teen drama

English

Noun

teen drama (plural teen dramas)

1. (television, film) A drama based on teenagers, or set in a teenage environment
   • 2014, danah boyd, It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (page 69)

     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.

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

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

   • 2021 September 22, Caroline Siede, “Dear Evan Hansen is a misfire on just about every level”, in AV Club‎^[1]:

     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.