Gilmore Girls, The O. C, One Tree Hill, And Gossip Girl

It’s during the teenage years where boys and girls are trying to figure out who they are and who they want to be. Media is flooding them with messages that will eventually shape their behavior, thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs. One of the most influential ways to develop a teenager is by viewing teenage drama series. These are shows that deal with the troubles and issues of a group of young people.
The arrival of the ‘teen drama’ genre is relatively recent and portrays the idealized aspects of what a teenage life should look like. It adds dramatic storylines that are designed to keep the viewers excited and guessing about what is going to happen next. Shows like Pretty Little Liars, Gilmore Girls, The O.C, One Tree Hill, and Gossip Girl demonstrates that teens who view them can connect to the lives of the main characters at a deeper level. These shows can impact a teen by changing their views on fashion, music, and sexual attitudes. This paper will display the types of problems and troubles teenagers face when shown violence, drug and alcohol use, sexual involvement, and family issues. It will then discuss how often a teen watches television, and how it develops into a passive activity to see a problem be solved, rather than to look for the solution themselves. Lastly, it will define exactly what

Using the same framework from her previous article, she goes into further detail, citing dialog from the televisions shows as examples. “The narratives included positive components, such as contraception use and portrayals of consensual sex, but also contained problematic elements, such as a lack of female desire and underrepresentation of racial, ethnic, and sexual minority characters”