To ask for recommendations of tv series for 12 year old DDs

[SeaCabbage]

Have your 12 year olds really enjoyed something recently? I find it a tricky age for TV. We have Netflix and Amazon Prime but find it really hard to find stuff for our twins.

What they have enjoyed in the past is:
Stranger Things
Brooklyn 99
Gilmour Girls
Big Bang Theory

Sadly they don't like the period dramas that I and their older sibling enjoy - like Pride and Prejudice, Victoria, not even Poldark.

It would be great to get stuck into a new series which suits us all again. So any suggestions?

Buffy?

Just add magic on Amazon?

Merlin

Once upon a time

Thank you. What's magic on Amazon?

DS is 10 and I also find it really hard to find things we can watch together.

Everything that is suitably age rated, he finds too babyish (or if he finds something, we think it's inane!).
All the things he wants to watch are usually too inappropriate!

I go by ratings and common sense media reviews (which I usually take with a pinch of salt!)

We've tried Sherlock and enjoyed it. Once upon a Time and Pretty little Liars can be a little risqué at times although he has enjoyed watching them too.

I'll have a think of what else we've watched together.

One of mine is watching something on Netflix (I don't have a telly, never mind Netflix, so I have no idea how my teenagers seem to watch stuff). Riverdance? Riverdale? Something like that. She loves it. I've seen bits of it when she's shown me on her iPad, and it looks ok. A mystery kind of thing, I think.

Just asked DD who's 12. She watches Big Bang Thiery and suggests Pretty Little Liar

Yes I forgot Sherlock - that was a great success for all of us.

Great suggestions, thanks all. Cataline glad we aren't the only ones! Tricky to suit everyone isn't it?

Our 12yr old niece loves Derry Girls ((though depends how you feel about the swearing) and Parks and Recreation. Her elder sister at the same age loved Spaced. (family rules are to make informed decisions about subject matter rather than blanket ban on anything referencing sex, drugs etc but to watch it together rather than leaving her to watch alone or only with friends. Has led to fairly odd conversations though -eg when watching pride as 9 years old and told she could ask about anything she didn't understand. Quite happy with gay, aids etc but "what's a coal miner?")

My 12 year old DD loves a good whodunnit - things like Murder in Paradise, Poirot, Marple, Midsummer Murders. Not the edgy scandi-noir stuff, the tamer stuff.

Mine liked

Kimmy Schmidt
Friends
Fresh prince

Modern Family

My 12yo DS loves comedies so watches Friday Night Dinner, Alan Partridge and This Country.

Lots of swearing though if you're against that.

My almost 12yo DD loved watching Lemony Snickett’s Series of Unfortunate Events on Netflix last year. She also liked Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
We watched most of Jonathan Creek together which she enjoyed - some parts may have been a little too grown up , although I think some of the sex references went over her head!

This is wonderful, thank you all - I shall write them all down and run them past them.

nonevernotever yes we watched Pride the other night. I'd seen it before and loved it. For once, no one went on their phone for the whole film .

Friday Night dinner was another favourite too.

Some of these I have heard of and some not so this is all good

Arrested development

If they like B99 then Parks and Rec (Amazon Prime) and The Good Place (Netflix) are other comedies created by Michael Schur.

Riverdale is silly but good fun. Pretty Little Liars can go a bit dark but there's a really good relationship between the four central girls.

Teen Wolf/The Vampire Diaries are both on Netflix and good for supernatural silliness. Teen Wolf leans a bit horror at times, especially in the later seasons.

Buffy is a must watch. Chuck is another funny show about a nerd who gets the entire CIA intelligence database downloaded into his head. Don't think these are currently available on demand.

I watch some of the DC shows with my kids too - Supergirl, The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow. Not sure where these are available. Arrow is the original show which Flash and LoT were spun off from, but it's darker and more violent so I haven't watched that with them except for crossover episodes.

Hope that helps!

Modern Family
Bondi Rescue
Merlin

My 12 yr old has just mainlined Just Add Magic on Amazon Prime.

On Netflix, she loves Once Upon A Time, The Good Place, Shadowhunters, Timeless, A Series of Unfortunate Events.

She is hugely into Supergirl and finds it very inspiring. Second the recommendations for The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow. I've bought them on Amazon as we re watch so much. They are sometimes available on SKY catch up though.

I know you said tv, but what about the teen film series like Divergent, The Hunger Games, Mazerunners? Or have you already seen them? She really loved watching them together. If there's a book to be read, she's there.

Buffy, Angel, Smallville, Dr who.

"Don't judge me it's in my username"

If they enjoyed Stranger things they might like Grimm on Netflix

Also another vote for Buffy, Shadowhunters and Lemony Snickett. My 11 year old DS has really enjoyed these

Just add magic
Just add water

Both of those my 12 yr old loved and actually I really got into Just add magic as well

My 13 yr old loves Friends at the moment but she started watching them around 10 I guess but is re- watching again now.

Not sure if you can get it on Netflix but My So Called Life is so good, was my favourite programme when I was a teenager. Jared Leto and Claire Danes are in it

oh also me and my son watch The Flash