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You ever watch something that you thought was so bad, that for some reason, you couldn't stop watching? It's why we like B-Movies, and just about everything that Aaron Spelling can throw at us. It's also why Undressed is so good to watch. It has 3 simultaneous storylines of different people in relationships, and it's not always completely heterosexual. While most of the time its completely unrealistic (if I myself was getting as much action as the people on this, I wouldn't be watching!), and it has everything that makes it such a bad drama/soap opera (and typical MTV drivel) of bad acting, bad storyline, and cheap 2nd rate actors. It's fun to watch the predictability of the whole episode. This is also what keeps it interesting, as each situation lasts a few episodes, and you just pant out loud wanting to see what's going to happen next. Just when it ends for one story, another starts up in its place. This is something the 16-28 year old audience can watch and relate, maybe for a present relationship, or something that's happened in the past to them.

MTV's undressed served a wonderful purpose! i was 16-18 while the show was on, and basically it served as background noise while i surfed our newly acquired internet. I remember hours and hours, episode after episode of comforting sexual innuendo. Was the series realistic? no. Were the actors fantastic? no. But for a boy experimenting with sex, to see that kind of lifestyle reflected on the television was just great. made me look forward to college. This may have been the last period of time in which MTV was still watchable. If i recall correctly, you could still catch episodes of Sifl and Olly (the greatest show ever), and even Daria. Not that it was a golden age for music television or anything.... but there were a few gems in the lineup. These days MTV would be lucky to stumble across anything as mindlessly entertaining as Undressed. I find the network simply UNWATCHABLE these days. Although my girlfriend still loves it.

The phrase "guilty pleasure" doesn't even begin to describe the late-night MTV show "Undressed", a horny and very kinky show about young, hot and very horny character's various sexual escapades. Given, as an American basic-cable program nothing got too explicit, but the show crammed in as many elaborate sexual situations and fresh young flesh that was permitted. (Some of that Young flesh included the O.C's Adam Brody, Brandon Routh from the ill-fated Superman reboot and, I'm not freakin' kidding about this, Mad Men's Christina Hendricks).

In some ways I can't say the show was bad. The glossy look showed technical professionalism, and it did have some unusually creative set-ups to it's strictly libido-minded agenda, if never at all believable. It was also more diverse than other like-minded shows, with some topics dealing with the modern homosexual plight and the troubles of inter-racial dating. Though not they really dealt with those issues in a honest or realistic fashion. "Lord of the Rings" was closer to real-life than this. For all it's mock seriousness, it was ultimately extremely exploitive and very juvenile, busy but one-dimensional. None of it's elaborate scenarios led to anything particularly insightful.

However, you can't say it didn't know it's target demographic well. the show was solely populated by people in the sixteen-to-twenty-five age range, all extremely nubile and with only one thing on the mind: sex, sex and more sex, in all it's various forms. Even the class geeks and mousy bookworms we're all very attractive and well-sexed. And it certainly bridged the gender gap by having both it's hunks and babes frequently strip down to their skivvies. Parents, tastemakers and homophobes could all be deeply offended.

Perhaps it would've worked better on the stage. Given the histronic (actually I would just call it monotone) delivery of the actors to the mostly sterile sets where the outside world ceased to exist, it all felt rather silly and a bit uncomfortable on screen. I kept waiting for the laugh track was going to kick in (and some moments definitely deserved one).

All in all, it was a pointless and exploitive experiment, essentially PG-13 porn/soap opera hybrid trying to play naught, but not surprisingly it was a remarkably addictive little pill of a show. You might have never gone out of your way to watch one of it's frequent marathons, but when you did come across it late one night you never changed the channel.

Undressed is one of my favorite shows on tv. I just saw most of season 6 in the summer. The storylines are sexy and insane at times. The show doesn't take itself seriously and its really hilarious. This show is perfect for teens who are sick of slow boring soaps where nothing happens and the characters look serious at each other for a whole minute into it slowly fades into a commercial. Even the opening song title with the bubbles is cool. If this sounds appealing then you might like it. If your offended by people undressed often then I suggest something else.

