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The Caste System Of TV - Macleans
01 June 2009
As I said, I'll have more comments on the show later, but one thing that I found refreshing on revisiting it was that it's almost free from the main cliché of every high school show that followed it: the "caste system" or "social hierarchy." Not that caste systems don't exist in high school (there's some truth in every cliché), but it's become almost an absolute rule that high schools are divided into different classes, that certain people or groups of people are outcasts, and that High School Is Hell.
This wasn't always the rule in high school stories; one person who helped to make it the rule was John Hughes, who, of course, was sort of ripped off by the premise of Parker Lewis. But Parker portrays a high school that's not only fun, but where the characters' problems mostly have nothing to do with the issue of what group or clique you belong to.
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