Common Sense Note

Parents need to know that this is a show full of teen drinking, drugging, fighting, sex, and angst. A single episode dealt with fallout from a shooting, included scenes in a rehab facility, and showcased the usual melodramatic relationships and smooching we've come to expect from evening soaps. The characters try to escape the consequences of their actions and get away with as much as they can. If your kids behaved the way these teens do, you'd be really worried about their values.

Sexual Content

Shirtless guys, talk of hooking up, sex on the brain, bodies on the beach.

Violence

There are fist fights and verbal threats.

Language

"Bitch" is the favorite word.

Social Behavior

There are fist fights, drug taking, homosexual slurs, friends leaving friends drunk on the sidewalk -- nothing you'd want your kids doing. But bad behavior is shown to have bad consequences, and kids learn from thier mistakes and the mistakes of their friends -- and flawed parents.

Consumerism

Designer labels and thing-lust permeate most episodes. Now the show has put its name on clothes, music, and perfume, too.

Drugs / Tobacco / Alcohol

High schoolers shown drinking heavily, smoking pot, snorting coke, and -- oh yeah -- drinking so much that the sympathetic main character is deposited on her front walk passed out cold. Over the top and really irresponsible.