Grade: D
The second part of Awkward’s season three premiere aired Tuesday, and it was anticlimactic. Within the two weeks preceding the premiere, there were ads everywhere on the Internet about how this season’s Jenna Hamilton will be all new, but this episode did not deliver. With her 17th birthday looming in the near future, all of Jenna’s family and friends are working to plan a surprise birthday party for her. Needless to say, Jenna manages to ruin the surprise. For the sake of not spoiling the ending, I won’t go into detail, but let’s just say there was forced “awkwardness,” and it was painfully predictable. The only redeeming quality about this episode was the Ming Asian Mafia subplot, which I find oddly entertaining. This episode was a weak start to a much anticipated season.