10 Best TV Teen Shows To Watch When Elite Season 8 Ends 

Sex Education is over. Elite is about to be over. Although this news is bittersweet, it’s time to find something that could help us move on.

Using movie characters as examples, these projects show that what is happening to you is normal, that many have gone through it and are going through it. And remember the most important thing – you are not alone! Meet geeks and confident leaders, first love and serious life lessons.

1. Skam

Everyone has probably forgotten about this one, but Skam once broke all kinds of ratings records and became the most popular teen show. The story revolves around the lives of five best friends from a school in Oslo, and each season focuses on one character and is told from his or her point of view. Due to the semi-documentary style, it feels like you are reading someone else's diary.

In Skam, no topic is taboo: it tells not only about love, relationships and education, but also about gender identity, eating disorders, sexual violence, and mental health.

2. We Are Who We Are

The show is directed by Luca Guadagnino, author of the acclaimed drama Call Me by Your Name, which made Timothée Chalamet steal fans' hearts. For his TV debut, Guadagnino found an equally brilliant actor, Jack Dylan Grazer from It.

Grazer plays Fraser, who spends the summer with his mother and her wife on a military base in Italy and attends a local school. This show is a bright story about teenagers who don't want to decide anything, but just want to be themselves: do stupid things and enjoy their youth.

3. Never Have I Ever

Never Have I Ever is the funniest and coziest series on the list, a comfort movie in the full sense of the word. This is the story of a girl named Devi who spent a whole year in a wheelchair – she was temporarily paralyzed because of the death of her father. Now Devi wants to make up for lost time and decides to lose her virginity as soon as possible.

The show’s formula is unconventional: each episode is about something the main character has never done in her life. And believe it's not limited to sex – her list is quite non-trivial.

4. Everything Sucks!

The story takes place in a high school in a provincial American town called Boring in the mid-90s. A shy main character named Luke joins the school's video club, meets a girl and immediately falls in love with her.

The show delves into the complex inner world of teenagers. The main characters are typical losers and nerds who are about to learn their first serious life lessons. Unfortunately, the show only lasted one season. But it is still worth watching (like many other canceled Netflix projects).

5. Wayne

A road movie about teenagers born to break the rules. Rebel Wayne and thief Delilah meet while selling cookies. Both have had difficult childhoods: Wayne's mother abandoned him, and Delilah's mother committed suicide.

When the boy's father dies, he decides to go to his stepfather's house to pick up the car he once stole from Wayne's father, and takes Delilah with him. Wayne is a show with crazy plot twists in the spirit of Fargo, generously seasoned with dark humor. But overall, this is a show about kids who really want to be loved.

6. The Society

A group of teenagers returns from a school trip, but it turns out that all the adults have disappeared without a trace, and not a soul is left in the town. The euphoria of newfound freedom soon fades, and teenagers must find a way to live on their own.

From the very first episode, the writers leave the viewer with dozens of questions about how and why the characters found themselves in complete isolation from the world. But the most interesting storyline is about the construction of society by those who, until recently, had not any thought about how it should work.

7. American Vandal

If you are not afraid of demonstrative vulgarity and abundance of obscenities, then feel free to turn it on. The plot is based on a monstrous act of vandalism at an American school: an unknown person painted giant phalluses on 27 cars in the parking lot.

Suspicion falls on one of the students, Dylan Maxwell – he is expelled from school, but some students doubt his guilt and start their own investigation. The show brilliantly parodies crime dramas like Making a Murderer.

8. The End of the F***ing World

British series about two troubled teenagers, one of whom thinks he is a psychopath and the other is convinced that she hates everyone. Brought together by the total indifference of those around them, and in an attempt to find at least some meaning in their lives, they steal a car and go on an adventure.

In the best tradition of road movies, they get into a bloody incident, events snowball and lead to a touching but sad ending.

9. Skins

Yes, that’s the classic one. It was released before all the other honest and open-minded shows, and surprised viewers with its frankness. Acceptance of one's own sexuality, mental health issues, drug addiction, dysfunctional families: each episode dealt with a different important issue that at the time had not yet been talked about openly.

Another interesting detail is that the cast of Skins changed completely every two seasons. Thus, the show never had a chance to turn into a soap opera: as soon as one character's journey was over, another character took their place.

10. Derry Girls

A group of teenagers from a Catholic school in Northern Ireland try to live a normal teenage life, ignoring the news of street wars and armed police. Derry Girls stands out from other similar shows not only because of its interesting historical context, but also because of its extraordinary cast of characters.

The strength of Derry Girls is its absolute... ordinariness. This is a comedic story about the most believable teenagers in the world: enjoying the little things, rebelling, treating sex and other "adult" things as an interesting curiosity, not sure what to do with them.