The young-and-delicious slant of MTV Scripted (a phrase that still doesn't roll off the tongue quite as well as you'd like it to) has produced a varied roster of mixed results. You can mark current landmarks Awkward. and Teen Wolf (both of which were given record double-sized third season orders) in front of the short-run mediocres (Hard Times of RJ Berger, Human Giant) and the arguable one-run failures, including the scandalous Skins and hipster I Just Want My Pants Back. But it's still not a guarantee that young comedy The Inbetweeners—an adaption of the same-named British series—will be a hit. What it does have going for it, however, is following a stride that the network's past two hits have hit relatively well: it's pretty goddamn funny.
And furthermore, instead of playing up the typical teenage losers-verses-populars debate, The Inbetweeners focuses on a gang of guys who fall somewhere, well, in between, as they navigate all the usual trials of adolescence with the genuine hilarity that accompanies being in high school over your head. Will Mackenzie (played by newbie Joey Pollari) faces culture shock when he transfers from a cushy private school to the local public slums, where he meets Jay (Zack Pearlman), Neil (Mark L. Young), and Simon (Bubba Lewis), and like it or not, they become his best friends. Watch a preview below:
The Inbetweeners premieres TONIGHT at 10:30pm on MTV, and look for our full review right after the show.
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