The WB Premieres Two New Shows
Kerri Whalen
Issue date: 4/12/06 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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The new show, The Bedford Diaries, is shown at 9:00 on Wednesdays. This show features six main characters that are all taking a sex seminar at their school, Bedford College. The school is supposed to be set in New York City, and is geared towards college kids and college life. The student's assignment at the beginning of the pilot episode is to create a video diary about how they would change their sexual past. Through these diaries, the audience learns the secrets and lives of the main characters and how many of them are connected aside from being in the same class.
Through these intricate connections, there is a lot of tension that is expressed by these characters given their college situation. Owen Gregory follows his sister, Sarah Gregory, in going to Bedford College. She does not seem too happy about it and questions him on why he picks Bedford throughout the show. Even in the first episode, however, the siblings' relationship does show signs of compassion and Owen finds out many personal details about his sister that seems to make them closer.
Owen also meets a girl named Natalie who he finds out survived a suicide attempt that happened at the school one year before. After spending time with Natalie, Owen starts to like her. Many of the students on campus criticize her for what she did and Owen feels the need to protect her. When he sees another student, Richard, talking to her and kissing her on the forehead, Owen becomes jealous.
Richard, played by Milo Ventimiglia, who many know as the character Jess on WB's "Gilmore Girls," is the editor-in-chief of the school newspaper. In his video diary, viewers find he had a painful past related to drugs and alcohol, and the one girl he really loved was one of the people in the suicide attempt due to their relationship. He also wants to publish an article on a teacher, Professor Dixon, who he knows had an affair with a student. The teacher confronts Richard about the article and that he is only seeking revenge because the teacher failed him in his class. The teacher then confronts Sarah Gregory, as the student he had an affair with, for telling Richard. She didn't tell him and finds out that the teacher had affairs with many other students. The other two people in the class at this point are minor characters, but they also reveal their thoughts on their video diaries.