I like Disney TV shows.

This last week, I’ve hunted down and lapped up episodes of Sonny With A Chance like a crack addict.  I first got exposed to it at my mom’s house last month, because she has Disney and I don’t (so I gorged).  I then took advantage of the episodes on disney.com and (this is where the crack addict comparison comes in) trolled the internet looking for more until I found the whole first season on YouTube and watched it in a single day.

I like SWAC better than Suite Life, Wizards of Waverly Place (although Selena Gomez = cutest girl ever), and even Hannah Montana for one simple reason — it has a better romance.

SWAC’s premise is of “girl joins cast of comedy sketch show” and requires plenty of slapstick and wacky things going wrong for the main character, but I don’t think it’s over-the-top except where it means to be.   A lot of shows like this don’t know how to tone it down when it’s time to play it straight, but I think Sonny does a great job, particularly during the awkward “I like you but I’m not going to admit it” scenes.

Some might consider SWAC a bit immature, but you have to remember the target audience.  (Tweens!)  I loved All That when I was younger, as well as I Love Lucy, and it’s the same kind of humor: straight comedy when they’re working and complicated plans that go awry when they’re not.

I also think the girl who plays Sonny has a freshness she brings to the role that another actress might have made cloying and annoying.  You just can’t help but like her, even if all her teeth are a bit alarming when you first see them.

I may be exposing myself to ridicule with these admissions, but acting your age is overrated.  And, if you think about it, I wouldn’t be very good at my job if I wasn’t passionate about entertainment for this age group.  ^-^