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Why would it have subtitles in New Zealand? Presumably it aired in several English speaking countries, but there's no mention of the others. In any case, please include your source.
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{{short description|American
{{infobox television
| image = Popular TV series.png
| genre = {{Plainlist|
* [[Teen drama]]
* [[Comedy drama]]
}}
| creator = {{Plainlist|
* [[Ryan Murphy (
* [[Gina Matthews]]
}}
| starring = {{Plainlist|
* [[Leslie Bibb]]
* [[Carly Pope]]
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| opentheme = "Supermodels" by [[Kendall Payne]]
| endtheme = "High School Highway" by [[Sydney Forest]]
| country = United States
| language = English
| num_seasons = 2
| num_episodes = 43
| list_episodes = List of Popular (TV series) episodes
| executive_producer = {{Plainlist|
* Ryan Murphy
* Gina Matthews
}}
| producer =
| camera =
| runtime = 44 minutes
| company = {{Plainlist|
* Murphy/Matthews Productions
* Shephard / Robin Productions
* [[ABC Signature|Touchstone Television]]
}}
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| first_aired = {{Start date|1999|9|29}}▼
| last_aired = {{End date|2001|5|18}} ▼
▲| first_aired = {{Start date|1999|9|29}}
▲| last_aired = {{End date|2001|5|18}}
}}
'''''Popular''''' is an American
==Plot==
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===Main cast===
* Brooke McQueen ([[Leslie Bibb]]) – She is the most popular girl at Kennedy High. She is beautiful, fashionable, a straight-A student and a cheerleader. An only child whose mother abandoned the family when Brooke was eight years old, she lives alone with her father until the merging of the McQueen and McPherson families. Brooke becomes a half-sister to newborn baby girl, MacKenzie, whom her stepmother gave birth to towards the end of the series. Though she strives to appear perfect, over the course of the two seasons, Brooke reveals her anxiety and low self-esteem on a number of occasions. She struggles with both [[
* Samantha "Sam" McPherson ([[Carly Pope]]) – She is intelligent and determined, Sam McPherson is strong-willed, articulate and very stubborn. Sam's father died when she was fourteen. An only child, she lives alone with her mother until the merging of the McPherson and McQueen families. After her mother gives birth to her and Brooke's father's baby, Sam becomes a half-sister to baby girl MacKenzie. Sam is one of the "unpopular" girls at Kennedy High, along with her best friends Harrison, Carmen, and Lily, a situation that changes when she and Brooke McQueen begin living together. Sam is the editor of the school paper (although as the series progressed, the paper ceased being mentioned) and often wrote stories that exposed hypocrisy and unfairness at Kennedy High. She dates football player George Austin, but eventually discovers feelings for longtime best friend Harrison John after he confesses his love for her. Sam is funny, passionate and has an oft-voiced social conscience, but is quick to anger and slow to let go of hostility. She is also painfully insecure and masks this with a prickly attitude. Her complex and initially hostile/eventually close relationship with Brooke McQueen is one of the cornerstones of the series.
* Lily Esposito ([[Tamara Mello]]) – She is the epitome of an activist. She's considered to be a part of the unpopular crowd, along with her best friends Sam, Carmen, and Harrison. She was confused about her sexuality, but eventually settled into a relationship with Josh Ford. Lily is a vegetarian and passionately committed to both animal rights and social causes. She marries her first love, Josh Ford, towards the end of the series but realizes that married life is not what she thought it would be.
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* Robin John, Harrison's mother ([[Alley Mills]])
* Poppita "Poppy" Fresh (Anel Lopez Gorham)
* Lady T ([[Natasha Pierce]])
* April Tuna ([[Adria Dawn]])
* Emory Dick ([[Hank Harris]])
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== Broadcast ==
''Popular'' was broadcast from September 29, 1999, until May 18, 2001, for 2 seasons on The WB.
=== International release ===
The show aired in Sweden, Poland, and Brazil with subtitles while retaining the original music and English dialogue. It also premiered with dubbed versions in Mexico, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Germany, France, Italy and Russia.
