‘Awkward’ Season 5 Release Date, Spoilers & News: High School Is Almost Over, Jenna Will Make a Decision on Matt
For those who were a little heartbroken for Matty at the end of Season 4, "Awkward" returns on Aug. 31 on MTV at 9 p.m., according to Spoilers Guide.
According the official synopsis for the upcoming season, high school is almost over. The season starts out with just a few short weeks left to go before the seniors finally graduate. They have come a long way since their first season when they were sophomores, and poor Jenna (Ashley Rickards) had to deal with being labeled a suicide survivor.
Although everyone has already made plans for their lives post-graduation, there is still a sense of pending doom.
This season is chock-full of your standard American high school senior year clichés. Pranks happen. Prom (and promposals) happens. Then, of course, graduation happens.
This all leads to the terrible decision Jenna has grappled with over the past four seasons, whether or not Matty (Beau Mirchoff) is the one for her. It all started when they had the innocent camp fling, which carried out incognito through some of the following school year, until she started dating Jake of course. So her decision is going to be based on whether or not she thinks they are "meant to be."
But that is just what to expect from the first half of the season. As MTV has been doing lately, this season is split in two. The first half is the pre-graduation excitement. The second half, however, takes place a year later, when the crew comes back together for summer vacation, their first since starting college.
MTV has released a preview for the season and from the looks of it, the fun is just getting started.
The series has developed quite nicely over the past four seasons, but maybe a little estranged from its original premise, which was the awkwardness of having an accident that appeared to be a suicide.
On top of that, she received a tormenting letter, which later turned out to be written by her own mother, Lacey (Nikki DeLoach). The show has delved into all types of relationship situations that just grow and mature to new beginnings.
In an interview with MTV News, Rickards talked a little about this upcoming season.
"It's definitely different than your typical 'high school graduation' episode right off the bat. There's a pretty big surprise concerning Val," Rickards told MTV News. "Also, it took us two days to film that, and it has never taken us two days to film a sequence. Every cast member was there, 250 extras and, like, it could not have been more complicated. And there will be lots of speeches and lots of dialogue from me, Jillian, Molly -- a lot of long stuff. The writers had a field day."