From the late 80s to the early 90s, a generation of impressionable youngsters watched a bunch of kids at a fictional school in Toronto. They had fights, got bullied, hooked up, broke up, got pregnant, had abortions, overdosed, had breakdowns, and died by suicide. They endured the unimaginable and the breathtakingly feasible. They were the first teenagers many of us saw who lived the way we lived, endured what we endured. And they never talked down to us.
But you probably had a hell of a time explaining Degrassi to your parents.
