Leslie Bibb and Carly Pope in Popular (1999)

Popular

TV Series#4073ā–¼11891999• TV-14• 1h
ComedyDramaRomance
⭐ 7.4 / 10(7,277)

Two girls who despise each other because they're on opposite sides of the "popularity fence" are forced together when one's father marries the other's mother.

Rated
TV-14
Runtime
1h
Released
1999
Country
United States

Details

Release year: 1999

Storyline

Two girls who despise each other because they're on opposite sides of the "popularity fence" are forced together when one's father marries the other's mother.

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Did you know

• The producers didn't know the show was going to get canceled. In fact, they claim that the WB executives told them to do cliffhangers, and they did, figuring that they wouldn't be canceled, and had several storylines planned for a third season. Alas, that didn't realize.

• According to Leslie Bibb in an audio commentary, because the character of Mary Cherry was consistently so energetic and over-the-top, actress Leslie Grossman had a deal where she would take every fourth working week off to rest.

• In the show, the main girl's bathroom is called "The Novak" which holds all the pictures of the homecoming queens. The name is inspired by when movie stars would donate money to schools (often an alma mater). The writers found out that 'Kim Novak' actually did donate money to a school in the Santa Monica area (where the school/show is set), so they named this room after her.

Episodes

43 episodes – 2 seasons

User reviews

⭐ 8/10

Needs to be rebooted...

šŸ‘ 8 Ā· 2/16/2017
⭐ 6/10

Tackling all its subject matters head on.

šŸ‘ 2 Ā· 4/29/2021
⭐ 7/10

Ryan Murphy's first baby

šŸ‘ 2 Ā· 9/9/2013

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