While the millennials started their journey with a planned endpoint, the post-millennial generation or the gen-z has a lot going on in their mind. For example, the millennials’ issues were limited to their physical or economic independence, but the gen-z is thinking about the global issues. And all this drama and struggle going in the head of gen-z actually have cinema makers great content for their web-series or movie. But the way web series have exhibited the life and thinking process of gen-z is truly commendable. From their fashion crisis to FOMO, the web series has covered it all. Today, here we bring you a list of the top 10 web series that give a sneak peek into the life of gen-z.
1. Euphoria: There is no better than cinema than Euphoria to talk about the mindset of gen-z. Euphoria is HBO original series talking about the life of a few high school kids, who gets up every to fight their own crisis but lose all hopes to wake up next. The chaotic movie is full of relationship drama, drugs, house parties, and some chaos.
2. College Romance: There are very few Hindi movies that has managed to go this close to the mindset of gen-z. This movie is based on the life of three friends how they fight, patch up, and fall in love. The first season of the series can stream on YouTube while the second season is available on Sony LIV.
3. Sex Education: This web series is doing what our education system was supposed to do. Talking on a taboo subject, the series is giving free sex education wrapped up in the drama of some high school kids. Once you start watching it there is no chance you stop before binge-watching both the season.
4. Campus Diaries: Just like many new age web series, MX player’s College Diaries is the stories of a college friends group who tackles every college problem to get a degree. And these problems here are quite new, like election, verbal and physical abuse and classic one side love.
5. Big Mouth: This coming-of-age adult animated comedy created by real-life pals Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg explores puberty while embracing a frankness about sex and the human body. The bunch of seventh graders not only have to confront their over-sexualized hormone monsters masquerading as shoulder angels, they also get into discussions with inanimate objects like the Statue of Liberty.
6. The end of the Fucking World: This series has called love the end of the world. Currently, we are witnessing a slew of web series talking about mental health, but no one did like the End of the Fucking World. The series is about two mentally ill teenagers who fall in love and run away from their house.
7. Never Have I Ever: Beautifully portraying the life of a teenage girl, the series focuses on the life of an Indian-origin girl who is stuck in her orthodox household but at the same time she wants to make a boyfriend and do everything white culture teaches her.
8. Derry Girls: Some sublime writing and canny characterizations make this show about the lives of five teenage girls living in Derry, Northern Island a must-watch for fans of dark humor. Set against the political troubles in Northern Ireland in the 1990s, the girls navigate through the typical pitfalls of teenage life.
9. Elite: Described as ‘guilty pleasure’ by some critics, Elite follows the lives of three working-class teens enrolled at a fictional elite school through scholarship. The Spanish thriller was critically acclaimed for all its three seasons for its writing and portrayal of diverse issues and steering clear of cliches.
10. On my Block: Four bright and street-savvy friends navigate friendships and teen life issues in this American comedy-drama series about teens of colour. All three seasons of the show received critical acclaim for their mature portrayal of crime and the potential violence of everyday life woven into the story.
