Second Jen

Second Jen

2016
Second Jen
Second Jen

Second Jen

4.2 | TV-MA | en | Comedy

In Toronto, best friends Jen and Mo decide to become roommates when Mo's parents move back to the Philippines and Jen takes the opportunity to live independent from her Chinese immigrant parents.

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Seasons & Episodes

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EP6  Balikbayan
Mar. 21,2021
Balikbayan

Mo's family visits from the Philippines and she wants to prove how well she's doing on her own.

EP5  In Session
Mar. 14,2021
In Session

With stress at a boiling point Mo suggests therapy and Jen finds it very useful! So much so, Jen goes full-Jen and tries to utilize this new technique on all of her life stresses, including inviting her whole family for a group therapy session. Meanwhile, Mo visits a rage room to help work though her reluctance to fire a lacklustre employee.

EP4  Exes and CEOS
Mar. 07,2021
Exes and CEOS

After discovering all of Riley’s exes are Asian, Jen develops a series of tests to determine whether or not her new boyfriend has yellow fever. It’s all well and good for Jen, until she realizes she may have her own biases to own up to. Meanwhile, Mo sets off on an epic quest, as her diversity initiative proposal leads her to the most terrifying place of all- Beta Games Head Office.

EP3  Sense and Sensuality
Feb. 28,2021
Sense and Sensuality

When Jen has trouble communicating her desires to Riley and Mo struggles through her commitment issues with Scout, the couples attended an Intimacy workshop. Celebrity coaches Dorris and Cliff, redefine intimacy and push the group get in touch with their sensuality. Tackling their repressed feelings, Jen and Mo wonder if they may be in over their head, as everyone makes out with apples… and that’s not even the weird part.

EP2  Happy Birthday
Feb. 21,2021
Happy Birthday

As Jen’s birthday approaches, Mo and Marcus team up to find her perfect gift. But the seemingly straightforward task takes a turn for the weird as the two compete to prove who knows Jen best- the best friend, or the boyfriend. Meanwhile, Jen makes her first foray into the fun (and judgmental) world of personal finance at her local bank.

EP1  Vive Le Conflict Resolution
Feb. 14,2021
Vive Le Conflict Resolution

Jen gets into a heated online debate with a troll and she obviously must win. She goes to great lengths to change the narrow-minded perspective of GoodOlDaze69, which leads to a shocking discovery. Meanwhile, Mo’s dreaded corporate training workshop is shaken by the arrival of an ultra-cool rival manager Scout, who exposes Mo’s impatient side during a series of exercises…yet also ignites a spark between the two.

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4.2 | TV-MA | en | Comedy | More Info
Released: 2016-10-27 | Released Producted By: Don Ferguson Productions , Canada Media Fund | Fonds des médias du Canada Country: Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: https://www.omnitv.ca/on/en/shows/second-jen/
Synopsis

In Toronto, best friends Jen and Mo decide to become roommates when Mo's parents move back to the Philippines and Jen takes the opportunity to live independent from her Chinese immigrant parents.

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Cast

Amanda Joy , Samantha Wan

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Don Ferguson Productions , Canada Media Fund | Fonds des médias du Canada

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Michelle Adams This show is currently the worst show on Canadian TV in my opinion. The writing is sub-sub-sub-par with some of the worst comedy scripts I've ever seen performed on television. The jokes are so bad even my parents groan at them. The entire show stinks and the flimsy premise wears thin after the first minute of the first episode. The show is also just poorly produced and looks amateurish and cheap. Frankly it looks like it doesn't belong on TV. Worst of all though are the annoying characters and the awful performances by the worst possible cast. Unless only two people showed up at the auditions they must have deliberately chosen the worst possible ones? Whoever cast this show and approved of that cast needs to never work in TV again. They're really so surprisingly bad I actually looked up the casting credits here on IMDb which is something I've never even thought about doing before, and the woman credited for casting this show has a resume full of duds. I'm looking at you Marjorie Lecker. Check various other people working on this show and their resumes are full of duds too. How do people so bad at their jobs keep getting more work in this industry? I mean if I was really bad at filing and data entry I would be fired from my job, so when your shows are critically panned and poorly rated and canceled and hated by movie and TV fans here on IMDb HOW do you keep getting more jobs? This is a serious question. Is it because Canadian content rules mean the government has to keep sending tax money to these people to make Canadian TV shows? Is it because the industry in Canada is a clique where terrible, untalented people just hire each other because they're friends and don't care about the quality of the shows they make? I would really like to know because it may answer the far bigger question of WHY are so many Canadian shows bad... it really is like these people don't care about the stuff they make being good, and also like they don't HAVE to care.The system needs to be fixed and awful shows like this prove it. In the states if someone makes a show anywhere near this bad they stop airing it and the people who made it don't keep getting work automatically.
Elliott Gordon This show is so cheap it's as if it was thrown together in a couple hours by a grade eight class doing a video project. Some of the worst writing I've ever seen. The acting isn't good either but it's hard to say for sure since they are given such crappy writing.
tomsters I like the snappy dialogue, its a good show, not perfect, but far better than most, plus, none others are perfect either. second jen, took me a few showing to get the in joke about it. these people seem real. its a lot like one of my other favorite shows 'the middle' about a semi dysfunctional family, like that overly vast majority of us out in the real world, but is still able to come together in the end to get things done, not destruct. those hating on it? i don't get it, unless they got a personal agenda that really has nothing to do with this show but for their own attention getting.
whitefingr I stumbled onto Second Jen randomly, while flipping through channels. I happened to stop at a scene from the fifth episode, where the two main characters were seeing a doctor together. Despite having no context of who these characters were, or what they were doing, I found it charming and funny. I decided to go back to the beginning and watch the whole season.The show has received some acclaim for starring two female Asian characters as the leads of the show. This goes beyond any sort of token diversity, as these two characters are framed by their experience as second generation Canadians (hence the name), as well as being 20-something women. While the latter characterization may not be ground breaking, I did find the way it was presented refreshing. These two characters are very charming and relatable, but without becoming too twee or annoying.Second Jen's greatest strength s its two lead actors, Amanda Joy and Samantha Wan. They have great chemistry together, and trade quips and barbs with ease. While I may not have gotten wrapped up in its plot, I always wanted to see more of Mo and Jen.I hope that Second Jen is renewed, but barring that, I hope to see more of Amanda Joy and Samantha Wan on Canadian television.