Awkward. I told him to take care, and you do not come back from that!

September 28, 2011 in off-color commentary by Jenna | 9 comments

Here it is … the moment I have been dreading. The season finale of Awkward. I couldn’t imagine a better way for MTV to end the season then with a winter formal dance. Just imagine all the drama that can happen! Go on … take a minute. Who is going to ask Jenna? What will she wear? How is Sadie going to ruin her night? The options are endless! Why wouldn’t Matty tell Jake he was going to formal with Jenna when Jake admitted he wanted to ask her? I mean, I thought the word was out! I thought Jenna and Matty were officially together!

Jenna Hamilton is nominated for Winter Formal Princess?! At first, you think that’s a great thing until … BOOM! It’s ruined, as I probably should’ve guessed. Someone printed Jenna’s anonymous letter to the back of the ballot sheets! I guarantee a copy of Jenna’s letter was in the folder Sadie snatched from Valerie’s office. (And I was right, yay!) She is such a conniving bitch that totally deserved to not be allowed at the dance. Once again, Jenna is the laughing stock of the school. Of course, Jake is there to Jenna’s rescue and not Matty. He really needs to step it up! Matty asking Jenna to blow off the dance only further proves that he doesn’t want to go public with Jenna. This is getting old, Matty.

FINALLY Tamara told Ricky to beat it … and that lasted about ten minutes, and then she starts sucking face with him at the dance. I mean, c’mon Tamara! Jenna FINALLY stood up to Matty. So what if he was going to ask her eventually? He waited far too long and frankly, Jenna does not deserve that after everything she has been through. He should’ve done something drastic once her letter was leaked, but he failed at being in any way sympathetic towards her. I will say, however, his idea of asking her would’ve scored major brownie points! A giant fortune cookie with a future of them at the formal together. Totally adorable! And FINALLY, Blonde Bimbo told Sadie that she was a total bitch, which she deserved 100%.

Jenna asking Jake to the formal was predictable until she added Tamara to the mix. At least Jake will fully understand they are just friends. I was NOT expecting Matty to be at Jenna’s door when the doorbell rang. That was a shocker! I have to admit, Jake and Jenna “dorking” it up at the dance was super cute, and I guess the kissing didn’t hurt either. Poor Matty. Poor, poor Matty. He finally opens up and confesses all of his wrongdoings (without Jake catching on, might I add) and Jenna completely chooses Jake. That was yet another shocker! I have been, and always will be, Team Matty. Jenna, your door for Matty in your heart needs to remain open! It is not over yet, I just know it! We all know Matty is that guy Jenna could never fully get over. We’ve all had one of those romances, have we not?

There it was. The moment I had called in my previous post. It was so crazy, that it had to be believable. Jenna’s mom wrote the anonymous letter. It all made sense and every episode made it clearer to me. Jenna’s mom always wanted her to break out of her shell and “fit in” with the cool kids, to be just like her. She was the one who handed Jenna the letter the second she walked in from summer camp. It ALL made sense. I absolutely called it! I cannot, cannot, cannot wait until next season. Who knows what is going to happen! It’ll be absolute madness when Jenna confronts her mom. They said a year. I have to wait a whole year to find out what happens?! That is outrageous! I am too anxious! At any rate, this will be the end of my blogs about Awkward … for now. Both Jenna’s are signed out for now. See you next season! Thank you for reading and don’t forget to comment! :D

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  • Anonymous

    You guys, I can’t deal with how much I love Matty.  His sad face as he left the gym broke my goddamn fucking heart.  Whoa.

    I get why Jenna picked Jake, and I think that it was the logical, right decision, and in an era of “Edward vs. Jacob”, I LOVE when someone doesn’t just stupidly and blindly “follow their heart”.  Hearts are such bullshit, and Jake is so great.  And I liked the nice scene in the bathroom with Blonde Bimbo, so that we could see how Jake could’ve started out liking her.

    Meanwhile, those two kissing at the dance and then at her house?  Shockingly hot!  Even though I’m still pro-Matty, I really respect this love triangle because I like how much I like everyone involved.  I mean, Jake is awesome because he’s so comfortable with himself, but Matty is awesome because he’s trying to be better.  Gaaah.  Love.

    Great job on calling the note writer, Jenna!

  • http://twitter.com/phouse1964 Patty Housel

    I watched at lunch and it didn’t FEEL like an hour! It went by so fast!

    I loved Jenna’s threesome dream and waking up next to Tamara. Good times.  I was a little put off by Jenna totally mugging down with Jake after the dance.  But then, I think she was making herself do it.  Making herself like him more than she does.

    I am still team Matty but he really needs to step it up for real!

    And the cliffhanger?  Wasn’t so much for me.  After talking about it last week, I totally was not surprised at all!

    Loved your recaps and hope you pick up another show (Subpurgatory!!)

