I just finished Hazel’s episode in season 2! Your acting was amazing. I had tears by the end of it :’) you’re my favorite.

Dominique G. yeah me too , I cried w her in season 4 I think (but I won't spoil)

Lmao came to the comments to be like hold the phone 😂

At least they didn't just ship you off to Africa lmaao

Degrassi TNG should've ended when Emma graduated.

Laura Slack but they mentioned terry in the Netflix degrassi like the throwback episode she was supposed to be a speaker but they never showed her

A great episode

Terri and hazel weren't really main characters they only did a few episodes I noticed the show focused on other members alot more hazel and Terri were just more paiges friends that only got a few short lines they should've had more episodes with them but oh well

As a middle easterner I felt like they just wanted to throw Muslims in there somehow. Lol. Not to say it wasn't intriguing, however, the actress is actually Jamaican, and I would have liked for them to give black Caribbeans representation since you rarely see this demographic/nationality represented on TV. Overall interesting, yet it seemed like a plot line they rushed and it kinda came out of nowhere. I feel like if they did more with Hazel's character and developed her more like they did with other characters (ie like Marco when they introduced him as gay) it would have seemed less token. Especially since they eventually touched on Muslims in the later seasons and had lots of Muslim characters. I do realize that since it was around 2001 though, it was in context.

@@midnightblackheart1821: Terri was the one of the characters that changed the whole scope of the show. It's a shame they rarely gave good story lines to Andrea and Christina. P.S. Terri was Ashley's friend.

King Scorpio same!!! I feel like everyone should have had a storyline. Well, at least the main ones.

Maybe she was still so in shock. But Degrassi always has those characters they put more focus on than others

Bruh I remember that. I was so traumatized as a child

They could have taken Hazel in so many different directions after Jimmy got shot. She could have fallen into a deep depression, started using drugs, could have ditched Jimmy after finding out he was paralyzed, etc. It's so sad that the writers didn't explore her feelings...

Omg I shipped Jimmy and Hazel so hard 💘 they were arguably one of the healthiest relationships on the show and they were underrated . I wish they worked things out and got back together , Jimmy got over his little crush on Ellie eventually

Never even compared the two until now. This is very true smh

Same after Drew’s brother Adam died .he wasn’t the same for awhile

Kambrie Rose jt was murdered.

Vicky Casteel I’m aware

i completely agree with you they should have handled the situation better between hazel and jimmy. I think the reason why the sort of outcasted Hazel in a since that there is not as much trauma after the fact is because they intended on having Jimmy recover from the incident, hence thats why he was in a wheel chair, he still went to school, he even attended therapy or something to try and walk. With the Cam and Maya situation there is many people who struggle from having suicide thoughts and in the episode where Cam died you could really see that Cam was at a breaking point. I think they enhanced all of the emotions from that more into cams story, because cam wasn't coming back once he decided to kill himself he was dead- theres no stopping that. Each of the characters in that scenario all knew Cam was hurting and instead of helping like physically helping they degraded his feelings and made him more of an outcast as he struggled mentally with not fitting in and being an overly jealous boyfriend. He even tried to make it up to Maya in the best possible way (bringing her flowers and i forgot what else havent watched it in a fat minute) but eventually ZIG got into cams head and made him feel every bit of worthless which in turn made him commit suicide out of the fear that he would always be rejected by the people he cared about and loved. What i'm saying is that that brought alot of awarness and growth into the characters who didnt do anything for cam as they wished they could have done something to help him. Personally, i think Maya was not all that tramautized or affected by the situation. She really started dating other people including ZIG who literally tipped Cam to his breaking point, but I think she really liked Zig the most anyways and that was made her be able to cope with Cam's passing in a more humble way. Also, she continued doing something she loved (music) because it allowed her to block out. everything but in a way I still don't think she was mentally fucked after the situation. Anyways a good thing about this show is that they pick so many topics that are relatable, taboo, etc and turn it into all of these plotlines and such and it's really just like connect the dot with some of these characters.

I forgot about their crush on each other, freaken Paige ruining it for both of them.

I did too I think that would have worked

@@paulae4033 Paige messed up everything loool

I don't think that would've worked out spinner wasn't a very good boyfriend on the show to Paige or Manny Terri is a nice girl and she deserves better

@corn no way they weren't good together Paige treated alex like shit and was also unsure of her sexuality I wasn't a big fan of alex but I don't think her and Paige were ever a good match Paige is conceited, selfish and never cared about the feeling of others.

