"Jane By Design" is the latest entry in the "being a teenager is hard" genre. On this ABC Family show, Jane Quimby (Erica Dasher) finds it tough because at her high school, she is a social and romantic outcast. This means that: 1) She is likely to embarrass herself by saying the wrong thing. 2) She is the target of the popular girl in school. 3) She pines for a boy who she thinks is out of her league. But Jane has a secret. She is also an executive assistant working her dream job in fashion. The tension lies in how long Jane can balance her double life before it all falls apart. The problem is that it's not all that tense. "Jane By Design" doesn't need to be gritty, but it does need a premise where there’s more at stake than a teenager losing her secret dream job. Jane, an aspiring fashion designer, works for the cold and demanding Gray (Andie MacDowell). Watching MacDowell’s icy stares and dismissive delivery, it’s hard not to compare her performance to the much superior one delivered by Meryl Streep in "The Devil Wears Prada." Unlike Meryl’s Miranda Priestly character, Gray is one-dimensional and predictable. In the first few episodes, she appears on a TV screen in her office, communicating with Jane from the road. This is supposed to make her intimidating but it just makes you wonder how she keeps her job when she’s never in the office. Gray’s former assistant India (India de Beaufort) wants Gray’s job and is jealous of Jane. India’s attempts to get Jane fired make up most of the "work" storylines of the show. So Jane’s adventures at the office mainly consist of running around trying to fix whatever India has messed up. It works out for Jane because she has pluck and determination and a best friend, Billy (Nick Roux), who helps her fix things. Billy is also a social outcast and the only one who knows about Jane’s undercover life. Billy would not be out of place on a male version of "America’s Next Top Model," so it’s hard to imagine that he has no friends. He does, however, have a secret girlfriend who is beautiful and popular and the one who gives Jane a hard time. Jane, by the way, looks like a version of the actress Anne Hathaway. So again, it’s difficult to believe that high school life would be that hard for her. But somehow, it is, and Jane and Billy spend a lot of time commiserating.