  • Anonymous

    Andy’s doing Suburgatory!  But Jenna will be back with American Horror Story, not to worry!

  • Nicole

    My heart broke a lot watching this episode – for Matty (a million times), but mostly for Jenna at the end because even though we weren’t surprised, she was, and oh my god she played that moment so perfectly with her voice catching in her throat and her eyes filling with tears and the look of total hurt and betrayal on her face.  Perfection.  Also, is her Mom stupid?  Using her own stationary?  That’s amateur hour!

    So, I proposed on Twitter last night that we start a campaign aimed at @MTVAwkward begging for a longer season 2 – a full 22 episode order, because this show is way too awesome for only 13 half hours per year.  Who’s in? 

  • Lemonade

    So I officially jumped ship to Matty’s side last week, and I totally swooned when I saw the fortune cookie, because get this: I was actually eating Chinese takeout when the scene came on.  He should have given me the fortune cookie instead! 

    This was the perfect ending to a perfect season.  I mean was there even one bad episode in the bunch?  2012 sounds so far away.

    Sadie is a complete bitch, but I can’t help but love her.  She gave me the two biggest laughs of the episode.  First was during her outing of the gay kid–it would be horrible in real life, but her delivery was just too cruelly funny.  Second was her defense for doing it, “Please, when he busted out the pink pleather backpack, he outed himself.” :D  I was proud of Valerie for giving Sadie her comeuppance though, and was happy to see Val’s love-life going well.

    And was I the only one that said a Sadie-esque, “You’re Welcome” to the screen when the cast popped up at the end with the thank you message?  :)  And speaking of thank yous, Thank you for your awesome recaps Jenna!  Are you sure your last name isn’t Hamilton? ;)

  • Anonymous

    Heart officially broken! Ugh Team Matty forever.

    I do like Jake. I think he’s fantastic for Jenna, but like SB and my Nametwin said, McKibben’s sadface was ridonk. I just wanted to smoosh him!

    Poor boy is trying so hard NOT to fuck it up his relationships, that he’s completely fucked it all up.

    I’m not sure how I’m going to handle waiting a whole fucking year for season 2. That just doesn’t seem fair. I wonder if they going to do a time jump in the story. I was afraid of the actors looking older, but they aren’t actually teenagers. Whoops. Also, this makes me feel better about perving on Matty. Beau whateverhisnameis is pretty and we should sexually objectify him on a regular basis.

  • http://twitter.com/onlymystory Melissa Leaman

    I finally watched (I know, I know!) and I’m a complete basket case now. I still adore my Matty (he’s mine so back off skitches) and he just broke my heart. But I mean, at the same time, he kind of deserved to be dumped. Unlike Jake, Matty knows more of the situation and he could have just said, Jake is down and I’m not ready to hurt him by going to the dance. But he is a teenage boy so ya know.
    And I love, love love that Jenna picked Jake. I was all Jenna don’t settle because everyone will end up hurt that way for most of the finale. And then that moment at her door, when Jake held her hand and she realized that was the first time in all these months of Matty sex, that a guy actually did something sweet and declarationy (its a word shut up) and she just got all choked up about what’s supposed to be normal that I was like Matty can hang out in my dreams but Jenna needs Jake for awhile.

    *Soapbox Sidenote* That message in those few seconds is actually my favorite part about this series. So many other shows would do the heart choice and keep building the drama. Choosing Jake will still cause drama but at the same time, this entire season has been about Jenna learning to be confident in herself and not to let people walk all over her. Turning Matty down and realizing that Jake was the kind of guy she deserves, a good guy was such a moment. It was different than a million other shows and books and its the kind of message that makes me wish more teen girls would watch this show. Hell, that more anyone would watch this show and realize they don’t have to settle. *Stepping off Soapbox*

    Also, I cannot believe Jenna’s mother. I mean, I can because as you said RecapJenna, it makes perfect sense why she would write the letter. And it throws everything back into a loop because after all the strides Jenna’s made in pushing past the letter, to know that her own mother wrote it is going to break her. 
    I need more now!

  • Lemonade

    Isn’t it still possible for the letter-writer to be her dad?  He seems less likely, and it doesn’t make as much sense as her mom, but that’s why it would hurt even more.  Her dad’s supposed to be the normal one, that ‘gets’ her, so it would be even worse for it to be him. 

    I don’t think it’s him, but I just wanted to throw that out there, since I don’t think it was really ruled out.

  • http://twitter.com/phouse1964 Patty Housel

    I agree with the head vs. heart choice but them the head part of me is all IT’S HIGH SCHOOL YO!  YOU WILL GET OVER THEM BOTH!!!

    But anything is better than that Twilight bullshit.  I always feel dirty watching the movies (my movie buddy makes me and let’s me make vomit noises all during the show)

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