Exactly. It was just so exciting. But hearing the back story was like damn..😓

same, they could have added many black characters during her time and made it more diverse where black men were not always the jocks or the thugs. I started watching it in 2010 where most of the black actors storylines was not heavy, but they were often portrayed as thugs or gangstas.

I remember people making jokes about Hazel being a "minor" main character.

Clarissa Thelisme facts like liberty had a storyline same with Conner and Dave

Right ugh. And Andrea grew up to be gorgeous. Terri too.

Completely

I think euphoria is amazing I’m the states

Dasani Sansbury Euphoria is yasss. Degrassi is the best too 💗

Doni J yes euphoria and degrassi is great

OMG! This is so true 🙂

Me too! I've watched the entire series like 3 or 4 times already LOL

Me too

Me too🙂

Same

Elisângela Queiróz how are you watching it? Like what streaming network has it?

Facts 🥰🥰😍

She was always pretty af tbh 😊

Christina 🥰*

She’s been pretty!!!

UTubeCorruptAntiFreeSpeechLiberalCo ok and? she’s still beautiful

I couldn't stand Peter and his shitty acting skills!!

The only person I can think of that had curves was Manny and Fiona, but they were both still thin. You’re right, they didn’t have other plus girls.

AlexisLugosi YES 🙄 I always hated him. He was boring and annoying.

Yes I really wish there was more than just one plus size girl throughout 15 seasons

mariethebest09 jenna & chantay was prolly the closest to plus size bc they had some curves

They could've have let Ashley stay in London, they didn't have to bring her back. No one really liked her character. Hazel was actually a good character, that deserved to be developed.

@@shelbyw5588 Ashley and Emma are thing 1 & thing 2 tho they never was close their character is really annoying and they're judgemental for no reason

To be honest, looking at the series again they didn't do anything with Ashley after she returned she dated Jimmy a bit introduced wheelchair Drake and then left to tour after they Jimmy and her broke up.

That might be who she’s talking about in the video

Um excuse me I LOVED Ashley she was/is my favorite Degrassi character. Especially when they made her goth

Terri❤

Yes that was my favorite show...💯

I wish the writers did more with their characters than introducing Darcy🤦🏾‍♀️

love!

Andrea Lewis Glad you liked it lol:) You made my day!

After the original characters left the show really went down hill acting wise and the storylines I'm honestly glad it was cancelled lol

I honestly feel that Sean would have died while he was in the military

Toby & liberty have lunch every Wednesday 🤣🤣🤣

They said she transferred to a private school at the beginning of S4 I think

@@heeyyyricky oh ok because she was there, then all of a sudden she was never heard of again

@Lyndsey Davis i thought she died cause wasn’t she in a coma.

that directioner she woke up

@kam that show was so long that i forgot half the plot

The only impactful storyline, was in the ONE episode when she comes out as Muslim. They don't expand on it at all.

They made EVERY black girl in the show mean and superficial as well as being just a side character. Hazel, Chantay, and marisol 🤦‍♀️ Did not like any of them, but they all deserved better

Especially because there was such a big opportunity for them to show their relationship after the shooting. All we saw was her react to him being shot, then next thing you know they break up? Degrassi wtf??? It would’ve been amazing to see how their relationship was affected after discovering he was paralyzed , and how she was affected after seeing her boyfriend almost die.

every black girl on the show was 😭

Zana Music that would be nice

And the irony of that is they were a couple in real life.

Let's be honest. They only paired them up because they were bored and didn't know who else they could be in a relationship with.

lh9591 lmao the fall was memorable

😂😂😂😂😂omg

😂😂

Wasn't the stunt double noticeably thinner as well?

OH MY GOD THAT WAS HER HOLY CRAP! You just threw me back lol

SquirrelGirl Bubbletea jj

Oh my God!!! I knew I remembered her from somewhere else.

Lol

Wow that was her omg I watched that before with Hilary duff

m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/grOJjKqhuafOhmg.html i forgot to link her video

I am subbed to her and watching her recap made me want to watch the show again.They really did do Hazel,Terri,Liberty and JT wrong.

@@jadam5414 yesssss she's one of my faves

HappyNappy AndThriving the whole JT thing is so depressing

the closest we had to another plus size girl was jenna middleton & chantay black & maybe manny at the end of season 9 . they were only curvey tho not really plus size .

