Loving I’m a Virgo on Prime Video? Here are 6 more bumper coming-of-age comedies
From gross-out laughs to biting satire, you’ll love to watch these teenage comedies
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The reviews are flooding in already, andI’m A Virgo– which started streaming onPrime Videoon Friday, 23 June – is shaping up to be a big hit new TV series filled with surprisingly surreal satire.
The show is a hugely entertaining coming of age comedy, featuring Boots Riley. It is whimsical, weird and often very funny, withThe New York Timescalling it a larger-than-life achievement. Meanwhile,Deadlinesays it’s a “throwback toAmazon’s early streaming years… a revitalizing return to originality both for the platform and the franchise-heavy small screen itself”.
It’s very binge-worthy and is likely to join ourbest Prime Video serieslist for the month, but what can you watch on Prime Video to scratch that coming of age comedy itch when it’s over? We have some ideas.
1. Superbad
Superbadis one of the funnier coming of age movies out there, and on the surface it’s nothing new. The plot typical plot of two teens getting wasted and trying to get laid has been the stuff of movies for as long as there have been teenagers and cinema. ButSuperbadis smarter than that, and it’s as much about the end of teenage innocence as it is about toilet humour and vulgar verbal sparring.
2. The Inbetweeners
This cult British sitcom (the US remake is best avoided) is the kind of show you’ll watch from behind your fingers. It’s an unflinching portrait of how horrible teenage schoolboys can be when unsupervised and incredibly cringe-worthy. As withSuperbad,it’s smarter than other similar shows, a kind ofFreaks and Geeksset in suburban England. On the subject of which…
3. Freaks and Geeks
This 80s-set sitcom follows a group of misfits through their schooldays and has a whopping 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s from the same mind asSuperbad,so there’s a lot of similarities here. But while it quickly became a cult classic, a combination of bad scheduling and arguments between NBC and the show creators led to its cancelation after just 12 episodes – six short of the 18 planned. If you imagineStranger Thingswithout the body count and demons you’ll know what to expect.
4. Daria
Brainy, sardonic Daria Morgendorffer tries to fly under the radar at Lawndale High School, and she’s doing a pretty good job of it. This animated satire of teenage life has more teeth than most, and despite being a spin-off fromBeavis and Buttheadthis is a fiercely feminist affair that never speaks down to the viewers. It’s also devastatingly funny.Dariais a classic.
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5. High School
We may have saved the best till last.High School’s Tegan and Sara share their names with the famous musical duo Tegan and Sara, because they’re the same people. This show is based on the pair’s best-selling memoir, and while it’s funny, it’s a more serious affair than some of the other shows we’ve described here. The only generic thing about it is the forgettable title; the show itself is smart, features great performances and has a killer soundtrack to boot.
6. Welcome to Flatch
This mockumentary focuses on young cousins and best friends Kelly Mallet and Lloyd “Shrub” Mallet, who live in a small Midwest town. Director Paul Feig has a lot of fun with the pair, whose lives revolve primarily around wasting time and avoiding their high school nemesis Nadine. Kelly (played by Holmes) steals the show, according toVariety, which says she brings “a loose energy to her punchier scenes as well as a lowkey sadness to those that underline how much Kelly craves not just attention, but basic validation, from those who’ve never cared”.
Unlike the rest of the TV shows on this list, Welcome to Flatch is not streaming on Prime Video but the full 14-episode first series is there to rent or buy. If you want more to stream, though, check out thesenew Prime Video movies.
Writer, broadcaster, musician and kitchen gadget obsessive Carrie Marshall has been writing about tech since 1998, contributing sage advice and odd opinions to all kinds of magazines and websites as well as writing more than a dozen books. Her memoir,Carrie Kills A Man, is on sale now and her next book, about pop music, is out in 2025. She is the singer in Glaswegian rock bandUnquiet Mind.
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