‘The Secret Life of the American Teenager’, whose first episode will be aired Tuesday on ABC Family, revolves around the concepts of premarital sex among teenagers, and its consequences. And even though this is truly and important subject and one that should be discussed on television, the series seems to have no idea on how to put it.

Every aspect of the TV series production seems to point to the idea that it was not created for teenagers, the audience that should really have been its target, but to the parents that are already scared about what might happen to their kids, and that want a confirmation that the world is really as tough and full of traps for the innocents as they imagine it to be.

The whole series revolves around Amy, a god student and daughter, who discovers that she got pregnant the first time she had sex. She doesn’t even fully realize how it has been, because of the bewilderment of the moment. What she does know is that she doesn’t want an abortion, and that she cannot count on the baby’s father to help her in any way, because she knows how he behaves.

 The storyline is filled with cliché images and characters. Take for example the scene in which Amy discovers that she is pregnant. She is waiting in her bathroom to read the pregnancy test she bought, while her mother is warming her meal in the microwave oven. When the oven displays the message ‘End’ we are immediately taken to see Amy’s reaction as she makes the finding that will change her life.