Coming-of-age television shows

Freaks and Geeks

Series Age rating: 10 Year: 1999 IMDB Rating: 8.8

High school mathlete Lindsay Weir rebels and begins hanging out with a crowd of burnouts (the "freaks"), while her brother Sam Weir navigates a different part of the social universe with his nerdy fri...

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Invincible

Series Age rating: 18 Year: 2021 IMDB Rating: 8.7

Mark Grayson is a normal teenager except for the fact that his father is the most powerful superhero on the planet. Shortly after his seventeenth birthday, Mark begins to develop powers of his own and...

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Anne with an E

Series Age rating: 8 Year: 2017 IMDB Rating: 8.6

A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the...

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Heartstopper

Series Age rating: 12 Year: 2022 IMDB Rating: 8.6

Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love in this coming-of-age series.

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Cobra Kai

Series Age rating: 13 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 8.5

This Karate Kid sequel series picks up 30 years after the events of the 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament and finds Johnny Lawrence on the hunt for redemption by reopening the infamous Cobra Kai karat...

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The Queen's Gambit

Series Age rating: 17 Year: 2020 IMDB Rating: 8.5

In a Kentucky orphanage in the 1950s, a young girl discovers an astonishing talent for chess while struggling with addiction.

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Derry Girls

Series Age rating: 13 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 8.5

Amidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five secondary school students square off with the universal challenges of being a teenager.

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My So-Called Life

Series Age rating: 10 Year: 1994 IMDB Rating: 8.4

The life of a 15 year-old high school student, whose angst-ridden journey through adolescence, friendship, parents, and life teaches her what it means to grow up.

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The Wonder Years

Series Age rating: 5 Year: 1988 IMDB Rating: 8.4

The story of Kevin Arnold facing the trials and tribulations of youth while growing up during the 1960s and 70s. Told through narration from an adult Kevin, Kevin faces the difficulties of maintaining...

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