The teen soap has become a vanishing art form, perhaps because younger audiences don’t watch traditional linear TV anymore, and the short seasons of streaming series don’t lend themselves to the kind of ongoing serialized storytelling that is necessary to sustain an engaging and addictive narrative.
A modern streaming service will probably never launch a series focused on teen relationships that lasts for six seasons and 120-plus episodes, but that’s OK because my favorite trashy teen drama has just dropped its entire run on Netflix — and the ’00s CW hit “Gossip Girl” makes for irresistible binge-watching.
