Just A Little Red

Ready to rock out the rest of Sweet Valley High’s (the book series) second season? Let’s get to it! 😉

The Season 2 “Perfect Size 6” (continued)

Episode 32 – “Bitter Rivals”: Amy Sutton, Elizabeth’s best friend from middle school, moves back to Sweet Valley. Elizabeth is thrilled and can’t wait for Enid, her new best friend, and Amy to meet each other. But Amy is not the same girl Elizabeth remembers. She has become superficial, flakey and completely boy-crazy. Elizabeth keeps trying to make plans with Amy, who stands her up, while Elizabeth keeps ‘accidentally’ standing Enid up. Amy makes the cheerleading squad and Lila throws a party for her ‘hot’ cousin. Lila tries to hook her cousin up with Amy, but he focuses his attention on Enid. Amy has a meltdown and it comes out that she has been nasty and threatened Enid before. Elizabeth drops Amy, realizing she really has changed, but at least she has Enid. While all of this was going on, Jessica and Cara started a relationship advice column in the high school newspaper, but Jessica uses it to try and break a couple up so she can get with the guy (Jay). It doesn’t work.

Episode 33 – “Malibu Summer”: Lila is spending her summer in Malibu as a mother’s helper and Jessica wants to join her. The two of them guilt Elizabeth into giving up an internship at city’s newspaper and she eventually caves. Jessica sticks Elizabeth with the bratty child the agency warns her about and chooses the Sargent household for herself because they are the cousins of a dreamy pop star named Tony Sargent that Jessica is dying to meet. When they arrive in Malibu Jessica is disheartened to learn that Tony Sargent will not be visiting, and she has to share a room with the baby, on a cot, because they live in a very small house. The house Elizabeth is staying in, however, has wings and is right on the beach. Jessica meets a guy named Cliff and Elizabeth agrees to babysit for Jessica on her day off so Jessica can go to Cliff’s party. The Sargents tell Elizabeth a friend named Jamie is going to stay with them for a few days and when she meets him she is instantly smitten and so is he. They talk about all kinds of intellectual stuff, while Jessica thinks he is a complete bore. Jamie and Elizabeth see each other in secret and she feels guilty because he is too old for her (he is in college after all). But then Elizabeth finds out that Jamie isn’t really Jamie, but Tony Sargent in disguise, trying to escape a crazed fan’s crazed boyfriend. The crazy boyfriend tracks him down when he is at a café with Elizabeth and attacks him with a knife. Elizabeth knocks the attacker out, but can’t face Tony/Jamie now that she knows the truth and she thinks he was just using her. There is a huge storm that hits Malibu and Jessica rescues a bratty kid who is on a bridge that is about to collapse (and does as soon as the child is rescued). Jessica is jealous Elizabeth landed Tony Sargent instead of her, and makes Elizabeth go to Tony’s concert. Tony sings a song he wrote for Elizabeth at the concert. Also, Lila keeps complaining about high school boys but dates a much younger guy, thinking he is older. Oops!

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Welcome to the season of Super Editions! That’s right the first six Super Editions of the series are all in this season, starting off with the season premiere and ending with the season finale. There isn’t going to be another Super Edition for another five seasons (106 episodes).

Since Sweet Valley High is pretty much a soap opera, I have broken up the books into seasons and in this special two-part post treat it like a TV show. In this post you will find “The Skinny (highlights from season 2), and the first part of “The Perfect Size 6” (each book/episode broken down into a single paragraph). Enjoy! 🙂

Sweet Valley High (The Book Series): Season 2 Skinny

This season of Sweet Valley High was just as dramatic as the first (and involved a lot of travel)! There was the: summer bike trip that included a forest fire, bear attack, and someone’s secret past is revealed (don’t forget the Hollywood mansion they stayed in for a night); the love of Elizabeth’s life (Todd Wilkins) moves to Vermont. An enemy from the twins’ past returns to Sweet Valley with a terminal illness, hoping to make things right, only to discover she really has Mono! Everyone’s second favorite family (the Morrows) are taken hostage by a crazy man and the twins and Bruce Patman face off with the bad guys to rescue them (yeah, I know…) Then the twins went to France and Jessica almost drowns. Elizabeth falls in love with a rock star who is hiding from a knife wielding maniac. A new boy (Jeffrey French) comes to town and everyone wants him, but he only has eyes for Elizabeth; they become an item. There are also plenty of ‘fakeovers’, jealous lies, wedding proposals, secret engagements, anger management issues, rumors, break-ups, make-ups, backstabbing, competing for someone’s affection and all of the other usual Sweet Valley High silliness that you can’t help but love (even if you feel a little guilty).  😉

The Season 2 “Perfect Size 6”

Episode 22 – “Perfect Summer”: The twins are off on a beautiful bicycle tour for the summer with several friends including Lila Fowler, Annie Whitman, Bruce Patman, Roger Patman, Olivia Davidson, Elizabeth’s boyfriend Todd Wilkins and their teachers Mr. Collins and Ms. Dalton (and a few others who really don’t matter). They stay at some guy’s mansion and he ropes them into taking his troubled daughter, Courtney, with them. At first she is a witch to everyone, but then comes up with a plan where she can go back home with Todd and convinces him she is a victim of an unstable father (just so she can return to her unstable boyfriend). Todd buys it and acts like an ass to Elizabeth. They break up (for like the twelfth time). Lila is terrible to Ms. Dalton because she is dating her father. Lila finds out the truth about Ms. Dalton before she came to Sweet Valley (her husband killed himself a few days after she left him, so of course in their world, she is responsible and needs to change her name). Everyone else is fighting (Mr. Collins is Ms. Dalton’s ex, Bruce is back to his asshat self, and Elizabeth and Todd are through). Meanwhile Jessica chases after this guy who is obviously not interested in her, but he gets bored and asks her to sneak away at night. She does, so of course she gets trapped in a cave by a bear. Can anyone find her in time and come to her rescue? Well, it would be easier to do, if they weren’t dealing with a forest fire Courtney started. Oopsie! This is the first Super Edition and as you can see; as far as episodes go they should be two-parters, because they are much more involved.

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