teen drama

plural teen dramas

1. broadcastingA drama based on teenagers, or set in a teenage environment.

   Director George Tillman Jr. gets pulled in different directions, too, juggling teen drama and teachy diatribe.

   2018, Bob Brown, Lives in the balance: The Hate U Give tackles important topics but offers hollow advice

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   More often than not, they employed this term when referencing various teen dramas that occurred between friends and classmates that required insider knowledge to decode. In other words, teens subtweet to talk behind someone else's back.

   2014, danah boyd It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (page 69)

   one place where age-appropriate casting is kind of necessary is in an intimate teen drama that hinges entirely on the raw-nerve energy of its youthful lead to sell his character’s manipulative, cruel, selfish behavior as sympathetic rather than horrifying.

   2021 September 22, Caroline Siede, “Dear Evan Hansen is a misfire on just about every level”, in AV Club