The series South of Nowhere starts when the Carlin family arrives in the city of angels, Los Angeles, and finds themselves unprepared for the fast-paced, ethnically diverse, "anything goes" environment.
Sixteen-year-old Spencer Carlin never felt like she fit in small town America and now she's beginning to question everything.
Glen Carlin is a handsome, outgoing 17-year-old. He's an awesome basketball player, popular with the girls, the guy everyone wants to be around. Glen seems to have the world in his pocket. Spencer and Glen are joined by their adopted brother, Clay.
Clay Carlin is 17, smart, sarcastic, and African-American. He is looking forward to forging his own identity, but finds that "being black" in L.A. is a test he may not pass.
South of Nowhere, Its not where you've been its where you're going.
South of Nowhere is a show that deals in honest, authentic, and compelling ways with issues all families and adolescents confront including: identity, self-discovery, sexual identity, racial identity, family, faith, parental expectations and peer pressure, among others
And who is the person behind all of this? That would be Tom Lynch continue on to read about him.
We call him the professor because he is definitely taking people to school. But the creator of South of Nowhere is not a rookie when it comes to television - correction, great television.
At a time when kid's programming was really lacking or non-existent rather, Thomas W. Lynch came up with something that was educational and entertaining in KIDS Incorporated. Now, that was back in the 80's and the man hasn't stopped yet.
An impressive resume including such shows as The Secret World of Alex Mack, Romeo!, and Class of
3000 helped catapult children's television into the mainstream and cultivated what we now know as the "tween" market.
But since we're not at all biased here at Spashley101, *coughs* we're going to focus on the critically acclaimed, award-winning original series South of Nowhere.
After the son of a good friend and right-wing Republican came out, Mr. Lynch's wheels started turning and the seed was planted, sprouting into three seasons of watching teenagers learning to be themselves, love themselves, and in turn, love each other.
It's a great message, an often times the show flips the often asked question ("How do you know you're gay?) right back at its audience ("How do you know you're straight?) In three years, this show has sought to teach people that our differences are greatly surpassed by the many ways we are alike.
Tom Lynch is truly a revolutionary, a man with a beautiful mind, and us here at Spashley 101 and savespashley.com will be forever indebted to him.