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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Ellie Muir

When did the teens in YA dramas get so middle-aged?

When Annie Jacobson wakes up each morning, she turns off her voice-activated white noise machine, opens her laptop to review her five-year plan and launches into a multi-step skincare routine. She talks to her friends in careful therapy speak, organizes her life with a color-coded calendar, and is so laser-focused on her career that partying doesn’t register on her radar.

Annie may sound like a career-obsessed 30-something, but she is actually 17.

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