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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Children of the 1990s who loved Sabrina the Teenage Witch have been nearly as spellbound by this darker take on the Archie Comics icon. The show’s final season, which dropped on Dec. 31, finds Kiernan Shipka’s Sabrina facing her “Queen of Hell” doppelgänger and some scary beasts. Netflix The Baby-Sitters Club
The pitch-perfect new series adaptation of Ann M. Martin’s hit ’90s novels for preteens arrived this summer and earned universal acclaim for its casually appropriate wokeness and the four lovable middle schoolers every episode is built around. Netflix Diary of a Future President Another show focused on the challenges of middle school, this charming series stars Tess Romero as a bighearted kid fumbling through early adolescence with the help of her BFF, who’ll still be with her when she becomes the first Cuban-American to occupy the Oval Office. Disney+ The Wilds
Think Lost, except that the survivors in this month-old drama series are teenage girls stranded after a plane crash on a deserted island. The twist: They didn’t wind up together by accident. Amazon Prime
Teenage Bounty Hunters
It won’t get a Season 2, but this 2020 comedy drama series deserved better, because Maddie Phillips and Anjelica Bette Fellini have great chemistry as twins balancing school and a parttime gig assisting a bounty hunter. Netflix
Julie and the Phantoms What any teenage aspiring singer needs is a ghostly boy band as backup. That’s what one L.A. high schooler gets when a CD that belonged to her dead mother summons three musicians who died young. If it sounds silly, it is. It’s also great fun. Netflix