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May 10, 2021 · To kick off EW's I Want My Teen TV series, we've ranked the 50 best teen television shows of all time. Before you start telling us all the reasons we're wrong, let us lay out our guidelines for...
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Jan 10, 2022 · From classics like "The O.C." and "Gossip Girl" to recent hits like "Outer Banks" on Netflix, here are the top 20 teen drama TV shows from the past 20 years.
- Worst: 13 Reasons Why
- Best: The Get Down
- Best: Pretty Little Liars
- Best: The Carrie Diaries
- Best: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
- Best: The Vampire Diaries
- Worst: The Secret Life of The American Teenager
- Best: Riverdale
- Best: Finding Carter
- Best: The 100
If not for the second season of 13 Reasons Why, this Netflix original could very well have been ranked amongst the best-reviewed teen dramas on Rotten Tomatoes. Upon its debut, 13 Reasons Whyboth shocked and captivated audiences with its story of Hannah Baker, a deceased 17-year-old who leaves behind a box of cassette tapes for her best friend, Cla...
The Get Downdebuted on Netflix in the summer of 2016, and the eleven-episode series followed a group of teens in the Bronx during the disco and hip-hop revolution of the 1970s. The series was co-created by Baz Luhrmann, the visionary director of Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, and The Great Gatsby. Luhrmann's sweeping style was praised once again in...
While critics were never as nice to Pretty Little Liars as the show's devout following, this teen drama still managed to land a respectable 81% average rating on Rotten Tomatoesfor its seven-season run. The show first debuted on ABC Family in the summer of 2010, and the teen mystery followed an estranged group of friends who reconnect when they beg...
Drawing inspiration from the 2010 young adult novel of the same name,The Carrie Diaries is a prequel to the HBO hit series Sex and the City. While doing any type of spin-off to an iconic show is a roll of the dice, most critics agreed that The Carrie Diariesmanaged to capture the spirit of the original series while transporting the story to the 198...
For a show about a high school that sits on top of a gateway to hell itself, Buffy the Vampire Slayermanaged to tackle the struggles of teenage life in a much more meaningful way than many straight-forward dramas. The show ran for seven seasons on The WB and UPN, and it followed a group of friends as they try to navigate the woes of adolescents whi...
Speaking of vampires, this supernatural teen drama series was another hit amongst most critics — many of whom agreed that The Vampire Diarieswas a lot better than it should have been. The series debuted on The CW in 2009 and quickly became the network's biggest hit. It followed a teenage girl who gets wrapped up in the lives of two vampire brothers...
The Secret Life of the American Teenager debuted on ABC Family in 2008 and ran for five seasons. It followed high school student Amy Juergens (played by Shailene Woodley of Divergentfame), who discovers that she is pregnant at the beginning of season one and must deal with the fallout of breaking the news to her friends and family. While critics we...
With the first and second season of the show both pulling in a solid 88% approval rating, it’s clear that Riverdaleis currently one of the best teen dramas available on TV. The CW mystery draws its inspiration from the long-running Archie Comicsseries, which follows the eponymous teenager as he unravels that darker mysteries hiding within the seemi...
A dramatic premise if there ever was one, Finding Carterkicks off with series' protagonist Carter Stevens discovering that her mother is not her mother at all, but rather a woman who abducted her when she was 3 years old. The first seasons follows Carter’s return to her biological family, which most critics agreed was far more dramatic and emotiona...
Much like its title, The 100 managed to achieve a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes for its latest season, with the critics' consensus reading that “Five years in, The 100 manages to top itself once again with an audacious, addicting season.” If that’s not enough to make the sci-fi junkies who missed out on this series the first time around go back ...
Aug 19, 2023 · TVLine ranks the best teen dramas of all time, including 'The Summer I Turned Pretty,' 'Euphoria,' 'Dawson's Creek,' 'The OC' and more — view list!
May 9, 2024 · The 42 Best Teen TV Shows, from ‘That ’70s Show’ and ‘Riverdale’ to ‘Never Have I Ever’ and ‘Daria’. From animation to survival epics to superheroes, teen dramas are as unique ...
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Apr 12, 2020 · Never once did we imagine that we could save the world just by staying home. So, relax and let this list guide you. A rating below 60% is surely rotten. Here are the 5 best and 5 worst teen dramas according to Rotten Tomatoes.
