Heartbreak High and 4 Other Recent Teen TV Shows With High RT Score
Teen stories are relevant at any age.
Sometimes you want to watch simple, human stories about teenagers fighting, making up, falling in love, and finding themselves.
From life at a mid-20th-century French school to a summer romance about a girl torn between two guys, here are five such projects.
1. Raising Voices, 2024
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 83%
Alma is not popular among her classmates: she is considered stubborn, arrogant, and problematic. But she does not really care – she has several close friends, and that is enough for her. The girl also has problems with her studies, and does not get along with her parents, especially her father.
One day she comes to school in the middle of the day and puts a poster on the gate saying that there is a rapist in the building. The timeline rewinds to a few months ago, and viewers will find out what drove Alma to organize such an action.
2. The Summer I Turned Pretty, 2022-...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 75%
Every summer, Belly, her mother, and her younger brother visit the Fisher family home in a small coastal town. Susannah Fisher has two sons, Conrad and Jeremiah, and Belly has been in love with one of them since she was ten. Little Belly wore glasses and braces, and both boys were more interested in communicating with her older brother.
But sixteen-year-old Belly comes back for another summer vacation completely changed – and Conrad and Jeremiah begin to see her as an attractive girl.
3. Heartbreak High, 2022-...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 78%
High school students Amerie and Harper have been friends since elementary school. They have a secret – it's on the wall in an abandoned wing of the school. For many years, the girls have kept a map on which they record the sexual relationships of other students: from simple kisses to various sexual practices.
In the new school year, something terrible happens – the map is discovered. The administration quickly realizes that this creation is the work of Amerie. Not only does the girl become an outcast, but because of her, everyone whose name was on the map is forced to attend sex education classes.
4. Summertime, 2020-2022
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 76%
Netflix's sun-drenched Italian project Summertime is based on Federico Moccia's bestselling novel Three Meters Above the Sky, but it has little in common with its literary source.
Ale is a former race car driver who is so tired of his father's endless pressure that he deliberately injures himself for a brief period of peace. He meets Summer, an attractive girl who is forced to spend the summer interning at a local hotel and raising her younger sister instead of enjoying her youth.
5. Outer Banks, 2020-...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 72%
Teenager John lives his best life on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. He has a group of reliable friends, surfing, and carefree summer days filled with relaxation and parties. The only thing that clouds his existence is the disappearance of his father.
One day, a hurricane hits the Outer Banks and John and his friends find a sunken boat. And on the boat – a map that can shed light on where the young man's father went. The friends are drawn into a dangerous adventure, and their company is replenished. Sarah, the daughter of a local rich man with whom John has always had a strained relationship, can help them in this difficult matter.