Okay, as far as I can see, most of these comments are on the morality or lack thereof of this show and the utter lack of acting talent. While I fully support anyone who questions the credibility of this show or questions the ability of the actors and actresses to act, I do not agree that this show is something horribly immoral and wrong. Morals are relative, not clearly defined by one person. Sex isn't illegal, and many people question their sexuality and experiment at some point in their lives. MTV has in fact abandoned playing music most of the time, but as most people know this, they should refrain from watching it unless they want to see something that's not music. Also, if teenage sex and homosexuality/sexual experimentation is something that bothers you or offends your morals, don't watch MTV (most of the time) or this show. However, those of us who don't care much about the educational value of a TV show (it rots all of our brains anyway) or the blatant sex (non-nudity) can watch this show all we want. Not all shows have to serve a purpose. Sometimes they just are. And this one is pretty darn fun to watch.

I have seen tons of undressed episodes, and i think that as a teenager, having a show that can explore so many different sexual inuendos is incredible. It is a great summer show to watch and can be very well written with really good music, and good characters.

I had heard about "Undressed" from other cable channels, but had not sat down & watched it until recently. To me, this is an ideal soap for the high school & college age since all the characters are of that age group. They show enough skin to keep the viewer interested, & you find yourself talking to the characters. I only watched three episodes & I found myself trying to tell a character what to do. Unfortunately, MTV pulls the plug on a lot of interesting programs once when they seem to getting steam. Look at "Remote Control," & "Singled Out."

I don't know where or when I started watching this show, but I did. Granted, some of the situations are a tad unbelievable, and the characters aren't upstanding moral pillars. But still, one can find fun in predicting the next turns of events in the plot. As others have said, it's addicting.. .when they have Undressed marathons, I can sit and watch it for hours. Maybe that's a sign I lead a sad life. Some have questioned the format. As far as I can tell, they do run three unrelated plots with people in High School, College, and beyond college. As soon as one plot line "resolves" (meaning that a couple has settled into a secure relationship, or broken up permanently), it ceases, and a new storyline for that age group begins. These stories can vary in length. And also, as far as I can tell, the show is written by the actors, lending hints of low budget production as well originality. I wouldn't say it's entirely accurate (i.e., there's no unisex bathrooms or hot girls throwing themselves at guys (not me, anyway) at my dorm), but it's at least worth watching for the hot chicks (and presumably, hot guys).

Network: MTV; Genre: guilty pleasure; Average Content Rating: TV-14 (for strong sexual content and suggested sex involving teens); Classification: Contemporary (star range: 1 - 4);

Season Reviewed: Complete Series (6 seasons)

There are few TV experiences I've had that match the surrealism of MTV's 'Undressed'. It's really a strange and unique case of a mountain of wrongs somehow making a right. Like most TV it is about sex but unlike most TV it is also about nothing more than sex. If you want mindless, escapist trash - this is the place to come. Although, if you hear someone say that 'Undressed' is a great drama with great stories that are "true to life" - run. Far away. There is nothing real about this show, but that is what makes it so shamefully delicious.

'Undressed' is an anthology series that peaks in on the sex lives of high school, college and young adults in a format that brings the show around once a day - like a soap opera - but has no permanent cast, oscillating us between a group of kids for 4 or 5 episodes and then dispenses with those characters, never to be seen again, for another story. Playing like a toned down version of "Compromising Situations", the stories are about all manner of sexual inclinations, deviations and corny, soft core fantasy scenarios.

Labeling it a "drama" makes it seem as if creator Roland Joffe ('The Killing Fields') and his crew actually think they are doing something of substance. But 'Undressed' has absolutely no recognizable personality of it's own making it impossible to know what exactly their goal with this show is. Most of the time it is silly, playful and hollow. Sometimes it even seems to be a mocking parody of soap operas and sex-obsessed teen angst dramas. Either way if anybody is taking it seriously the joke is on them. The show rides this fence mysteriously all the way until the 6th and final season when it falls of and just becomes an insufferable, self-important drama. However, for much of this run, if you're willing to not take it and yourself seriously, (and possibly admit that a "guilty pleasure" is a sub-genera all to its own) "Undressed" may become a nasty, embarrassing addiction. An addiction you'll hide from everyone out of fear of being exposed as not the intellectual connoisseur of entertainment that you'd like everyone to think you are.

