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1 week ago | 
teendramawhore.substack.com | Shari Weiss
Google’s AI is definitely not a TeenDramaWhore. Three times in recent months I’ve searched something on Google related to the teen dramas only for its “AI Overview” to give laughably wrong information.
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1 week ago | 
teendramawhore.substack.com | Shari Weiss
Well, last night’s Teen Drama Trivia did stump some — but not all — of you. In fact, three players rose to the occasion and proved their teen drama bonafides. And the winners are…THIRD PLACEAliciaSECOND PLACEKBFIRST PLACEKirrillyyyEach will receive teen drama swag from the teen drama of their choice and, should they choose to play again next time around, will be formidable players to beat.
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1 week ago | 
teendramawhore.substack.com | Shari Weiss
The anticipation has been building and now the time is almost near: Our 11th Teen Drama Trivia Night is just hours away!As I teased last week, tonight’s game will feature questions I originally compiled roughly 15 years ago. Will you be stumped? Or will you knock me off my teen drama pedestal? There’s only one way to find out!To play…Go to crowd.live/G5W6V at 8:00pm ET tonight. You’ll be asked to enter a nickname and email address.
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2 weeks ago | 
teendramawhore.substack.com | Shari Weiss
When TDW subscriber Alicia recently shared the above graphic on social media, I was instantly drawn in. I love “This or That” games. Coke or Pepsi? Vanilla or Chocolate? (Coke and Chocolate, for me.) But a “This or That” about teen TV? Sign me up. So, where do I stand on the above the match-ups? Well…“Sister, Sister” or “So Weird”My first thought here was, “I don’t even know what ‘So Weird’ is.” Then I realized I did sorta know what it is but have never seen an episode.
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2 weeks ago | 
teendramawhore.substack.com | Shari Weiss
Teen Drama Trivia is back — and it’s going to be better than ever. Why will it be better than ever, you ask? Well, a few months ago, I found my master list of trivia questions that I used when I hosted Teen Drama Trivia Nights during the reign of the original TeenDramaWhore 15 years ago.
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3 weeks ago | 
teendramawhore.substack.com | Shari Weiss
You’ll find no April Fools’ Day pranks here. But since today’s newsletter falls on the pseudo-holiday, I started thinking about teen drama episodes centered around pranks. Two immediately came to mind. In the “Beverly Hills, 90210” season 9 episode “I’m Married,” Noah cheating at a game of strip poker sparks a prank war between him, Donna, and Steve. The hijinks get more and more ludicrous as the episode goes on. Frankly, the storyline — thankfully limited to just this episode — is a waste of time.
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1 month ago | 
teendramawhore.substack.com | Shari Weiss
Though I wasn’t able to do reaction tweets last week, I must rant about one aspect of last Monday’s “Drama Queens.”In response to a fan question, Sophia Bush and Bethany Joy Lenz lamented Peyton and Lucas barely being mentioned and incorporated into seasons 7 through 9. I share that complaint fiercely. It’s one of my (many) gripes with the later seasons. But Bush and Lenz also said things like this... “I don’t even remember where they moved.
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1 month ago | 
teendramawhore.substack.com | Shari Weiss
“Welcome to paradise, man.”It’s a line of dialogue from “Beverly Hills, 90210” (and one I’ve referenced before), but man, oh, man, right now I really want to welcome you all to “Paradise.”If you haven’t seen any of the online buzz over the last two months, “Paradise” is a new Hulu series from “This Is Us” creator Dan Fogelman and starring “This Is Us” Emmy winner Sterling K. Brown.
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1 month ago | 
teendramawhore.substack.com | Shari Weiss
One of the common character archetypes on the teen dramas is the athlete. In fact, “Beverly Hills, 90210,” “Dawson’s Creek,” “The O.C.,” “One Tree Hill,” “Gossip Girl,” and “90210” all had athletes among their main characters. But each version was a little different and none was a stereotypical “jock.”Let’s suit up and look at which teen drama characters hit the fields and the courts.
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1 month ago | 
teendramawhore.substack.com | Shari Weiss
Days before the sixth anniversary of Luke Perry’s death, the teen drama world was rocked again by another tragedy. I’d been planning for months to devote today’s issue, which falls on the anniversary of Perry’s passing, to him with a discussion of the new “I Am Luke Perry” documentary that premiered on Saturday. But on Wednesday came the stunning news that Michelle Tratchtenberg — Georgina on “Gossip Girl” — had died. No, she wasn’t a series regular, but she had an outsized impact on the show.
