14x14 Ready or Not

The episode opens at the hospital with a shot of a medical monitor. Tiny is in the hospital after being stabbed and Maya and Zig are bringing him donuts...Zoe paid for half cause she feels responsible. Tiny says he'll be better in a couple of days but snitches get stitches and they so they can't rat out Damon to the cops. Maya heads out cause Pill will bust them if they are late as Tiny tells Zig to chill

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14x13 Watch Out Now

So now we’re at the opener of the final televised arch of the series  meaning there are 12 more episodes + the ‘don’t look back’ TV movie that sets the stage for the Netflix next class continuation

Jack and Imogen are making out in front of the school and Becky comments about how it’s too early for PDA however it’s only a few weeks till graduation and Imogen wants to make it count…plus the fact that Jack has detention afterschool till the end of the year which Becky points out she deserved due to the Degrassi nudes issue. They comment how they hadn’t seen Becky all during the extra break they got while the fire damage was repaired and she says that she was with Jonah they were just writing songs…okay sure, she has a crush but she just broke up with Drew and it’s complicated. Jonah appears and Imogen and Jack make goo goo eyes at him. The quad go into the school as Drew and Clare collect cellphones which are no longer allowed on school property . Clare and Drew inform the group that security cameras are also being installed as part of the new principal’s crackdown…hey at least no uniforms this time right….Simpson has been put on leave and we meet Miss Pill who wants to make the school a safe space and says she is banning any and all PDA.  Jack says this is all 1984 ‘Big Brother’ crazy while I’m getting total Umbrage vibes. Pill says all extra-curricular must be approved by her and council and Imogen is upset her final days at Degrassi are under a factious regime. Becky says rules are important and walks off while Jack and Imogen candidly call out Becky’s feelings for Drew and Jonah between themselves.

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14 x 11/12 FIRESTARTER

The episode opens as Frankie is reading over the draft of her father’s speech for a young voter’s conference. The siblings are chuckling at all the teen lingo peppered in and if you didn’t see any prior episodes you’d think they were a pretty normal family in the moment. Miles Sr comments that he should fire his assistant and hire Frankie. Said assistant shows up and in talking about current events the degrassi nude scandal comes up…daddy Hollingsworth is shocked and appalled. Miles tells Frankie she may have their father fooled but not him…he knows that she was a part of Degrassi nudes and she needs to find a scapegoat before it ruins their dad’s campaign.

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14x10 Hero Vs Villian

With their win at the Semi's, Power Cheer is practicing for the finals when Simpson comes in to speak to them. He asks if any of them have heard about Degrassi Nudes and that he's holding a school wide assembly to talk to the school about it. Playing dumb, Zoe offers to speak as she has had experience with nudes being distributed of her last season...er...semester. The squad is freaking out however Zoe is chill...they will WIN at Semi's and she knows Hunter won't out them by name as they will out his comic plus her speech will throw people off their sent after all she's a brilliant actress and she can work a room.

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14x09 Somethings Got To Give

So for some reason as I was posting episodes 11-13 I noticed I skipped this one so time to jump back.

Imogen is looking at track uniforms saying to Jack and Winston how fashion is her fallback when she has nothing to say on DTV. She hears Hunter snickering and asks what is up. Hunter wants her to settle a bet and asks if the boobs he got sent were hers. Imogen is SHOCKED and Jack says they aren’t hers. Imogen finds out about Degrassi Nudes and is disgusted. Imogen plans to get to the bottom of it and Jack and Winston try to stop…Jack because she’s doing it and Winston because he knows the girls are doing it.

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14x08: Hush

Once again for the third episode in a row the sub plot is about how depressed Miles has become...and the character arch keeps dragging and dragging. The opening scene is Frankie and Hunter waking a sleeping and presumably stoned or hung over Miles saying that he needed to drive them to school. Frankie calls him out asking if he's moody cause Tristan is mad or hung over he says he's just tired. Miles Jr soon comes in and snaps at his eldest saying to get over it. He relents and gets up as Frankie grabs his stash of pot...she'll give it back if he promises not to light up until after they get to school.

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14x07 I'll Be Missing You

Power Cheer is holding its THIRD bake sale of the month to earn money as the team has a rather expensive upkeep though it's really a front so that nobody knows that they really are getting money from Degrassi nudes. It's also Zoe's Birthday and as Shay and Jack surprise her with a cupcake presumably bought from the squad's own sale Zoe gets a package. Thinking it's from Zig who she's been crushing on she opens it to find a doll that says 'I know about Degrassi Nudes' rather Pretty Little Liars of the sender

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14x06: (You Drive Me) Crazy

The episode opens as Maya is having a nightmare of Miles jumping off the catwalk as his depression is reminiscent of Campbell her first boyfriend she couldn't save...though if by now you have seen next class season 3 (or to me season 16A) it makes for an interesting character study bullet point. Zig comes into her room and she tells him she's so anxious she hasn't had a full nights sleep in days and so Zig sings her a lullaby...badly to lighten the mood. She tells him that she needs to get her mind off of Miles and no, listening to Zig's complete works of Kanye West won't cover it.