"Undressed" works, most likely in spite of itself, because it serves a purpose that teen angst dramas, soap operas and other so-called network wish-fulfillment shows are to full of themselves to. It dispenses with tangled plots and manufactured drama and the standard who-will-be-with-who scenarios and just cuts to the chase. Thanks to that simultaneous 3-story style, it can cut to that chase over and over. At any given moment, if someone isn't having sex they are either about to have it, or are talking about it. Literally, people. The show drops the pretension to be anything more than the trash that it is. No wasting time with character development or stories or messages or banal conflicts as if knowing these are a waste of time when the audience just wants a little cathartic entertainment. It is absolutely jaw-dropping and as unbelievable as this all may be, I can honestly say I have never seen anything like it.

'Undressed' is out-in-the-open exploitation, where the actors soul purpose is to look good in their underwear. When they do, it works. When they don't, in much of the 6th season, it doesn't. The show really benefits, probably unknowingly, from network boundaries that keep it restrained. What it lacks in nudity and actual sex, it makes up for with the simple cinematic fact that insinuating something and letting our imagination do the work can be infinitely sexier than the monotony of premium cable porn. As a result it serves as a cathartic medium somewhere between the guilty pleasure failings of "Friends" and a late nigh Cinemax series.

That is why this show is so easily criticized. It proclaims itself in big bold letters to be things that the average network sitcom does, in fact relies on, but doesn't have the guts to admit, instead going using "safer", acceptable methods. Instead of subversively insinuating to teenagers that they need to find someone or have sex in order to be happy wrapped in a real-world scenario and false hyperbole about love (a la 'Friends'), 'Undressed' busts the typical TV pretension with love and depicts sex and any manner of getting it with such a cartoonish lunacy there is no possible way to take any of it seriously. It is an unbelievable, trashy and audacious - it is exactly what a guilty pleasure should be.

The show aims very low and mines every possible avenue of it's "subject" bone dry. The stories aren't the slightest bit creative (and more often flat-out stupid), the writing is amateurish and the acting is worse. By all the numbers the show is a total technical and creative disaster. But it does everything that it does with such enthusiasm and gung-ho shamelessness. And you know something else: its cheapness actually contributes to the half-assed late-night fantasy charm of it all. The whole production is high camp as good as it comes. Any show aspiring to be a guilty pleasure in the future should use this as the blueprint to springboard from.

'Undressed' is so bad it actually manages to cycle all the way back to good and is so stupid that it shouldn't do any harm to those with half a brain. And those that do have a brain, might find themselves turning it off for 30 minutes to escape into this addictive fantasy land. Before returning to a real show, of course.

* * * ½ / 4

Undressed is one of my favorite shows on tv. I just saw most of season 6 in the summer. The storylines are sexy and insane at times. The show doesnt take itself seriously and its really hilarious. This show is perfect for teens who are sick of slow boring soaps where nothing happens and the characters look serious at each other for a whole minute into it slowly fades into a commercial. Even the opening song title with the bubbles is cool. If you this sounds appealing then you might like it. If your offended by people undressed often then I suggest something else.

For a show with no nudity, it manages to bust all of the television taboos except one. That's right, nobody who is even an ounce overweight need apply. You can have sex with a different race, different religion, same sex, different morals, but you can't have sex with a chubby, much less a fatty. That would be too taboo even for them.

As for the quality of the show: Acting is Bad, The Writing is bad, and the plots revolve around stupidity and misinformation. Nobody with any taste would watch it. I tune in frequently.

Whenever I watch this show, the story is harder to follow than Strom Thurman on two bottles of a little brown jug of nyquil. Sometimes it can be entertaining, but often it is ridiculous. Also, there is featured MTV music in every single scene. I don't know about you, but sometimes music can be good, but when It's overdone, the effect is sadly sucky. Not too great of a show to watch, unless you and your girlfriend want some ideas (though not too bright ones). C-

This show is a tacky, terribly written and directed, abysmally acted, and pretty mild (considering the sexual innuendo) piece of sleaze. Each episode revolves around one thing and one thing only: how to get two attractive actors who (as somebody said in an earlier review) resemble porn stars rather than legitimate thespians out of their clothes and into the sack without actually showing anything. Every once in a while the heavy petting that results will involve spreading food over their bodies, but never on any area that would actually lead to any frenzied bodily reaction.

