Television is a popular technology that allows us to watch our favorite TV shows on screen. Some of the most popular current television shows, like Scandal and The Vampire Diaries are just a few of the favorites of students at MBHS this year.

One show that particularly stood out with students was Vampire Diaries.

“I like how they incorporate many elements of romance and violence and how they really get you to fall in love with the characters,” Alexander Bradford shared. According to the show’s website, The Vampire Diaries is a supernatural drama television series created by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec. The show is now onto its seventh series from when it first premiered on September 10, 2009. The new season has successfully kept student fans like Alexander Bradford hooked on the show.

Scandal represents another Television show that has become broadly popular amongst students. Scandal is a political thriller television  series, premiered on April 5, 2012.

Senior, Sophia Taziny, spoke highly of the show and how it maintains a “powerful, successful, self sufficient black female role who doesn’t embody stereotypical standards.”

According to Huffington Post article by Emma Gray, the show has taken a stand on calling out double standards for women.  In one episode, one of the main characters, Abby Whelan, gives commentary on the way women’s physical appearances are picked apart by the media in a way that men’s seldom are.

Imani Clement, another senior at Millennium, described one of the new characters on the show as one who is “always there to save the day, hot, and very loyal.”

Although both shows are far from similar, they have both been embraced in the Millennium Brooklyn community.