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Oct 14, 2018 · Our list includes Riverdale, Pretty Little Liars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 13 Reasons Why, and more! Join MsMojo as we count down our picks for the Top 10 Darkest Teen Drama Shows.
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Jan 6, 2021 · These teen drama shows never get old. Our countdown includes "Teen Wolf," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" "Pretty Little Liars," and more! What's YOUR favorite te...
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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...
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- Riverdale
- Outer Banks
- Euphoria
- One Tree Hill
- The Vampire Diaries
- Elite
- The Fosters
- Pretty Little Liars
- Gossip Girl
- On My Block
Riverdale is a fever dream I can’t wake up from. This CW show is (and I can’t emphasize this enough) loosely based on the Archie comics of the same name and takes the epic highs and lows of high school football to the next level. From serial killers to cults run by Chad Michael Murray, the TV show’s dedication to absurd plotlines that are discarded...
I’m not lying when I say that the Outer Banks single-handedly saved me at the beginning of quarantine. The Gooniesmeets summer vacation in this steamy teen drama show, which premiered at just the right time for everyone to be obsessed with it. There’s no better dynamic than the rich kids versus the poor, and John B. and his pack of Pogues try to de...
I like to describe Euphoria as Degrassion drugs. This dark teen drama show centers around Rue (Zendaya), a recovering drug addict who falls in love with her new transgender classmate Jules (Hunter Schafer). It dips into every teenage issue imaginable from bad romances to bondage to abuse to toxic masculinity to homosexuality to identity. Each chara...
One Tree Hillis the pinnacle of 2000s teen dramas: basketball, half-brother rivalries, high school weddings, murders, stalkers, a budding music career. As my friend once put it “everything bad that could happen does.” It gave us teen heartthrobs Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) and Nathan Scott (James Lafferty) and the iconic empowering Brook Davis (Sop...
Vampires, witches, werewolves, oh my! The Vampire Diaries is the ideal fantasy teen drama show combining the perils of falling in love while dealing with mythical forces invading the town aptly named Mystic Falls. It follows recently orphaned high schooler, Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev), as she falls for a vampire named Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley)...
The only thing better than a teen drama is a foreign teen drama that actually makes you pay attention because you need to read the subtitles. Each season of Elitecenters on a mystery, starting with a murder (obviously), and follows the classic trope of a poor kid struggling to fit in with the preppies at an elite boarding school. But this hot Spani...
I think The Fostersis one of the most underrated teen drama shows in history. It follows a family known as The Fosters who, well, foster four children while raising a biological son. It touches on loss, identity, racism, the foster system, and features an interracial lesbian couple as the matriarchs of the family. It has its fair share of drama but...
The Pretty Little Liarstheme song lives rent-free in my head. The TV show follows four former best friends—Aria, Spencer, Hanna, and Emily—who come back together to investigate the death of their friend Ali while being haunted by a mysterious figure known as “A.” Is there anything more horrifying? The show comes with its fair share of problems (mai...
Gossip Girlwas every parent's worst nightmare, but every high schooler’s dream. From the iconic fashion (you can thank Blair Waldorf for an obsession with headbands) to steamy hookup scenes to the extravagant parties, you just wanted to be a teen living in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The TV show follows a rich group of teens—and lonely boy Da...
Another underrated Netflix original teen show? On My Block. The show is filled with hilarious dry humor as it follows four childhood best friends as they navigate high school in the intercity. There’s a touch of a treasure hunt, secret romances, and gang wars that keep the drama flowing, but the cast is utterly charming and the storylines cut deep....
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6 days ago · Our picks for the best teen TV series of all time, from recent hits to old classics, and where to find them on streaming.
May 21, 2023 · In the world of teen-centric television, shows like Euphoria and Yellowjackets have consistently crossed the line into upsettingly dark territory.
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Dec 26, 2022 · Riverdale, The CW’s dark and edgy take on Archie Comics from Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, might be the peak of teen TV. It has everything: murderous mystery a la Pretty Little Liars, an edge of...
