It Gets Better

It's a sensitive, one-hour portrait of three teens: one gay, one lesbian, one transgender.

A single film about three young people won't, by itself, make a universal happy ending for every troubled LGBT kid in the United States. But it's doing its job if it reaches just one of them.

The kids' concerns and apprehensions feel poignant and real.

The premise of It Gets Better, that life improves dramatically after high school for gay teenagers, is tempered by the tacit acknowledgement that before then, it can get pretty bad.

MTV's documentary series "True Life" has walked this territory before with far more compelling subjects.