Topic: Mehcad Brooks

My high school friend Dustin recently posted a documentary he’d made in the 10th grade to Facebook. It’s an expose on the school’s health and life planning classes full of hard-hitting interviews (“What do you think of the school’s health and life planning classes?”) with my friends about their Cleveland High experiences. I’m in it, but instead of answering Dustin’s questions I just roll my eyes.

Dustin’s video was about 100 times more interesting than last night’s pilot episode of high-school-ten-years-later “mockumentary” My Generation. The show compares footage of its characters in 2000 — the year they gradated HS — with present day stuff. Shockingly, the “overachiever” turns out to be a slacker bartender in Hawaii, the “beauty queen” ends up an ultra-domestic married woman, and the “rockstar” (term used loosely) has the kind of drinking problem where he orders margaritas at noon. Also, everyone in high school is still in love with someone else from high school, though not the person (from high school!) they’re actually dating.

Basically? It plays out like fan fiction written by an unpopular freshman from the bleachers of the homecoming game. More »