Teen characters have a relevant presence in current TV shows, and, especially, play-ing the leading roles. Their construction involves a number of recognizable stereo-types, but they also include some characteristics of the problems and situations which are familiar to the teenager audience. In that way, they facilitate the process of identifi-cation with the viewers. With the aim of reflecting on the stereotyped image of teenag-ers in serial fiction, highlighting the current American ‘Teen TV’ and addressing the ‘Netflix serial uiverse’, two main characters of two famous series from the VOD platform will be analyzed in this paper: Hannah Baker from 13 Reasons Why, a victim of bully-ing in her highschool, and Sam Gardner, from Atypical, a teenager with autism spec-trum disorder. For that reason, a qualitative analysis template, based on Francesco Casetti and Federico Di Chio’s theories, will be applied as a person and as a role. From these considerations, this work intends to make an approach to the teen charac-ters’ treatment in Netflix television shows which are targeted a teen audience, and be-sides explore social, actual and complex problems.
Keywords:
Netflix, adolescentes, series de televisión, Teen TV, Por Trece razones, Atípico
Raya Bravo, I., Sánchez-Labella, I., & Durán, V. (2018). The construction of the teenager profile on Net-flix Tv Shows 13 Reasons Why and Atypical. Comunicación Y Medios, (37), 131–143. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-1529.2018.48631
