Drama shows have never really been my thing. I’ve always preferred the action and mystery involved with crime shows, so the lack of murder and crime in dramas has never appealed to me. Out of sheer boredom, I decided to go on a quest for a show to watch, and after spending a solid 10 minutes found Life Unexpected.

It looked decent enough, and there weren’t many reviews of it online which I like when looking for a new show on Netflix. I decided to give it a shot and started the first episode.

I will come out right away and admit I did not enjoy the show in the slightest. It was obviously a teen show, full of cliches and way too much drama, most of which was extremely unrealistic. However, I still feel I should explain how it was on a technical level so let’s start at the beginning (a very fine place to start).

The show features many fairly well-known actors including Britt Robertson who was recently in “Tomorrowland” and the “Longest Ride,” Emma Caulfield who was in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” a few years back, Shiri Appleby who appeared on “Roswell” and Kerr Smith from “The Fosters.”

The basic plot line is about a young 16-year-old girl named Lux (Britt Robertson) who is in the foster care system. She hopes to become an emancipated minor, however she finds she must first gain the signature of her birth parents.

She finds out her mom, Cate Cassidy (Shiri Appleby), is a radio talk show host and her dad, Nate Bazile “Baze” (Kristoffer Polaha), enjoys life with various women. Lux appears in court and all of a sudden finds herself living with them despite never having really met them.

The show finished in 2011 with just two seasons. Season one is fairly vague without an abundance of season-wide plot points. The relationship between Cate and Nate grows more complicated, but overall not too much stays the same in the season.

Season two is basically the embodiment of “second verse same as the first” with very little noteworthy episodes or plot points. All in all, it ends on a boring note. The ending was one of those that confused the fire out of me and even after replaying it, I am still beyond confused.

I found the show to be dull in the end, and by the time I was two episodes into the second season, I was debating if I should just skip episodes to get to the end. As a whole, the show did very little that was actually ‘unexpected.’ The plot was very predictable and gave a lackluster performance.

However, again, it is not the type of show I normally enjoy watching. It received a 7.6 out of 10 on IMDb from just more than 11,000 people. I came into the show without a real interest in it and was left feeling that way in the end, but those who enjoy teen dramas may like it more.