Set at the fictional Woodrow Wilson High School in Seattle, Washington, Life as We Know It focuses on three teenage best friends–Dino Whitman, Ben Connor, and Jonathan Fields.
As part of the show's narrative structure, characters broke the fourth wall by stepping out of the scene — of which the action proceeds behind them in slow motion — and directly addressing the camera.
The series was created by Jeff Judah and Gabe Sachs, who had previously worked on Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared.
[1][2] The show was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia and Seattle, Washington by Sachs-Judah Productions and (ca)bloom!, in association with Touchstone Television, a corporate sibling of ABC, both owned by The Walt Disney Company.
The consensus states, “Life as We Know It might be too risqué for some viewers, but the teen drama tackles relationships in a nuanced manner.”[7] Variety called it "a sly, sweet look at high school .
so good that you immediately make room on your shelf for the cult-fave DVD because you know this is the kind of show that gets cancelled after five episodes.
"[8] Writing for Entertainment Weekly, Gillian Flynn also gave a positive review and said the show "revels in off-putting frankness.
"[9] John Doyle of The Globe and Mail wrote, "Most TV dramas about teenage life either paint everything in a romantic mist or present the teens as near-savages, existing in the sort of hormone-crazed universe depicted in the American Pie movies.
"[6] Samantha Bornemann of PopMatters noted that while some of the plot lines verged on predictability, with the Miss Young storyline in particular bringing "the series perilously close to camp", the show "is best during...little moments of communication and revelation [between its characters], allowing the teens to show their instinctual decency even as they prove exceedingly fallible human beings.
"[10] The media watchdog group the Parents Television Council protested against Life as We Know It saying that the October 2004 episode was sexually charged.
In December 2006 (the beginning of the summer non-ratings period), the show began airing in Australia on the Seven Network at 10:30pm Tuesday nights.