Returns June 28 on MTV
One of the sleeper surprises of last summer, this high school comedy proved that MTV’s relevance doesn’t have to hinge entirely on teen moms or beach-house meatheads. Channeling ’90s-classic Daria with a dash of Mean Girls, the show follows Jenna (Ashley Rickards), a sharp, sarcastic teen whose life is complicated by two potential boyfriends and a mother who’s more of a child than Jenna is. Like the best teen comedies, Awkward, shows the real people behind the yearbook archetypes.