Tniya Collins yeah out of everyone you listed Jenna was probably the biggest but even then she only had a small bit of chub and I would not consider plus size 😔

Kambrie Rose yea ur right she isn’t really plus size at all but in her head she thought she was

Claire put on a lot of weight over the course of the show. She was at least approaching plus size and was bigger than Jenna.

@@tniyacollins5790 yea jenna was mainly because she had a large chest compared to all the rest of the girl. Claire was close to being plus size in the end

I'm turning 40 in August and loved the 80's degrassi but i lived for Next generation through seasons 8ish.

Same I be crying I can’t keep it together so sad 😭

Damon Cordell Liberty got more storylines out of all the black girls combined. Of course the writers gave her the pregnant teen storyline only for her baby daddy to be stabbed to death smh

@@KingChiJay91 She did and it only involved JT! Liberty season 1 and 2 was featured more and once 3 and 4 came around she got forgotten just like Toby did. Toby really got the short end of the stick even though he not black. Even Marisol was on the show first and was popular but then took a backseat the next season once they created and introduced her best friend Katie??? It's like they didn't think she could be cool on her own or run things?

@@KingChiJay91 But even with the pregnancy storyline, JT had the POV in the episodes that dealt with it, her giving birth was the B plot to Craig's dumb early departure storyline of "let me drop out of school like a couple months before graduation to take a record deal" and again only gets perspective regarding giving her baby up for adoption again in a B-plot of a filler episode. She still doesn't even have POV in Season 6 when JT dies, it's a lot of the other characters just talking about her and some crying shots.

@@CordellPonton The Marisol bit was when I really saw the bias on the show towards the POC characters because she had more of the Queen Bee type personality to follow in the Paige/Holly J footsteps than Katie did and she was able to show her acting chops despite the scraps she was given so fans couldn't even try to fall back on "bad acting" as the reason why she didn't have the lead in a lot of storylines. I still love Degrassi and think it did have a lot of strong points, but there was definitely a bias in how much they focused on the white characters for most of the run often at the expense of the characters that brought the diversity to the show and were relegated a lot of the time to being tokens.

@@thaddaeuselliott3884 Exactly! Marisol was their first and it's like they were saying "yeahhhhh thought about it and no we need a white girl to be the popular one" . Chantay probably got done the worst! She was up their for shit idk how long and didn't get storylines until her graduating season??? Lol idk how Manny was able to get so lucky and even Drake got lucky to be in so much!

Just like they did with Maya after cam died

Same!! I’m trying to think sooo hard what characters got her storyline lol. I wish she would’ve said it. But she probably didn’t wanna seem messy

I would like to know too.🤔

Allie Bandari (sp?) storyline could’ve been originally for Hazel. Just my theory.

Solunatic02 omggg that’s a good guess!!

They predicted drake

TheLeah2344 your right! All the black and POC characters were done so dirty like just the worst of the worst

I assumed she wanted to leave the show too because the whole changing schools thing seemed so unnecessary. They could’ve brought her back after the coma.

TheLeah2344 I agree with that, even Chris-Emma’s 1 minute boyfriend. The one black guy that hung out with jay, Shawn. Others like chantay, Danny, Dave, Connor, and Damian

That was the point of the show. The show was trying to portray what was happening to girls in real life. And in real life girls get slut shamed. I don't understand why you criticized Manny's story line. I though that was a good story line. It would have been cool to have a peson who stayed a virgin on the show

I agree idk remember when they did that dude who was colored they made him have HIV and then connor had autism and i just feel like all the the color people who was on degrassi had been played

Aubrey

@@keniabonano drake, Aubrey same person

Kenia Bonano you know who they’re talking about so does it matter 😭😭

@@liah724 exactly

Yeah didn’t make money in Canada it blew up when it aired in the US

The black girls in the show are always someone sidekick or just friend of the show!!! Marisol character was on the show first and they made her take a backseat the next season to Katie???

@@CordellPonton And let's also not forget Shante, Holly J's sidekick (if you can even remember her lol). Degrassi didn't even try to play off their careless lack of development for darker skinned black female characters.

@@marissar.359 Right! However actually she took a backseat multiple times!!! Darcy and Shante were on the show at the same time and Darcy became a lead and Shante was still never seen!!!

@@CordellPonton I totally forgot about that! They did the black characters dirty.