==Home media==
=== DVD ===
The complete series of ''Popular'' has been released on DVD in region 1 by [[Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment]]. The DVD versions of select episodes had to change several songs that were used in the original aired episodes to [[Production music|stock music]] due to [[Music licensing|licensing fees]]. Television shows like ''[[Dawson's Creek]]'', ''[[Daria#Music and licensing|Daria]]'', ''[[Mission Hill (TV series)#Home release|Mission Hill]]'', ''[[Grosse Pointe (TV series)|Grosse Pointe]]'' and other series also went through similar situations where their DVD and streaming (ex. [[Netflix]], [[Hulu]]) counterparts used stock music as a replacement in order to cut costs of using other artists' music.
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=== Streaming ===
''Popular'' is currently not available for streaming on any digital platform.
== Opening theme ==
The show's main opening theme was excerpted from the song "Supermodels", a track from indie singer-songwriter [[Kendall Payne]]'s 1999 album ''Jordan's Sister''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=October 14, 2008 |title=The
== Controversy ==
When Ryan Murphy met with an executive at The WB in 1998, the executive made homophobic remarks and notes to Murphy and about the show, ''Popular''. Murphy recalled, “I had one meeting with an executive about a script, and I showed up at the meeting, and he started imitating my voice, and making feminine hand gestures — which I don’t have — and I never thought my voice was gay until he repeated it back to me...I literally was stunned into silence and he was being really, really brutal to me."<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Jung |first=E. Alex |title=Ryan Murphy Remembers a Homophobic Meeting With a WB Executive |url=https://www.vulture.com/2017/03/ryan-murphy-recalls-homophobic-meeting-with-wb-executive.html |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=Vulture |date=March 2017 |language=en-us}}</ref> The executive also gave a note on a ''Popular'' script, where one of the characters wore a fur coat and mentioned, "You have to take it out...It’s code for gay. You’re being very gay here."<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Reilly |first=Kaitlin |title=Hollywood Is Ryan Murphy's Response To Years Of The Industry's Homophobia |url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/05/9756058/ryan-murphy-hollywood-homophobia-story |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=www.refinery29.com |language=en}}</ref> The executive also talked about the character Mary Cherry<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last1=September 26 |first1=Tim Stack Updated |last2=EDT |first2=2016 at 09:57 PM |title=Ryan Murphy: The WB Was 'Very Homophobic' During the Making of 'Popular' |url=https://ew.com/article/2016/09/26/ryan-murphy-wb-popular-homophobic/ |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=EW.com |language=en}}</ref> by commenting, “Could this character be less gay?...The language coming out of this character’s mouth seems very flamboyant, which we think is too gay and will offend some of our viewers, can you take that out?”<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" />
Murphy continued, "They were interested in gay people who were tragic...They were interested if you were gay and you would kill yourself. Or if you would try and commit suicide. They weren’t interested in gay sensibility, or the language of being gay, which is sometimes not just gay characters."<ref name=":2" />
== Reception ==
===Critical reception===
In a review for [[Amazon (company)|Amazon.com]], Bret Fetzer wrote, <blockquote>"The key to ''Popular'' is how it merges melodramatic [[Soap opera|soap-opera]] stories with wrenchingly blunt and honest portrayals of the cruelties of adolescence. While some viewers may find it galling to listen to a gorgeous young actress who's been on magazine covers moan about how she can't be as perfect as a model, the series tackles everything from [[Anorexia nervosa|anorexia]] to peer manipulation to teen sex with directness and an eye for moral and emotional complexity. An episode about a [[Sadie Hawkins dance]] becomes a [[Satire|satirical]] farce about body image (female and male); a slumber party turns into brutal humiliation; a teacher decides to get a sex-change operation, prompting anxiety throughout the school. Almost every character gets a moment of heartfelt grandstanding, yet the actors pull them off with commitment and guts ([Sara] Rue routinely turns speeches that could have been cheesy schlock into genuine pathos). Sure, some fantasy sequences are silly, but the show skillfully creates characters and situations that defy easy definition...''Popular'' cunningly subverts expectations; it's a smart show for both."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Popular: Season 1 |url=https://www.amazon.com/Popular-Season-1-Leslie-Bibb/dp/B0001I55S8 |access-date=June 8, 2022 |website=[[Amazon.com]]|date=21 September 2004 }}</ref></blockquote>In
===Ratings===
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