Degrassi: LoveGame

"Did you ever love me at all!?!?!"

The first regular episode of season 11, and the first one part episode since season 9. Degrassi returned tonight with an episode titled after a song by Lady Gaga. This episode was not as crazy intense as last night's, but it was real Degrassi drama.

We start off with a great beginning scene of everyone comnig back after Spring Break. This picks up more where Drop the World left off. We see Marisol and Katie hugging in the background while Dave and Sadie get their gang together to catch up. Dave also asks Adam how Drew is doing post the Spring Break craziness. Holly J, Anya and Fiona realize how close they are to graduating, and Holly J goes to start the announcments with now ex boyfriend Sav.

Clare has not heard anything from Eli since she broke up with him before break. She is expecting a big emotional scene at school, but is suprised when a cool and calm Eli arrives passes with his cane. She questions Adam and tries to figure out what's going on. Later she is forced to have dinner with childhood aquaintance Jake, whom Alli is immidiantly attracted to. Her mother has Jake and his father over for dinner, and Clare uses Jake as an excuse to meet her friends at Above the Dot. She takes him there and introduces him to the gang. She clearly uses him to make Eli jealous to no avail. Finally Clare breaks down and screams at Eli, asking him how he could get over her so quickly when he took forever to get over Julia. Jake drags Clare out after she makes a huge scene. He tries to straighten her out and kisses Clare, leaving her almost speechless. The next day Clare apoligizes to Eli and finds out that he doesn't feel anything at the moment do to his anxiety medication. Clare feels bad and watches as an emotionless Eli walks away.

Jenna is taking the rest of the semester off to take care of her new son Tyson. She tries to visit KC at school but he seems less than thrilled to see her. Her brother does not approve of KC slacking off on his end of the parenting. Jenna struggles to take care of Tyson on her own and is heartbroken when KC chooses to hang out with his friends instead of take care of his son with her. Jenna brings Tyson to Above the Dot and gives him to KC so she can hang out with her friends. Jenna can barely stay awake and confesses to Alli that she cannot stand to be away from her son, because she feels she is all he has. KC is not the father she thought he would be. Later KC asks his mother's permission to have Jenna move in, which she agrees to. An emotional Jenna is thrilled when KC invites her to move in.

This episode was not crazy intense and nothing huge or new happened. But it was a good episode for Degrassi. It brought the kids back to school and introduced us to one of the new characters. We saw a pretty honest portrayal of teen parenthood. Clare is embarrassing herself but actually becomming a more developed character. Much like when Emma put down the protest signs and started becomming more than cause girl. Clare showed that her maturity does not make her a grown up, and she still has moments where she can act immature and needy. This episode gets a B, the drama was more relatable and the characters are getting more fleshed out.

Tomorrows's episode: What's My Age Again?