In the Young Adult tag, you’ll find coming-of-age stories and productions featuring those in their late teens through twenties getting their lives together.
9-1-1 is more of the same, as it delivers daring rescues and a slew of forgettable guest stars. However, more than ever, there is the vibe it wants you to see everyone get their moment in the sun with dedicated episodes.
Season 3 of Atlanta is about growth from the main cast and Glover flexing on the strength of Atlanta nearly every other episode.
While, in some ways, A Perfect Pairing skirts around certain formulaic elements, in the end, it’s your usual safe and simple romance.
Humans (The Warms) battle for survival against a vampire invasion that has pushed their people to the brink of extinction.
Could you have loved someone your entire life, based on who they become once they are 36?
In the musical Sneakerella, you get an almost DCOM vibe from the latest Disney+ release.
Along For The Ride takes you on an emotional journey as you watch people heal, grow, experience many first-time moments, and get the strength to start a new chapter in their lives.
Best described as coming-of-age body horror, Hatching is just as much about the monster as an independent thing as its connection to the lead.
Bubble is an absolutely beautiful movie to look at, with a very simple plot and set of characters.
Combined with Heartstopper, Crush gives you all the butterflies you need if you want a quality romance to watch, especially if you want same-sex couples.
Pompo The Cinephile is an ode to anyone who has a dream who sacrificed for it, and were ready to settle when they thought their dream was soon to die.
In almost the best way possible, the final season of Better Things is more of the same.
Heartstopper is a dream come true for anyone tired of watching queer teens go through utter hell, and all they get is tougher skin in the end.
Stripped of the vibe of this being a Hollywood fantasy, Heartstopper gives all the frustrating and complicated feelings that come from your first time being in love, lust, and crushes.
Relying on star power than substance, Swimming with Sharks is entertaining but won’t be a killer property for Roku.
From raising children, creating new families, and rediscovering themselves, Elena and Lila may struggle in their friendship but find ways to flourish in their individual lives.
While there is a certain level of intrigue here, you’ll see some plot elements that will make you roll your eyes and hope Swimming With Sharks does things different.
Choose or Die is the kind of pseudo-horror that has a better story buried beneath what it gives you.
While romance is featured in every season, Shikimori’s Not Just A Cutie gives you a more progressive take on high school love.
As They Made Us is an ode to children with complicated relationships with their parents, who stuck by them even when they knew, and were told they shouldn’t.
Tomodachi Game is likely to be the show you will clamor for the next episode of and wish it was available to be binge-watched.
Shokei Shoujo no Virgin Road focuses not on the special individual from our world but the person who is tasked with killing them.
Moonshot is your run-of-the-mill, improbable romance that is fun to watch and easy to forget.
While you must applaud Umma for being a mainstream movie that talks about various aspects of Korean culture, sadly, it is a lukewarm horror film.
As it presents a wonderful mob who did it story, The Outfit puts all its weight behind Mark Rylance, who absolutely kills it!
X is everything you expect as you go from sex scenes to watching people get mutilated and then find yourself immensely uncomfortable.
In what sometimes feels like a series of intros and outros to various anime, we watch the musician ever perform as multiple interlacing stories about a one-eyed being are explored.
This short release by Sony, alongside giving us another notable performance from Sophie Thatcher, also pushes you to hope more shorts might be released on Sony’s channel.
What might be sold as a sci-fi action-adventure, with Ryan Reynolds™ styled comedy, is really a tear-inducing family drama.
After a tryst in their home in Brooklyn, an infamous writer moves, with her family, to Connecticut, where hallucinations make it seem things have become far worse for her.
Using Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s ability to make a likable ass****, Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber will likely keep you holding onto your Showtime subscription for a bit longer.
Tyler Perry revives Madea, and while comical, it may make you miss when he was adapting his plays rather than making original Madea movies.
UFO is one of the rare TV-MA young adult romances from Netflix that doesn’t seem to rely on lust but rather love to get you to stick around.
Don’t Kill Me is sparse on details to the point of wondering if something was lost in translation.
If you love bloody, disgusting, gory, just straight-up violent horror movies? Netflix’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre has you covered.
Heart Shot feels like a cruel tease of a show or film Netflix should have financed already.
While Help does make you raise an eyebrow about what’s going on, I wouldn’t say the ending gives you the payoff you desire.
Devotion: A Story of Love and Desire is sensual, romantic, and taps into both the forbidden and hopeful, all within a 34-minute premiere
We get cursing, drug use, teen drama, and violence in what is deservingly called the dark Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reboot.