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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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- Everything Now
- Wednesday
- Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
- Shadow and Bone
- The O.C.
- The Vampire Diaries
- School Spirits
- Grown-Ish
- David Makes Man
- Sex Education
Created by: Ripley Parker Stars: Sophie Wilde, Lauryn Ajufo, Harry Cadby, Noah Thomas, Sam Reuben, Niamh McCormack, Jessie Mae Alonzo, Robert Akodoto Original Network:Netflix Everything Now revolves around Mia (Sophie Wilde), a teenager who, in the first episode, has just left a seven-month inpatient program for eating disorder recovery, and it bec...
Created by: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar Stars: Jenna Ortega, Gwendoline Christie, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane, Hunter Doohan, Percy Hynes White, Emma Myers, Joy Sunday, Georgie Farmer, Naomi J. Ogawa, Moosa Mostafa, Christina Ricci Original Network:Netflix Wednesdayis a supernatural horror-comedy series that answers one essential question: What doe...
Created by: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Stars: Kiernan Shipka, Ross Lynch, Lucy Davis, Chance Perdomo, Michelle Gomez Network:Netflix The Archie-adjacent teenage witch has had a bumpy ride, but Chilling Adventures still manages to scratch a very specific horror itch for fans of demonic magical metaphor. The show’s attempts at feminism veer from the brut...
Created by: Eric Heisserer Stars: Jessie Mei Li, Archie Renaux, Freddy Carter, Amita Suman, Kit Young, Ben Barnes, Zoë Wanamaker Original Network:: Netflix Adapted from Leigh Bardugo’s popular Grishaverse trilogy and the subsequent Six of Crows duology, Netflix’s Shadow and Bonefeatures a familiar Chosen One narrative with broad enough appeal to at...
Created by: Josh Schwartz Stars: Peter Gallagher, Kelly Rowan, Ben McKenzie, Mischa Barton, Adam Brody, Melinda Clarke, Rachel Bilson Original Network:Fox Welcome to The O.C., bitch. This Fox teen soap simultaneously celebrated and mocked the genre it brought back to life in the mid-2000s. Full of inside jokes, yet featuring a compulsively watchabl...
Created by: Julie Plec, Kevin Williamson Stars: Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder, Candice King, Matt Davis, Joseph Morgan Network:The CW What began as an angst-filled teenage supernatural drama developed into a compelling and frequently gruesome foray into the world of vampires (and werewolves and witches and hybrids and siphons and …) alo...
Created by: Nate and Megan Trinrud Stars: Peyton List, Kristian Flores, Milo Manheim, Spencer MacPherson, Kiara Pichardo, Sarah Yarkin, Nick Pugliese, and Rainbow Wedell Original Network:Paramount+ From series creators Nate and Megan Trinrud and helmed by Pretty Little Liars alum Oliver Goldstick as showrunner, Paramount+’s School Spirits follows M...
Created by: Kenya Barris Stars:: Yara Shahidi, Deon Cole, Trevor Jackson, Francia Raisa Original Network:: Freeform Even when the process is kept entirely in-house, it’s hard to know what to expect when an established series spins fan-favorite characters off to anchor something new. For the resulting spin-off to not only shift its target demographi...
Created by: Tarell Alvin McCraney Stars: Akili McDowell, Alana Arenas, Isaiah Johnson, Ade Chike Torbert Original Network:OWN Expectations are the last thing you should be bringing into OWN’s first original teen-centric series. David Makes Man transcends expectations. It transcends genre. It just… transcends. Much of this transcendence is due, of c...
Created by: Laurie Nunn Stars: Asa Butterfield, Gillian Anderson, Ncuti Gatwa, Emma Mackey, Connor Swindells Original Network:Netflix You’re an insecure, bright, sensitive teenage boy (Asa Butterfield) with a wildly uninhibited sex-guru mother (Gillian Anderson), an absentee dad (the epically hilarious James Purefoy), a chronically foot-in-mouth bu...
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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Mar 25, 2021 · Most of these TV shows feature 20-something-year-olds parading around as angsty teenagers, but they still have become ingrained in our daily lives, from what they wore to iconic soundtracks we...
- Courtney Campbell
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...
May 21, 2023 · In the world of teen-centric television, shows like Euphoria and Yellowjackets have consistently crossed the line into upsettingly dark territory.