Review of Degrassi High

Degrassi High (1987–1991)
5/10
This is only my first episode of this show...
7 April 2022
Hmm, I guess I am not quite as enamored of this show as other reviewers are. Maybe the stories are a bit better than I'm detecting, and hey it takes place barely a dozen years after my own high school days, but one thing about this show creeps me out and I can't get past it.

It's that 'Stephanie Kaye' (played by Nicole Stoffman). She might be a fairly OK actress but WHY did they cast a 15 year old girl (who is supposed to be hot stuff apparently) who has a tooth obviously missing from her upper right side of her mouth? It seems like they purposely photo her from this side over, and over, and over... a 15 year old ought to be past all their baby teeth so for whatever reason that big missing tooth gap is there, they should have addressed that before shooting. I cringe every time they show her face from the right side. There it is, this big hole where a young person with healthy teeth SHOULD have a tooth!

This is the most blatant screw-up I've seen in filming something since the movie from the early 60's where Debbie Reynolds takes in a bunch of homeless kids who have been living in a garden shed... and the oldest boy is wearing a flashy gold ring through most of the film despite being homeless and poor. Can't believe the director didn't say 'CUT' and tell him 'take off the ring, kid'.

Whoever filmed this should have put the whole thing on timeout while they fixed that girl's missing tooth. Geez.
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