Whether you’re in the mood for something raunchy, dramatic or funny, there’s a lot of great teen shows out there. But, where do you begin?!?
Below you’ll find Girlfriend’s quintessential guide to the best teen TV shows to watch and where to find them.
Sex Education
Sex Education follows a teenage virgin (Asa Butterfield), who is the son of a sex therapist, as he starts up his own secret sex clinic with a smart and edgy girl (Emma Mackey) from school. Oh, and it actually teaches you genuine sex education.
Available to stream on Netflix.
Never Have I Ever
Never Have I Ever is a fun coming of age story about an Indian-American girl as she experiences teenage angst, crushes and love for the first time, all while balancing it with her friends, family and cultural identity.
Available to stream on Netflix.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Okay folks, this one’s an all-time classic. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a teen sci-fi series about Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar), a high schooler by day and badass vampire-slaying heroine by night. Season one doesn’t reallyyy hold up but trust us, the remaining six seasons are fun, camp, creepy and give us fashion inspo for days.
Available to stream on Stan
Glee
Glee is a musical comedy about a high school teacher who tries to form a glee club at his school and convince a bunch of ragtag rejects to work their way to the biggest competition of it all.
Available to stream on Netflix.
Derry Girls
Derry Girls is a raunchy and dirty comedy about a group of Northern Irish rowdy girls growing up in the 1990s at a strict Catholic school.
Available to stream on Netflix.
Riverdale
Riverdale is a teen mystery drama about a group of kids—played by KJ Apa, Cole Sprouse, Lili Reinhart and Camila Mendes—as they try to uncover the mystery behind another student’s death.
Available to stream on Netflix.
The Vampire Diaries
The Vampire Diaries is a sci-fi drama about the lives, loves, dangers and disasters of a small town and a secret family of vampires.
Available to stream on Netflix.
Euphoria
Zendaya stars in this gritty HBO drama about the harsh ups and downs of teenagehood.
Available to stream on Binge and Foxtel Go.
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power is a sci-fi cartoon and reboot of the classic ’80s series, about a young girl who flees an empire after discovering she’s the descendant of a powerful princess and defends the planet from their invasion (along with her fellow princess pals).
Available to stream on Netflix.
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is a spooky teen drama about Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka), a young girl who’s part witch and part human, as she balances her two identities and investigates the horrors that plague the small town of Greendale.
Available to stream on Netflix.
Gossip Girl
Gossip Girl is a comedy-drama about a blog gossiping about the life, love and drama of the social elite in a private New York boarding school.
Available to stream on Netflix.
Carole & Tuesday
Carole & Tuesday genuinely wholesome and beautiful sci-fi musical anime about two girls trying to make it big in the music scene on Mars.
Available to stream on Netflix.
Pretty Little Liars
Pretty Little Liars is a mystery-drama about four best friends who band together after their leader goes missing and someone threatens to reveal their secrets.
Available to stream on Netflix.
Pen15
Pen15 is an adult comedy about the ups and downs of teenage-hood, from the perspective of two comedians playing their 13-year-old selves.
Available to stream on Stan.
Veronica Mars
Veronica Mars follows the life of a high school private investigator (Kristen Bell) as she tries to uncover the mystery behind her classmate’s death (Amanda Seyfried).
Available to stream on Stan.
Revenge
Revenge is a drama about Emily Thorne (Emily VanCamp), a 20-something girl who moves into the Hampton beaches and falls in love with the son of a powerful family to get revenge for what they did to her father.
Available to stream on Stan.
Sailor Moon
The iconic, classic and beloved cartoon all about girl power, ’90s fits, friendship, fighting evil by moonlight and looking cute while doing so. Sailor Moon is a slice of life anime about a lazy high school girl who can transform into a superhero, as she fights crime and evil with her pals, the Sailor Scouts.
Available to stream on AnimeLab.
The OC
The OC follows Ryan Atwood (Ben McKenzie), a young man who gets involved with the wealthy upper class world of Orange County, and all of its lies and secrets.
Available to stream on Stan.
Teen Wolf
Teen Wolf is a sci-fi drama about high schooler Scott McCall (Tyler Posey), who one day finds out he can turn into a werewolf.
Available to stream on Stan.
The 100
Set in a future where a nuclear apocalypse has left Earth uninhabitable and humans live in colonies in space, The 100 follows a group of juvenile teens who are sent down on Earth to test whether the planet is safe.
Available to stream on Netflix.
Skins
Skins is a raunchy mature drama about the ups and downs of teenagehood—from sex to eating and personality disorders— from the lives of six teens in Bristol, England.
According to Netflix, you’ll be able to stream it on the platform soon.
Hannah Montana
The classic sitcom about Miley Cyrus and her famous alternate personality, Hannah Montana.
Available to stream on Disney Plus.
That’s So Raven
Another beloved classic sitcom, That’s So Raven follows the wacky daily life of Raven Baxter (Raven-Symoné), a high schooler who can foresee the incoming future and tries everything in her power to make it not happen.
Available to stream on Disney Plus.
Totally Spies
Totally Spies is a camp action cartoon about a trio of high school girls who are roped into becoming spies: the cool and smart redhead Sam, the clumsy and skilled tomboy Alex and the karate-chopping shopaholic Clover.
Available to stream on Netflix and Amazon Prime.
Supergirl
Supergirl follows the adventures of Kara Danvers, the biological cousin of Superman, who by day is a news reporter’s assistant and by night a caped superhero.
Available to stream on Binge and Foxtel Go.
Daria
Another classique! Daria is a teen cartoon about the life of Daria Morgendorffer, a brainy, sardonic and cynical high schooler, as she tries to fly under the radar at school, with her friends and family.
Available to stream on Stan.
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