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14x04 We Can't Stop This Thing We Started

The episode opens on the outside   of Clare's where Alli is there picking her up for school..placing a kiss on Clare's cheek....is that what platonic friends of the same sex DO in Canada? Clare says Eli is sending her a surprise for getting into Columbia. Alli says that was sweet of Eli considering Clare's OTHER surprise. Clare admits she hasn't dropped the baby bomb on Eli as she doesn't know how to word it, when asked how she told Helen, Clare admits she hasn't told her yet either. Somehow she thinks she can have it all...Columbia, Eli, The Baby she just has to figue her shit out...as she's figuring it out it doesn't take but a hot second to reveal that SURPRISE Eli has come to Toronto for a visit...now Clare needs to tell him before he finds out second hand. Eli's done with his term and is on the lookout for a summer job and to talk about his and Clare's future.

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14x03 IF YOU COULD SEE

Winston is raising his eyes at Frankie who wants to 'Wax Drew's Chest' as a Power Cheer Fundraiser. She has a list of other ideas but Winston has only one idea to make out with her. He starts to unzip her jacket to get a glimpse of her cleavage after all he's a guy and they are programmed for boobs however while Frankie likes him she doesn't know if she's ready. They have been dating for one month two weeks and four days and she's not ready to round the bases especially when her parents could catch them in a compromising position. Winston then playfully removes his shirt and proceeds to hover over Frankie tickling her prompting Hunter to catch their moment of intimacy followed by Miles and then their mother. Frankie promises it's NOT what it looks like and Winston leaves. Mother tells Frankie no more boys in her room... Frankie asks WHY...after all she is fourteen and Miles has done way more. Mother says it's cause Miles can't get pregnant and Frankie says she can't either cause she doesn't plan on actually having sex.

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14x02 WISE UP

Hunter is quizzing Miles on traffic procedures as he's about to take his road test his mother comments that she wished he focused on his actual school work the way he is focused on this. Frankie then walks in saying that she'd be surprised if the dad lets him take it as she tosses him the daily paper. He did that interview with the reporter and to quote Frankie made their dad look 'like a Batman Villain Who Hates His Gay Son'. Daddy Hollingsworth walks in wanting to talk to Miles and the mom ushers out the twins embarrassingly calling them her 'peanuts'. Miles's dad tells him he's not going to school that day and hands him golf clubs...he has a day off and wants to spend a father son day...they can golf...miles can even drive and he accepts him gay...straight...whatever...

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14x01 Smells Like Teen Spirit

As promised I've pulled up the season on Youtube and have started to slowly but surely finish up my recap project as I want to be a competitionist damn it!

So all I remember from season 13 is that it was long and draggy and ended on the cliffhanger that our beloved Clare is preggers....

So the episode begins as the school is being evacuated due to a fire (why not...just why not the damn school is freaking cursed) and Miles and others are looking anxiously for Frankie...

HOWEVER we don't know if they find her yet as it flashes back to 10 weeks earlier and Becky is in front of the school which is still recovering from the hurricane damages (cursed I tell you!) handing out flyers for Power Cheer and to parallel the cold opening is also looking for Frankie who she hears is an ace tumbler. Drew comments that the school has a Cheer squad already however according to Becky this is not the same thing as Power Squad but it's an actual competitive sport. Zoe and Tristan show interest however Becky informs Tristan it's girls only. The underclassman head in the school as Alli and Dallas head out... it's the beginning on their final quarter of senior year...FINALLY. Alli is looking for Clare but she's MIA...she and Dallas leave and Drew tells Becky he's sure Clare doesn't care about them (I forgot Drecky were a thing for a moment) Becky however isn't being bummed about Clare knowing about them she's more worried cause Power Cheer is HER fresh start and if Zoe is on the team it will keep her from moving past the fact her brother raped the underclassman. Drew tells her to just not let Zoe join..as President he decrees their last term be awesome just as soon as he finds his VP. His VP AKA

Clare is in the ladies room suffering from a bout of morning sickness when Alli comes in...Alli asks if it's the Flu and Clare says she at a bad breakfast burrito...Alli teases saying is she sure it's not morning sickness and Clare all but admits she's knocked up...and it's most likely Drew's put she's getting an abortion she's already decided and picks up the phone to call the clinic... WHOA...again...a total 180 of her character from the early years.

WHATEVER IT TAKES (still what I affectionately call the power point opening...we get a full song again in Next Class though so there is that...)

Champagne Supernova Part 4 the Video

So we didn’t get to see who posted the video as it was on a dummy account but, well we did see the video and WOW just WOW words do not do it justice.

In talking about the video both Miles and Zig talk about how they do like girls however then, Zig calls Miles out saying how he likes boys now...remember.

Miles then tries to narrow down the list of people who hate him especially as he reads the comments on the music video and all the brutal hash tags

Champagne Supernova, Part 3: Lola

So apparently from what I'm reading this is supposed to be a who done it kind of story that is semi canonical with episodes coming out Tuesday Night on MTV Canada's site for Canadians and Wednesday Afternoon for American and International viewers....