Damon Cordell right I remember when she was just a extra on the show

LEX ! Liberty was there as one of the original characters

@@KingChiJay91 and she gets knocked up

TheInsaneBEAST1 you people need to see that all the kids went through something that was the point of degrassi to show real teen lives 2000 liberty pregnant paige rape and struggle sexuality manny dealing with identity and boy crazed growing up same with emma and her gonorrhea situation

destiny reid yes , but she was turned around and casted into a stereotype of a black girl getting knocked up. Completely disrespectful to her character in general.

Zana Music no. she was not. jenna got pregnant as well and claire

ally banadari

Facts same with Terri’s toxic relationship with Rick

I've always wanted to see their story as girl, Hazel and Terri should have had more time together. I liked Ashley but she became a FILLER and they spot lighted her to promote the Jimmy and MANNY story too much and EMMA and Manny was too promoted Degrassi needed better story writers and that whole Craig thing was just too much filler for me.

LEGIT

Emma’s ass was SO nosey, we knew her whole family history and even the dog’s name. I remember Terri’s storyline being over so fast, I was sad when she left the show.

Kevin Pham facts

and ellies annoying cutting for no reason/obsession with craig. every other episode would switch back and forth between marco dealing with being gay and ellies weirdness to the point where i started skipping episodes.

Facts cuz Andrea Lewis (Hazel Aden )only had one episode that revolved around her

being from the bahamas, Degrassi show, changed my life...finally I saw real issues that affected teens...that was not on screen...especially in the Bahamas...where everything is so censored...Degrassi 80's, 90's ....thank you!!!!!!! Thank you for addressing topics that were taboo.....I felt like I belong for once....God given truth!

Chey Taylor yeah, it’s so unfair...

Same in movies black people have the worst death

Marisol was very annoying so was shay, shante was ok but hazel was the only decent one

I think Marisol was a good character... She was supposed to be a snob and mean. Chantay was so annoying.

Who is keisha I never seen her before

@@Evoljahh Frankie's original best friend who did the "let's get physical" dance with her and zoe for some talent show

I actually enjoyed Shay. It’s too bad that they’re not continuing the next class after they finally cast a black girl that actually has a plot 🤦‍♀️

They made all 3 black girls they casted throughout the 15 seasons the “unlikeable black girls”. Hazel, Chantay, and Marisol were all side characters with white friends and rude 🙄🙄

Kambrie Rose exactly, 3 different chances for phenomenal plot lines for them, i still want them too 😭

@@kambrierose9859 yall forgetting about Liberty??

petalchild one black girl out of how many white in the cast?

Jimmy looks black what are you talking about he don’t look it? Lol and I agree with everything else you said

Tried to make Manny ugly and failed....

JarradKyle i love these ideas!!!!!!! that would be badass

🤣🤣🤣🤣 I actually visualized all of that and I'm done for it

If that were to happen, I just hope it happens in a more adult way/version. Degrassi was great during Its time at how mature it was for the audience and the ages they were but as adults, I wouldn't want everything to be a PG/TV-14 drama

They going to need some bomb ass funding to get drake to act again 😂

I don't think it would happen the sets were sold oo

Lyndsey Davis I’m on season 6😀

@@keracancook oh, same!

I am binge watching to lol😭

THISSSSS

@@elysiansolace3371 I'm keeping hope alive that it will happen lol Drake having them all in a video was proof that it could happen! 🤞🏾

Hazel wasn’t plus size on the show but i really wish they would’ve done better for her and the other black girls on the show

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I don't know if they were one of the healthiest. They didn't give them any problematic storylines in their relationship, but towards the end of it Hazel kept pushing Jimmy to be a basketball player, and convince him he's still the same person he was before he was shot if I'm remembering correctly. She just didnt really embrace that Jimmy felt changed, and was okay with that, and wanted to be an artist. She just didn't understand him, and they weren't clicking anymore. They could have worked through it but god forbid Degrassi gave Hazel any meaningful or connecting scenes besides her one episode lol. Their relationship was so flat after their initial episode of getting together because of the writers.

@@jfh-dr2xu in “Redemption Song” when Jimmy and Ellie were talking about artsy stuff Hazel tried to join in and engage with the subject and try to understand Jimmy’s love for art . I think they could’ve worked things out if they were given another shot

Facts like after Eli discovered cam’s body in the greenhouse it took a toll on his life

Kevonni Couture wow🙄🤦🏾‍♂️