The biggest mystery of the mid-season break centers around school counselor Marc Molina (played by Jorge Pallo), who has disappeared for unknown reasons. Of all the twists and turns which are slowly being revealed (including the girl who was introduced briefly in the episode as yet another possible love interest for Ricky), I find the most disturbing to be Alice and Henry (Ben’s two best friends) who seem determined to keep having sex until they learn why it’s no good between them.
The rumors flew and so did the sparks - but that’s what we’ve come to expect from the show. Woodley said, "Exploring the mental health ramifications of Instagram and Twitter and Facebook would be a really important thing for me to explore on the show amongst teenagers.The rest of the episode continued on Adrian’s little-girl-lost-and-found storyline, while Grace progressed her relationship with Ricky (making out with him on school property).
Raisa said she thinks it's "super important" nowadays to highlight interracial relationships, which the show did. "And just tell more stories that you don't always get to hear." "The show did a good job at showing different characters that were diverse and from different walks of life, so I would like to see more of those stories from people of color, people that come from a different place, and exploring how all of these people come together and how they mesh," she said. Winbush said she wanted to see more diversity. Did we? So I think that that would be something that I would want to see explored." But I don't think that we had any characters that were trans. Ringwald said, "The show was bold in terms of talking about sexuality. If I had to go to school right now as a teenager, I'd be really worried about getting shot in my own classroom." "If this were to be a show about American teenagers in school, that's something that would scare the s-t out of me every day. "Something that would be important for me would be gun violence in schools," Park said. The cast was also asked what they thought was the most important top that The Secret Life of the American Teenager would address, were it remade today. I feel like the fanbase of the show is really the people that are going to change the course of our, our wretched existence." And now you're all the age that that we're really trying to reach, you know all the Millennials. "I feel like you've all grown up," Ringwald said. So to me, you guys actually feel like my like OG high school friends, which is kind of cool." "Even if lots of time has passed, and you see whether it's kind of like no time has passed, because we just sort of had these formative years together. "We already we feel like we're actual high school friends," Park said. The event marked the first onscreen reunion for the cast since the ABC Family show ended its five-season run in 2013, and was aimed at encouraging fans to vote in the 2020 election. Shailene Woodley, Francia Raisa, Megan Park, Ken Baumann, Allen Evangelista, Renee Olstead, Camille Winbush and Molly Ringwald from The Secret Life of the American Teenager reunited virtually via a JustJared-hosted video chat on Friday, Oct. The Grant High School kids are back together again!