Well as a 65 year old woman I can say that my generation was as bad as the teenagers depicted in this series but we only had word of mouth rather than cell phones and internet so the sex, drugs and alcohol consumption wasn't so surprising... getting past all that and into the meat of the story was a deeply emotional drama of family, friends, love and basically how the sins of the past crept up to swallow this generation with it's hate of what is not understood and the crimes visited upon the children.. there is so much more going on but I don't want to give anything away .. money truely is the root of all evil .. love doesn't win unless we choose to do better without judgement of others.. a very good series and a must watch.