How teen TV is replacing repetition with authenticity: ‘a reprieve from the algorithm’

Off Campus, The Summer I Turned Pretty and Sterling Point are winning viewers with grounded coming-of-age themes Annie Jacobson has a 10-step skincare routine, a voice-activated white noise machine, the wardrobe of a Uniqlo mom, and no desire for anything other than getting into Wharton Business School. “You’re 17. You’re acting 30,” her twin brother Connor tells her, encouraging her to spend her summer partying instead. As central characters in Prime Video’s new coming-of-age drama Sterling ...

By Emma Madden