Go Greek with the gayest/greatest show ever aired on a family network

Photo: ABC Family/Karen Neal

Because there's only so many times you can rewatch Gossip Girl in reruns, I started cruising around looking for a new teenage drama to occupy my evenings.

I found Greek, which comes back to TV tonight for its second season. I still do not understand how this show is on ABC Family, because it has more underage sex, drinking, drug-doing, and all around gayness than your average mainstream network show ever seems to get away with before 10pm. It's a lot more like the Ugly Betty/Brothers & Sisters/Dirty Sexy Money ABC than the High School Musical Disney half of the corporate family.

Better yet, it's not just all salacious fun. It's actually good -- well-written, well-acted and way smarter than most shows about college. Actually, I can't think of a single TV drama about kids in college that was half as good as the ones about kids in high school (even if they were the same show -- especially if).

There's a gay character (Calvin), who actually gets brand new gay storylines not already rehashed a million times in cheap melodrama. Last season we meet his dad, and eventually learn that Calvin was out in high school to his classmates and his family. Now his dad just wants Calvin to tell his new frat brothers  (dad's old house, of course) the big gay news. Calvin's busy hooking up with a dude from a rival frat and going along with the guy's explanation that they were just drunk -- until the boy-toy wants to be a boyfriend and Calvin has to question his fear of commitment.

Plus you get hot dudes like Cappie, above, the very tall and insanely charismatic Scott Michael Foster, who has that special gift of making it seem like every single person, male or female, in every single scene with him is really spending all their time thinking about getting him into bed.

You can watch all of season one and, once they get started tonight with the new episodes, all of season two at the website. And you know how I am when I get obsessed. There'll be more where that came from, so you might as well study up now.

Comments

[tekay]

SHANA!!!!! you really must be my sister. I love GREEK and I had no idea why. I fell in love with it this past summer. How extra significant is the fact that Calvin is African American...and not stereotypical? Right now the show has refrained from tackling any racial issues, so i'm just waiting for that.

yay for the new season being here.

[danielle]

wtf.....