Mabel Munoz
Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?
Ddey65
With all that has been said about this Disney Sitcom, I'm surprised anything else can be added. First there's Demi Lovato. I knew her from that lame, unfunny interstitial sitcom "As the Bell Rings," who wore way too much lipstick. Later on, of course after seeing the music video for "Get Back" I realized that the Disney Channel was probably trying to plug her as their own version of Pat Benetar, and she wasn't half bad. When I first heard about this show, my memories raced back to that episode of "That's So Raven" where Cory Baxter won a spot on a sitcom, and Brookwell-McNamara Productions tried to spin the star of that fictional sitcom off onto a show of her own. Later, I found out this would involve sketch comedy. I still decided to give it a chance anyhow and much to my surprise, it actually worked, and Demi was actually funny.Lovato played as Sonny Munroe, a girl who evidently had a funny web-show, and won a contest to be a new cast-member on the kids sketch comedy show "So Random!," an obvious clone of Nickelodeon's once fierce competitor with Saturday Night Live known as "All That!" What she finds is more or less what a lot of people find out about Hollywood.Tiffany Thornton plays Tawni Hart, the stuck-up princess of the show, who is insanely jealous of Sonny at first, but eventually learns to accept her as the series progresses.Zora Lancaster, played by Allisyn Ashely Arm is not as sweet and adorable as she acts on the show. She's supposed to have a genius IQ, but her odd-ball personality is what stands out more behind the scenes. A lot of people found her annoying. I found her hilarious.Former iCarly wrestling team member Doug Brochu and Brandon Mychal Smith play Grady Mitchell and Nico Harris respectively. Both of them tend to dominate "B-stories" during many episodes.Sterling Knight is Chad Dylan Cooper, the teen heartthrob plays as the star of the show next door, "MacKenzie Falls." While every other girl in America, or anywhere else the series is shown falls head over heels for him, the cast of So Random knows he and his cast-members are stuck-up arrogant SOBs who think their type of show is superior to sketch comedy. So naturally both shows hate each other, and Munroe learns to hate them to, but the rivalry creates some budding sexual tension between Munroe and Cooper, although Cooper has a lot more in common with Miss Hart.Like "Less Than Perfect," and later "Victorious," the fourth episode of this series gave me the best impression of how good it really is, when they rehearsed a hysterical spoof of the "reality TV" show, "So You Think You Can Dance," which if you haven't seen by now... well, let's just say you could end up doing what the other "dancers" try to avoid doing.Since "So Random" was inspired by All That, it often leaves one wondering if the sitcom is in reality a semi-autobiographical story of the cast and crew of the series, and also makes you wonder if the cast of "All That" ever had a real-life rivalry with,... oh perhaps the cast of Dawson's Creek. Unfortunately, the series ended up with some real drama after Miss Lovato's widely publicized nervous breakdown near the end of the second season. The former supporting cast, which now play the same characters on the formerly fictional sketch comedy series may be good, but the ones inherited from this series aren't the same without Miss Lovato. Which is too bad, because I would've like to see more on-stage and behind the scenes antics between Demi Lovato and the rest of the cast.
DiamondGirl427
I have seen most of the shows on NICK and Disney channels...and all are geared toward kids...mostly of the pre teen and teen age groups. No problem there. In years past, there was Kenan & Kel and All That for kids and their families to enjoy. Those kids grew up..and have been replaced by Hannna Montana, Raven and now Sonny With A Chance. I get that Sonny is out of her element and learning to deal with new people in a new place, etc...but must all the episodes be SO STUPID? The acting is mediocre at best..the laughs seem forces and predictable as well. It is a clash of personalities between Sonny and Tawny...and then there is the addition of Sterling Knight...as the ego-filled actor who seems too shallow minded for words. As usual, the adults..who are rarely shown for long, are outrageous and fairly useless when they are on camera. This is suppose to be about a show within a show..yet even THAT pretend show seems lame. If anyone out there remembers All That when it was THE SHOW for kids...they will quickly know this is a badly made copy of that. Where is original stuff? Stop using old ideas.
spicy_love_soup
Its horrible! I hate Demi Lovato's mouth and her teeth because of the way she is always smiling. Zora is pretty creepy (her last name is arm?). A bad remake of All That. The plot was written by a monkey repeatedly hitting his head on a keyboard.Its even worse than Hannah Montana's poop plot and her shallow character. Stupider than Wizards of Waverly Place(stupidity at its best). What happened to good shows like Even Stevens and the actors playing the characters were actually their age?Jackson from Hannah Montana is really in his 30s! High School Musical should be called Bachlor's Degree Musical because all the actors are old enough to get one! Sonny is as stupid as her mouth is bothersome!
jacksonXOXO
I don't get it and they promote their "Texas life" to the public. I love Demi but it seems like Demi was only picked because she was, you know, from Texas. Tiffany was, and most other stars were, except maybe three or four.Anyway, my rant is over. SWAC is not the best show ever, but it doesn't contain a secret like all the other shows. It has realism, but it most certainly doesn't have comedy in the sketches. The sketches on the show are supposedly the funniest things about it. I just think that the sketches are dumb and unneeded. Gassie? Disney's run out of ideas.I also think that Disney needs a show that has no shallow characters and none that are stereotyped.
