- (Beep) you, mom!
Get out of my room!
Just kidding, I was always nice to my mom.
Hi there, I'm Leanne from the Thrillist Entertainment
team stepping in to tell you what you should
be adding to your streaming queue this week.
Today, dig out your old letterman jackets
and dust off your buried angst,
because this one's gonna be a full-fledged
dream team teen stream.
That's right, these are the best shows on Netflix
that capture that hyper-emotional, awkward,
and frankly miserable time of being a teenager.
Now, Netflix has a stable of buzzy teen dramas
like "On My Block" or "13 Reasons Why"
or even foreign language shows like "Elite" or "Baby,"
all of which are worth your time.
But I wanna talk about some of the lighter fare,
starting with "Sex Education."
This eight-part British comedy dropped on Netflix
this past weekend, and if you haven't binged it already,
consider this an official endorsement.
This show is totally charming and great.
You've got the incredible Gillian Anderson
as a sex and relationships therapist,
who lives in this beautiful country home
full of erotic art and pornographic paraphernalia.
The person who doesn't appreciate this very much
is her teenage son, Otis, who's just trying to make it
through the rest of high school relatively unnoticed.
Of course, that doesn't happen.
It turns out that he has a knack for coaching
his peers through all of their sexual questions.
So his classmate Maeve talks him into monetizing
his skills, and they open up an underground
sex therapy clinic for all of the other
sexually confused teens in their school.
I won't spoil the rest, but the show definitely goes
to some unexpected places.
Basically, it's not one running (beep) joke,
though it does have plenty of those.
It's got tender moments, it's frank,
it's inclusive.
Just don't do what I did and try to watch this one at work.
- I've noticed you're pretending to masturbate,
and I was wondering if you wanted to talk about it.
- It's not safe for work.
- Trust me.
- Next is a show from last year that you
might have heard of already.
Well, let's talk about it anyway because it rules.
Another British series, it's called
"End of the (beep) World," about James and Alyssa,
two teens who get deeper and deeper
into a very messy caper.
To set this up for you, James thinks he's a psychopath,
so he wants to graduate from killing small animals
to killing a person, just to see what it feels like.
Very normal.
He targets his classmate Alyssa
to be his first-ever victim.
It sounds messed up and it is, that's the point.
It's a dark comedy.
Just know that Alyssa doesn't end up dead, obviously,
and James has a good think over who he really is.
- Are you a virgin?
- Yes.
- Me too.
- Yeah, no (beep)!
- Season 1 ends on an insanely suspenseful cliffhanger,
so thank God there's a Season 2 already in the pipeline.
Finally, let's pivot to a teen show from last year
that was criminally underrated
and got canceled before it even had a chance.
"Everything Sucks" is a super bingeable
coming-of-age series in the vein of "Freaks and Geeks."
Set during the '90s in the town of Boring, Oregon,
which is a real place, look it up,
we follow an ensemble cast of rival high schoolers
in the AV and drama clubs who team up
to make a movie about an alien invasion
to bridge the divide between the two groups.
Meanwhile, they're working through their confusing
teen feelings and sexuality, leading up
to some big breakthroughs in the finale.
Oh my God, it's so, so sweet.
Please watch the show.
It deserved better.
Justice for "Everything Sucks"!
Anyway, that's all we've got time for right now,
but let us know in the comments
if you have a favorite teen show
you've been really into lately.
See ya next time.
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