The CW’s new hot teen drama All American may be based on the real life of an actual pro footballer, but television critic Glenn Garvin is not having any of that. He’s seen this show before:
The CW says its new teen drama All American is based on the life of former NFL linebacker Spencer Paysinger. Bosh, I declare; it’s an epic biopic of the legendary Ryan Atwood, a slumdog kid from Chino who moved to Newport Beach, got brutally beaten up by the swells his first night (“Welcome to the O.C.!” shouted one of them while kicking him in the crotch), but afterward picked off the prettiest girl in school, and, when she died, the second-prettiest. And then he rode off into the sunset, or at least, the Berkeley campus. …
The O.C. has been gone for 15 year—teenage hotties, sadly, don’t live forever—but the gap in our cultural consciousness can now be filled by All American, which is a virtual clone. Or if not a clone, maybe a sequel to The Fly, where Jeff Goldblum or Vincent Price gets into a teleporter to beam somewhere else but unknown to them, somebody put a DVD of Friday Night Lights into the chamber with them and on the other side they come out all yucky and mixed up with football helmets on their heads.
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