Teen characters have a relevant presence in current TV shows, and, especially, play-ing the leading roles. Their construction involves a number of recognizable stereotypes, 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 identification with the viewers. With the aim of reflecting on the stereotyped image of teenagers 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 bullying in her highschool, and Sam Gardner, from Atypical, a teenager with autism spectrum 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, with the aim of learning the iconographic, psychological, sociological and