Also, since this is MTV, the "with-it" network, some of the storylines involve gay couples, but with equally tawdry results. The fun with these episodes actually comes with watching how comfortable these non-actors are with their on-screen gay personas. One episode I remember involved two gay teens, one of who has written a "prize-winning" play (which in rehearsal is even worse than the episode it is contained in) outing his in-the-closet boyfriend which is to be performed in front of the entire school with the gay playwrite's sister's boyfriend playing opposite him in a kissing scene. (Yeah, right.) The boyfriend spends the whole time moaning about having to "kiss a guy," while the playwrite's boyfriend has the nerve to be offended about being outed against his will! Will the playwrite submit to his boyfriend's demand to change the play and therefore compromise his "artistry." Do we care? Of course not. The reason I'm even bringing this up is that the entertaining part of the whole episode was watching the two "gay" teens, who had no chemistry whatsoever and seemed totally ill at ease within ten feet of each other while the sister's boyfriend and playwrite had tons more chemistry and made a more convincing couple!

But enough! I've spent more time on this dreck than I need to. I can only hope that this show stays on the air for a long time to come. Why? Because as long as it airs, I'll always be able to get to sleep. Grade: D Incidentally, this show is executive produced by Roland Joffe, who if I am not mistaken in the '80's gained two Academy Award nominations for directing two terrific films: "The Mission" and "The Killing Fields." How far the great ones sometimes fall!

I mean come on even before this show was started ppl were still sleepin around so don't start that bull about this show promoting it. i mean the show wasn't exactly nasty. i mean they didn't show they ppls private body parts. This show was not a bad show. I watched the last season and yes i do agree that in really life u not gonna see 20 college students come out the closet at one time. But the season wasn't bad. i kina just liked to watch the segments to see what would happen with those people. It basically was a show with 3 segments about people and their sexual relations(high school students, college students and post college) I mean hey ppl have sex face the fact. The older seasons were better. i give it about a 8/10.

'Undressed' is actually a farely accurate show to what i see in my daily life as a teenager. Most teens do have these things happen and any parent that says they don't well their just blind about what's really going on through their child's mind. I hope that most teenagers who watch this could apply it to themselves or to someone they know but arn't necessarily friends with. Part of this show also seems like what could go on inside the teens mind which from friends and my own mind i know this to be true.

The fact that people are saying it's encouraging "sex before marriage" are being moronic. I happen to be an avid watcher of eighties and nineties flicks and most everyone of them has a part in which there is some sexual tension or acts.

Most teens should be encouraged to experiment along with most of the close-minded adults who say "your a girl and you can't date a girl cause thats not how god made you" well the fact is that the bible encourages you to embrace everyone no matter how different they are or if they don't think like you or act like you, many people are born with one gender physically and another mentally and that can cause some great questioning of themselves wondering if the their 'sinful for having an attraction to the same sex'. This show, shows most teens and others that its not a bad thing to be attracted to the same sex or the opposite. It shows that people out there actual will accept them for who they are.

I believe this show is a great show for teens and parents a like to learn about these things and not be so closed minded about how people do have sex before marriage and people do prefer their own sex. I know this comment will raise up many discretions because i talked about the bible in here but i'm using what i know is to be true and supports my opinion about the show... i'm not saying the bible supports this show so don't rant to me about that crap. But i do respect peoples opinions and if they don't like this show then they don't like it and i respect that i just wanted to put in my 2 cents worth of opinion.

It is downright disgusting how a show like this ever made it on air.

What kind of sick pedophile would put this garbage on TV?

All one needs to do is find an old episode of this show, and they can understand just how despicable the contents are; the show makes a constant of glorifying the implications of sexual intercourse in teenage relationships.

Not to mention the fact that MTV also ran "Spring Break" shows detailing young teenagers tearing their tops off for the camera, as well as uncalled-for shots of teens in the shower. This was followed by the same 2 teenage girls skinnydipping with 2 nude guys... hmm.. let's do the math, MTV has several shows (as well as music videos) that glorify teenage intercourse, yet.. WWF/WWE is/was the one recieving the blame?