So the pink haired dog belongs to Degrassi's own Cat Valentine wannabe Lola who is apparently Latina (who knew right....go representation!!!! though that means her chances of being black holed just doubled) She's upset the boys dog-napped Fernando and comments about how since her parents found out about Degrassi Nudes (a plot point from 14A which I ended up not doing post-morts about and will recap here sometime this summer)her parents don't want her talking to boys and if she's caught they'd reduce her cell phone plan (which why wouldn't they of done that anyway when Lola was using said cell to post above mentioned nude selfies...) The boys refuse to leave until Lola tells them about last night.

She tells them how they took the dog after going off on a tangent about liberating guys from the chains of girls...because according to a music video they made they hate girls....also they were cuffed together when they took Fernando...

With a music video being the next clue I can only guess that episode 4 will lead them to resident Hacker Jane or resident Director Eli (as based on promo art they are both 'suspects' along with : Clare, Frankie, Tristan, Zoe, Winston and Maya)

Champagne Supernova Parts 1/2

This was pleasant surprise as I didn't know that they would have another web-series this season. At first I thought it would be like last season's Maya-centric one that was only available on MTV Canada's website (though I'm sure it's bootlegged someplace on YouTube) however it was uploaded to the official Degrassi channel.

Unlike Dorm Life I don't think that this one is narrative relevant and is more a fun romp like the webisodes of old (Which I am still pondering recapping at some time)

This one is kind of a Dude Wheres My Car/Hangover type plot where Miles and Zig wake up handcuffed to one another...Miles has a black eye and Zig has a 'Jack Has It' tattooed on his back. The boys make their way to Jack's place in part 2 finding out that the tattoo was just marker and what Jack had was a dog (why it's hair was partially and inhumanly dyed pink...I think it may have to do with Lola and I think from the end of the episode the boys think that as well.

While I have love/hate relationships with both boys I am really loving this series so far (though if it all comes back to the whole love triangle they have with Maya I'm going to smash my head into a wall)

13x38/39 Thunderstruck

Finally the season finale. This was a one hour action pack event let me tell you. The episode opens with foreboding and foreshadowing shots of natural disasters as Imogen is giving a report on Global Warming. Dallas comments that nothing like that would ever happen in Toronto and even after Imogen points out that the weather channel says that a system is brewing he claims it’s more likely to hit New York or New Brunswick. It’s apparently the end of term (how freaking long are terms in-verse…cause like didn’t just a few episodes a term/semester started and the activities fair is what inspired Maya to do the arts night?) Anyway Drew and his council company are going to now set their sights on the end of term dance. Becky wants to know about when the dance is supposed to end and it’s known that things have been a bit tense in the Baker home since Luke got sentenced to two years in jail. Imogen decides to cheer her up with Mambo #5 which causes Becky to burst out in tears and leave the room. Drew being Drew follows her and Dallas comments about how Drew is just friends with a girl to whom Imogen teases how he believes that but not global warming.

WHATEVER IT TAKES (god I hope the old theme or a variant is back next season)

13x36/37 Believe

Another two parter which much like the 13c finale Sparks Fly aired in 2 parts however least you think because of that than this is the finale… nope…there is one more 2 part/hour long episode to go after this.

I just want to point out how much I love that the title of this mirrors Unbelievable from last arch as it gives a sense of closure to that episodes main plot and is a nice book end to things. Unlike that episode this aired in its original time slot however it did have a PSA warning about sexual content and darker subject matters.

Zig’s phone is buzzing as Grace shows up late for school. Zig is wondering where she was because they have an assignment to do and she comments about the media circus outside.

Winston is talking to Miles about Maya and whatever drama is going on as Maya looks at her phone (is she in a normal homeroom again or is this already a later period since it was established Grace was late…confused) Maya comments about how Zig just texted her and Miles makes a comment about how somebody always seems to be in trouble and Maya nods…’yea, Zoe.’

Zoe meanwhile is auditioning for Wicked and is singing Defying Gravity. Maya walks into the auditorium and Tristan tells her she’s still dead to him however she tells him it’s not the time and starts to talk to him about the media for Zoe. Zoe finishes and tells Maya while she loves her she needs to practice for her audition and they tell her about the press. Zoe heads outside to talk to the press and tells them the boys are guilty and she plans to prove it

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13x35 Out of My Head

Preparations for the fashion show is still going on and Becky starts to tease Imogen about her crush. Becky shows the now done sketches to Jack who says they are ‘nice’ which causes Imogen to panic. She thinks they aren’t cool enough and that she’ll loose Jack to Lucy or one of the many other girls who have crushes on her. Becky kindly reminds Imogen the show is that night and it would mean everything to her with what is going on for it to run smooth.

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13x33 My Hero|

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While the last episode had my DVR cutting off the last few moments this one cut off the entire cold open….so

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13x31 Enjoy the Silence:

Maya is helping Zig  fake sick so Margaret will let him stay home from school because the gang is pissed that he skipped out the night before. Maya needs to go and Zig tells her he will send over the files for the panorama programs later on

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