If You Really Knew Me Season 1 Spoilers & Episode Guide
One of the leading ‘Reality’ Lifestyle genre TV shows, If You Really Knew Me season 1 episode 1 will be aired on 21 July 2010 on MTV at 23:00 ET. This season is focused on different cliques in different high schools. On Challenge Day, every different clique participates and is designed to breakdown stereotypes and to unite the students. If You Really Knew Me season 1 first episode titled as ‘Freedom High’.
Each week, this show visits a different school with its own set of issues and its own unique set of cliques. Five students will select to tear down the walls among these different circles on a transformative one-day program, “Challenge Day.” The first episode, “Freedom High” will take place in Oakley California. This season will remind the film “The Breakfast Club,” which depend on real life truth. In this series students will ultimately unit by passing different ways of life and surprise each other with illuminating yet sometimes difficult truths about their lives.
In the series premiere, viewers entered in a Northern California school, which is divided by race and cliques, a symptom of a newly-diverse student body that has grown from 500 to 2,400 students in just 10 years. The show profiles a variety of schools, which are struggling with everything from cyber bullying to small town rumor mills when the season progresses. Viewers learn that to make the best of their high school years, all of the young people profiled are striving while experiencing many of the same doubts and fears that are part of being a teenager. Deep down, all of these students want to be accepted for who they really are.
“If You Really Knew Me” touches on a number of issues young people struggle with today, from mental health to cyber bullying as the series progresses. MTV will connect viewers to information and resources for many of the topics addressed in the show, often integrating the network’s core public education initiatives including A THIN LINE, which aims to empower young people to stop the spread of digital abuse, on-air and online.
President of Programming for MTV, Tony DiSanto said, “If You Really Knew Me is an incredibly authentic and compelling docu-series that takes us on a 24 hour journey through a high school’s social transformation. It shows us what happens when kids from various cliques decide to break down the walls that divide them and commit to change.” He added, “It’s an intense and dramatic experience, but ultimately uplifting and universally relatable for all of us who have gone through high school or are about to.”
Arnold Shapiro of Arnold Shapiro Productions said, “Of all the programs I’ve ever filmed that help young people, Challenge Day is the most impressive and effective.” He added, “Bringing MTV and Challenge Day together for this life-changing series has resulted in some of the most rewarding, amazing and uplifting hours I’ve ever produced.”
Chief Executive Officer of Challenge Day, Jaime Polson said, “‘If You Really Knew Me’ illuminates the power and strength that young people have when they share and connect in a vulnerable and authentic way,” and “We truly believe that this series has the power to transform people’s lives, and by working with MTV and Arnold Shapiro Productions, we’re able to bring Challenge Day to even more people across the country.”
