My niece who is now 30 was 8 when the series Sweet Valley High debuted. She read the books and watched the show faithfully. The show is gone though the books like the Hardy Boys never seem to die.
Sweet Valley High ran for four years on television. During that time my niece outgrew her liking of the books and the series. I think she got to see what real school was like. It never is populated totally with beautiful and/or funny people.
The center of the Sweet Valley stories was around those Wakefield twins Liz and Jessica. Unlike in Disney's Liv And Maddie the twins were played by real life twins Brittany and Cynthia Daniel. Made for better television I think than one girl playing two separate roles with trick photography.
Liz Wakefield was the sweet and serious minded girl and was a one girl boy. If the boy was star athlete Todd Wilkins why would anyone cheat. Todd was a good kid, maybe too much of one to be real. He got a change in looks if not personality when Ryan Bittle left and the role was taken by Jeremy Garrett mid point in the run. They were one star couple.
But things usually revolved around Jessica Wakefield who was flighty and irresponsible and usually set up the plot situations for each episode. But mean, never, in fact there really were no mean people in Sweet Valley High. No one like the people you see in a film like Cruel Intentions.
Sweet Valley High was a book series, a television series, and a place where really bad people don't exist. Good for an 8 year old's idea of high school.
Sweet Valley High ran for four years on television. During that time my niece outgrew her liking of the books and the series. I think she got to see what real school was like. It never is populated totally with beautiful and/or funny people.
The center of the Sweet Valley stories was around those Wakefield twins Liz and Jessica. Unlike in Disney's Liv And Maddie the twins were played by real life twins Brittany and Cynthia Daniel. Made for better television I think than one girl playing two separate roles with trick photography.
Liz Wakefield was the sweet and serious minded girl and was a one girl boy. If the boy was star athlete Todd Wilkins why would anyone cheat. Todd was a good kid, maybe too much of one to be real. He got a change in looks if not personality when Ryan Bittle left and the role was taken by Jeremy Garrett mid point in the run. They were one star couple.
But things usually revolved around Jessica Wakefield who was flighty and irresponsible and usually set up the plot situations for each episode. But mean, never, in fact there really were no mean people in Sweet Valley High. No one like the people you see in a film like Cruel Intentions.
Sweet Valley High was a book series, a television series, and a place where really bad people don't exist. Good for an 8 year old's idea of high school.