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For as long as there have been teenagers, there have been stories about them on screen that lead to moralising and outrage. As time has gone on, the teenage tales told on film â from
Rebel Without a Cause and
The Breakfast Club to
Dazed and Confused and
Kids â took on increasingly gritty tones and presented unvarnished versions of life in and out of high school hallways.
As TV screenwriters followed suit, mining their own histories for inspiration, the scope of stories broadened and the time viewers spent with key characters could grow.
Hunter Schafer and Zendaya in the HBO series