[1] Filming for the second season began early 2010 in New York City,[2][3] mostly at Pratt Institute,[4] the college which series star Liz Lee attends.

The show hints at Liz living in a small country-like town where her individuality is constantly threatened.

"[5] Executive Producer Marshall Eisen stated, "The rule was, when Liz is around other people, we played that as straight as we could.

[6] The series frequently uses music from Faded Paper Figures, both for its end credits and during various episodes.

She lives in Burleson, Texas, a conservative, religious suburb in the [Fort Worth - Dallas Metro area]]; she is extremely proud to be a geek and is happy to have her friends.

[7] The show also focuses on Liz's main antagonist, Cori Cooper and her minions Taylor Terry and Tori Langley, and all of Liz's friends, such as Bryson Gilreath (who is also her love interest), Colin "Sully" Sullivan, Miles Reed, and Troy Yingst.

Season one shows Liz's journey through her senior year in high school, and her struggles with her enemy Cori Cooper.

Elizabeth "Liz" Lee: The show's main character, is a girl from Burleson, Texas.

She admits she used to be a typical "preppy girl", until Cori Cooper betrayed her in high school.

During high school prom, Liz invites Sully to come with him after being rejected by her love interest, Bryson.

During his visit in New York, he meets a girl named Marlene, who shares his love of comics and inevitably develops a crush on her.

Cori then had a meltdown and went to the bathroom with her other friend, crying about how she feels and how she thinks everyone in the school hates her, and now realizes that her shallow, stuck-up, and vindictive ways have finally led to her downfall.

In the season two finale, Liz and Louis decide to put their relationship on hold while he goes on tour with his band Augustine.

She compared the show to the style of the Coen Brothers films and of mockumentary of Christopher Guest, but criticized it for having learned all the wrong lessons.

[11] Mike Hale of The New York Times gave a somewhat similar opinion, saying, "it registers more as a sitcom than a reality show — it's so stylized and carefully planned and post-produced, it's the next best thing to scripted, if it isn’t in fact a wholly scripted put-on," but remarks, "and that's the point."

He says of the premise that "it's as if the geeky misfit viewer who hates all those blonde women on The Hills were suddenly part of the show."