” or “Buffy and the ‘New Girl Order’: Defining Feminism and Femininity.”  If you’re curious, there’s a whole Joss Whedon Studies Association, which includes Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies, and you should go check it out!

Other reasons I love Buffy: her Buffyisms (like vampirism = a whole big sucking thing, among others), the outfits she wears while doing things like slaying vampires and killing demons, and her non-chalance about the current upcoming apocalypse.  Of course there are lots more things I love, but those are a few!  On a fun note, here’s a great mash-up (that you may have already seen) with Twilight’s very own Edward Cullen and Buffy!  Enjoy!

So one of my favorite new shows probably has to be Glee, even if its just for the splashy numbers.  This article is a little old but it talks about Glee and some of my other top shows, like Ugly Betty and Modern Family, and how representations of gay characters on TV shows have reverted back to some tried and true stereotypes.  Thanks to my sis for pointing it out to me!

During high school, my sister, mom, and I watched a lot of TV, often of the high-school-drama, teenage-angst-driven variety.  You know the ones I’m talking about.   Sobby music (or maybe pseudo-obscure indie music)  plays in the background while Susie and Steve looked longingly into each other’s eyes, trying to deal with the fact that Susie’s long lost triplet sister has just been killed in a freak overdose accident . . . you get the picture.  I might mock these shows mercilessly sometimes, but I really do love them.   Though I admitedly never really watched the show, my older sister and I got attached to the slogan for the ABC Family show Wildfire that aired with one of the original promos.  It goes something like this:  “This isn’t some high school drama, it’s my life!”  Thus the name for the blog.

Though I’m a little young to have watched old standards like Beverly Hills, 90210 or My So Called Life when they aired (The OC, One Tree Hill, and Gilmore Girls were my bread and butter), I absolutely adore the classics.  So for a treat, a great clip from My So Called Life: