I’m looking for recommendations for shows to watch with my 12 year old daughter. It’s become a little routine for my daughter and I to watch an episode or two of a show before she goes to bed. I’m looking for some recommendations based on shows she likes.
Ones she really liked
- Avatar (OG) - this is probably her favorite ever
- Modern Family
- Young Sheldon
- Malcom in the Middle
- Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Others we’ve watched, but she lost interest in
- Clarissa Explains It All
- Avatar (live action)
- My Hero Academia
- Suburgatory
My 12yo daughter just recommended Avatar (of course), the new Among Us show (a little gory, but in a hyper-cartoony way), and Gravity Falls.
I got her to go through Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, and while she didn’t adore it as a love letter to SW and to Amblin-style 80s tween adventures like I did, it was the one Star Wars show she stuck with. I’ll also recommend Korra and Adventure Time, and I daresay 12 is the perfect age for AT. Hilda and Kipo & the Age of Wonderbeasts are two more really good ones.
Live action ATLA is okay, but it’s more like if the Fire Island Players had budget and some okay actors; it’s just so compressed that it’s better as a nod-along-with-it background re-watch for some months or years after you last watched the real thing. On the flip side, I found the sheer amount of anime One Piece to be extremely daunting, but the live action is spry and fun and still has at least some sense of scale and scope, not to mention they 100% nailed the casting on Monkey and dialed back the fan service a lot.
You totally nailed the live action Avatar feel. We were half way through one episode and she decided to just go to bed. When I went to stop the episode she told me, “you can keep watching, I saw the cartoon”.
I’ll check out the other recommendations, thanks!
No worries! I also saw a couple of other commenters mention the modern She-Ra, and I’m a little embarrassed I forgot about it. It’s really, really good.