Anne Son as “The Wallflower” in ABC’s My Generation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn7XNwFzbgw

I was at the movie theater the other night waiting to watch Inception, when I saw this trailer ad for ABC’s new television documentary style (NOT reality TV) scripted drama titled My Generation:

What a difference ten years can make. In 2000, a documentary crew follows a disparate group of high schoolers from Greenbelt High School in Austin, TX as they prepare for graduation, then revisits these former classmates ten years later as they return home to rediscover that just because they’re not where they planned doesn’t mean they’re not right where they need to be.

I was happy to see an Asian American in the cast, 32-year-old Korean Canadian actress Anne Son. Son plays Caroline Chung, characterized in the trailer as “The Wallflower,” who apparently slept with her prom date and had a kid – without his knowledge for 9 years. I am really curious as to how the show interweaves current events into the fictional lives of the Generation Y high school classmates. When I saw the trailer, there has been a lot that has happened in the past 10 years, from the 2000 Bush-Gore election fiasco, 9/11, Afghanistan & Iraq to the Great Recession and Obama getting elected.