Degrassi: The Complete Tenth Season

This 2010-11 10th season of the popular Canadian Gemini Award-winning series—a continuation of the iconic ‘80s show—follows the interconnected ups and downs of a group of students at Degrassi Community School. The first two-part episode, “What a Girl Wants,” follows senior mean girl Holly J. (Charlotte Arnold), who leaves her boyfriend Declan (Landon Liboiron) with his intense sister Fiona (Annie Clark) in NYC to return back home to school in Toronto. All is not well for the golden girl, however: Holly J.'s folks' financial ruin dashes her hopes of attending Yale the next year, and she finds herself up against the popular Sav (Raymond Ablack) in the running for student council prez. While some things stay the same (including Stefan Brogren as the principal…although longtime fans will remember him as Zit Remedy guitarist “Snake” from the original series), this year adds new cast members, including Munro Chambers as bipolar punker Eli, Luke Bilyk as alpha-on-the-horizon Drew, and Jordan Todosey as Drew's “stepbrother” Adam, a FTM transgender teen (the first in TV history) who is featured in various story arcs. From abuse to coming out, from studying to seduction, the drama never ends at Degrassi. In “Drop the World,” the final two-parter of this 44-episode set, two classmates wind up in the hospital: one whose water broke at the school dance, and another who deliberately crashed his car so his girlfriend would come see him. Sure to be popular, this is recommended. (J. Williams-Wood)