I TURN OFF MY MTV!

I Rate This: 0 (Which is also the number of episodes without sexual content)

I catch the show from time to time,cause there are some good looking ladies on the show,and to those who say people from this show cant act,I will give you some examples.

Melinda Sward,now host of the Fox family Music Show on Weekends,J.August Richards now on Angel,and Teal Redmann who is now on Gilmore Girls,the only reason many watch the show is because of her is proof that people who have been on Undressed can act.

I catch it from time to time,any anyone who says the people who have been on Undressed cant act,should look up the actors name here in the IMDB,and see what the acting info says.

Sure, some of the girls on the show are nice to look at. But that's it. The acting is on the same level as an High School play. The plotlines are unoriginal. It's seems like they recycled the same storylines from previously episodes of Undressed. Overall, the show downright sucks.

Everytime I see this show I can't help but notice the cast is different. I'm assuming they all got some sort of STD and died because all they do is sleep around with each other and discuss their sex lives. One episode actually revolved around a guy finding a women's bra and thinking that whoever it belong to was is soul mate. He had never met the girl. Don't waste your time on this show.

At what point did society go from "wait until marriage", to "try and wait until the third date"? And at what point did MTV completely abandon the idea of music?

At what time did MTV go from "music for everyone", to "let's teach the youth of our viewing audience to engage in sexual activities"?

It is somewhat poetic that Undressed premiered in '99, because it brought us into the millennium with a window of just how perverted our society, our movies, or TV shows, even our video games, have become.

What isn't poetic is the fact that this show is aimed toward teens, not encouraging abstinence; the show is considered a comedy?!

Well, that's what our society, especially America, has become. A JOKE. A wasteland of sexual deviants and so many porn, and wanna-be porn stars that the internet is flooded with nymphomaniacs. Whether it is a site dedicated to showing you sexually willing men and women of virtually all ages from your area, to displaying themselves involved in sexual acts for everyone, including youth, to view. Undressed being, basically, "soft"core porn, featuring youth, being displayed to youth (as well as horny old men just watching and wanting girls like, I dunno- YOUR DAUGHTER? Noone really cares until it's their children whose innocence has been lost.)

We've gone from "possibly by college", to 1 of 3 girls losing their virginity before 8th grade. 1 of 3. And who's to say that one isn't going to encourage the other 2 to become involved in the same activity? Maybe all 3 will sit and watch a show like "Undressed", and the odds will go to 3/3.

The moral decline in our society, and depiction of it on TV, is disgusting, to the point where I feel like driving a rocket into space to destroy our satellites.

Movies like American Pie, one that advances the idiotic belief that oral sex isn't sex. TV Shows like Elimidate, Blind Date, and other monstrosities, and monstrous specials like "Naked Dating". I don't date anymore. I'd sooner go gay than become a plaything of women nowadays.

If you care about your children, try your hardest to prevent Undressed from being released on DVD, re-aired, or in any way resurrected from the dead.

Undressed is now my second favorite show ever following just behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The acting is very good and the writing is superb, it all works together very well. Again, I really enjoyed the actors, especially the women portraying Katie (can't remember the actress), Emma (Suzanne Davis), Kiki (Sommer Knight), and Gina (Mimi Rose). I was also very impressed by Bryce Johnson who played Cliff in the second week. All I can say is I encourage you to watch this show and I hope MTV goes beyond it's original 6 week run.

I think it is very good, even though it has been getting some bad reviews. I think all the actors in it are pretty good at acting...my two favorites are Emma (Suzanne Davis) and Brian (Matthew Carey). I would like to see more info. on it soon!!

Ashley, Reese Witherspoon's #1 fan

I absolutely adore this show. I have been addicted ever since it began a couple of weeks ago. Personally my favorites are Cliff, Brian, Emma, and Rory. Even though Kiki is a bitch I find her enjoyable as well. I'd just like to say that I think the rest of the cast should be acknowledged for their participation in it's greatness. This is a great show watch it weekdays at 11:00pm on MTV.