Some days, all you want to do after you finish your homework is throw on a pair of comfy AF sweatpants and binge some iconic movies. Because let's face it, there's really nothing better than a good teen movie. So grab some popcorn and get ready to relate to all of these characters as you go down this list. These are the best teen movies that you definitely have to watch. After a group of friends create a sex pact to lost their virginity at prom, their parents set off the try to stop them.
The teen years are both the best and the worst. You're experiencing so many firsts — first love, first real friendship, first time driving a car — as your whole future sits in front of you. But you're also trying to piece together who you are while feeling all the things, navigating the horror that is other teens, and then there's homework. And yet, the same reasons why the teen years are so complicated to live through are why they make for such dramatic, compelling television. To kick off EW's I Want My Teen TV series — during which we'll bring you new content all summer long — 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 guidelines for how we defined a "teen show.
Ah, the teenage years. Who can resist the tug of nostalgia for the days when wild hormonal fluctuations ruled every decision, when laughable and superficial beliefs could define personhood, and when it felt like no one understood you despite how much you tried desperately to fit in and not say the wrong thing, for fear of mass reprisal that could end life as you knew it? Yes, those were heady times. Fortunately, Netflix has made it easy for you to reminisce about the halcyon days of yore without making you ever leave your couch.
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