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Greek (TV series)
Greek (promoted in faux-Greek alphabet as GR??K) is an American teen comedy-drama television series which airs on the ABC Family network, the UK BBC Three network and on the TV2 channel in New Zealand . The show follows students of Cyprus-Rhodes University who partake in the school's Greek system. It follows the life of Casey Cartwright and her brother, Rusty Cartwright. Most of the characters belong to either the fictional fraternities Kappa Tau Gamma (???) and Omega Chi Delta (???), or the fictional sorority Zeta Beta Zeta (???).
ProductionIn April 2007, ABC Family announced plans to begin airing Greek in July of that summer. The series premiered on July 9, 2007.[1] Show creator Patrick Sean Smith began the show as a spec script of a show that he "really wanted to see," noticing a lack of shows in the format centering on college life. Smith investigated a small mostly greek school in Oxford, Ohio. Miami University became the base for much of the shows scenery and story line. Citing "shows like Grey?s Anatomy and Ugly Betty" that "were pushing the envelope comedically in one-hour format," Smith saw the idea working for a younger set.[2] The first season was halted in September due to the Writers Guild of America strike and returned March 24. On May 1, 2008, ABC Family announced plans to renew Greek for a second season, the first episode of which aired August 26, 2008. The series was moved from the Monday lineup to Tuesday.[3] Cast and characters
SynopsisSeason 1
As Season One progresses, each character comes into his/her own by learning to cope with the challenges of Greek life. The fresh batch of pledges presents Rusty, a freshman wishing to shed his geeky image. His big sister Casey is a Zeta Beta Zeta sister vying for a presidential bid. Casey is dating an Omega Chi Delta brother, Evan, and her popularity starts to climb the charts. Evan is former best friends with Cappie, the president of the rivaling Kappa Tau Gamma fraternity and Rusty's Big Brother. After engaging in a long-winded conversation with Rebecca, Casey's undermining Little Sister, Cappie and Rebecca start dating. Casey's best friend, Ashleigh, is the Social Chair of Zeta Beta Zeta, and she befriends Evan's Little Brother, Calvin, but accidentally outs his homosexuality to his unknowing fraternity brothers. Many secrets are revealed, and Rusty's first love, a Zeta Beta Zeta pledge sister, uses all the information she gathered as a pledge and writes a newspaper exposé that scandalizes the whole CRU Greek system, namely the Zeta Beta Zeta sisters, and causes Frannie, Casey's Big Sister and Zeta Beta Zeta president, to be dethroned. This causes Nationals to have to come in and investigate Zeta Beta Zeta. Season 2In the Season 2 premiere, Casey has to deal with the consequences of Rebecca's actions during spring break which includes participation in a wet T-shirt contest. And has to choose between kicking Rebecca out of Zeta Beta Zeta or keeping her on probation. Teagan drops by Zeta Beta Zeta again to make sure that the "Rebecca Situation" is taken care of. After a heartfelt confrontation to Rebecca (in which Rebecca walks out of the house) Teagan assumes that Zeta Beta Zeta wants Rebecca kicked out by nationals, the girls rally against Teagan. Rebecca is welcomed back into Zeta Beta Zeta. Greek Week begins and Omega Chi are the reigning champs for fraternities (Zeta Beta being the champs for sororities) and Kappa Tau tries to take the title. Cappie and Evan's rivalry heats up with Greek Week and Rebecca's spring break video begins to circle throughout campus. ReceptionGreek has been relatively well received by critics, receiving a score of 62 out of 100 from review aggregator Metacritic.[4] In a review released soon after the premiere of the show, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette called the show "light-hearted fun" and "authentic" while the New York Times claimed that Greek "captures the spirit of the hedge-fund age like nothing else."[5][6] Other critics did not find the drama as authentic, with Elizabeth Fox of the Philadelphia Enquirer criticizing the show's predictability and lack of originality as another "teenage soap opera."[7] Other reviews were middling, calling the writing of the show acceptable and praising the strength of the cast.[8] The show has been noted by LGBT activists for the character of Calvin (Paul James), a gay fraternity member who struggles with the stereotyping and homophobia that coming out of the closet entails. Critics have praised the character's "three dimensionality."[2][9] Over the course of the shows run it has continually been growing its audience, most recently was the season 2 premiere which attracted a series high of 1.6 million total viewers, it also had triple digit increases in the key females 18-34 demographic. MediaIn the United Kingdom, after each episode airs a special behind the scenes episode entitled "Greek Uncovered" airs afterwards, which can be found on the BBC iPlayer and on BBC Three.[10] The show is loosely based on Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Due to pressure coming from the University and the local papers, the producers were forced to drop the connection. ReferencesExternal links
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